Forbidden Egyptology

If I wanted all the "it cant be so" I would have visited another website. But oh well. Everyone is entitled to their boring, repetitive mainstream propaganda educated opinion.

Originally posted by seagrass
...and if I wanted to watch debates or tennis matches I would go back to college. Can we move on now? I get that it is not "possible" that aliens built the pyramids, but it is fun to think about it anyway.

My answer to this is that the evidence still lies beneath the sand waiting to be discovered

The tomb of Queen Khentkawes represents the connection between the fourth and fifth dynasties. She is shown wearing the uraeus and false beard - symbols of kingship. Her remarkable tomb has a base consisting of a large cube of bedrock reserved has the stone around it was quarried for the pyramids. On top of the cube is masonry structure shaped like a mastaba. The lower bedrock section was encased in fine Turah limestone. On the tomb's granite gate Selim Hassan found a title that translates either as 'The Mother of two Kings of Upper and Lower Egypt' or 'The king of Upper and Lower Egypt'. In Abusir there another pyramid bearing the name Khentkawes , but these appear to be a generation apart

A huge gateway of pink granite bearing the inscriptions of Khentkawes’s name and titles, stood at the southern entrance to her tomb. Selim Hassan discovered fragments of the gateway. The first title listed is one that was previously unknown to Egyptologists and become the subject of much scholarly debate. Selim Hassan, who excavated the tomb in 1932, and Hermann Junker translated the inscription as proclaiming Khentkawes to be “King of Upper and Lower Egypt and Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt”. Vladimir Vikentiev and Ludwig Borchardt disagreed. They interpreted the inscriptions as saying Khentkawes was simply the mother of two kings. The hieroglyphic inscriptions (nj-swt bjtj nj-swt bjtj mwt) can be interpreted correctly in either way. At the bottom of the inscription is an effigy of Khentkawes holding a scepter, wearing the ureus on her brow, and wearing the royal false beard. These were symbols reserved for gods and kings during this era. She also wears the vulture headdress. During the Old Kingdom this crown was the symbol of a king’s mother.

Originally posted by Hanslune

So how do you know it exists? You can speculate on it but until someone finds something it remains speculation.

So PE what is your opinion of the hundreds of proto-Egyptian (Neolithic) sites?

I'm sorry, but it sounds like speculation to me to assume nothing else could be found. There are lots of civs built on civs. Troy? The only one I could think of.

Abstract Cultural development in the middle Nile Valley from 10,000 to 2000 bp was characterized by significant subsistence changes — from hunting/gathering and simple aquatic resource exploitation to cultivation of domestic sorghum. Research in the Atbara and Khartoum regions enables us to identify distinct technological phases relating to resource diversification as well as specialization. Pottery was an important technological innovation which had far-reaching consequences for development of a more diversified use of aquatic and cereal resources. A basic distinction is made between cultivation and domestication as two separate but interdependent processes — the first a socio-economic process relating to peoples' activities, the second a biological process relating to morphological changes in the plants. Cultivation is considered to be evolutionarily prior and to have constituted the selection pressures which led to the emergence of domesticated plants. Cultivation of sorghum was practised from the 6th millennium bp but domesticated sorghum emerged only around 2000 bp. Specialized pastoralism and the use of secondary products like milk and blood appear to have become important in the late 6th millennium bp. An attempt is made to connect the development of technological traditions with that of Nilo-Saharan and Cu#ic languages.

Originally posted by cormac mac airt
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Hi seagrass,




From what I've read, catching up, nobody is assuming nothing else COULD be found, just that in regards to AE and the possibility of an older advanced civilization nothing HAS been found.

Taking your example of Troy into account, there are indeed many levels/cities added to and built on top of one another. However, that doesn't really indicate different civilizations as much as the same or similar civilizations over a very long period of time.

cormac

Originally posted by Hanslune
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If you walk around the ME you will quickly note that the soil has shards in it. Yep pollution from thousands of years ago. Pottery shard are nearly indestructible.

I've walked thru fields in Jordon, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere and quickly ID'd, pottery from a multiple thousand year range.

If there was a "unknown" civilization in the Nile valley prior to those we call the Egyptians. They didn't use pottery.

If they didn't use pottery one must ask what they used for food storage?

Only one culture, a rather small one in the SA, was able to develop without pottery - its the food storage capacity (one of prime reasons) that allowed human societies to develop civilization.

Unknown shards in Egypt? Nada