On Apr 23, 2:59*pm, "Peter Jason" wrote:
"Matthew Lybanon" wrote in message

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In article
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On Apr 23, 12:48 am, "Peter Jason"
wrote:
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI - 1 day ago

CAIRO (AP) - Archaeologists exploring an old military
road
in the Sinai have unearthed four new temples amidst the
3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city ...

Somehow 3000-year-old ruins doesn't quite fit with my
idea of the word
"new".

"Lost" or "unknown", maybe, but certainly not new. *Just
another
examply of journalistic logorrhea and poor proof-reading.

Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA

The political leanings of the "journalist" are clear from
the paragraph
that reads:

"The path once connected Egypt to Palestine and is close
to
present-day Rafah, which borders the Palestinian territory
of Gaza."

There was no country named Palestine then, or at any time
between then
and now. *The writer apparently couldn't bring himself to
write "Israel."

Perhaps he's ****ed off that the Zionists invaded the Levant
in 1948 (and before), causing the displacement of much of
its population.
Quite reasonable, really.

A rhetorical question, but a question nonetheless;

- Do we consider the present day Egyptians when we think about the
time of the Pharaohs and the Glory that was 'the Kingdom'?

- Do we consider the present day people of 'Palestine' of the same two
eras, as in- two and three thousand years, and more, have gone by. Why
are we still hung up on these ancient grudges?

See, I _warned_ you it was rhetorical...


TBerk
btw- why isn't this thread about Pharaonic Astronomy instead?