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Egypt Archaeologists May Have Found Alexander the Great’s Tomb
Greek Worls Reporter ^
| Nikoleta Kalmouki
Posted on 05/03/2014 5:08:39 AM PDT by blam
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To: wildbill
Hey, not bad... I could have some real fun with that...
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posted on
05/03/2014 6:51:00 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Wasn’t an earlier library burned when Julius Caesar was there hobnobbing with Cleopatra?
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posted on
05/03/2014 7:11:35 AM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: SunkenCiv
They burned most of it..if not all.
The muslim burned what was left.
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posted on
05/03/2014 7:19:06 AM PDT
by
crz
To: blam
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posted on
05/03/2014 7:25:59 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/03/2014 7:45:21 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: blam
"The monument was apparently sealed off and hidden in the 3rd or 4th century AD, to protect it from the Christian repression and destruction of pagan monuments after the change of the official religion within the Roman Empire. " Just 60 meters from a mosque -- in muzzie-mad Egypt... How long will it be before this tomb (especially if it has any graphics or statuary) receives "the Bamiyan treatment?
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posted on
05/03/2014 8:06:44 AM PDT
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TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: crz
Not even any of it — Caesar was in the citadel, which is where the library was; he had the Egyptian fleet set on fire in the night to clear the harbor and spread discord and bad morale among his adversaries; the fire spread to one of the dockside warehouses, consuming all within, including “some books which chanced to be there.” The library continued in use until the muzzie conquest, when the caliph sent word that it was all to be burned. The anecdote about it is, it took six months to burn it all, in the stoves used to heat the many public baths in the city.
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05/03/2014 8:14:06 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
No, there was just the one great library, and no, Caesar didn’t burn it. That idiotic movie from the early 1960s got all sanctimonious about it, because, y’know, it was art. Or rather, alleged art.
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05/03/2014 8:15:46 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: 1010RD
“Is that a set of patriotic chopsticks, or are you just happy to see that craft services is serving chicken fried rice?
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posted on
05/03/2014 8:19:41 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
The depicted mural is from another, previously documented site, but the find of a "sarcophagus made of crystal glass" certainly fits with extant descriptions of Alexander's tomb.
The "crystal glass" is the one artifact from this tomb that I would most like to examine in a well-equipped analytical lab...
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posted on
05/03/2014 8:19:49 AM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: SunkenCiv; blam
Outstanding!!
Thanks for the "Heads up!", FRiends!
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posted on
05/03/2014 8:23:33 AM PDT
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TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
To: blam
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posted on
05/03/2014 8:24:43 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: SunkenCiv
37 bones
Hmmm...it’s been a little while since I took those physical anthropology classes. Well, decades actually...but IIRC there are a LOT more bones in the body than 37.
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posted on
05/03/2014 9:08:51 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/03/2014 9:15:57 AM PDT
by
crz
To: wildbill
Yeah, I suggested going back 200 years because you might find some stuff that was first located in the 1800, eg. Rosetta stone.
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posted on
05/03/2014 9:27:06 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: blam
How long before the islamists destroy the site and build a mosque?
Thanx for the post. Makes this site extra special.
To: thesearethetimes...
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posted on
05/03/2014 9:30:59 AM PDT
by
pollywog
("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
To: blam
History’s first great megalomaniac.
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posted on
05/03/2014 10:06:51 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Devil Patrick FREE Justina Pelletier!!!)
To: WorkingClassFilth
If his remains were packed in honey, that's a Sumerian tradition. Not certain how long that practice lasted past the sack of Ur III (c. 1912 BC). But a lot of influences did, including the language (the curia's "Latin" of the 2nd and 1st millenium BC, at least up to the Seleucid, and that would include Alexander's successors. Anyone know why Ptolemy won out over the Seleucids for the tomb site?
Did Ptolemy take possession?
His one-eyed father Philip's tomb was almost certainly uncovered just a few years ago.
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posted on
05/03/2014 10:47:40 AM PDT
by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
To: Jemian
"I wonder of there is any way of determining whether it was malaria that killed him. As a malaria sufferer, I am curious. This is a fascinating find." I've read speculation that it may have been West Nile Virus too.
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posted on
05/03/2014 12:07:28 PM PDT
by
blam
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