[HN Gopher] Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt
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Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt
Author : jelliclesfarm
Score : 113 points
Date : 2023-09-21 15:40 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| supermatou wrote:
| > No Stargate reference in commentaries
|
| Son, I am disappoint.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Didn't Alexander worship at the temple of Amun? And where is his
| tomb??
| sjkna wrote:
| Beware of Eranikus I guess.
| [deleted]
| fifticon wrote:
| Particularly if his knock-back sends you into the hole.
| bryanmgreen wrote:
| If you're interested in Egyptology, highly recommend "Empress of
| the Nile", about Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt who led many of
| the most notable archeology projects in the 1900's.
|
| https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61239984
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| A better source might be the acheologists' own website:
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| https://www.franckgoddio.org/projects/sunken-civilizations/h...
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| There's a good video from a couple years ago there exploring the
| same site, I guess the news is a new cache of artifacts, not the
| discovery of the temple itself.
| dang wrote:
| Changed from https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-
| egyptians/su.... Thanks!
| sokoloff wrote:
| In this case, the second half of the headline is the more
| relevant part of the news, even though it may read like
| clickbait: "Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt
| found brimming with 'treasures and secrets'"
| wheelerof4te wrote:
| So they found the (Xel) Naga temple?
|
| /s
| branperr wrote:
| The thing I'm confused about from the article is that, if I read
| it correctly, the temple was found a few miles from the coast.
| Did the Nike delta use to extend that far? Or what? That seems to
| be pretty far.
| cm2187 wrote:
| My guess is rather that the underlying land was pushed to the
| sea over the years by the flow of water and sediments.
| irrational wrote:
| The entire sentence says, "The former city, now underwater and
| about 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) from Egypt's modern-day coast,
| was destroyed when a major earthquake and tidal waves caused
| the land to liquefy and sink into the Nile delta."
|
| That seems pretty clear. The land sank below sea level during
| the earthquake.
| bombcar wrote:
| Clearly Atlantis has been found.
| RajT88 wrote:
| They always say that when a sunken city is found.
|
| There's a lot more than you would think!
| akomtu wrote:
| Per the legend, atlantis was a chain of islands connecting
| Europe and America; when the last one of those sunk, Sahara
| had risen, turned into a desert, and the tidal waves washed
| away Egypt.
| lawlessone wrote:
| Reading the Plato on it, vaguely sounds like someone
| describing continental drift, but in a way that would be
| easier for people of the time to understand.
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| I'm just imagining this im sure, they couldn't have known
| about it.
| asdff wrote:
| There's islands out there (canaries, azores). My guess is
| a big tsunami event happened, washed out some town,
| survivors show up in ports around the med saying the
| place has sunk because that's a pretty good descriptor of
| a tsunami for ancient people, and the legend goes from
| there.
| irrational wrote:
| I'm sure it has been suggested, but are we sure it isn't
| describing the flooding of Doggerland?
| Tchakra wrote:
| Yes the nile delta used to extend further than ~4 miles from
| the current coast. For more details, see here -->
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleion
| UberFly wrote:
| This work is no doubt grueling at times but wow, would be fun to
| uncover the past like this. Very cool stuff.
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