Rock-hewn tombs from Ancient Egypt discovered in Aswan

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Egyptian kangaroo at nine o'clock ???

Naturalistic art style. Man spearing a kangaroo, Kimberley.

www.aboriginalculture.com.au...

It's the ancient Egyptian god Skippy.

What are they learning yous in skool these days, edumatacions not what it yoused to be.

which makes me think it is a bird of some kind

reply to post by KnightLight


You'd be exactly right....it's a vulture.

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I was thinking it was one, But that one in the image doesnt look like one much

Another fascinating thread. I firmly believe that part of Egypt will hold all sorts of, as yet, undiscovered wonders. Aside from the long history of that region, it is also where the Egyptians fled following the Hyksos invasion (which nearly did for them).

You would therefore expect to find all sorts of very interesting stuff around there, ranging from tombs to monuments to evidence of a large scale military build up to reconquer (so the monuments should really be more of the chest thumping variety - look how good we are and what we can do).

I love the Kangaroo too......it definitely looks like one but i can't help thinking that is the style of depiction rather than a drawing of a kangaroo. Possibly deer or even some long extinct species. Historically, didn't the route to Nubia teem with Ibex? (Nubian rather than Alpine).

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Whats really sad imho is that due to the Aswan Dam we may never know if there were other yet to be discovered locations now flooded.

reply to post by SLAYER69


Quite true. What is the really sad is the sheer number of dams being built / already built around such areas. We all know of the Aswan and Three Gorges Dam but there are loads of others.

Turkey is perhaps the worst offender (but then i suppose it could claim to have the most significant historical sites). For example, The Kestel Dam covered pottery workshops mentioned by Pliny. This is near Bergama. Also near Bergama is the Yortlani Dam, which covered the ancient site of Alliano, home to the Roman era's largest bathing complex (allegedly) and also the location (again allegedly) of the world's oldest thermal baths.

Possibly the worst of all though is the dam scheduled for Hasankeyf in the Tigris River basin (Turkey again). This site has been continuously inhabited for around 10'000 years so who knows what treasures will be lost for ever - possibly nothing but then possibly some finds of huge significance.

It's tough though. At the end of the day, water is essential and these areas are in serious need of both power and water supply.

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yes, I thought it was a bird

Trueman

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I thought that was a bit odd. I'd like to see the whole pic to be sure.

Some people believe egyptians reached Australia, maybe they did after all.

Second row fifth image.

I'm going with the oriental bald ibis as a possibility, now if we could find a picture of the back end of this hieroglyph we will have an answer.

I was thinking it was one, But that one in the image doesnt look like one much

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I agree somewhat...but what I think happened here was a transcription error when the craftsman was carving the figure...simply a spelling mistake if you will. It looks like it was originally carved as the symbol for the pheonetic sound "f"...a snake with antennae...or it could be the symbol for "a" ....when the carver realized his mistake he fixed it which is why his vulture has what looks like horns.

Thats my guess anyway.

I'm going with the oriental bald ibis as a possibility, now if we could find a picture of the back end of this hieroglyph we will have an answer.

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I agree...without seeing it in context, it's hard to know what the carvers intention was. I definitely don't think it's a kangaroo.

It's a Jerboa - common in north Africa and that was one was probably a Jaculus orientalis

Always good when they find new stuff.

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I don't see similarity between the "Slayer's Egyptian Kangaroo" (new coined term...hehe), and any of the birds on your pic.

There were actually marsupials in Egypt

secretvisitors.wordpress.com...

that was interesting

what next Hippopotomus and tiger's getting found in London [ wait they did ]

The Egyptian Jerboa?

www.mnh.si.edu...

If there were sabre-tooth tigers and mammoths, perhaps there were giant Jerboa? To think that at the time that this tomb was constructed, the North Sea didn't exist, Northern Europe was covered in an ice sheet, and England had a population of 6000.

www.telegraph.co.uk...

How different the world must have been.