Can't wait until they find a bigger, blacker sarcophagi.
It's an Antediluvian.
Love, Jack
And like that, the opening of the sarcophagus released the curse upon the world, leaving it in darkness. What bold savior shall arise to cleanse the Earth of the sins released?
First Civilization ruins from Assassin's Creed?
With at least two duplicates.
Or Daniel Jackson.
soi soi motherfucker
The Egyptians talk of a civilization before their own. The Giza pyramid and the sphinx are essentially void of all hieroglyphs. Ancient Egyptians loved them and put them everywhere, I think these black ones are from the pre-egyptian civilization, along with all the other black sarcophagi they have found if this is true.
The funny thing about the pyramids is they started off perfect and then steadily got worse, the Giza is the best of them all, and the earliest. It seems the Egyptians were trying to emulate their predecessors. If Robert Schoch is correct, the Sphinx was built 10,000 years ago, or much earlier, it's possible the Giza pyramid was too but it's hard to tell because the cover stones were removed to repair Cairo so any water erosion that happened on it has since faded.
The water erosion on the sphinx tells tales of heavy rains that just were not there until around 6,000 years ago, and it shows thousands of years of water erosion.
That is, if Robert Schoch is correct. It goes against the current academia that was thought through in the mid 1800's.
Nah, the last known location of the body of Alexander the Great was in Alexandria, where his sarcophagus was apparently transferred from a gold casket to a glass casket. Glass isnt black granite though so who knows whats inside.
It's damn Arkhan, isn't it? Settra is going be fucking desiccated after this.
Shit, they found my porn stash...
could very well be alexander the great
Some dude said that these bigass black ones were used to dump victims of infectious diseases, multiple in 1 sarcophagus
They gonna release some Ebola HIV vortex or somethin'
No no, and more no. Sarcophagi were incredibly expensive and the only people that could afford them were the ones that probably weren't all to keen on sharing it. Secondly the plagues were so bad they just dug mass graves and filled ships with dead or dying people so a sarcophagus seems overly extravagant.
Lastly Massive structures that weighed hundreds of tons were usually carved out of rocks found on site, not laid into position but when they were laid they utilized canals and barges to move the stones into position then drained the canals once the structure was placed.
Source? Last I heard they're preparing to open it.
It was a joke
It was still there during the times of the Roman Republic and early Empire, but then no one really knows what happened after that.
Many have claimed to have either found his tomb or where it once laid. I'm skeptic that this could be Alexander's sarcophagus, but if it turns out to be, it would be a monumental discovery.
Nah, call Harrison Ford.
Unlikely given that we know that pyramids evolved from mastabas and definitively did not start perfect. The Giza pyramids are arguably the only perfect ones and the Egyptians likely gave up making pyramids like the old ones because they were too costly and that amount of resources was better spent on public projects. The Nubians still build pyramids and Egyptian families still had small pyramids in their family tombs. The Pharaoh's likely stopped building pyramids for the sake of resources and because burying yourself in a pyramid is the equivalent of putting a giant neon sign saying RICH DEAD GUY HERE above your grave. Even then, the Valley of the Kings has a pyramid-shaped mountain on top of it and I doubt the Egyptians missed that.
The Egyptians constantly emulated themselves. The Middle Kingdom pyramids were the results of rulers wanting to be buried in pyramids like in the Old Kingdom, but not spending as much in said pyramids. The result is inevitably shoddier. As for water damage, remember two things: Firstly, the middle pyramid still has some of it's upper casing stones remaining and secondly, this is Egypt and the Nile river is a thing.
The Sphinx could be of pre-dynastic origin, but it's unlikely given that nothing from those periods indicated the construction of such monuments. The Sphinx makes a lot more sense as having been build during the time of the pyramids, when building huge things was hip.
Now, for the sarcophagus itself, I highly doubt its pre-dynastic due the following reasons:
It was found on a Ptolemaic tomb.
If it was built earlier, that means whoever put it there had to drag it from God-knows-where to that tomb and it's highly unlikely anyone would have done that for the sake of a long dead guy whose sarcophagus does not even have markings. Not to mention it would have attracted a lot of public attention which is the exact opposite of what you want when trying to bury someone with lots of shiny baubles. When it was necessary to rebury old mummies, they usually just carried the bodies off, not the entire sarcophagus. That amount of effort was not worth expending on someone who had been dead for thousands of years.
I do not recall Egyptians making black sarcophagi, especially in pre-dynastic times where it would have been much more expensive. The only way this thing was more expensive was if it had been made out of solid gold.
The lack of hieroglyphs can be easily explained by it being the tomb of a Greek person, who would not have cared for Egyptian writing or religion.
It could be Alexander. The location and coffin would make sense, but it contradicts the accounts of Alexander's burial. Not to mention the alabaster head they found next to it does not really resemble Alexander, even in it's damaged state.
It's SCP-076
just don't call Tom Cruise.
its unfathomable to me, living in the middle of the US that there are places where people live that has thousands of years of history buried literally underneath their feet, like an entire temple underneath a neighborhood
I mean, the US has those sorts of places too. Not as big mind you, but there are plenty of burial grounds. We find arrow heads in our field all the time.
Yeah, they only found it because they were excavating the foundations for a building.
Na, It's SCP-999. It was sealed long ago so it's cuddly nature could save the world in it's darkest hour.
Also, speaking seriously, I am 100% sure someone will end up writing an SCP article based on this eventually. It's prime material.
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Burning bodies was extremely sacrilegious to ancient Egyptians:
The natural preservation of the dead had a profound effect on ancient Egyptian religion. Deliberate mummification became an integral part of the rituals for the dead beginning as early as the 2nd dynasty (about 2800 BC). New research of an 11-year study by University of York, Macquarie University and University of Oxford suggests mummification occurred 1,500 years earlier than first thought. Egyptians saw the preservation of the body after death as an important step to living well in the afterlife. As Egypt gained more prosperity, burial practices became a status symbol for the wealthy as well. This cultural hierarchy lead to the creation of elaborate tombs, and more sophisticated methods of embalming.
One of the funerary practices followed by the Egyptians was preparing properly for the afterlife. Ka, the vital force within the Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul, would not return to the deceased body if embalming was not carried out in the proper fashion. In this case, the body decayed, and possibly became unrecognizable, which rendered the afterlife unattainable for the deceased person. If the proper precautions were not taken, damnation would occur. Damnation meant that Egyptians would not experience the glories of the afterlife where they became a deified figure and would be welcomed by the Gods. Instead, damnation was depicted in the books of the underworld. It was a place of opposites; chaos, fire, and struggle. Different pages of the books of the underworld depict different perspectives of what happens during damnation. It discusses cutting out humanity and individuality from the person and reversing the cosmic order.
Besides, at this point of time, they saw disease as punishment from the gods if they couldn't find the source and knew nothing about quarantine.
It's the DOOM slayer.
Yeah, I forgot that the Egyptians did not take well to destroying corpses. Still, does not change the fact that this is Egypt and burying diseased bodies in the desert is preferable to burying them in an expensive granite sarcophagus that can maybe hold 4 bodies max.
Someone pranked Anubis again.
Gave him the ol' black sarcophagus.
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