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Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt
- woliveirajr 6y agoSeems that just digging the whole country and (after doing that) build the modern Egypt would be easier :-) There are many things there, waiting to be unearthed (unsanded?)
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- xref 6y agoExciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt) Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and implementing monotheism around the Aten figure. After he died his monuments were destroyed and successors omitted his name from lists of kings as polytheism was restored, including by Akhenaten’s son, Amenhotep III’s grandson, Tutankhamun.
- dr_dshiv 6y agoCheck out the Shabaka stone. While almost 600 years after Akhenaten, it was erected by a black Nubian pharaoh who was trying to return Egypt to its original religion. The stone claims to reproduce text from the first dynasty of Egypt! It focuses on the god Ptah, who is the god of design, craft and creativity — and the creator of the universe. It has some pretty esoteric sections and perhaps even foreshadows the rise of Hermetic philosophy in late antiquity Egypt.
- NamTaf 6y agoThanks for the rec! I'm working my way through Revolutions, with History of Rome next, but this sounds like I'll really enjoy it when I get to it sometime in the mid-to-late 2020s! When I studied Ancient History at school, the period of Akhenaten was the most interesting for me.
- andrepd 6y ago> He has been described as "enigmatic", "mysterious", "revolutionary", "the greatest idealist of the world", and "the first individual in history" I don't get it, why? "The first individual in history"? Anyone has suggestions of where can I read more about him? :p
- marcelnita 6y agoHey, what podcast is that?
- arman0 6y agoThe serpentine (Crinkle crankle) wall that can be seen in pictures seems quite out of place in a city from 3000 years ago.
- hnedeotes 6y agoOnce in Cambodia I went to a buddhist temple. On the stone walls some depictions of the buda had him holding a measuring square - I was like, who would have thought buda would be interested in Pythagorean affairs.
- tasogare 6y ago> a measuring square Obviously was a smartphone, given by the extraterrestrials who helped constructing that temple and pyramids.
- hnedeotes 6y agoProbably they have a web app to turn on and off the obelisk at DC.
- dr_dshiv 6y agoAny other clues for how to find this? I'd love to see a Pythagorean buddha.
- hnedeotes 6y agoIn siem reap on the main road, that goes to the city when you come from the airport, there's a few temples close to the city. If I'm remembering correctly (+6 years ago), it will be in one on the right side of the road (coming into the city), black stone walls. I had a picture of it but can't find it, typical buddha pose, halo like around the head, but instead of resting hands on the lap it was holding the square.
- contingencies 6y agoPotentially feasible alternate interpretation: given that the Indian religious / ruling caste in Cambodia who brought Hinduism and Buddhism had arrived by boat and were sophisticated seafarers there is a chance this would be an astronomic device rather than a geometric tool for ground-based construction. The only reference I can find in the Pali texts to construction whatsoever is negative referring to undesirable mental habits, ie. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.than.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.than.... House-builder, you're seen! You will not build a house again. All your rafters broken, the ridge pole dismantled, immersed in dismantling, the mind has attained to the end of craving. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra for interpretation) PS. If you ever get the chance to compare parts of Cambodian hinterland (eg. area around Battambang) with South India (eg. western Tamil Nadu) you will realise they bear a striking topographic resemblance: vast tropical plains punctuated by extremely vertical mountains. Beautiful setting for settled agriculture.
- anigbrowl 6y agoFascinated by that undulating curtain wall - never seen it before, and figuring out the purpose is exciting.
- Evgeniuz 6y agoIts form may be a way to conserve bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle_crankle_wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle_crankle_wall
- noir_lord 6y agoI think the bigger feature of the two is that this type of wall resists lateral pressure better and uses less materials[1] [1] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/elith/publications/all_publications/elith-w03.pdf https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/elith/publications/all_pub...
- musingsole 6y agoAside from brick conservation as others noted, these walls can be used for growing fruit (https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-fa... -- look for 'Serpentine Fruit Wall') though perhaps here it was purely for construction/aesthetics
- wdb 6y agoIt’s a shame that Hawass still works after his dodgy involvements when he was Minister of Antiquities. I am aware he was cleared in Egypt but just isn’t right.
- dominotw 6y agowhy is he in every single egypt documentary. I've watched atleast 50 of them and hes in every single one of them. There are no other egypt experts? whats the deal.
- m0llusk 6y agoHe aggressively inserts himself in any Egyptian archaeology of any significance apparently out of a combination of intense interest and untamed ego and he framed all finds in terms that have broad political appeal in Egypt.
- wdb 6y agoThere are stories that he always wanted to announce the discoveries instead of the real archeologist. Also that he demanded to be part of tv shows for foreign production companies to get permission to access to archaeological sites. At the same time he was the person that could issue these permissions.
- ivoras 6y agoHope they run away on time if they find unusually active scarab beatles, sand devils with faces or mummies... (I kid, I kid, of course, this kind of looks like the beginnings of many Mummy movies)
- datavirtue 6y agoLooks more like a town, and some more Thomas Edison-like promotion of Hawass. Dig up something from 12k years ago and I might get excited. 3000 years ago is essentially contemporary compared to the neolithic finds we have unearthed and dated in recent years. Where is neolithic Egypt?
- patentatt 6y agoUnder dozens of feet of flood sediment?
- datavirtue 6y agoThat's my guess. If not under water.