Posted on 04/01/2019 4:16:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered more than 100 ancient inscriptions carved into rock at Wadi el-Hudi, where the ancient Egyptians mined amethyst.
In addition to the carved-rock inscription, the researchers also found 14 stele (inscriptions carved on a stone slab or pillar) and 45 ostraca (inscriptions written on pieces of pottery).
Analysis of the newfound inscriptions is underway. So far, archaeologists can tell that many of the inscriptions date back around 3,900 years, to a time that modern day archaeologists call the "Middle Kingdom." Many of the ostraca date back around 2,000 years, to around the time that Rome took over Egypt.
Amethyst became widely popular in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, a time when the pharaohs of Egypt learned that Wadi el-Hudi is a good source for the material. "Once the [pharaohs] found it, they kind of went bonkers to go get it," Kate Liszka, the director of the Wadi el-Hudi expedition, told Live Science. During the Middle Kingdom, "they were bringing it back and making it into jewelry and doling it out to their elite and their princesses."
Though Wadi el-Hudi was surveyed in the past by other scholars, little excavation has been done and the surveys missed many inscriptions. "The site is just so full of inscriptions behind every boulder and around every wall that they missed a lot of them" Liszka said.
The team is using 3D modeling, reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and photogrammetry, among other techniques, to help find new inscriptions, map archaeological remains and reanalyze inscriptions discovered by scholars who surveyed Wadi el-Hudi in the past. This work has taken on a greater urgency as modern-day gold mines have opened in the area, causing damage to archaeological remains.
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It appears that somebody was lichen it.
Hah! Very good.
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I also found “Tuesday is Soylent Green day” whatever that means.
Good find! How did we overlook that? It makes now.
It makes sense now.
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Amethyst
Purple was the color of royalty and was not a common color. That is probably the reason for the interest in amethyst.
That and the belief that it prevented drunkenness and cured hangovers.
A couple of weeks ago I saw the follow up movie Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy
Extraordinary films on this same topic and which support your points.
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Discussed here. "The name Amethyst derives from the Greek word ametusthos, meaning “not intoxicated"
https://www.crystalvaults.com/crystal-encyclopedia/amethyst
Oooooooh! Wouldn’t I just love to own an amethyst mining site! Jes’ sayin’.
I was browsing for info on lapis lazuli and found tons of other semi-precious stones, some of which I'd never heard of, and others I had, but didn't know what they looked like and such. Parts of the big globe of crud are actually really pretty. :^)
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