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skunk
02-28-2010, 12:13 PM
Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100228/D9E56AF02.html)
Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
A ministry statement Sunday said the team discovered the head of Amenhotep III wearing the traditional white crown of the southern kingdom buried in the pharaoh's mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor.
Head of the team, German-Armenian Egyptologist Hourig Sourouzian, said the head is part of a huge statue of Amenhotep discovered last year. The head is still missing part of the ceremonial beard which she thinks is still under the sand.
Two statues of Amenhotep made of black granite were found in March in the same temple.
This one's for pack!
Related thread:
Akhenaten and the Ark of the Covenant (http://amkon.net/akhenaten-and-ark-covenant-t24993.html?p=348862)
Here is a picture of it:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9969288
pack3tg0st
02-28-2010, 12:46 PM
Sweetness!
Amenhotep III was Akhenaten's father :)
Its all the 18th Dynasty.
And damn you skunk and you're black text on a black background hahaha :)
boycotteverything
02-28-2010, 12:50 PM
"The Gillette Corporation of Boston, Mass is currently funding the search for the missing beard."
MrPenny
02-28-2010, 01:08 PM
Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100228/D9E56AF02.html)
Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
A ministry statement Sunday said the team discovered the head of Amenhotep III wearing the traditional white crown of the southern kingdom buried in the pharaoh's mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor.
Head of the team, German-Armenian Egyptologist Hourig Sourouzian, said the head is part of a huge statue of Amenhotep discovered last year. The head is still missing part of the ceremonial beard which she thinks is still under the sand.
Two statues of Amenhotep made of black granite were found in March in the same temple.
This one's for pack!
Related thread:
Akhenaten and the Ark of the Covenant (http://amkon.net/akhenaten-and-ark-covenant-t24993.html?p=348862)
Quoted so everyone could read the damn thing.
skunk
02-28-2010, 03:37 PM
You know I have no idea why it did that...I'll see if I can edit it to show up in the other skins.
How's that?
Sweetness!
Amenhotep III was Akhenaten's father :)
Its all the 18th Dynasty.
And damn you skunk and you're black text on a black background hahaha :)
I thought Ay was Akhenaten's father?
skunk
02-28-2010, 04:07 PM
Amenhotep the III was Amenhotep IV's (aka Akhenaten) father :)
http://www.heptune.com/Akhnaten.html
Sorry, Ay was Nefertiti's father. It is all so incestuous back then it gets very confusing.
Cogburn
02-28-2010, 04:18 PM
Kinda like the Bush family.
Kinda like the Bush family.
:lol:
True, but the Bush family names "George" etc. are easier to remember then the Egyptian ones!
guinnessford
02-28-2010, 04:25 PM
Two statues of Amenhotep made of black granite
Black granite native to the area?
hmmmmmmmm
Maybe they ordered em from the granite state
And what was it with those people and their statues of themselves, so very egotistic when you think about it.
And what was it with those people and their statues of themselves, so very egotistic when you think about it.
Maybe IEF is a throw back . . . .;)
Maybe IEF is a throw back . . . .;)
Maybe, it has been speculated that the ancient Egyptians were black Africans.
MrPenny
02-28-2010, 04:40 PM
True, but the Bush family names "George" etc. are easier to remember then the Egyptian ones!
Check out the George Foreman family tree.......
Maybe, it has been speculated that the ancient Egyptians were black Africans.
Heaven forbid next he'll have "pharaoh" as his title . . . lol :D
Cool find though, I wonder what else they'll find near there.
Check out the George Foreman family tree.......
Arrrrrrgggggghhhhhh, I still can't insert a picture. I did a Pic of George Foreman's family tree but cant get it to post here. <sigh>
Sorry, Ay was Nefertiti's father. It is all so incestuous back then it gets very confusing.
the intro to Velikovsky's "Ages in Chaos" ...... imo a must read for anyone interested in our past :)
This is not descriptive history in the usual meaning of the term. It is a sequence of chapters, each of which is like a court hearing, where witnesses are brought to the stand to disprove the validity of the old and to attest to the accuracy of a new concept of ancient history.
The old story of mankind, never before disputed, is here assailed as distorted, and a reconstruction is presented. The period under investigation covers over one thousand years, ending with the advent of Alexander the Great Many wondrous things happen when historical perspective is distorted.
