"Oldest place name sign deciphered" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2020 8:32 p.m. PST |
"An inscription on a rock from the late fourth millennium B.C. has been discovered to be the oldest known place name sign. The four hieroglyphs read "Domain of the Horus King Scorpion," whose name was used in vain in several The Mummy spinoffs in the early oughts. The four symbols are a leafy plant, a scorpion, a solar disk and two concentric circles on the right. The circular hieroglyph is what marks it as a place name. The inscribed rock was discovered two years ago in the Wadi Abu Subeira, the bed of an extinct river in the desert east of Aswan. The site is known for its profusion of Late Palaeolithic petroglyphs and is under constant threat from erosion and mining activities. Archaeological exploration of the location is still in comparative infancy. University of Bonn researchers led by Egyptologist Dr. Ludwig D. Morenz have been working with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities for several years to document ancient and prehistoric rock carvings…"
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| Florida Tory | 22 Dec 2020 4:27 a.m. PST |
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 Grelber  | 22 Dec 2020 7:19 a.m. PST |
OK, 4000 BC makes this pre-Old Kingdom, pre-pyramid, an era most texts hardly talk about. I guess I hadn't really thought about the situation, but this seems to indicate that hieroglyphs came before the pharaohs. So cryptic, ancient pre-pharaonic inscriptions can play a role in my New Kingdom games!
Florida Tory is right: Cool! Grelber |
| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2020 11:13 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it guys! (smile) Amicalement
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| evilgong | 22 Dec 2020 3:04 p.m. PST |
The alternative interpretation is; tree, covid virus, doughnut, crab. It's a warning against exotic food. |
| Tango01 | 23 Dec 2020 11:51 a.m. PST |
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| Emperorbaz | 12 Jan 2021 1:54 a.m. PST |
Of course conspiracy theorists will claim that photo was from the surface of Mars! |
| 79thPA | 21 Jan 2021 5:40 a.m. PST |
I think evilgong and Emperorbaz may be on to something. Cool find. |
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