OT: Sarcophagus Found in Alexandria

[clob94]

For those of y'all that don't know, along with being a war history buff, I'm also a bit of a dime store archeologist. No formal training or anything but I've read, studied and traveled to a few places in my day-- I've discovered I really suck at it, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying--

A few days ago in Egypt, near where the old city of Alexandria existed, archeologists unearthed a jet black sarcophagus that they say is made of black marble/granite ---- it's a little over 9 feet long and 4 ish feet wide. They estimate it dates from 300 bc, there abouts. It weighs 30 tons. 30. 60,000 pounds for you aggys that can't do math.

The lid alone weighs 15 tons. And it appears the lid wasn't just laid on top.... oh no, it appears it was sealed shut with some sort of ancient roman like concrete.

Just a few question are rolling around in my head---
1. What did you do for a living that you could afford 30 tons of black marble/granite?
2. Who did you piss off so badly that not only did they bury you in a bank vault, but sealed you in, never to be opened?
3. Why black? Rich folks got buried in gold. Important folks were buried in white. Poor folks are in mass graves. You're stuck in an ebony shoes box that weighs as much as a tractor trailer rig...

Who is It? Alexander the great has never been found. I get that you'd seal the lid of a coffin with weight.... 15 tons on the lid insures it won't be opened by ancient man, but to seal it shut with the same concrete that romans and used to build their buildings with..... that stuff has proven durable--- they didn't want you ever getting out.

One of my buddies suggested it could be Pandora's box..... wouldn't that be interesting..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...-sarcophagus-ancient-tomb-open-Alexandria/amp

 

[LongfellowDrew]

For those of y'all that don't know, along with being a war history buff, I'm also a bit of a dime store archeologist. No formal training or anything but I've read, studied and traveled to a few places in my day-- I've discovered I really suck at it, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying--

A few days ago in Egypt, near where the old city of Alexandria existed, archeologists unearthed a jet black sarcophagus that they say is made of black marble/granite ---- it's a little over 9 feet long and 4 ish feet wide. They estimate it dates from 300 bc, there abouts. It weighs 30 tons. 30. 60,000 pounds for you aggys that can't do math.

The lid alone weighs 15 tons. And it appears the lid wasn't just laid on top.... oh no, it appears it was sealed shut with some sort of ancient roman like concrete.

Just a few question are rolling around in my head---
1. What did you do for a living that you could afford 30 tons of black marble/granite?
2. Who did you piss off so badly that not only did they bury you in a bank vault, but sealed you in, never to be opened?
3. Why black? Rich folks got buried in gold. Important folks were buried in white. Poor folks are in mass graves. You're stuck in an ebony shoes box that weighs as much as a tractor trailer rig...

Who is It? Alexander the great has never been found. I get that you'd seal the lid of a coffin with weight.... 15 tons on the lid insures it won't be opened by ancient man, but to seal it shut with the same concrete that romans and used to build their buildings with..... that stuff has proven durable--- they didn't want you ever getting out.

One of my buddies suggested it could be Pandora's box..... wouldn't that be interesting..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...-sarcophagus-ancient-tomb-open-Alexandria/amp

The comments are funny.

I do not get this part of the story though.
"The archaeologists discovered the well preserved and more importantly dead remains of a mummy rotten down to the bone, without signs of any ancient curse."

and then

"The unidentified mummy suffered little decomposition thanks to a sealed layer of mortar between the body and the coffin’s lid."

How can it be both or did I read through this wrong.

 

[Metcalf #2]

How f*cking dense is black marble? A hollow object only 9 ft long and 4 ft wide weighs 30 freakin tons??? Holy crap.

Any idea as to how Alexander died? I'm thinking if he was murdered by enemies, I could see them dishonoring him by burying him in black, and never wanting him found. All I know in this field is from watching "The Mummy", so yeah just a wild guess.

 

[TX1972]

How f*cking dense is black marble? A hollow object only 9 ft long and 4 ft wide weighs 30 freakin tons??? Holy crap.

Any idea as to how Alexander died? I'm thinking if he was murdered by enemies, I could see them dishonoring him by burying him in black, and never wanting him found. All I know in this field is from watching "The Mummy", so yeah just a wild guess.

Alexander got sick on the campaign in India. Died in Babylon. Some think he had malaria. Supposedly his last words on the succession were "let the strongest take it." Dates sound right. Could it be Ptolomy I?

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

For those of y'all that don't know, along with being a war history buff, I'm also a bit of a dime store archeologist. No formal training or anything but I've read, studied and traveled to a few places in my day-- I've discovered I really suck at it, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying--

A few days ago in Egypt, near where the old city of Alexandria existed, archeologists unearthed a jet black sarcophagus that they say is made of black marble/granite ---- it's a little over 9 feet long and 4 ish feet wide. They estimate it dates from 300 bc, there abouts. It weighs 30 tons. 30. 60,000 pounds for you aggys that can't do math.

