"TBerk" wrote in message
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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?



Of course it was always "The Kingdom" during times of
extensive inter-marriage of gods and people, something the
ancient Egyptians were very good at. If ten gods were
good, then twenty were twice as good. But then someone
invented a "jealous god" who wanted no competition at all
because he could handle it all; all except racial
integration that is. Accordingly these acolytes and their
schizoid leader were kicked out of 'The Kingdom' to more
northern areas where they murdered ("slew") the existing
population and settled down to argue among themselves - all
resulting in various partitions and disporae. It's all in
the bible which is a collection of scratchings and
scribblings contrived by the guilty to damn the innocent.
Of course this is all purely rhetorical because logic and
reason are irrelevant in religious texts. I dwell in
comfortable obscurity in the southern hemisphere so I can't
see the Pharaonic stars.