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If the tomb has been looted and desecrated, then in what sense is it sealed ? Edit: I'm asking about the title of this article.
That's the point GP was making.
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Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just thinking this, do we regularly breaking into tombs in the rest of the world? I guess some of the cathedrals themselves are tombs and are big tourist attractions.
Most cemeteries in Europe have been destroyed to make space for urbanisation. The underground of Paris is full of bones from those cemetaries (catacombs of Paris). It's fairly common as outside of a few aristocratic families, people keep a very short memory of their ancestry. I have a very vague knowledge of who my ancestors were back to the mid XIX century and nothing prior. Hard to have any emotional attachment to…
I've spent some time on genealogy, and really beyond grandparents and maybe great grandparents it's mostly curiosity and for the interesting stories, and I only care about the graves to the extent that it makes solving the puzzles easier. It's not like there is anyone alive in my family who knew older ancestors of mine than my great grandparents.
For my part I've only ever seen even my dads grave once, and feel no need to go back there, though I understand why some might feel it matters to have the grave of someone they knew in person because of the emotional attachment.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they? She was of Greek origin, a descendant from Alexander’s general Ptolemy.
Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture. Otoh, Continuing the tradition established by previous Egyptian dynasties, the Ptolemies engaged in inbreeding including sibling marriage, with many of the pharaohs being married to their siblings and often co-ruling with them. Ptolemy I Soter (305–282 BC) [... 20 people ...] Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (51–30 BC) https://en.wikip…
It is, and it's not impossible there was some, but we have pretty decent records of her ancestry, we know the Ptolemys were shocked by the idea of intermarrying with the local population, and we have busts and paintings and coin profiles of her, so we have evidence of what she looked like as well as pretty much anyone from that era.
You can see several of these here.
Re: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
#74Re: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they? She was of Greek origin, a descendant from Alexander’s general Ptolemy.
Her family had been in Egypt for 250 years, that's a long time for genetic admixture. Otoh, Continuing the tradition established by previous Egyptian dynasties, the Ptolemies engaged in inbreeding including sibling marriage, with many of the pharaohs being married to their siblings and often co-ruling with them. Ptolemy I Soter (305–282 BC) [... 20 people ...] Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (51–30 BC) https://en.wikip…
The part about sibling marriage is just so weird to read nowadays. When did humanity first figure out that inbreeding might be a bad idea?
Re: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
#76Asked gpt to see if it could discern Egyptian hieroglyphs from the image of the tomb wall...
https://i.postimg.cc/Pdw7sw-0W/image.png
The "possible standing figure" on the right seems plausible. Be interested in seeing what the actual painstaking restoration eventually reveals.
Re: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
#77I was in Egypt in 2011, a couple months after the big riots. I was advised not to go and went anyway. It was well worth it. I went to the Great Pyramid at ten or eleven one morning and there were maybe a dozen people in the entire area. I went inside it completely alone, and the guard let me lie down inside the sarcophagus in the King's Chamber. I don't have a word for what the energy was like in there. Palpable to s…
What made you want to lie down in a sarcophagus? Weren’t you afraid of any ancient bacteria from the mummy?
Re: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
#78I was in Egypt in 2011, a couple months after the big riots. I was advised not to go and went anyway. It was well worth it. I went to the Great Pyramid at ten or eleven one morning and there were maybe a dozen people in the entire area. I went inside it completely alone, and the guard let me lie down inside the sarcophagus in the King's Chamber. I don't have a word for what the energy was like in there. Palpable to s…
What made you want to lie down in a sarcophagus? Weren’t you afraid of any ancient bacteria from the mummy?
Any bacteria that survived that many thousands of years would just give you superpowers anyway, I've seen the documentaries.
Re: Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
#79Asked gpt to see if it could discern Egyptian hieroglyphs from the image of the tomb wall... https://i.postimg.cc/Pdw7sw-0W/image.png The "possible standing figure" on the right seems plausible. Be interested in seeing what the actual painstaking restoration eventually reveals.
It's easier to just use your eyes, isn't it? The photo in the article is here:
https://cdn.labrujulaverde.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/07...
There are two standing figures to the right (correctly identified by ChatGPT), and at least two kneeling figures with upraised arms stacked toward the left (ChatGPT puts the bottom figure's arms inside the "legs" of its bunny-shaped green circle).
Scroll down in the article to see a close-up on the kneeling figures.
There is no text visible in the photos from the article, although if you go on to read the text of the article you learn that text was found elsewhere in the tomb, such that we can confidently identify the owner's name (among other things).
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This. Forgetting is the biggest crime. Anything in the other direction is atoning.
Recite for me the names of even 100 people you have known who have died. Otherwise, you are a terrible "criminal" by your own standard.
Anyone who's passed high school history should be able to name a hundred dead people. Kings, Popes, Hitlers, Caesars.