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To: average joe who wrote (37824)

6/23/2013 11:23:17 AM

From: longnshort

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Ancient Egyptian statue has started MOVING sparking fears it has been struck by a 'curse of the Pharaohs'

10-inch tall relic, is an offering to Egyptian God Osiris, God of the deadIt has been filmed on a time lapse, seemingly spinning 180 degrees

TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted on mystery

But some now believe there could be 'spiritual explanation' for turning statue By Amanda Williams June 2013

Egyptologist Campbell Price studies an ancient Egyptian statuette at the Manchester Museum, which appears to be moving on its own

It is believed that there is a curse of the pharaohs which strikes anyone who dares to take relics from a pyramid tomb.

Experts decided to monitor the room on time-lapse video and were astonished to see it clearly show the statuette spinning 180 degrees - with nobody going near it.

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The statue of a man named Neb-Senu is seen to remain still at night but slowly rotate round during the day.

Now scientists are trying to explain the phenomenon, with TV physicist Brian Cox among the experts being consulted.

The 10-inch tall relic, which dates back to 1800 BC, has been at the museum for 80 years but curators say it has recently starting rotating 180 degrees during the day

Scientists who explored the Egyptian tombs in the 1920s were popularly believed to be struck by a 'curse of the Pharaohs'.

Now Campbell Price, a curator at the museum on Oxford Road, said he believes there may be a spiritual explanation to the spinning statue.

Egyptologist Mr Price, 29, said: 'I noticed one day that it had turned around.

'I thought it was strange because it is in a case and I am the only one who has a key.

'I put it back but then the next day it had moved again.

Experts decided to monitor the room on time-lapse video and were astonished to see it clearly show the statuette spinning 180 degrees - with nobody going near it

In this time lapsed video, as the museum closes for the evening, the statue can be seen in a clearly different position

By midday the next day it has turned almost a quarter of a circle to be facing to the left

The following morning the statue has moved again, and is facing even further away from its original position

By the end of the day the statue has turned almost 180 degrees and is now facing away from visitors to the museum

'We set up a time-lapse video and, although the naked eye can't see it, you can clearly see it rotate on the film.

'The statuette is something that used to go in the tomb along with the mummy.

'Mourners would lay offerings at its feet. The hieroglyphics on the back ask for 'bread, beer and beef'.

'In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit.

'Maybe that is what is causing the movement.'

Other experts have a more rational explanation - suggesting that the vibrations caused by the footsteps of passing visitors makes the statuette turn.

That's the theory favoured by Professor Cox - but Campbell said he was not convinced.

'Brian thinks it's differential friction,' he said.

'Where two surfaces, the serpentine stone of the statuette and glass shelf it is on, cause a subtle vibration which is making the statuette turn.

But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before. And why would it go around in a perfect circle?'

Campbell is urging members of the public to come along and take a look for themselves.

'It would be great if someone could solve the mystery,' he added.

Spooky! Egyptian statuette spins untouched inside glass case

Spooky! Egyptian statuette spins untouched inside glass case.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk

To: average joe who wrote (37824)	6/23/2013 12:39:10 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Its still leaves a little wonder why the main holiday for all Jews celebrate an event that there's not the slightest evidence for since the last pyramid was built around 1750bc . Contrary to most belief & usual biblical nonsense, Egyptians used primarily their own paid workers & was even a job of honor: travel.nationalgeographic.com Contrary to some popular depictions, the pyramid builders were not slaves or foreigners. Excavated skeletons show that they were Egyptians who lived in villages developed and overseen by the pharaoh's supervisors. The builders' villages boasted bakers, butchers, brewers, granaries, houses, cemeteries, and probably even some sorts of health-care facilities—there is evidence of laborers surviving crushed or amputated limbs. Bakeries excavated near the Great Pyramids could have produced thousands of loaves of bread every week. Graffiti indicates that at least some of these workers took pride in their work, calling their teams "Friends of Khufu," "Drunkards of Menkaure," and so on—names indicating allegiances to pharaohs. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers built the Pyramids at Giza over 80 years. Much of the work probably happened while the River Nile was flooded.

To: average joe who wrote (37824)	6/23/2013 1:09:10 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Then there's the issue of 300 to 500k Jews crossing the Sinnai desert out of Egypt , they would have left one shard of pottery so the problem has been that after a century of digging, archaeologists have found no evidence that Israelites were in Egypt around 2nd millenium. They think they found one house dated around 1200bc just recently, but one 3bdrm house hardly counts for much. usnews.com If the Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt for a long duration followed by an Exodus, there would be the clearest archaelogical record back in Israel of their return, differences in housing construction , pottery & anything else that would mark a long stay & trek out of Egypt. But the clincher is the linguistic evidence. Hebrew is a dialect of west semetic, Canaanite. If, as the bibel states, the Hebrews were slave for centuries why did their language not change, why was there no changes to the grammar, why were there no loan words. There's few African American who can speak Yoruba or Ibo as their native language, slaves of every society adopt the language of their oppressors, no exceptions. After just 60 years in captivity by the Babylonians Hebrew was subsumed by Aramaic and it was no longer the everyday language of Israel or Judea. The same thing happened in the Roman empire, the Hellenised Jews spoke Greek and in the west they spoke Latin, which late became Ladino. In the north hebrew became Yiddish in a very short time.