Suez Canal archaeological finds on display at Egyptian Museum

[Sally]

You can never tell what ancients things will be found when the digging goes real deep.


Suez Canal archaeological finds on display at Egyptian Museum
Aug. 03, 2015 17:39

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By THE CAIRO POST

CAIRO: A temporarily exhibition, comprises 60 ancient Egyptian artifacts that were excavated from archaeological sites in the Suez Canal area, was inaugurated at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum Sunday by Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty.

Inaugurated to mark the News Suez Canal opening ceremony, scheduled to be held in Ismailia Thursday, “Discoveries of Egypt’s eastern gate,” is a one-month exhibition that highlights the history of the Suez Canal area, Damaty said in a statement Sunday.

“The exhibition displays 40 artifacts and 20 pharaonic stelai (upright stone slab bearing a commemorative inscription) that were unearthed in several ten archeological sites located to the east and north of the canal including Pelusium, Tharo, Tell Dafna,” Damaty said during the opening ceremony.

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[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm sure ISIS will do their best to destroy it as soon as possible.

 

[Sally]

I'm sure ISIS will do their best to destroy it as soon as possible.

I think they would go after the sphinx first.

 

[Mr. H.]

Did they dig up any Turkish wedding cakes?

 

[IsaacNewton]

You can never tell what ancients things will be found when the digging goes real deep.


Suez Canal archaeological finds on display at Egyptian Museum
Aug. 03, 2015 17:39

Pharaonic-Stelae-Discovered-In-Suez-Canal-Area-Is-Currently-Exibited-At-The-Egyptian-Museum
By THE CAIRO POST

CAIRO: A temporarily exhibition, comprises 60 ancient Egyptian artifacts that were excavated from archaeological sites in the Suez Canal area, was inaugurated at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum Sunday by Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty.

Inaugurated to mark the News Suez Canal opening ceremony, scheduled to be held in Ismailia Thursday, “Discoveries of Egypt’s eastern gate,” is a one-month exhibition that highlights the history of the Suez Canal area, Damaty said in a statement Sunday.

“The exhibition displays 40 artifacts and 20 pharaonic stelai (upright stone slab bearing a commemorative inscription) that were unearthed in several ten archeological sites located to the east and north of the canal including Pelusium, Tharo, Tell Dafna,” Damaty said during the opening ceremony.

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Suez Canal archaeological finds on display at Egyptian Museum Cairo Post?

Great stuff. Very cool to see these ancient artifacts and writings.

I came to the conclusion though that it would be better, at least in the middle east, to stop digging things up for the time being after the Taliban came to power and started blowing up huge stone carvings of Buhda in Afganistan because they viewed them as false idols.

The Nazi's did the same in WW2 with the boats at Nemi. Two huge barges in lake Nemi that Caligula owned and which were sunk 2,000 years ago after Caligula was killed. They were oak and sat at the bottom of that lake for 2,000 years, then Mussolini had them raised and reconstructed in a large building next to the lake. The Germans poured gasoline on them and burned them completely when they were pulling out of Italy.

Archeologists have to become aware that all these great treasures of the human race, like Pompei, the Parthenon, the Pantheon, and even the great pyramids as well as all the other great archeological sites in the middle east and around the world are all subject to destruction by any worthless mentally ill group that comes to power. Pompei was safe buried. But not now.

Its a hard balance to strike but these realities have to be addressed. Just look at Nimrud. Sickening.

 

[Sally]

You can never tell what ancients things will be found when the digging goes real deep.


Suez Canal archaeological finds on display at Egyptian Museum
Aug. 03, 2015 17:39

Pharaonic-Stelae-Discovered-In-Suez-Canal-Area-Is-Currently-Exibited-At-The-Egyptian-Museum
By THE CAIRO POST

CAIRO: A temporarily exhibition, comprises 60 ancient Egyptian artifacts that were excavated from archaeological sites in the Suez Canal area, was inaugurated at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum Sunday by Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty.

Inaugurated to mark the News Suez Canal opening ceremony, scheduled to be held in Ismailia Thursday, “Discoveries of Egypt’s eastern gate,” is a one-month exhibition that highlights the history of the Suez Canal area, Damaty said in a statement Sunday.

“The exhibition displays 40 artifacts and 20 pharaonic stelai (upright stone slab bearing a commemorative inscription) that were unearthed in several ten archeological sites located to the east and north of the canal including Pelusium, Tharo, Tell Dafna,” Damaty said during the opening ceremony.

Continue reading at:

Suez Canal archaeological finds on display at Egyptian Museum Cairo Post?

Great stuff. Very cool to see these ancient artifacts and writings.

I came to the conclusion though that it would be better, at least in the middle east, to stop digging things up for the time being after the Taliban came to power and started blowing up huge stone carvings of Buhda in Afganistan because they viewed them as false idols.

The Nazi's did the same in WW2 with the boats at Nemi. Two huge barges in lake Nemi that Caligula owned and which were sunk 2,000 years ago after Caligula was killed. They were oak and sat at the bottom of that lake for 2,000 years, then Mussolini had them raised and reconstructed in a large building next to the lake. The Germans poured gasoline on them and burned them completely when they were pulling out of Italy.

Archeologists have to become aware that all these great treasures of the human race, like Pompei, the Parthenon, the Pantheon, and even the great pyramids as well as all the other great archeological sites in the middle east and around the world are all subject to destruction by any worthless mentally ill group that comes to power. Pompei was safe buried. But not now.

Its a hard balance to strike but these realities have to be addressed. Just look at Nimrud. Sickening.

That's very interesting. Probably none of us ever heard of the Germans destroying those boats, let alone that they even existed in the first place.