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Archaeologists Discover 'Lost Golden City of Luxor'
- redm 5y agoTheres a good nat geo article on it too. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/lost-golden-city-luxor-discovered-archaeologists-egypt https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/lost-gold...
- downWidOutaFite 5y agoThanks, that's a much better article.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThat article adds `style="overflow-y: hidden; position: fixed"` to the main body tag when you scroll down (once); you'll need to delete that to reenable reading it.
- andreime 5y agoThank you!
- haspoken 5y agohttps://archive.is/a0xYl https://archive.is/a0xYl
- fogihujy 5y agoI wonder if there's any written records to be found. Written sources from that time is rather scarce since they were systematically destroyed a few decades later.
- TrueJane 5y agoAs i was reading several sources about that, i didn't see any written artefacts, only mummies, pottery, masks and walls itself
- anonymousDan 5y agoWhy were they destroyed?
- fogihujy 5y agoThe next Pharao wanted to erase all traces of his father, and ordered the destruction of a lot of the documentation regarding his reign, including a lot of inscriptions and monuments. He also prohibited the worship of most of the Egyptian pantheon, declared that he was the only one who was allowed to pray to the remaining one. Basically, he grabbed a lot of power from the priests. That, of course, also resulted in some destroyed religious texts. Furthermore, many of the more mundane texts were on clay tablets that were occasionally wiped and re-used.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoI always wanted to ask something from archeologists: why did ancient people bury these cities instead of e.g. living in them, or demolishing them?
- skocznymroczny 5y agoIn most cases, those ancient cities and temples weren't buried by the people. Egypt is a desert country. Over time, the wind carries the sand over everything. Also, many old cities and temples were flooded by the Nile.
- HenryKissinger 5y agoIs every place being slowly buried likewise? Is the planet slowing getting thicker? Where does all this material come from?
- bbarnett 5y agoHuman skin is 99.9% of the dust in most homes. (had to reply with a gross out amusement, it's not sand, it's dead people!)
- anoncow 5y agoI used to believe that too. However, apparently there is more to it https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/what-is-dust-made-of/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/what-is-dust-made-of/ Also this video by Derek is very informative https://youtu.be/jn5M48MVWyg https://youtu.be/jn5M48MVWyg
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago>Human skin is 99.9% of the dust in most homes. Sure, ever since Thanos.
- rustymonday 5y agoIn the case of Egypt it's mostly wind-blown sand and dust. But deposition can also be caused by river sedimentation during floods. In non-desert areas, dead biomass (fallen leaves, etc.) creates soil. My parents had a stone path through their yard that they didn't maintain, and within a decade it was covered over with soil and grass grew over it. Over the course of a few thousand years, structures can be buried by several meters of earth.
- INTPenis 5y agoWho does their spell check? I found 4 errors so far and I'm not even done with the slideshow.
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- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago> The ancient city, reported to be the largest ever found in Egypt, dates back to the era of king Amenhotep III, who ruled the ancient kingdom from 1391 to 1353 BC To give some idea of how old Egypt is, Amenhotep III was the 9th king of the 18th Dynasty. By the time he ruled, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old. Also what is interesting is that some of our greatest finds are because of the Egyptian ruling class trying to erase the "apostasy" of Akhenaten from their memory. Thus Luxor and king Tut were heavily censored which probably led to their being passed over by grave robbers, which meant when they were finally discovered, we had a more intact find. I find it ironic that the pharaohs and cities that the ancient Egyptians tried to censor, may end up being the most well known as we go forward.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoCan you tell me what censored means in this context?
- selfhoster11 5y agoIn short, later rulers attempted to wipe out all memory of Akhenaten after he tried to abandon the traditional Egyptian polytheistic model. It's pretty fascinating stuff. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten: > As a pharaoh, Akhenaten is noted for abandoning Egypt's traditional polytheism and introducing Atenism, or worship centered around Aten. The views of Egyptologists differ as to whether Atenism should be considered as a form of absolute monotheism, or whether it was monolatry, syncretism, or henotheism. This culture shift away from traditional religion was not widely accepted. After his death, Akhenaten's monuments were dismantled and hidden, his statues were destroyed, and his name excluded from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs. Traditional religious practice was gradually restored, notably under his close successor Tutankhamun, who changed his name from Tutankhaten early in his reign. When some dozen years later, rulers without clear rights of succession from the Eighteenth Dynasty founded a new dynasty, they discredited Akhenaten and his immediate successors and referred to Akhenaten as "the enemy" or "that criminal" in archival records.
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- unkulunkulu 5y agoI read it as ‘Lost Golden City of Linux’
- marlowe221 5y agoIf only...
- ARandomerDude 5y agoI mean, they did name it LuXOR.
- wiml 5y agoAhem, its full name should properly be RA/Luxor, since the distribution consists of a Ra system with a Luxor kernel.
- sizzzzlerz 5y agoHow cool is this? Whenever cities of ancient civilizations are revealed, it kind of gives me shivers. It makes one wonder what else is out there, buried under the sands for thousands of years.
- hutzlibu 5y agoAtlantis is maybe still waiting for its Schliemann. And who know what else undersea, in the jungle or dessert.
- toyg 5y ago> Atlantis is maybe still waiting for its Schliemann. What do you mean? Everybody knows Professor Jones found it already - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Fate_of_Atlantis#Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Fate_of_...
- mzs 5y agophoto slideshow mentions this parade from April: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56508475 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56508475
- DamnYuppie 5y agoIf it was in the US the woke mob would have tried to get the parade cancelled because those Pharo's had slaves.
- Vrondi 5y agoIt is quite obnoxious that this slideshow doesn't have a date on it _anywhere_.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoFunny, ancient Egypt has the same issue!
- twic 5y agoActually, from the Nat Geo article it seems this is a case where that is not true: > Though the size of the city has yet to be determined, its date is clear thanks to hieroglyphics on a variety of items. A vessel containing two gallons of boiled meat was inscribed with the year 37 — the time of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten’s speculated father-son reign. Therefore i'm afraid i must condemn your joke as inaccurate.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoI stand by my joke, as everything is dated according to the current pharaoh, but it’s not like they signed their letters with the position of the planets - the dates relative to today are reconstructed in various ways as one pharaoh being so many years after another. The wiki on Egyptian Chronology explains various scenarios where the dates have had to be changed sometimes by hundreds of years according to new evidence: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology
- pdpi 5y agoIt's dated 09.04.2021. Hidden away in a weird spot at the top right corner
- BatFastard 5y agoTurn off! when headline has "ancienct" as part of their headline tells me something is wrong.
- fortani 5y agoZahi Hawass, the archaeologist who found it has an interesting past based on past comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26974453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26974453