The lid alone weighs 15 tons. And it appears the lid wasn't just laid on top.... oh no, it appears it was sealed shut with some sort of ancient roman like concrete.

Just a few question are rolling around in my head---
1. What did you do for a living that you could afford 30 tons of black marble/granite?
2. Who did you piss off so badly that not only did they bury you in a bank vault, but sealed you in, never to be opened?
3. Why black? Rich folks got buried in gold. Important folks were buried in white. Poor folks are in mass graves. You're stuck in an ebony shoes box that weighs as much as a tractor trailer rig...

Who is It? Alexander the great has never been found. I get that you'd seal the lid of a coffin with weight.... 15 tons on the lid insures it won't be opened by ancient man, but to seal it shut with the same concrete that romans and used to build their buildings with..... that stuff has proven durable--- they didn't want you ever getting out.

One of my buddies suggested it could be Pandora's box..... wouldn't that be interesting..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...-sarcophagus-ancient-tomb-open-Alexandria/amp

We need Indiana Jones on this clob!


Hook'em

 

[clob94]

Alexander got sick on the campaign in India. Died in Babylon. Some think he had malaria. Supposedly his last words on the succession were "let the strongest take it." Dates sound right. Could it be Ptolomy I?

Ptolemy died in 169-170 ad. This is 300 bc.

We ought to get an OB pool going and errbody lay out their guess.

They found a small white alabaster bust inside the tomb but they obviously can't make out who the bust belongs to yet. But I'm dying to know what's inside that coffin.

 

[weevilcatch]

Man...

We're creating AI robots, opening up ancient mummy tombs, and trying to find aliens a 100 million miles away.

What the hell is wrong with us?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

But I'm dying to know what's inside that coffin.

Elvis?


Hook"em

 

[oldhorn2]

Not the first Ptolme... He was Alexander's general and took that half of Alexander's empire when he died.

 

[2300 Nueces]

I'm pretty sure I read that Alexander the Great died of depression after accepting that he could conquer no more. His men turned against him in India. There were too many Indians and his men would not fight. That's my understanding. I could be wrong.

 

[2300 Nueces]

This is one of the Seleucid kings or a person of great importance in the Seleucid Empire. They were freaks about marble and heavy sarcophagi. The whole tomb would have been done in marble or another very heavy stone/mineral.

 

[GuaranteedFresh!]

Black marble is very interesting. Obviously it would be someone of high stature but could he have been thought of as evil or spiritually dangerous? Why else seal it like they did? Grave robber prevention?

 

[2300 Nueces]

Black marble is very interesting. Obviously it would be someone of high stature but could he have been thought of as evil or spiritually dangerous? Why else seal it like they did? Grave robber prevention?

Black marble was probably the closest thing to the burial site. Marble being heavy and all that.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Maybe ot was that guy that played his closest friend, the one with makeup

 

[clob94]

Black marble is very interesting. Obviously it would be someone of high stature but could he have been thought of as evil or spiritually dangerous? Why else seal it like they did? Grave robber prevention?

You think grave robbers could lift a 30,000 pound lid off a 60,000 coffin?

 

[oldhorn2]

grave robbers would have had less trouble than archeologists with that lid. They would have simply busted it up to get in....they would have no interest in preserving the history of it.

That said....what I think it is is a Dijin that they managed to somehow capture and imprison and when the dumbassed scientists open and release will destroy mankind.I could be wrong.....

 

[clob94]

Oldhorn, you've gone and finally done it. You've totally stumped me. I have no idea what a Dijin is. I've googled the sh!t out of that word....... explain?

grave robbers would have had less trouble than archeologists with that lid. They would have simply busted it up to get in....they would have no interest in preserving the history of it.

That said....what I think it is is a Dijin that they managed to somehow capture and imprison and when the dumbassed scientists open and release will destroy mankind.I could be wrong.....

 

[DrinkToIt]

For those of y'all that don't know, along with being a war history buff, I'm also a bit of a dime store archeologist. No formal training or anything but I've read, studied and traveled to a few places in my day-- I've discovered I really suck at it, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying--

A few days ago in Egypt, near where the old city of Alexandria existed, archeologists unearthed a jet black sarcophagus that they say is made of black marble/granite ---- it's a little over 9 feet long and 4 ish feet wide. They estimate it dates from 300 bc, there abouts. It weighs 30 tons. 30. 60,000 pounds for you aggys that can't do math.

The lid alone weighs 15 tons. And it appears the lid wasn't just laid on top.... oh no, it appears it was sealed shut with some sort of ancient roman like concrete.

