The hieroglyphic symbol at top, showing what looks like a rod with many arms beside a building, is the name for a queen called Neith-Hotep. Credit: Photo and drawings courtesy D. Laisney
Posted on 01/19/2016 11:23:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
About 60 drawings and hieroglyphic inscriptions, dating back around 5,000 years, have been discovered at a site called Wadi Ameyra in Egypt’s Sinai Desert. Carved in stone they were created by mining expeditions sent out by early Egyptian pharaohs archaeologists say.
They reveal new information on the early pharaohs. For instance, one inscription the researchers found tells of a queen named Neith-Hotep who ruled Egypt 5,000 years ago as regent to a young pharaoh named Djer.
Archaeologists estimate that the earliest carvings at Wadi Ameyra date back around 5,200 years, while the most recent date to the reign of a pharaoh named Nebre, who ruled about 4,800 years ago.
...south of Wadi Ameyra, the ancient expeditions would have mined turquoise and copper. Sometime after Nebre's rule, the route of the expeditions changed, bypassing Wadi Ameyra...
While Egyptologists knew that Neith-Hotep existed, they believed she was married to a pharaoh named Narmer. "The inscriptions demonstrate that she [Neith-Hotep] was not the wife of Narmer, but a regent queen at the beginning of the reign of Djer," Tallet said...
An inscription found at Wadi Ameyra shows that Memphis, an ancient capital of Egypt that was also called "the White Walls," is older than originally believed.
Ancient Greek and Roman writers claimed that Memphis was constructed by a mythical king named Menes, whom Egyptologists often consider to be a real-life pharaoh named Narmer...
The new inscription shows that Memphis actually existed before Narmer was even born.
...The inscription shows that the ancient capital was around during the time of Iry-Hor and could have been built before even he was pharaoh.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
The hieroglyphic symbol at top, showing what looks like a rod with many arms beside a building, is the name for a queen called Neith-Hotep. Credit: Photo and drawings courtesy D. Laisney
http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/080/796/original/wadi-ameyra-2.jpg?1453177395
and for later:
Particles could reveal clues to how Egypt pyramid was built
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-particles-reveal-clues-egypt-pyramid.html
The penguin?
ALIEN ... R of penguin
Fascinating. This stuff is my bread and butter.
Dynasty 0 (Egyptian colonies in Canaan)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1289651/posts
Archaeological Discovery Of Unknown Pharaonic King Inscription
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1090767/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/predynastic/index
Thank you! Very much appreciated. :)
Were they smart enough to know how to make beer on their own or did they require the help of extraterrestrials?
That’s a hotel with a cell phone tower next to it! Ancient aliens built it!
Beer is an Earth invention — and explains why the ETs have kept coming here for 1000s of years. :’)
I like GGG readers to be Seti-sfied. /rimshot
L Left, palm tree w/19th hole flag to signal the place where the beer was sold !
Oh no! Another absolutely and universally known fact about the ancients (Hatshepsut first female pharaoh)goes down to newer discoveries.
Think of all the documentaries that will have to be edited or thrown away. TBH, Somehow, the phrase “Hatshepsut was the second known female Pharaoh” doesn’t have the same cachet.
Actually, there was a female pharaoh at the end of the Old Kingdom, which was followed by a period of chaos called the 1st Intermediate Period. :’)
Thanks!
Even Burgess Meredith wasn’t old enough to remember that pharaoh. ;’)
Thank you. Interesting info.
My pleasure.
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