Posted on 07/28/2019 7:39:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An inscribed ancient Egyptian scarab and five clay tablets with carvings of naked women have been found in Rehob, a 3,500-year-old city in Israel.
The carvings likely depict ancient fertility goddesses, such as Asherah or Ashtarte, Amihai Mazar, an archaeology professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Live Science. "[They] were used at home, as part of popular domestic religious practice in the domestic sphere, mainly related to fertility of women," Mazar said in an email, noting that similar carvings have been found at other archaeological sites in the region...
Made of a mineral called steatite, the scarab contains a hieroglyphic inscription saying that it was created for a deceased man named "Amenemhat," who was "scribe of the house of the overseer of sealed items," according to Arlette David's translation of the inscription.
The "sealed items" referred to in the title represent various products and raw materials dealt with by the administration," wrote David, an archaeology lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the appendix of the journal article.
It's a mystery who exactly this individual was and what the scarab was doing in the building where it was found. "Since there is no other attestation of an Amenemhat 'scribe of the house of the overseer of sealed items,' we don't know anything else about him, including where he was buried," David told Live Science in an email.
David noted that it's possible that Amenemhat never lived in or visited Rehob and the scarab may have been used in Rehob as a reminder of Egypt's control over the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at afhu.org ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=stone+of+the+pregnant+woman&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/forgotten-stones-baalbek-lebanon-001865
So, don't believe it. Regardless of your belief, it is true. The pre-Roman Gauls and Celts had the same lack of good family planning information. The unique role of the human female in reproduction is reflected in the Egyptian belief that the pharaoh's successor had to come from the same womb, IOW, descended from the same female line.
This was one of the places they addressed on that show debunking aliens!!
Some say it was possible, some say it wasn’t possible.
But didn’t the Romans move Yuge stones and we know there were no aliens then?
I think the fun part is we will never know and can always discuss it :)
BTW, all -- there are better photos at the various story sources for this find, I just couldn't view them on my poor old tired hardware. The one I used was the only one I could view here, at least for now.
Most of the stuff that is considered part of some ritual purpose was probably the handiwork of teenaged boys. The double-dare probably gave our cultures and civilizations their most important advances.
Those better be alligators. Crocodiles would be illegal aliens.
The really large stones in one of those pics resemble the Sphinx and Valley temples in construction -- long huge stones.
His link was to the LiveScience article, which I think is the first one I saw that had some detail in it, but I couldn’t view the pics from here.
https://www.livescience.com/66014-fertility-goddess-carvings-ancient-israel.html
That’s another thing.
Peru and Egypt? Both building YUGE creations.
I don’t mind letting my ignorance show so I’ll ask :)
Were these done at the same time and was there any contact between the two civilizations.
Me answer would be around same time maybe, but NO contact.
Nope. The American Crocodile. ‘Gators are a dime a dozen.
It would deter me, I think. Seems that anything of that nature would not be conducive to pregnancy. The IUD preventing implantation, and god knows what is in crocodile crap.
The Ollantaytambo site in Peru is pretty neat lookin', but it isn't all that old, mid-15th century AD.
Thanks for the link, I think I'll start mining that for topics. Much less work for 'Civ.
WOW
Give it to me straight :)
How far off am I on the times things were created in the middle east and things in South America?
So there IS the possibility that middle easterners brought knowledge of construction to Peru?/
No, because by the time the 15th century rolled around, Spain and Portugal were on the brink of colonizing South America, and the Baalbek stones had been a mystery for a long while already.
Gotcha.
There are SO MANY incredible structures that were built all over the world, some to me more magnificent than StoneHenge or however you spell it :)
But that place and the pyramids get all the press :)
There are some mighty big carved stones -- and each group that made them figured out how they were going to do it, and did that figuring on their own. That is the most amazing thing about them, rather than the structures themselves, which were at least as often as not left unfinished. Check my tagline.
Au contraire. Steatite (soapstone) is a very soft stone used for carving. It's hardness varies somewhat depending on the amount of talc (the softest stone) that's present in its composition. It was used by the Egyptians for carved scarabs and is in wide use today for carvings that can be made with metal tools that are too soft to work harder materials.
That is amazing.
And I did see and investigate your tagline.
Incredible stuff all around!
Of course I did not read that whole website yet but i will.
Fascinating. Just fascinating
Ancient Aliens hahahah
The mega-structures were built by a preexisting human civilization which was utterly destroyed during the Younger Dryas Period comet fragment bombardment.
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