Just a few question are rolling around in my head---
1. What did you do for a living that you could afford 30 tons of black marble/granite?
2. Who did you piss off so badly that not only did they bury you in a bank vault, but sealed you in, never to be opened?
3. Why black? Rich folks got buried in gold. Important folks were buried in white. Poor folks are in mass graves. You're stuck in an ebony shoes box that weighs as much as a tractor trailer rig...

Who is It? Alexander the great has never been found. I get that you'd seal the lid of a coffin with weight.... 15 tons on the lid insures it won't be opened by ancient man, but to seal it shut with the same concrete that romans and used to build their buildings with..... that stuff has proven durable--- they didn't want you ever getting out.

One of my buddies suggested it could be Pandora's box..... wouldn't that be interesting..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...-sarcophagus-ancient-tomb-open-Alexandria/amp

Hoffa.

 

[oldhorn2]

^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^
We have a winner!!!...Maybe ther is also room for Judge Crater and DB Cooper....what the hell....throw in Amilia Earhart as well...

 

[oldhorn2]

Clob....I think a Dijin
is a Chinese genie....I am sure that my spelling is keeping you from finding it on google.
Then again....The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didnt exist....

 

[oldhorn2]

Try this Clob
Djinn

 

[clob94]

Try this Clob
Djinn

Oldhorn, you win the internet for the day baby!

I've never heard of this. Ever!

Mommy always said " try and learn something new every day." Kudos sir.

 

[clob94]

Hoffa.

Bwaaaahahahahaha! If true, then I really AM scared by the teamsters!

 

[oldhorn2]

Clob....I was wrong!...a Djinn wasnt a chinese genie, it was/is an islamic genie....and always a bad guy.

 

[oldhorn2]

Clob

While I was in Jr High I read the entire World Book Encyclopedia from page one to page last. I read the Dictionary and every history book and Geography text that the school and town library had. I was indeed the Good Will Hunting of useless information. At age 19 I worked my way to Europe on a Norwegian tanker. I would have been a great team mate for any trivia contest. I am not bragging. While I knew all this useless crap, I never was smart enough to bother to learn any thing that made me any money.
That type information always bored me.

Long story short....if you ever need to know something about any thing that amounts to nothing, I am your man.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

The news said they opened and found a buncha water and maybe a skel and they found a Turban in there with a Texas Longhorn sticker on it.



Hook'em

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Clob

While I was in Jr High I read the entire World Book Encyclopedia from page one to page last. I read the Dictionary and every history book and Geography text that the school and town library had. I was indeed the Good Will Hunting of useless information. At age 19 I worked my way to Europe on a Norwegian tanker. I would have been a great team mate for any trivia contest. I am not bragging. While I knew all this useless crap, I never was smart enough to bother to learn any thing that made me any money.
That type information always bored me.

Long story short....if you ever need to know something about any thing that amounts to nothing, I am your man.

I am his suitcase boy and I can answer the rest that he don't know....


Hook'em

 

[oldhorn2]

sadly FB....the older I get the less I remember. You have heard those guys that say..."If I only knew then what I know now....."

Hell...I say...if I only knew now what I knew then....

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

sadly FB....the older I get the less I remember. You have heard those guys that say..."If I only knew then what I know now....."

Hell...I say...if I only knew now what I knew then....

Truth in every word Old! Never knew ya had so good back then.

Well: Texas was winning everything back then...(hint)






Hook'em

 

[GuaranteedFresh!]

You think grave robbers could lift a 30,000 pound lid off a 60,000 coffin?

Just because you can't do something doesn't mean others can't either! Mr negativity over here. Lol
Besides, I've seen enough tomb raiding movies to know there is always a rock to push, relic to install or an organ nearby that when the correct notes are struck the damn thing will open right up. Sheeesh...amatures.

 

[clob94]

Just because you can't do something doesn't mean others can't either! Mr negativity over here. Lol
Besides, I've seen enough tomb raiding movies to know there is always a rock to push, relic to install or an organ nearby that when the correct notes are struck the damn thing will open right up. Sheeesh...amatures.

Funny post is obvious funny....

 

[Belldozer1]

Truth in every word Old! Never knew ya had so good back then.

Well: Texas was winning everything back then...(hint)

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Hook'em

Hard to beat some Johnny Bush in his prime. And by prime I mean 60's - 70's era, after he left Ray Price's band. They were the kings of Texas dance halls

 

[Belldozer1]

Drink uphttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...side-2-000-year-old-Egyptian-sarcophagus.html

 

[Oldmanastro]

Drink uphttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...side-2-000-year-old-Egyptian-sarcophagus.html

Uh, yuck?

 

[TX1972]

I'm pretty sure I read that Alexander the Great died of depression after accepting that he could conquer no more. His men turned against him in India. There were too many Indians and his men would not fight. That's my understanding. I could be wrong.

He probably died of malaria. Caught in the campaign in India. He was disappointed that his men didn't want to go farther, but he died of infectious disease.