In order to understand the scope of the displacements in the history of the ancient world, one must try to conceive of the chaos which would result if a survey of Europe and America were written in which the history of the British Isles were some six hundred years out of line, so that in Europe and America the year would be 1941 while in Britain it would be 1341As Columbus discovered America in 1492, the Churchill of 1341 could not have visited this country, but must have visited some other land—the scholars would be divided in their opinion as to the whereabouts of that land—and met its chief.
Another chief, not Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Washington, would live in history as cosigner of a charter with Churchill of Britain in 1341.But as American records would speak of Churchill who crossed the ocean in the early forties of the twentieth century, British history would also have a Churchill II, six hundred years after the first one.
Cromwell would also be doubled by the same process. He would have to live three hundred years before Churchill I and also three hundred years after him, or three hundred years before Churchill.
The First World War would be fought twice, as would the Second. The First World War, in its second variant,would follow the second World War, in its first variant, by five and three quarter centuries.By the same token, the development of the Constitution, the cultural life, the progress of technology and the arts, would appear in chaotic distortion.Newton in England would become an early forerunner of Copernicus instead of following him.
Joan of Arc would revive the old traditions of the suffragettes of the post-Victorian days; she would be burned twice with an interval of six hundred years between; or, with the growing confusion of history, she would have to return to the stake a few centuries from today to suffer her death again.In the case presented, not only the history of the British Isles would be doubled and distorted, but also the history, of the entire world.
Difficulties would, of course, arise, but they would be swept away as oddities. Complicated theories would be proposed and discussed, and if accepted, they would establish themselves as new, strong obstacles to a correct perception of past history.Ancient, history is distorted in this very manner. Because of the disruption of synchronism, many figures on the historical scene are "ghosts" or "halves" and "doubles".
Events are often duplicates: battles are shadows; many speeches are echoes; many treaties are copies; even some empires are phantoms.The primary error can be found in Egyptian history; because of retardation, the history of Egypt was taken out of real contact with the histories of other peoples. Events in which the people of Egypt and the people of Assyria or Babylonia or Media were involved were recorded in the histories of these peoples from the Egyptian annals; the same events were then described for the second time in the history of Egypt, the annals of these other peoples, participants in the events, being the source.
Thus the histories of Assyria, Babylonia, and Media are disrupted and spoiled the history of the "Hittite Empire" is entirely invented; the Greek history of the Mycenaean period is displaced and that of the pre-AIexander period is lacerated and Spartan and Athenian warriors, even those with well-known names, appear once more on the pages of history as archaic intruders out of the gloom of the past.The process of levelling out the histories of the peoples of the ancient world to an exact synchronism will provide some exciting moments.
We shall see in a new light many historical documents which had been misinterpreted when presented in an incorrect historical perspective.We shall read the story of the plagues of the days of the Exodus, written by an Egyptian eyewitness and preserved on papyrus. We shall be able to establish the identity of the mysterious Hyksos, and also to indicate the site of their stronghold Auaris, probably the greatest fortress of ancient times.
We shall read the Queen of Sheba's record of her journey to Jerusalem in the days of Solomon, and shall see illustrations depicting this voyage and showing the inhabitants, animals, and plants of Palestine of that time. We shall have before our eyes photographs of the vessels and furniture and utensils of the Temple of Solomon as cut in stone bas-reliefs by a contemporaneous artist.
Then will follow texts of letters written by the Jewish kings Jehoshaphat of Jerusalem and Ahab, the sinner of Jezreel, and also by their military chiefs, signed with names we know from the Scriptures.Of stiU greater scope arc the effects of the revision for Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian histories, and also for the concept of the Greek past.
The rectification of chronology, without altering the sequence of the Hebrew past, enriches its records bountifully. The history of Egypt, and following it the histories of Babylonia, Assyria, Media, Phoenicia, Crete, and Greece, change their length.
The architectonics of the world past, when redesigned, shows its structure properly joined in time and space. It shows that kings were made their own great-great-grandchildren. Imaginary empires were described, and museum halls have been opened to display the arts of empires which did not exist: the art objects are products of other centuries, even of another millennium.
This is the case with the Hittite Empire and its art. This is the case with the Hurrian people and their language.Through the laborious efforts of scholars, achievements have been recorded without knowledge of their real nature. The Chaldean language was deciphered, but its decipherers did not know that they were reading Chaldean; handbooks about the Carian language were written, but the industrious philologists did not know that it was Carian
It is not possible in a short introduction to point out all the things which appear in a new light when correctly placed in time. When the hinges of world history are lifted to an adequate height, facts about peoples and countries, their art and religion, their battles and treatises pour down as if out of a horn of plenty. Certainly more than one fact and more than one parallel must have been overlooked in this book, but this is a shortcoming from which a pioneer work is seldom free.
another review :)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10433404/Ages-in-Chaos-The-Exodus
pack3tg0st
02-28-2010, 08:23 PM
And what was it with those people and their statues of themselves, so very egotistic when you think about it.
