Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt

https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/04/08/egyptologist-zahi-hawass-announces-discovery-of-lost-golden-city-in-luxor/

by seesawtron • 5 years ago

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woliveirajr• 5 years ago

Seems that just digging the whole country and (after doing that) build the modern Egypt would be easier :-)

There are many things there, waiting to be unearthed (unsanded?)

xref• 5 years ago

Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt)

Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and implementing monotheism around the Aten figure. After he died his monuments were destroyed and successors omitted his name from lists of kings as polytheism was restored, including by Akhenaten’s son, Amenhotep III’s grandson, Tutankhamun.

dr_dshiv3• 5 years ago

Check out the Shabaka stone. While almost 600 years after Akhenaten, it was erected by a black Nubian pharaoh who was trying to return Egypt to its original religion. The stone claims to reproduce text from the first dynasty of Egypt! It focuses on the god Ptah, who is the god of design, craft and creativity — and the creator of the universe. It has some pretty esoteric sections and perhaps even foreshadows the rise of Hermetic philosophy in late antiquity Egypt.

gnatman• 5 years ago

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the el Daoud

https://youtu.be/RzuyR6GeXRg

NamTaf• 5 years ago

Thanks for the rec! I'm working my way through Revolutions, with History of Rome next, but this sounds like I'll really enjoy it when I get to it sometime in the mid-to-late 2020s!

When I studied Ancient History at school, the period of Akhenaten was the most interesting for me.

andrepd• 5 years ago

He has been described as "enigmatic", "mysterious", "revolutionary", "the greatest idealist of the world", and "the first individual in history"

I don't get it, why? "The first individual in history"?

Anyone has suggestions of where can I read more about him? :p

marcelnita• 5 years ago

Hey, what podcast is that?

arman0• 5 years ago

The serpentine (Crinkle crankle) wall that can be seen in pictures seems quite out of place in a city from 3000 years ago.

hnedeotes4• 5 years ago

Once in Cambodia I went to a buddhist temple. On the stone walls some depictions of the buda had him holding a measuring square - I was like, who would have thought buda would be interested in Pythagorean affairs.

tasogare• 5 years ago

a measuring square

Obviously was a smartphone, given by the extraterrestrials who helped constructing that temple and pyramids.

dr_dshiv3• 5 years ago

Any other clues for how to find this? I'd love to see a Pythagorean buddha.

contingencies2• 5 years ago

Potentially feasible alternate interpretation: given that the Indian religious / ruling caste in Cambodia who brought Hinduism and Buddhism had arrived by boat and were sophisticated seafarers there is a chance this would be an astronomic device rather than a geometric tool for ground-based construction. The only reference I can find in the Pali texts to construction whatsoever is negative referring to undesirable mental habits, ie. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.than.... House-builder, you're seen! You will not build a house again. All your rafters broken, the ridge pole dismantled, immersed in dismantling, the mind has attained to the end of craving. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra for interpretation)

PS. If you ever get the chance to compare parts of Cambodian hinterland (eg. area around Battambang) with South India (eg. western Tamil Nadu) you will realise they bear a striking topographic resemblance: vast tropical plains punctuated by extremely vertical mountains. Beautiful setting for settled agriculture.

temp0826• 5 years ago

Maybe the budha was a mason

anigbrowl• 5 years ago

Fascinated by that undulating curtain wall - never seen it before, and figuring out the purpose is exciting.

Evgeniuz• 5 years ago

Its form may be a way to conserve bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle_crankle_wall

noir_lord• 5 years ago

I think the bigger feature of the two is that this type of wall resists lateral pressure better and uses less materials[1]

[1] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/elith/publications/all_pub...

musingsole• 5 years ago

Aside from brick conservation as others noted, these walls can be used for growing fruit (https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-fa... -- look for 'Serpentine Fruit Wall') though perhaps here it was purely for construction/aesthetics

wdb2• 5 years ago

It’s a shame that Hawass still works after his dodgy involvements when he was Minister of Antiquities. I am aware he was cleared in Egypt but just isn’t right.

dominotw• 5 years ago

why is he in every single egypt documentary. I've watched atleast 50 of them and hes in every single one of them. There are no other egypt experts? whats the deal.

m0llusk• 5 years ago

He aggressively inserts himself in any Egyptian archaeology of any significance apparently out of a combination of intense interest and untamed ego and he framed all finds in terms that have broad political appeal in Egypt.

wdb2• 5 years ago

There are stories that he always wanted to announce the discoveries instead of the real archeologist. Also that he demanded to be part of tv shows for foreign production companies to get permission to access to archaeological sites. At the same time he was the person that could issue these permissions.

ivoras• 5 years ago

Hope they run away on time if they find unusually active scarab beatles, sand devils with faces or mummies...

(I kid, I kid, of course, this kind of looks like the beginnings of many Mummy movies)

datavirtue2• 5 years ago

Looks more like a town, and some more Thomas Edison-like promotion of Hawass. Dig up something from 12k years ago and I might get excited. 3000 years ago is essentially contemporary compared to the neolithic finds we have unearthed and dated in recent years. Where is neolithic Egypt?

patentatt• 5 years ago

Under dozens of feet of flood sediment?

datavirtue2• 5 years ago

That's my guess. If not under water.

Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt

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