A Tale of Misinterpreting the Age of the Pyramids"

The Tale of the Error in the Age of the Pyramids... Due to the discovery of a drawing on an ostrich egg that dates back the age of the pyramids!

Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed Adly says:

In 1909, during excavations in the Nubia tombs, the English explorer "Firth" discovered an oval-shaped tomb dating back to around 4500 BC. Among the contents of the tomb was an empty ostrich egg. During that period, people would hollow out the egg through a hole at the top, then write and draw on its surface.

However, this particular egg bore a completely different inscription. I saw pictures of the egg for the first time online years ago and read the opinions of some enthusiasts that it was not just a random drawing, but there was a possibility that it referred to the pyramids of Giza. If this were true, it raised an important question: how did the ancient Egyptians know about the pyramids of Giza, which would be built thousands of years after them? This question led me to read various opinions about it and visit it myself in January 2021 to examine it up close.

The egg is located in the Nubian Museum in Aswan in a glass showcase, but it is not completely visible to the visitor, and it is rotated periodically to show the hidden part. So, I took some pictures and videos of the visible half and bought image rights for the other half. Thus, we had complete material for the egg. The next step was to create a 3D model of the egg. I thought that a three-dimensional model would help us better understand the reality of the egg and the surrounding controversy, and whether it really represented the pyramids of Giza.

I contacted my friend Ahmed Naguib, who specializes in creating three-dimensional models, and sent him the pictures and videos. Naguib created a wonderful model that closely matched the real egg, and we uploaded it to the Sketchfab website.

Now, it is available for anyone to see the egg from all angles, and the model provided a new reading of the egg.

What we noticed is that the doubts about it are indeed logical because the pyramid shapes drawn on it exactly match the layout of the Giza pyramids if we look at them from the south side. They are arranged from largest to smallest. There is also a shape on the egg that represents the Nile River, which is to the right of the pyramids. In addition, the three pyramid shapes contain parallel lines like the stone rows of the Giza pyramids. If we flip the egg, we will find the drawing repeated, and the pyramid pattern repeated in the same way, except that the snake shape is wider this time. Why was the Nile River narrow in one drawing and wide in the other? One opinion I read from a hobbyist traveler named "Adam Hines" is that this may be a representation of the Nile during the flood season when it fills and overflows, covering a wide area of Egypt, then the Nile during the winter drought when it recedes, shrinks, and becomes a thin thread, which is a very plausible opinion.

Now let's talk about the circles at the top, what are they? In my opinion, they represent the Mediterranean Sea itself. You may be surprised to learn that the ancient Egyptians called the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt "Waret Shen," which means the round or round ocean, and even the sign of "Shen" is a round sign. This is evident in the texts of the Temple of Edfu, which mentions a king of Egypt that "...the round sea is under his authority..."

So, do we consider the slanted line the Red Sea? The Red Sea in the maps of Herodotus, al-Idrisi, and even today is drawn in the same slanted way.

Can all of these coincidences come together in one drawing? Both seas, the Nile, and the pyramid layout all match reality. In any case, this cannot be just a "coincidence." The owner of the tomb where the egg was found was a child, as we see in the simple drawing. It reminds me of a drawing from elementary school, when we were asked to draw a painting of the pyramids, and what immediately came to mind was the pyramids of Giza, and we drew them in the same primitive way, along with a map of Egypt from the Nile and the two seas. The pyramids of Giza specifically are the greatest monument in Egypt, imprinted in the minds of everyone who sees them or their images. And that a member of the Naqada people saw the three pyramids and drew them on that egg!

It is known that the archaeological school rejects any relationship between the drawings on that egg and the pyramids of Giza, and insists that the drawings on them are just triangles, mountains, hills, or something else, and that the similarity between them and the pyramids is a mere coincidence. Some of the rejecters cite pottery from the Naqada civilization, which contained similar drawings, arguing that they are all triangles, and there is no difference between them, acting on the popular saying "All is soap to the Arabs." However, the fact is that all Naqada and Badari pottery contained drawings of different triangles, representing mountains or hills or houses, but none of them resemble that detailed pattern that we see on the egg in the Nubian Museum.

Notice once again that the tomb where the egg was found dates back to about 4500 BC, i.e., before the recognized age of the pyramids by 2000 years, and it is unreasonable that one of them would have drawn the egg after the era of the pyramids, then decided to bury it in an old tomb.

Have we made a mistake in calculating the age of the pyramids? .. The answer is yes

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