Posted on 11/01/2007 9:33:14 AM PDT by BGHater
OK, Thanks. But I still don’t get the sarcasm part. I mean, why do Egyptologists say they are puzzled if the cause of the decline is understood. I’m trying to understand the point of your comment rather than the history.
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That was part of the sarcasm; Egyptologists are puzzled about a lot of things because they don’t change their minds based on finds, and tend to be in awe of ancient despots such as the pharaohs.
I think Hillary’s patroness is Lilth.
I could have sworn there was a topic about the finding of a statue of Queen Tiye which had been reused in ancient times as a statue of Ankhesanamun. I found it not.
There is NOTHING even remotely royal about hillary except perhaps her relationship with the Prince of Darkness.
Regards,
GtG
Finally... and using the FR search engine for a change...
Team Unearths Statue of Egypt’s Queen Ti
AP on Yahoo | 1/23/06 | AP
Posted on 01/23/2006 11:00:39 PM EST by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563695/posts
Thanks again.
some of us don’t share your resources, is there a story line or some references to your post?
Sure ya do --- you're here on line, ain'tcha?
In addition, I did post one link in my post...
I have been studying, reading everything I can re Egypt, Biblical connections, etc for decades so can hardly hand you all the sources I have come across here - but you have GOOGLE and you have Amazon.com and you have 'search' - all at your fingertips.... have fun
When I see articles like this saying such as “... thought to have been [destroyed, decayed, etc.] centuries ago...” I can’t help but hope that some day some duplicate copy of the Library of Alexandria were discovered... What a tremendous loss that was!
What is the earliest Egyption structure to have been excavated and WHEN was it built?
4750 - 4250 BC
Contrary to popular belief (including around here), the Ship’s Library / Great Library of Alexandria wasn’t destroyed by Julius Caesar; it continued in use throughout Roman times, and sometime in the early centuries A.D. the papyrus scrolls were copied onto more durable parchment. Those parchment copies were burned by the Moslems. However, the papyrus originals could have survived (at least in part, and of course, not in like-new conditions) in the dry desert conditions of whatever dump they were cast into, or whatever new use they found.
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http://www.digonsite.com/drdig/egypt/72.html
Where was Cleopatra’s signature found?
Dr. dig responds: The papyrus text with Cleopatra’s signature had been recycled for use in the construction of a cartonnage mummy case found by a German expedition at Abusir in 1904. It was common practice in ancient Egyptian times to recycle old papyrus and use it for wrapping mummies. In fact, many Egyptian texts have survived because of this practice, and it is one reason that we know so much about ancient Egypt.
But I do not know whose mummy the recycled text was used for.
For those into Egyptology: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/
I just love all this! So cool.
Thanks so much for that link! My homeschooling egypt-crazy 8 year old will love this!
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