[HN Gopher] An Egyptian Temple Reborn
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       An Egyptian Temple Reborn
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2025-03-12 05:27 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | I do hope removing the soot doesn't precipitate degenerative
       | reactions. Looks amazing!
        
       | apwell23 wrote:
       | It always amazing to me how close some of these buildings to the
       | site are.
       | 
       | These look like ordinary middle class buildings too. your view
       | from your bathroom is an ancient temple from 3 century AD ?
        
         | noosphr wrote:
         | If you live in the new world this seems cool and interesting.
         | If you live in these places it's annoying because it means
         | every time you try and build something an army of archeologists
         | descends on your property and stops you from doing anything.
         | 
         | A neighbor of ours in the 90s started building an extension to
         | their country house. They found a bunch of skeletons, thinking
         | it was a mass grave from a war they called the police to deal
         | with it. Turns out it was some off shoot of a 6,000 year old
         | culture no one had seen before and had possibly the oldest
         | writing in the world:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols
         | 
         | Unfortunately for them they couldn't build the house and they
         | didn't lack the morals to bulldoze the whole thing overnight
         | like some other people did.
        
       | colanderman wrote:
       | > these include [...] an eight-legged hybrid human figure with
       | goose and human heads identified by an inscription as "the two
       | geese of Ra," an otherwise unknown entity
       | 
       | Not to armchair this, but I am intrigued by what logic someone
       | concluded that, an image captioned as "two creatures", which
       | appears to show two identical creatures standing next to each
       | other, is actually one conjoined creature.
        
         | atombender wrote:
         | A more generous interpretation would be that the image has been
         | studied by archeologists who know a bit more than we do about
         | ancient Egyptian mythology and pictography, and who recognize
         | certain telltale signs that this is meant to be a single
         | creature and not (as an armchair Internet commenter might
         | assume) several.
        
         | 4ndrewl wrote:
         | Prob need to speak to an Egyptology expert.
        
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