Showing posts with label statues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statues. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Great Sphinx



Geologists now believe that the Great Sphinx may be 50,000 years old.  They reached this conclusion on the weathering at the base of the statue.
Some scientists believe that the Great Sphinx was originally a statue of the god Anubis. Anubis was the god of cemeteries and mummification.
The Great Sphinx was carved again during the reign of Khafre in his image.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Ancient Statues




In front of the temple at Abu Simbel, there are four 65 foot statues of Ramses II.
Christoper Dunn, an engineer and a machinist took photographs of a Ramses statue.
He placed the photographs in a computer graphics program. 
Mr. Dunn discovered that the left side of Ramses face is the exact mirror image of the right side of Ramses' face. According to mainstream archaeologists  the statues were carved using a mallet and a chisel.
Such precision is impossible with a mallet and a chisel.
The statue proves that the ancient Egyptians had access to advanced technologies.