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Mister_Red_Bird t1_jchwyvz wrote

Reply to comment by a-really-big-muffin in Polish archaeologists excavating at the ruins of old Dongola in Sudan have discovered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics inscribed on sandstone blocks by MeatballDom

As the article says "no evidence of such early construction activity on the site has been identified so far."

This important because "“This would push back the known history of this city by over 1000 years,” said Dr. Wieczorek."

That seems pretty significant to me.

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ChucksFeedAndSeed t1_jchglmp wrote

Reply to 3D scan of the Tomb of Ramesses II (KV 7) and recent conservation work by shrimplypibbles20932

Does the Free Explore option work for anyone else? It just gets stuck on "Connecting to the Matterport space" for me, chrome inspector says it has an error with "This referrer is not allowed to use this X-Matterport-Application-Key", too bad.

E: ah was able to mess about with chrome and get it to work, seems it's the same as the guided tour though, ah well.

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a-really-big-muffin t1_jchalom wrote

Reply to Polish archaeologists excavating at the ruins of old Dongola in Sudan have discovered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics inscribed on sandstone blocks by MeatballDom

Interesting, but I guess I'm not sure I'd call this a "huge" discovery? The stones are from a temple that dates to roughly the same time as the Nubians reigning as pharaohs, and if I'd just taken over a country and wanted to prove that I was totally legit, building a temple in my kingdom is an easy way to do it. Unless I misinterpreted the article and the huge part wasn't the existence of the temple, it was the age of it.

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