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16-12-2018, 08:26 PM
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New Tomb in Egypt.

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An amazing new tomb has been found in Egypt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46580264

I find things like this fascinating.
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16-12-2018, 09:32 PM
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Isn't it incredible! The first thing that popped out to me was the Egyptian ble.

How much I love that color - renamed cerulean by the Roman - a pigment that the Egyptians learned how to make synthetically using sand, copper, lime, and calcium carbonate heated to very high temperatures (as I recall, around 1,000C) for several hours. The Romans went berserk when they learned that blue in the form of Lapis Lazuli didn't have to be imported from Afghanistan...but soon afterwards, perhaps because it was difficult to manage the firing process, the Egyptian Blue was lost until the Renaissance.

The blue represented the Nile and heaven, creation, fertility and the afterlife which is why it's not surprising to find it in the tomb of a high priest.

And what of the hieroglyphs? I can't wait for an interpretation!

I'm with you Swimfeeders, this is my kind of news.
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16-12-2018, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Surfermom ->
And what of the hieroglyphs? I can't wait for an interpretation!:
Yep it's fascinating I agree. I'm scouring those pictures for some specific hieroglyphs but I'm not seeing them, though to be honest, if they were there I wouldn't expect them to be shown.
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16-12-2018, 11:21 PM
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Excellent Swims!
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17-12-2018, 12:33 AM
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That's interesting Swims, still finding tombs after all these years.

We went in a couple of tombs when we visited Egypt, it was a strange feeling going into history
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17-12-2018, 12:34 AM
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Hi

i am fascinated by all this, so much to learn, so much knowledge lost.

Greek Fire, bendable glass, millennia old and lost to science.

The nature of my job at one time took me to places of wonder.

So much to explore and understand, but so dangerous to go to now.

The Khmer,cities of over a million, when we where living in huts.

Amazing stuff.

We have technology, but no Wimpy house will ever survive Millenniums.

We have a lot to learn.
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17-12-2018, 01:29 AM
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I suspect they already figured much of it out Swims from the other tombs, but it's not the kind of stuff they want the public to know about. Everlasting lamps for example that were found still burning over 1000 years later.

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17-12-2018, 07:14 AM
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I had never heard of them

https://www.trinfinity8.com/mystery-...found-burning/
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17-12-2018, 07:31 AM
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Wow - that is amazing. Thank you Swimmy!
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17-12-2018, 09:13 AM
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A truly amazing find, I love Egyptology...
 
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