"BBC News - Lost Egyptian Pyramids Discovered" Topic

Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.
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Fascinating stuff.

To lose one pyramid, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose seventeen looks like carelessness.

Interesting story, thanks for the link

Look forward to the tv programme next week

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My mother who was an Egyptologist always reckoned the only way to find everything was a giant vacuum cleaner and lift up the sand and silt.

Hold on one minute. The pictureS of the Martian pyramids look more promising than that infrared shot!!!

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Dan

Really now, lost is one thing. Misplaced on Mars is really pushing it too far.

"Indiana Jones is old school, we've moved on from Indy, sorry Harrison Ford."
8-)

Pretty cool stuff

oooooooo where's the stargate ?

This is very interesting! Wish I could watch the show. maybe it'll be on BBC America.

Thanks,

John

So now they can find Hamunaptra and release the Mummy on us all. I am sure the Medjai are having kittens about this. I wonder if they have a team dispatched to get the professor and her team, though it seems a bit late!

Anyone make a graduate student in 28mm?

"Indiana Jones is old school, we've moved on from Indy, sorry Harrison Ford."
8-)

Yeah, let's see her in a fist fight with Nazis!

So, there they show Tanis in all its glory. I hear Ravenwood has the headpiece of the Staff of Ra…

Cool

Wot, no Zahi???

Zahi got fired by the new government.

Did he? He's giving a speech at my local museum.

Hmmmmmmm…….

He got fired, then reinstated. Now he claims he was ALWAYS against the old govt and stopped them looting a number of treasures. Honest.

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Meet the new boss. Same as…

But a story about a major (or any) find in Egypt without his name attached shows something has changed. Or perhaps he is just sensibly keeping a lower profile for now.

I would find it personally interesting to hear about the location of the missing nose of the Great Sphinx.

I thought Napoleon's troops shot that to dust?

Actually there's a little bit of the Sphinx at my M-i-Ls. A WWII souvenieur…..

"I would find it personally interesting to hear about the location of the missing nose of the Great Sphinx."

Yes, that's one of the great 'who nose?" in history.

(apologies: I couldn't help myself)

I thought Napoleon's troops shot that to dust?

And I thought that particular canard was long since dead and buried. It was the original Moslem invaders that defaced the Great Sphinx.

That's cool … but no Stargate … yet …

I thought Obelix broke the Sphinx's nose, and then he and Asterix buried it, hoping no one would notice…..

And I thought that particular canard was long since dead and buried. It was the original Moslem invaders that defaced the Great Sphinx.

As an Islamic History PhD, I'd like to see some proof of this very harming claim.

What, that the Muslims invaded Egypt, burned the Library at Alexandria (again), destroyed priceless cultural and historical artifacts, oppressed the native inhabitants and forced them to convert or die, not to mention the usual atrocities of the times (loot, rape, pillage, etc).

I recommend you visit a library. I hear they are free, mostly.

According to Wikipedia (so it must be true!!!):

"The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century AD, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism."

No further details of source are given, and initial search just finds exactly the same text on various other sites…

What, that the Muslims invaded Egypt, burned the Library at Alexandria (again), destroyed priceless cultural and historical artifacts, oppressed the native inhabitants and forced them to convert or die, not to mention the usual atrocities of the times (loot, rape, pillage, etc).

Once again, aside from your sarcasm, please provide sources from these accusations because the conquest of Egypt was nothing of the sort.

Hi

And your implied criticism is that the poster is what? Anti-moslem? Oversimplified the history?

You might observe that you replied to observed sarcasm with "snarky".

Would you not be more edifying if you counted his post with a reasoned post on the conquest of Egypt and how it did not include he usual burn, rape, murder, pillage, defacing of human representations and forced conversion.

Rocky

I am at work and cannot quote sources to you, but the Muslim conquest of Egypt from the Byzantines was far from violent. Oh, I don't doubt that a date stand or two was pillaged, and perhaps the odd maiden was put to the blush, but the invading army, IIRC numbered less than 5,000 and the garrison simply left town.

Egypt was simply stuffed with Christian dissidents unhappy with Byzantine rule. They were not all that upset about the change in management, and if there were any forced conversions we don't know about them; we DO know that Christians continued to be in the majority in Egypt for several hundred years after the conquest, and continue to live in Egypt to this day. They still don't much like the Byzantine/eastern Orthodox church, though.