[HN Gopher] The Dendera Dating Controversy
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       The Dendera Dating Controversy
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2023-09-07 15:53 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | gumby wrote:
       | Couldn't a zodiac be dated through the configuration of the
       | stars?
        
         | DoreenMichele wrote:
         | Probably not. It's not really a star chart and astrologers tend
         | to not update their zodiac as precession causes drift over
         | time.
         | 
         | https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-the-zodiac...
        
       | pierat wrote:
       | Basically, some ancient Egyptian artwork caused a bunch of
       | Christians to collectively lose their shit when scientists
       | indicated the art could be older than 6000 years ago, the
       | "creation" of the world according to their archaic belief.
       | 
       | That's the controversy: Christians forcing their creation myths
       | on everyone.
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | > Christians .. 6000 years ago
         | 
         | The Jewish New Year 5784, also known as Rosh Hashanah, will
         | begin at sunset on September 15, 2023, and end at nightfall on
         | September 17, 2023.3 It is the first of the High Holidays or
         | Yamim Noraim, celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur.03 Rosh
         | Hashanah means "head of the year" and falls on the biblical
         | Feast of Trumpets.2 It is described in the Torah as Yom Teruah,
         | a day of sounding the Shofar.3 In 2022, Rosh Hashanah began on
         | September 25, 2022, and ended on September 27, 2022.01
        
         | cjbgkagh wrote:
         | It's going to be fun when Christians lean into grievance
         | culture and leverage hate speech laws to include blasphemy.
        
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       | YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
       | >> France's Elgin Marbles?
       | 
       | The Louvre has several Parthenon marbles. I don't know where they
       | got them from but I don't understand why nobody is asking that
       | they be returned like the ones looted by Elgin. They absolutely
       | should.
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       | Also, they have the Nike of Samothrace and the Aphrodite of
       | Milos, both of which are Greek archeological treasures that
       | should be returned to Greece. And many more besides from Egypt
       | and mesopotamia (the Lamassu from the palace of Sargon II!) that
       | don't belong in, nor, to France.
        
       | civilitty wrote:
       | That's clearly from an Ancient Cartouche from the Goa'uld era,
       | before Ra left the earth and the stargate was buried. The symbols
       | are clearly chevrons! That places it at least pre-2995 B.C. which
       | is predynastic, not even Old Kingdom yet.
        
       | DoreenMichele wrote:
       | Images of the piece in question, both actual and reconstructed
       | with original colors from when it had paint:
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       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_zodiac
        
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