Abydos Temple Hieroglyphics, page 1

Originally posted by drinkinlikeafish
I looking at Egyptian hieroglyphics the other day when I came across Abydos Temple in Giza. Alot of sites seem to have images of hieroglyphics which include helicopters, submarines, army tanks, flying saucers, rods and lots of other strange looking contraptions. My first thought was hoax but people are bringing pictures of it back from their holidays. I find it highly unlikely that people snuck in there and carved images in such detail for a hoax.

Good reasoning there: people are bringing back pictures and for a century and more (even when there were helicopters around) and it was only recently that someone decided it was a helicopter.

These are victims of Enthusiastic Over-Photoshopping.

Look closely at this one:

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At the far left is a round circle (sun) and you can see the whole thing is enclosed in a cartouche. Take a look at it in closer aspect and in context:
www.altarcheologie.nl.../Pharaoh's%20Helicopter.htm

What happened was that it was decided to replace the name of Seti I with Rameses II sometime back in ancient history -- rededicate the temple to Rameses rather than Seti. So they had to replace the titles. Rather than recarve, they plaster over the section and carve on top of that... as bits and pieces fell off, you get the strange effect.

(I don't have my texts here so I'm going to do the "quick and dirty" and hope to get to the actual translation later this evening)

Next to the date, we see the year of the inscription and next to that, the bee and the sedge that indicate the title, "Pharoah." So roughly, it translates out to "Rameses, Pharoah, who protects Egypt from the bows of the nine evil forign countries" -- this is part of a formal title (like "Knight commander of the royal navy") known as a "two ladies" title and one that appears

Remember that the Egyptian hieroglyphs are similar to our own letters (one symbol stands for one or more sounds.) So, on the face of a one dollar bill, you see "United States of America" and not "Un(OMG!! --it's the symbol for a phase drive!)ed St(OMG!!! Wild looking UFO!)tes of A(hyperdrive engine!) (Phaser-saber!)rica"

The other cue is that writing of that era was usually illustrated with drawings. If there had been something about UFOs or subs, there would be a huge painting or drawing next to it with the details.

[edit on 26-9-2005 by Byrd]