Alan wrote:
DJA wrote:
The short of it is, these cartouches were very likely forgeries done
at the behest of Vyse by his shady associates (specifically, a Mr.
Hill). The cartouches found are in a unique hieroglyphic dialect and
artistic style never seen in Egyptology before or since their
"discovery".
Indeed, now that you mention it, I remember something about that in the
Pyramid special I watched.
I remembered the graffiti part, but apparently not the forgery part.
Mea culpa and all that.
-ajb
The show probably didn't mention the forgery side, as it was pretty much
swept under the carpet decades ago. Remember most "antiquarians", as
archaeologists were called back then, were really out for one thing:
treasure. But I suspect that modern day archaeologists, more than other
scientists, loathe to admit the possibility that much of what they call
established scientific fact may actually be bullshit. In this case, it
may be a case of "Tell a lie often enough...".
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