Pharaonic-era sacred lake unearthed in Egypt

Reuters ^ | Oct 15, 2009 | Writing by Cynthia Johnston; editing by Philippa Fletcher

[decimon]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Archaeologists have unearthed the site of a pharaonic-era sacred lake in a temple to the Egyptian goddess Mut in the ruins of ancient Tanis, the Culture Ministry said on Thursday.

The ministry said the lake, found 12 meters below ground at the San al-Hagar archaeological site in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, was 15 meters long and 12 meters wide and built out of limestone blocks. It was in a good condition.

[decimon]

Old Mut ping.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Lake ?

Maybe meaning a pool since it was man made from limestone blocks.

Funny translation I guess.

[VaRepublican]

surprised this guys name wasn't mentioned.
Zahi Hawass of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, seems to be the face of all things ancient Egypt.

[VaRepublican]

Whats up with everything being supreme?

[paulycy]

Whats up with everything being supreme?

You can make anything "supreme" simply by putting sour cream on it before serving.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Grimmy]

Zahi Hawass is actually a front man for the Illuminati. His sole purpose is to keep us all from discovering the secrets of Atlantis that are buried under the Sphixter, or whatever it’s called.

Saw it on TV, so it has to be true.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Actually, Atlantis is on another planet and the fastest way there is through a Stargate.

Saw that on TV, too.

[gusopol3]

meaning a pool

But how would that have looked in a headline; I never would have clicked on it.

[Fred Nerks]

An obelisk at Tanis clearly connected with Ramesses II, from the cartouch

Today, the site of Tanis mostly consists of large mounts of occupational debris. The temple precinct lies in the middle of these mounds. The huge enclosure walls are now mostly gone, and one may enter the site from several directions, though the classical route is through the ruined pylon of Sheshonq III. Within, the site is littered with fallen statuary, reused columns ranging in date from the Old through the New Kingdoms, around fifteen reused obelisks of Ramesses II, and reused temple blocks from all periods. At the center of the Amun temple are two deep wells that once served as Nilometers. The northern corner is the site of the ancient Sacred Lake, while at the southeastern corner, outside the main temple precinct, is the smaller precinct where the temples of Mut, Khonsu and Astarte were located...

TOUR EGYPT LINK

[Sherman Logan]

Sound more like a cement pond.

[Frenchtown Dan]

Pharoh Jethro ?

[bigheadfred]

Not sure there are any secrets of Atlantis worth knowing. Seems like the Atlantisians kinda went extinct.

And the only thing buried in the Sphinxter is Zahi’s melon.

[Frenchtown Dan]

I only clicked on it because I took it literally, in English. I’m interested in ancient lakes in the Sahara and else where on the planet that is now desert.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Does anyone know what “Tanis” meant?

[Grimmy]

“And the only thing buried in the Sphinxter is Zahi’s melon.”

Zahi’s melon!?!

That’s one of them sekrit society code words, aint it?

I think I remember that phrase being mentioned in a Discovery Channel program about Nazis, the occult, space aliens and time travel.

I’m gonna apply for a grant to study up on what nefarious doing’s the followers of Zahi’s Melon are up to!

50 mil should cover my expenses for a year of travel and umm... research. Yeah, research, that’s the ticket.

[Grimmy]

Yep. And, as part of their conspiracy to confuse and confuddle us, they even portrayed the US military as not stoopit and not incompetent. How’s that for a dead giveaway that they’re up to no good?

[decimon]

Does anyone know what “Tanis” meant?

I don't.

[bigheadfred]

Ah so, grashhopper

I just luv to help empower young minds.

[bigheadfred]

“Tanis”

It’s Greek for BFE...

Zoan:

(Old Egyptian: Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and important city was the capital of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who ruled Egypt for more than 500 years. It was the frontier town of Goshen. Here Pharaoh was holding his court at the time of his various interviews with Moses and Aaron. “No trace of Zoan exists; Tanis was built over it, and city after city has been built over the ruins of that” (Harper, Bible and Modern Discovery). Extensive mounds of ruins, the wreck of the ancient city, now mark its site (Isa. 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ezek. 30:14). “The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the world.”