Not really Egotistic...
It was a different time back then...
The 'Kings' were minor gods.
The people kind of 'expected' the reigning pharaoh to make statues and monuments to his glory....
There's also something to be said for the fact egyptian history was kept in stone...
stone is 'forever'...
thus, why when they had a heretical king, or someone who just wasn't liked, they next pharaohs might destroy and deface all of the statues... remove cartouches from sarcophagi and scraping images off of temple and tomb walls...
If it wasn't in stone... they wouldn't be remembered... and the pharaohs knew this...
Not really Egotistic...
It was a different time back then...
The 'Kings' were minor gods.
The people kind of 'expected' the reigning pharaoh to make statues and monuments to his glory....
There's also something to be said for the fact egyptian history was kept in stone...
stone is 'forever'...
thus, why when they had a heretical king, or someone who just wasn't liked, they next pharaohs might destroy and deface all of the statues... remove cartouches from sarcophagi and scraping images off of temple and tomb walls...
If it wasn't in stone... they wouldn't be remembered... and the pharaohs knew this...
But didn't that actually happen to Tutankhamun, it was suspected that Horembeb had his own name carved over Tut's?
boycotteverything
02-28-2010, 09:13 PM
But didn't that actually happen to Tutankhamun, it was suspected that Horembeb had his own name carved over Tut's?it happened many times. the Egyptians called it "warrening." hell of a coincidence, eh?
pack3tg0st
02-28-2010, 09:24 PM
But didn't that actually happen to Tutankhamun, it was suspected that Horembeb had his own name carved over Tut's?
It happened to all pharaohs between Amenhotep III and Horembeb)
After Amenhotep III (aka Akhenaten) Nefertiti ascended the throne, then Tut, then Ay, and then Horemheb...
Horemheb started destroying all traces of the 'bloodline' of Akhenaten... which included is son (Tut), His wife and possibly one of his successors Nefertiti, and Ay... (I leave out Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten because there is evidence to suggest that both of these pharaohs may have actually been Nefertiti)
What Horemheb started... the House of Ramses completed...
The way the egyptian history reads is that Amenhotep III was succeeded by Horemheb... effectively removing 5 pharaohs from the historical record.
There wasn't even enough evidence to prove that king tut was real until the discovery of his tomb in the 20th century...
Cogburn
02-28-2010, 09:26 PM
http://www.welaf.com/resources/200706/pic/1181746968.jpg
Bitchkoma
03-01-2010, 02:11 AM
It looks South American. Is that Pedrobear?
It happened to all pharaohs between Amenhotep III and Horembeb)
After Amenhotep III (aka Akhenaten) Nefertiti ascended the throne, then Tut, then Ay, and then Horemheb...
Horemheb started destroying all traces of the 'bloodline' of Akhenaten... which included is son (Tut), His wife and possibly one of his successors Nefertiti, and Ay... (I leave out Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten because there is evidence to suggest that both of these pharaohs may have actually been Nefertiti)
What Horemheb started... the House of Ramses completed...
The way the egyptian history reads is that Amenhotep III was succeeded by Horemheb... effectively removing 5 pharaohs from the historical record.
There wasn't even enough evidence to prove that king tut was real until the discovery of his tomb in the 20th century...
....the primary error can be found in Egyptian history; because of retardation, the history of Egypt was taken out of real contact with the histories of other peoples. Events in which the people of Egypt and the people of Assyria or Babylonia or Media were involved were recorded in the histories of these peoples from the Egyptian annals; the same events were then described for the second time in the history of Egypt, the annals of these other peoples, participants in the events, being the source.
Thus the histories of Assyria, Babylonia, and Media are disrupted and spoiled the history of the "Hittite Empire" is entirely invented; the Greek history of the Mycenaean period is displaced and that of the pre-AIexander period is lacerated and Spartan and Athenian warriors, even those with well-known names, appear once more on the pages of history as archaic intruders out of the gloom of the past.The process of levelling out the histories of the peoples of the ancient world to an exact synchronism will provide some exciting moments.