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Egypt announced on Thursday the discovery of five ancient tombs in Saqqara, marking the latest in a series of discoveries in the vast necropolis south of Cairo.
The stony tombs date back to the Old Kingdom (c.2700–2200 BC) and First Intermediate (c.2181–2055 BC) eras, Egypt's antiquities ministry said.
They were excavated northeast of the Pyramid of Merenre, a 52.5 meters-tall structure that was built during the Sixth Dynasty. The tombs, which are engraved with colorful shapes, belong to "top officials," the ministry added.
Egypt has carried out extensive digging operations in Saqqara in recent years, which resulted in a string of discoveries, including the unearthing of a 4,400-year-old tomb of royal priest Wahtye in 2018 and the discovery of hundreds of mummified animals and statues a year later.
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: TheSpanishArcher
My interests have died knowing they are hiding the true history.
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: TheSpanishArcher
My interests have died knowing they are hiding the true history.
Yeah.
Easy out to avoid all the hard, boring work involved in learning what we know and why we know it.
Harte
Yeah.
Easy out to avoid all the hard, boring work involved in learning what we know and why we know it.
originally posted by: Bringittothelight
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: TheSpanishArcher
My interests have died knowing they are hiding the true history.
Yeah.
Easy out to avoid all the hard, boring work involved in learning what we know and why we know it.
Harte
I don’t think we know anything about our history. You included . You know what your masters tell you . It would sure be something to know the truth about everything
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: Harte
Yeah.
Easy out to avoid all the hard, boring work involved in learning what we know and why we know it.
You know what Harte? I did sound completely ignorant of the honest dedicated
people who do all the hard work to bring us many fascinating discoveries.
I was quite remiss and I do apologize.
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: Harte
Would you say there are some cover ups or shady deals that at least
leave even you scratching your once in a while Harte? For example
the lady archaeologist in Mexico or So. America some where down
south. I believe she dated an excavation that put humans in the
Americas back to either 20,000 or 200,000 YA. And TPTB or
whoever was over her scoffed at her paper and she was done
as an archaeologist.
What's your perspective of possible corruption at the top of archaeology
as far as the public narrative?
Virginia Steen-MacIntyre at Hueyatlaco.
She was a Geology student intern at the USGS, not an archaeologist.
She jumped the lead archaeologist's (Cynthia Irwin-Williams) paper with her own prior to the Irwin-Williams' paper on the site being published.
Irwin-William's paper contained the same dating. Do you find it odd that Irwin-Williams suffered no consequences whatsoever when she published the exact same dates?
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: Harte
Virginia Steen-MacIntyre at Hueyatlaco.
She was a Geology student intern at the USGS, not an archaeologist.
She jumped the lead archaeologist's (Cynthia Irwin-Williams) paper with her own prior to the Irwin-Williams' paper on the site being published.
Irwin-William's paper contained the same dating. Do you find it odd that Irwin-Williams suffered no consequences whatsoever when she published the exact same dates?
No sir not by your account. Which is why I asked in good conscience not trusting vague information
in my head.
Thank you Harte
BTW, the site at Hueyatlaco was subsequently dated using different methods and the results are all over the board. The range is about 250,000 to 10,000 YBP.
Obviously, there's a problem dating the site.
Harte
originally posted by: fromunclexcommunicate
a reply to: Harte
They were using some kind of volcanic dust dating technique for the much earlier 250,000 year estimate.
Volcanic eruption dating science isn't fringe for dating eruptions.
Earth's more pronounced tilt supposedly ends the ice age cycles but low latitude sites would not be effected anyways.
Hueyatlaco was at a relatively low latitude is the 250,000 year estimate "fringe"?
originally posted by: fromunclexcommunicate
a reply to: TheSpanishArcher
Up until 2001 the resident expert was Jean-Philippe Lauer who spent 75 years of his life there working at the site even when he was in his 90's. So how did someone who literally spent his life there miss something as important as a 4,400-year-old tomb of royal priest Wahtye? Or maybe he hid the knowledge from the public, but for what re ason?