DUNE wrote:

> In looking at various pics and the over done quality of the
> inscription on the Khufu Stele does make one wonder as to how
> much manipulation of the site took place on the day of the
> find, and whether or not some sought of staged event took
> place.
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> I just can't except that stele stood upright for 4,500 years ,
> with hardly any of its base in the ground, even the other two
> standing stones its in between seem out of place compared to
> the other local boulders, it just smacks of a staged scene.
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> Then there's the inscription , would quarry workers have know
> how to write the Khufu glyph , the stele seems to be so
> overworked for just quarry workers when you see other Stelae
> they are of a much lower order of workmanship.
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> Is the Khufu Stele Kosher ?
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> TOO NEAT ???
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> DPP




Further to my doubts on what went on at the Gebel - el Asr site, i have further doubts about the timeline of the Khufu Stele find by Reginald Engelback

Here's a clip from "Egyptian Archaeology" No 16 Spring 2000.




Now Engelbach first went there in 1933 , and i quote from this article , " Primarily in order to safeguard the inscribed Stelae", (note plural) , therefore indicating there are more than one, but also the implication is , is that some Stelae had already been discovered.

The article then goes on to say that he went back five years later, in 1938 , with Gilbert Murray, and it was in this season that most of the significant finds were made, INCLUDING an impressive stone Stele (singular) bearing the cartouche of Khufu.

Here's the thing, so in 1933 when he was there safeguarding Stelae (plural) he did not see the three obvious stelae looking stones standing bolt upright all on there own.

Then five years goes by and he comes back to the site, and low and behold there they were , just waiting for him to trip over them after 4,500 years, if you look at the above recent photo of the site you would come to the conclusion that they would be visible from a long way off.

So whats going, do we take this article as being a true account of how things went down in 1933 to 1938, if yes then one can not help but to ask the question as to why the Stele was not seen in 1933, and who discovered the stelae that Engelbach went there to safeguard.

Has this article author got his wires crossed ?

DPP

DPP