Posted on 03/31/2016 12:28:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The reign of Ramesses III, the second pharaoh in Egypts 20th dynasty, was not the most stable chapter in the empire's history. There were endless wars with the Sea Peoples... which drained the treasury, bad weather that interrupted food supplies, along with political unrest...
In 2012, eminent Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and Cairo University radiologist Sahar Saleem scanned Ramesses III mummy and revealed that an assassin cut through his esophagus and trachea, killing him almost instantly. But a new book by the pair... makes the story a little more complicated, suggesting that the pharaoh was likely murdered by multiple assailants.
The mummy scans show that Ramesses III had one of his big toes hacked off, as Stephanie Pappas at LiveScience reports, and that the wound never had time to heal, meaning it likely happened at the same time his throat was slit...
But it seems Ramesses III's embalmers didnt want the royal squabble to follow the pharaoh into the afterlife. According to Discovery News they attempted to hide Ramesses wounds, performing a little post-mortem cosmetic surgery. They fashioned a fake toe out of linen and covered it in heavy layers of resin. When researchers in the 19th century tried unwrapping the mummy, they couldnt get the linen off his feet. It wasnt until the CT scan that researchers found out why...
The scans also reveal materials were stuffed under the deceased pharaoh's skin to make him more plump and attractive for when he met Osiris, a little nip and tuck trick that's found on several other mummies, including King Tut.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
There is a logical fallacy called the argumentum ad hominem. I guess this would be the argumentum ad amicum hominis.
>>Actually I have read a couple of his books, a long time ago. They were imaginative and interesting, but not convincing. A comet did not turn into the planet Venus, as Velikovsky thought (I don’t remember if that is in one of the books I read, or someone told me about it). That he was a friend of Albert Einstein’s doesn’t mean his theories are right.
Certainly, but his colleagial association with Einstein certainly makes him out as less a crackpot and more a heretic. Velikovsky’s work has been greatly updated by researchers whom he has influenced. Many books about this are available at Mikamar Publishing: http://www.mikamar.biz/thunderbolts-product.htm I recommend Dwardu Cardona’s Star series. Expensive, but a revolution in the application of comparative ancient mythology to human history. This material is not Eric Van Danniken fluff or Zachariah Sitchin brain spirals, it is serious, life long scholarly research that makes Joseph Campbell look like a grade schooler.
>>There is a logical fallacy called the argumentum ad hominem. I guess this would be the argumentum ad amicum hominis.
Heh, the best my Latin can come up with is “cogito ergo homo ludens sum”. Also, the neo-Velikovsky initiative has generated a spin off that is also fascinating... www.thunderbolts.info.
>>You must know the SECRET HANDSHAKE!!! ;) Welcome aboard, also see your FReepmail box.
If that’s something other than the infamous “missing fingers” handshake of the Wild Hamster Brotherhood, I’m there...
If you can’t toe the line, you can’t be Pharoah.
Plus, love isn’t always on time anyway.
But so many people, including some of his wives and eunuchs and priests wouldn't have tried to kill him and get his son to take over if he was a returning hero (he just stopped major invasion). link
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