[TigerLikesRooster]

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[SIDENET]

Statue of Egyptian pharaoh found after nearly 3,600 years

Under the bed? Between the sofa cushions? It's always the last place you look.

[Lockbar]

In honor of the discovery of this Pharaoh's statue I will post this dancing fellow:

[Reeses]

the king is depicted holding hands with a double of himself

The mainstream media will claim it was his domestic partner.

[blam]

"Neferhotep was one of the few pharaohs whose name did not invoke the sun god, Re."

My #2 dog is named Ra after the sun god.

[Plutarch]

You can't look upon Pharoh statues without thinking of Ozymandias.

Ozymandias

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Eagles6]

"Buried for nearly 3,600 years, a rare statue of Egypt's King Neferhotep I has been brought to light in the ruins of Thebes by a team of French archaeologists. Who immediately surrendered.

[familyop]

Some archeologists and historians believe that he might have been the Pharoah of the Exodus.

[Noachian]

"In order to pull it out, a structure on top of the statue has to be dismantled and then restored,"

This doesn't sound right.

If the statue is lying beneath, but not part of, an existing structure any good engineer would recommend tunneling to get at it.

[ßuddaßudd]

Very intersting Antiquity!

[afraidfortherepublic]

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?

[RightWhale]

Sure, but will they find his matching sock?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

the statue was unusual in that the king is depicted holding hands with a double of himself,

Twins?

[Porterville]

The french are actually good for something- digging trenches.

[tet68]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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

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[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

Can't wait for that blow hard Hawass to make the announcement as if he were the reason for the discovery.

[SunkenCiv]