Posted on 12/29/2007 8:01:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai, from Malta and Egypt respectively, were surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the Libyan desert some 700 kilometres west of the Nile Valley when engravings on a large rock consisting of hieroglyphic writing, Pharaonic cartouche, an image of the king and other Pharaonic iconography came into view. Mr Borda would not reveal the precise location in order to protect the site... "The consensus among Egyptologists is that the Egyptians did not penetrate this desert any further than the area around Djedefre's Water Mountain. This is a sandstone hill about 80 kilometres south west of the Dakhla Oasis that contains hieroglyphic inscriptions. Its discovery in 2003 by the German explorer Carlo Bergmann caused a sensation as it extended the activities of the Pharaonic administrations an unprecedented 80 kilometres further out into the unknown and waterless Western Desert. The find we just made is some 650 kilometres further on!! Egyptologists will be dumbstruck by this news." ...Maltese Egyptologist Aloisia De Trafford from the Institute of Archaeology (University College London)... facilitated a preliminary decipherment of the text via Joe Clayton, an ancient languages specialist who lectures on hieroglyphic writing at Birkbeck College at the same university... "It turns out that the script we found states the name of the region where it was carved, which is none other than the fabled land of Yam, one of the most famous and mysterious nations that the Egyptians had traded with in Old Kingdom times; a source of precious tropical woods and ivory. Its location has been debated by Egyptologists for over 150 years but it was never imagined it could be 700 kilometres west of the Nile in the middle of the Sahara desert."
(Excerpt) Read more at independent.com.mt ...
le kewl!
Interesting, thanks for the post!
Falcon, perhaps?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/720501/posts?page=62#62
Ancient lakes of the Sahara
Innovations Report | Jan 19, 2006 | University of Reading
Posted on 01/21/2006 7:14:03 AM EST by Tyche
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562135/posts
King Tut’s Necklace Shaped By Fireball
The Australian | 6-26-2006
Posted on 06/26/2006 7:32:58 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656059/posts
Tut’s gem hints at space impact
bbc | Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 19:09 GMT 20:09 UK
Posted on 07/20/2006 8:48:59 AM EDT by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1669079/posts
The world’s biggest meteor crater [ Vredefort Dome, South Africa ]
South Africa Info | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 | Mary Alexander
Posted on 12/07/2006 1:50:15 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1749722/posts
Mysterious Egyptian Glass Formed By Meteorite Strike, Study Says
National Geographic | 12-21-2006 | Stefan Lovgren
Posted on 12/22/2006 2:19:39 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757423/posts
Cray Supercomputer...
Discover Origin Of Mysterious Glass Found In King Tut’s Tomb
Macroworld Investor | 7-31-2007
Posted on 08/02/2007 1:47:08 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875334/posts
Migration of Early Humans From Africa Aided By Wet Weather
Science Daily | 8-30-2007 | Geological Society of America
Posted on 08/30/2007 1:15:20 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888955/posts
Egypt’s desert art in danger
Khaleej Times Online | November 22, 2007 | unattributed
Posted on 12/10/2007 12:55:02 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1937247/posts
and probably of interest, though not very related:
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3a9cbf7f2a98.htm#11
Couldn’t be a snowman, so... ;’)
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LOL! Another Bogart aficionado. ;-)
BUMP!
Wow, neat !!!
It’ll be interesting to see what the age of the inscription turns out to be. Seems to me that “Yam” must have been quite a while ago, but of course, Herodotus fl. about 2500 years ago, and fragments of Lake Tritonis were still around then.
It sure will be interesting. Thanks for posting.
bttt
FRom Omar (Popeye) Khayam: I yam where I yam.
[eye roll]
Okay, let’s get a ruling on this...
What are the climate change implications? Surely this was a habitable place with water and vegetation several millenniums ago if it was a major trade center.
Did the Egyptians drive SUV chariots?
Happy New Year my friend.
The Sahara took a while to dry out. Years ago, National Geographic visited the geographic center (figures) of the desert, way west of this Yam thing, and took (and published) a photo of *an olive tree* that was still living there, and probably thousands of years old. :’)
Lost to the sands of time?
I can’t say that it’s a half-baked idea...
Well, that didn't take long.
I wanted to add "Help me, Rick!!", but that's that other Bogart movie.
TS
(x, why?)
Ditto that, my FRiend!
And once a year they celebrate Yad Yam, which I guess would be the last day of the fifth month, instead of the first.
“that other Bogart movie”
You’re referring to the Shakey’s Falcon?
No, they walked ... like Egyptians [did]
The Sailor's cryptic remarks are finally understood. "I Yam what I Yam and that’s all that I Yam"...
That’s no yam, it’s a sweet tater.
The Egyptian Ministry of Funny Walks skipped the opportunity to remark on the find.
Happy New Year Dustbunny, doc1019, Enterprise, Inyo-Mono, ken21, mikrofon, Publius6961, Rb ver. 2.0, Revolting cat!, SIDENET, southland, TASMANIANRED;Tanniker Smith, The Spirit Of Allegiance, and wildbill. I hope 2008 is great for all of you and yours.
Thank you. Happy New Year and God bless you and your family and friends.
Heh - those have me so twisted up, I’ll have to see my Cairo-practor...
Thanks for the post. Very interesting.
I saw that after I posted. You beat me to it.
Yam straight this is hugh. I think they deciphered some of the letters and they made out Corriganankhamun who was notorious for never asking for directions.
I think we could start a pyramid scheme for punners. I know the pharoah, having a terrible nightmare, woke up, screaming, “I want my mummy!” When the Sahara dried up, they were getting their just deserts. Of course, the Egyptians were prone to gambling, they liked to play pharoah. They may have been in a state of de nile, about their gambling. Then again, they could have taken a river cruise, a senile tour. They actually had a form of radio, and the news commentator was a talking dog, who was a star. An that is really sirius.
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Thanks for the Egyptian Pingeroo!
“M” will get a kick out of this
I guess they clearcut the forests like John Edwards (private 18-hole golf course and tennis courts, indoor swimming pool, indoor full basketball court, and the rest of his 30,000 square foot moansion on hundreds of formally “pristine” C woodlands), burned energy at a rate of 30 average homes (algore’s Tennessee mansion), and used water and fuel like John Kerry (9 mansions [with 7 “tax-exempt foundation” vehicles each!] here and abroad plus 2 exec jets, 3 luxury yachts/boats, and a “NIMBY” wind power free Cape Cod view!)
Good graphic potlatch!
No pictures at the site. I’ve never heard of ‘the fabled land of Yam’ before.
Strangely - to me - sandstone sounds somewhat like limestone. I would think of it as being soft and amazed that it would preserve hieroglyphics after all this time.
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Shifting desert sands cover and protect many remains of huge dinosaurs in the African deserts
They may have discovered the fabled ancient Land Of Sweet Potato Pie
Tut Tut Tut!
Yes I know dry sand can preserve things, look at all that has been buried in the sands of Iraq.
But we talk of ‘shifting sands’ and I’m still amazed they are preserved.
et tu tut tut, heh.
Happy New year to you too! Put me on your ping list if you have one.
Perhaps this quote:
Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Yam?
Rick: My health. I came to Yam for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
nah.... that might be going a little too far . . .
I had been thinking of starting one... yeah, a ping list... I’ll make that my New Year’s resolution.
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