Few people know this, but the Sphinx was actually a disco 3000 years ago.
Posted on 01/16/2012 11:38:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Swiss archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a female singer dating back almost 3,000 years in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said on Sunday.
The rare find was made accidentally by a team from Switzerland's Basel University headed by Elena Pauline-Grothe and Susanne Bickel in Karnak, near Luxor in Upper Egypt, the minister told the media in Cairo.
The woman, Nehmes Bastet, was a singer for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the Twenty-Second Dynasty (945-712 BC), according to an inscription on a wooden plaque found in the tomb.
She was the daughter of the High Priest of Amon, Ibrahim said.
The discovery is important because "it shows that the Valley of the Kings was also used for the burial of ordinary individuals and priests of the Twenty-Second Dynasty," he added.
Until now the only tombs found in the historic valley were those linked to ancient Egyptian royal families.
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(unless you’re in to women looking like little girls!)
A fat, hairy women in a sundress walks into a bar in Australia raises her arm and shouts,
‘Who’s gonna buy the lady a drink!!?’
No one answers apart from a drunk sitting at the other end of the bar.
‘I’ll buy the ballerina a drink!’ he says.
The barman gives the women the drink, she downs it one and slams the glass down on the bar then raising her arm in the air again she shouts,
‘Who’s gonna buy the lady another drink then !!?’
Again the drunk say’s,
‘I’ll buy the ballerina a drink !’
With that the barman says to the drunk.
‘Look mate, I don’t bloody care who you buy drinks for, but why do you keep calling her a Ballerina !?’
The drunk replies,
‘well anyone who can raise their leg that high must be a ballerina !!!’
Few people know this, but the Sphinx was actually a disco 3000 years ago.
Nehmes Bastet and the Amon Ra Supremes???
God I miss the 80s.
3 minutes after that on Saturday night they accidently stumbled across the first male Egyptian singer.
Fair enough, gator! I actually thought the joke was about Ron Reagan Jr. until the drunk said part of her looked as if it might be able to dance or have body hair.
“People.......people who need people.......”
Or before.
LOL!
Thanks for the chuckle. Still laughing!!!
I made the ...er...tactical error of reading that joke to me wife.
I will be out in the barn for the balance of the evening ...
So now that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken over Egypt, how long will it be before there is another female Egyptian singer?
“A handout picture released by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities shows the grave of Nany of the 22nd Dynasty”
So is “Nany, Nany boo-boo?”
Oh, they will have female slaves for that. Tradition, you know.
She wasn’t an ordinary person—she was a rock star of her time—The Temples were places of entertainment —and the best stuff was at the big—really big—Temple of Amun-Ra—it was like Vegas. Being related to the high priest (mostly nobles) was a help as well—but she must have had talent to get such a prime place for a burial. Being linked to the popular Cat Goddess was also a sign she wasn’t an ordinary person. Too bad we don’t have her music.
99 dead baboons
Sitting in my living room.
Not too functional it seems,
But quite a conversation piece.
This one’s Jake, that one’s Dinah,
There’s big Ned in my recliner.
No it’s not a lazy boy.
Can’t you see it’s a dead baboon?
Tim Cavanaugh
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