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Statue of Egyptian pharaoh found after nearly 3,600 years
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| 06/04/05
Posted on 06/04/2005 9:03:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Very intersting Antiquity!
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posted on
06/05/2005 7:05:50 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways)
To: TigerLikesRooster; blam; SunkenCiv
The article says "it was lying about 1.6 metres below ground near an obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman to have reigned as a pharoah in Egypt, ruling from 1504-1484 BC." What about Cleopatra? Did she not qualify as Pharaoh?
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sure, but will they find his matching sock?
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posted on
06/05/2005 9:58:11 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(We're trying to get rid of foreign oil, not find something more efficient or cheaper)
To: DryFly
I can't read Ozymandias anymore without thinking of the WTC on 9/11.He was ahead of his time.
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posted on
06/05/2005 10:02:12 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
To: Jedidah
"So is the debate over ethncity of the pharoahs, which makes looking at their statues interesting. Young Neferhotep looks very African to me, but who knows?" I just read in National Geographic that King Tut was/is Caucasian.
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posted on
06/05/2005 10:23:12 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Publius6961
My #12 dog is named mohammed after the... All American pigs should be named Mohammed.
Even then, there will still be fewer pig-Mohammeds than death-cult Moo Mohammeds.
And all American pork meals ("it's the other white meat!") should also be called mohammeds.
"Pass the Mohammed ribs, please. And some more sauce."
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posted on
06/05/2005 10:25:40 AM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
the statue was unusual in that the king is depicted holding hands with a double of himself, Twins?
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posted on
06/05/2005 10:30:52 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(I am not a romantic, I don't hero worship and no, as a matter of fact, I don't have a heart.)
To: Jedidah
I didn't know about the entry in Psalms. Thanks!
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posted on
06/05/2005 11:06:04 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: familyop
Psalm 106 does an Exodus recap, including (vs.10-12) "not one of them survived," which is also what Exodus 14 says about Pharoah's "entire army".
Psalm 136:14-15 ". . . and brought Israel through the midst of it, . . .but swept Pharoah and his army into the Red Sea. . ." (NIV)
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posted on
06/05/2005 11:39:35 AM PDT
by
Jedidah
To: blam
Excellent! Thanks. Digging out my National Geographic.
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posted on
06/05/2005 11:40:33 AM PDT
by
Jedidah
To: Jedidah
"Excellent! Thanks. Digging out my National Geographic." It's the June issue. Tut's reconstructed head is on the front page.
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posted on
06/05/2005 11:44:18 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Jedidah
had a Israeli ex-con Israelite, maybe?
To: afraidfortherepublic
Cleopatra was the last Ptolemy, a Greek.
They would be more accurate to say the only Egyptian woman to rule Egypt.
(But there is debate as to Cleopatra's ethnicity as well.
Some claim she was part Black.)
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posted on
06/05/2005 12:03:40 PM PDT
by
TruthConquers
(Delenda est publius schola)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The french are actually good for something- digging trenches.
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posted on
06/05/2005 12:17:01 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Don't make me go Bushi on your a$$)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I thought the cobra was the sign of upper Egypt?
The later pharohs had two symbols on their headdress,
the cobra for one and something else for lower Egypt.
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posted on
06/05/2005 12:20:28 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Calvin Locke
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posted on
06/05/2005 12:42:16 PM PDT
by
Jedidah
To: Jedidah
Thanks again. Many of the theology sites mention that the mummy of Neferhotep I hasn't been found. ...interesting.
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posted on
06/05/2005 2:31:32 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
To: TigerLikesRooster; afraidfortherepublic
Thanks TigerLikesRooster for the ping, I'll do the list when I get home. The article says "it was lying about 1.6 metres below ground near an obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman to have reigned as a pharoah in Egypt, ruling from 1504-1484 BC." What about Cleopatra? Did she not qualify as Pharaoh?
Hatshepsut ruled in her own right, apparently as a usurper (she began her reign as regent, then said to hell with that).
Despite the modern drive to make Cleopatra a paragon of virtue and (contradictorily) a capable and ruthless leader in her own right, she was placed on the throne by Rome, and kept there by Rome. She murdered her siblings one by one to prevent pretenders from arising, banged everything in sight (that too is denied, including by Michael Grant), and "her" domain failed to defend her when Mark Antony was systematically destroyed by Octavian.
Another modern phenomenon is the drive to make Nefertiti -- who died in her 30s, and predeceased her husband Akhenaton (nee Amenhotep IV) -- into a pharaoh in her own right, ruling under the name Smenkhkhare. That's also not true (by a mile).
Another female pharaoh ruled at or near the end of the Old Kingdom, quite a while before Hatshepsut.
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posted on
06/05/2005 3:32:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
Neferhotep was one of the few pharaohs whose name did not invoke the sun god, Re.
I'll definitely be checking Quirke on that statement by the author of the article. Smells suspiciously of BS. It's an odd statement to make, in any case. The fivefold titulary (the pharaohs had five official names) was established during the Old Kingdom, and seldom did it go unused thereafter. (':
Dog named Ra? Not Ra-uff? ;')
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posted on
06/05/2005 3:46:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: TigerLikesRooster; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks Tigerlikesrooster. I'd check the Quirke book as promised, but, uh, I'm not a great housekeeper. Wasn't on the shelf in the usual place, and, well, I don't know where it is in the household debris. :'o Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
06/05/2005 8:36:27 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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