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To: SunkenCiv
Seems unusual doesn't it? That there would be a statue of such a relatively unimportant pharaoh in such a distant place?
5 posted on 03/06/2009 9:22:40 AM PST by americanophile
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To: americanophile

The possibility exists that it’s a fake (I’ve seen that in online comments elsewhere), but then, his purportedly relatively unimportant *ss did manage to construct the big columns for one of the major Egyptian temples — columns later recarved on behalf of Ramses II “the Great” (up in the darkness, fifty or sixty feet off the floor, some of the original cartouches were not recarved, they were missed, or deliberately left there) — in his campaign to restore Amun worship; also his mommy or at least the wife of his predecessor, Nefertiti, had her name preserved on a gold scarab found on the ancient wreck named Ulu Burun. This newly found item was probably some kind of diplomatic token etc.


6 posted on 03/06/2009 9:42:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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