I’ll start with another self-reference, from last month.

 

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

OK. Looks like I was wrong! Well, not Wrong but a bit arse-about-face as the saying goes (?) :o)

It looks like Napoleon was Destroying the Truth!!

 

The pyramids etc from NC via google-ation with all it’s weird words…

 

“In addition to his own, the mummies of Thutmosis IV, Amenhotep III, Meneptah, Siptah, Seti II, Ramses IV, Ramses V, Ramses VI, Queen Tei, as well as two unknown women and a child were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II.

Small side chambers or chapels were also used to hide treasures, like in the tomb of Amenhotep II, where explorer Lore discovered and photographed how several mummies were simply heaped, and one mummy of the prince even landed the tomb master’s ritual rook. Probably, we will never know about the reasons for such extreme haste and about those persecutions and crimes that preceded this “[484], p. 153.

So maybe all this did not happen in “deep antiquity,” as they try to convince us today assertively, but in the beginning of the 19th century, after Napoleon’s French army invaded Egypt in 1798. Soon the troops of the Egyptian Mamelukes defeated. Then the massacre began. Mameluks, simply, destroyed “on the vine” [99].

Probably, the last Mamelukes and their priests convulsively tried to save at least some of their shrines from the invaders, hastily hiding mummies, treasures, etc. Bringing blood to Egypt, the European winners and their allies naturally tried to put all the responsibility for the destruction and damage of many monuments to the “ancient pharaohs”, “ancient robbers”, “ancient Hyksos” and the Mamelukes. However, this is the usual logic of war.

At the same time, we are told about “Napoleon’s respect for sacred sites” [484], p.81. Many scientists, draftsmen and writers followed his army … Napoleon himself said that he came there to “help Egypt go to the light” … He founded scientific institutions, ordered to sketch all the buildings and remains of monuments … NAPOLEON NEAR TO DECREASE IN EGYPT >> [484], p.80-82.

In the Sphinx, they drilled a hole in search of the moves “mentioned in antiquity. In Dendera, he acted like no other conqueror before or after him: he left an exact copy of a large stone with the image of the Zodiac instead of the present, taken to Paris” [484] p.81

He ordered the direct shooting of the face of the ancient Sphinx [380], p.77. The result is in fig.4.48 , fig.4.49 , fig.4.50 , fig.4.50a .

K.Keram, telling about this, obviously tries to smooth the reader’s impression of such barbarism of Napoleon’s soldiers: “One of the sphinxes was lying halfway around, half-beast with the remains of a lion’s mane and holes in the place of the nose and eyes; AS A TARGET FOR YOUR GUNS; he has been resting for many millennia, ”Keram is sure,“ and many more are willing to lie; he is so huge that one of Tutmes could build a temple between his paws “[380], p.77 .

Will there be an overly bold hypothesis that along the way French gunners are not at the request of someone from Egyptologists who accompanied the troops? – at the same time corrected the history of the guns? Destroying symbolism that did not fit into the “correct” Scaligerian history of Egypt? Say, a Christian cross on the head of the Sphinx? We have already said that the form of a snake-ureus on headdresses, for example, two “ancient” Egyptian sphinxes, exported from Egypt to Petersburg in the 18th century, and now standing on the Neva embankment, on the left bank, approximately opposite the Hermitage, – really resembles a Christian cross, ris.4.21 and ris.4.22 . Almost like a Christian cross looks ureus and the “ancient” Egyptian sculptures, shown in Figure 4.20 ,, fig.4.52 .

Maybe on the head of the Great Sphinx this similarity was too obvious …

At the present time “THE GREAT CRITES AND THE PITS, ESPECIALLY IN THE FACE (at the Sphinx – Aut.), Are PLUGGED WITH CEMENT” [730], p.37 But even after such a “restoration”, the face of the Sphinx remained hopelessly disfigured.

In general, “Napoleon worked hard in Egypt.” Cynically emphasizing at the same time that it is necessary to help the country “go to the light.”