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Pyramid Hieroglyphs Likely Engineering Numbers


Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.

Shown to the world last month, when the first report of a robot exploration of the Great Pyramid was published in the Annales du Service Des Antiquities de l'Egypte (ASAE), the images revealed features that have not been seen by human eyes since the construction of the monument.
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Luca Miatello, an independent researcher who specializes on ancient Egyptian mathematics, believes he has some answers.

"The markings are hieratic numerical signs. They read from right to left, meaning 100, 20, 1. The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits," Miatello told Discovery News.
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How did the aliens know hieratic? :D ;) :rolleyes:
 
Orphia Nay said:
3D video report of the Djedi Robot Mission in Giza - Dassault Systèmes.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUoF9977o0
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I hope someone builds a 4WD version of that robot to have a little poke around in KV5. I'd love to see what's down there that might well have been undisturbed since it was built.

For that matter, I wish they'd started there. I've always found the Valley of the Kings to be more fascinating than the Pyramids.
 
Yes, "alternative historians"... don't say Zahi never does anything for you. It appears to me that these robot explorations are partly due to their persistent whining.
 
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Uncovering the Second Solar Boat at the Great Pyramid Today

This morning I attended the uncovering of the second solar boat pit at Giza with Professor Sakuji Yoshimura, Director of the Waseda University Mission Team in Egypt. We revealed the delicate wooden boat in the pit and also had a surprise archaeological discovery!

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Yesterday, the Egyptian and Japanese teams conducted an experiment to clean the fillings around the sides of the covering stones. During this procedure they revealed a cartouche for King Khufu and beside it was the name of the crown prince Djedefre, without cartouche. This is a very great discovery. It is the second cartouche of the great King Khufu to be found in the pyramid complex – the first was inside the Great Pyramid – and it proves to us that this boat was constructed during the time of King Khufu.
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More evidence that the aliens were called Khufu and travelled by boat. ;) :D
 
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New Pharaonic artefacts discovered in North Egypt's site of San El-Hagar (Tanis)

CAIRO, 27 June 2011

French excavators working at an archaeological site in San el-Hagar (Tanis) in the Delta Governorate of Sharqia have unearthed hundreds of painted limestone blocks that were once used in the construction of King Osorkon II's temple.

Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass on Monday stated that early studies on the site revealed that the blocks had been dismantled and reused in the construction of edifices during the late Ancient Egyptian period and the Ptolemaic era.

"These carved blocks could have been used to build a temple or a great building," Hawass said in a statement.

He promised that, after unearthing all the blocks, the archaeological team would study the blocks and reconstruct them into their original form in order to establish whether they had formed a temple or a chapel.​


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French archaeologist Philip Brousseau, the head of the French mission, claims the newly discovered blocks were reused in the construction of the enclosing wall of goddess Mut’s sacred lake. In his report, Brousseau wrote that cleaning 120 blocks revealed that 78 of them were skilfully painted and decorated and two of them bore the names of the kings Osorkon III and IV respectively.​


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Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, an aide to Hawass, said that the discovery was “very important” because it will add to the history of a great archaeological site in Lower Egypt.

At San el-Hagar, he explained, monuments are displayed from the Ramesside period that were once transferred in antiquity from King Ramsess II’s capital Pi-Ramesses (Qantir) in the Delta. It also has monuments that can be dated to the Graeco-Roman and Ptolemaic eras.

Abdel Maqsoud stated that the Ministry of Antiquities is now developing the site to make it more tourist friendly. A visitor centre will also be installed at the site as well as a museuological warehouse.

San el-Hagar was known as Tanis during the pharaonic era. It is one of the oldest Egyptian cities and contains many temples belonging to the god Amun.

In 1939 French Egyptologist Pierre Montet discovered a collection of royal tombs and a treasure known as the Tanis treasure, now on display at the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo Al Tahrir Square. It includes gold jewellery inlaid with precious stones and funeral masks.​



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His fan club seems to be diminishing....

Now demonstrators in Cairo are calling for his resignation as the interim government faces disaffected crowds in Tahrir Square.
Their primary complaint is his association with the Mubaraks, whom he defended in the early days of the revolution. But the upheaval has also drawn attention to the ways he has increased his profile over the years, often with the help of organizations and companies with which he has done business as a government official.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/world/middleeast/13hawass.html?hp
 
Press Release: Tourist Levels on the Rise

14 July 2011

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities, announced high visitor levels to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo today. Dr. Hawass made it clear that visitor numbers have been increasing day by day in comparison to previous months.

"We are very happy to see an increase in tourism and we would like for it to continue," he said.​


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Dr. Tarek el-Awady, Director of the Egyptian Museum, said it was good to see the long queues of tourists today and very promising for the future.​
 
Press Release: Seized Artifacts

14 July 2011


A committee, formed by the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), has confirmed that the artifacts seized this week are those stolen from the museum magazine of eastern Qantara during the lawlessness on 28th January 2011.

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities, said that the committee, directed by Dr. Yosef Khalifa, examined the artifacts and compared them to those listed in the Red List.

The Red List, compiled by the International Council of Museums, catalogues Egyptian cultural objects at risk. It was submitted to Interpol and distributed internationally.​


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Dr Hawass added that the recovered artifacts include
rare pottery items dating back to the age of the Hyksos​




Dr Hawass said:
The Qantara museum magazine near the city of Ismailia on the Suez Canal was attacked on 28th January by looters. Almost 300 artifacts have been returned to date, the majority by good citizens
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A Victory in the Fight Against the Illicit Antiquities Trade

"I am so happy to be able to announce that there has just been an important victory in the fight against the buying and selling of stolen antiquities. Recently, the United States Department of Homeland Security has arrested three suspects in New York City – these people were allegedly part of an international organization that smuggled more than $2.5 million worth of artifacts from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including Egypt, over the last eight years. I am proud that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (now the MSA) was able to play a role in the success of this investigation."

- Dr Hawass​


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Hawass receives Peru's highest award

Peru President Alan Garcia awarded minister of state for antiquities Zahi Hawass with the country’s highest honour, the Order of the Sun Award, for his efforts in helping Peru to retrieve a cache of ancient artifacts taken from the ancient citadel of Machu Picchu nearly 100 years ago.​


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Hawass was decorated during a short visit to Lima to attend the second round of the international conference on protecting and repatriating cultural heritage artefacts.​


Read more at ahram online
 
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