Egypt
- Feature: Uncovering Secrets Of The Sphinx
Smithsonian.com (Evan Hadingham) Five page article about investigations into the Sphinx. Here's an extract: Recognized today as one of the world’s leading Egyptologists and Sphinx authorities, Lehner has conducted field research at Giza during most...
- More Than One Rosetta Stone?
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) An Egyptology researcher has called for the display of another original version of the Rosetta Stone at the entrance of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, dismissing the official request by Egypt to repatriate the stone...
- Nile Bride Sacrifice A Myth
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) The ancient Egyptian custom of offering a virgin as a sacrifice to the river Nile every year to instigate a flood is a big historical error, Egyptology researcher Bassam El Shammaa told Daily News Egypt. “The myth...
- Call To Rebuild Lighthouse Of Alexandria
Egypt Daily Star News The tour guide mentioned in the above article is the same one who, in March, called for the return of mummies to their tombs (also reported in the Daily Star). A tour guide is calling for rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria,...
- Giza's Sphinx
The age of the Sphinx has long been debated but whether the human face actually was originally carved as a lion is unknown. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1092827/How-Sphinx-face-mighty-lion-time-pyramids.html?ITO=1490...
Egypt
Egyptologist proposes that there were two sphinxes at Giza
Egypt Daily Star (Ahmed Maged)
Some of the ideas on which Bassam El Shammaa bases these suggestions are clearly outlined on the above page.
Egyptologist Bassam El Shammaa believes that the famed half-lion, half-man statue was an Egyptian deity that was erected next to another sphinx, which has since vanished without a trace. This contradicts what many have believed for centuries — that a single colossal statue functioned as a guard to the Pyramids. . . .
El Shammaa remarked: “My own interpretation is that the miracle structures were dedicated to the lion deities that also ensured their protection. The demolished temple in front of the Sphinx’s paws and the Valley Temple that stands next to the site of what we assume to be the second sphinx are proof that those two statues were deities.
Some of the ideas on which Bassam El Shammaa bases these suggestions are clearly outlined on the above page.
- Feature: Uncovering Secrets Of The Sphinx
Smithsonian.com (Evan Hadingham) Five page article about investigations into the Sphinx. Here's an extract: Recognized today as one of the world’s leading Egyptologists and Sphinx authorities, Lehner has conducted field research at Giza during most...
- More Than One Rosetta Stone?
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) An Egyptology researcher has called for the display of another original version of the Rosetta Stone at the entrance of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, dismissing the official request by Egypt to repatriate the stone...
- Nile Bride Sacrifice A Myth
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) The ancient Egyptian custom of offering a virgin as a sacrifice to the river Nile every year to instigate a flood is a big historical error, Egyptology researcher Bassam El Shammaa told Daily News Egypt. “The myth...
- Call To Rebuild Lighthouse Of Alexandria
Egypt Daily Star News The tour guide mentioned in the above article is the same one who, in March, called for the return of mummies to their tombs (also reported in the Daily Star). A tour guide is calling for rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria,...
- Giza's Sphinx
The age of the Sphinx has long been debated but whether the human face actually was originally carved as a lion is unknown. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1092827/How-Sphinx-face-mighty-lion-time-pyramids.html?ITO=1490...