This city was also called “the Field of Zoan” (Ps. 78:12, 43) and “the Town of Rameses” (q.v.), because the oppressor rebuilt and embellished it, probably by the forced labor of the Hebrews, and made it his northern capital.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred Nerks. This could *almost* be one of *those* topics, but in any case, I’m surprised there are no Indiana Jones pics yet. ;’)

http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm

210. The tribute imposed upon Judea and the imprisonment of Jehoahaz are referred to on an obelisk of Tanis.

211. The first march of Necho-Ramses II toward the Euphrates is related on the obelisk of Tanis and on the rock inscription of Nahr el Kalb near Beirut, written in his second year. The rock inscriptions of Ramses II are not as old as that of Essarhadon on the same rock.

[Grimmy]

If I got a grant from the Mellon Foundation, would that make me a Mellonarian?

And, just how are Mellonarians rated or related to them Building Burger guys?

Also, about that...

Is the fact that America was founded by, for and because of sekrit societies the reason we eat so many burgers?

[bigheadfred]

I think that grant would make you a Mellonaire. And your worries would be over. Nice cars, hot chicks. No more taxes to cheet on.

Gonna have to do a little search, even re-search, if necessary, on M to BB connection.

And that last is definitely food for thought.

I did hear those mooslums have interduced a new burger on an open sesame seed bun. Troublesome times...

[Grimmy]

“And your worries would be over. Nice cars, hot chicks. No more taxes to cheet on.”

Does it come with a sekrit decoder ring and a hat? No ring and hat, no joy. I know the whats and hows. Gotta have that special bling and accoutrements to be official.

Oh, and...

The mooslums went ahead with the sesame option? That’s it. Gloves off!

But, I guess it could have been worsted. There is one clutch of furrin devels that put “beet root” on their burgers. How barbaric (or kinky, depending on translation/interpretation) is that? They’re probably Illuminati. Illuminati are weird like that.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Thank you, my FRiend!

[bigheadfred]

It DOES come with ring and tin foil hat. RUN AWAY!! You will be misteakin for Illuminati!!! RUN AWAY!!

I think a nice hog ring would keep those furrin devils from rootin’ around so.

[wildbill]

Wasn’t Tanis the girlfriend goddess of the first movie Mummy?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Tanit was a Phoenician goddess but it looks like the Greeks named the city Tanis, so that won’t do. Also I believe “tan” in some form is the Hebrew word for whale, but it can’t have been much of a whaling town. Anyway I do wonder about these things :)

[Sherman Logan]

Well, Moses was the adoptive grandson of Pharoah and the son-in-law of Jethro, so Jethro was sort of related to a Pharoah.

[Frenchtown Dan]

That’s cool. I was thinking of Jethro from the Beverly Hills when you mentioned “Cement Pond”. Didn’t know there was a Pharoah.

[Bob J]

Tanis was either the Greek or Roman name for the area. In that time it was called Per-Ramses.

[Sherman Logan]

Jethro Bodeen was probably named after the Biblical Jethro.

[Hot Tabasco]

Any reports of fish in it?

[wildbill]

Mybe I was thinking of the name of the Mummy, Klaris in the Abbott & Costello version.

[colorado tanker]

Don't know what it means, but Tanis is where Dr. Jones found the Ark of the Covenant.

[elli1]

Does anyone know what “Tanis” meant?

"Tanis was actually its Greek name. We are told that its ancient Egyptian name was Djanet." From: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tanis.htm

Tanis: Greek from the Phoenician Tanith, meaning "serpent lady"

"In Egyptian, her name means Land of Neith, Neith being a war goddess." More here: Tanit

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Thank you! “Tan” seems to refer to a large reptile rather than a whale, so Tanit may have been originally a serpent goddess of the Middle East, the local deity of the city.

[decimon]

Any reports of fish in it?

C'mon, she may have been a Mut, but...

[bigheadfred]

You are welcome, Neighbor. BTW, I’m certain my dad has a pic of me standing next to fallen chunk of obelisk at Tanis.