Here's a morning "stab in the dark" Allan. Slaves were war booty- along with treasure, maybe horses and food supplies- so the Jews were present in Egypt and held a variety of positions- some, undoubtedly, slave labor according to the OT and Cecile B. DeMille. The Jews were not great builders as Hiram of Tyre had to send builders and materials to Solomon, etc. Cities were coming of age so there must have been architects as the temples are still awesome and one marvels at how such massive stones and pillars were carved, lugged and placed without modern equipment!
Gold ornaments and jewelry are found in other ancient burial sites- Greece- Troy- Ireland, etc. and it could have come from southern Africa or Europe/modern Turkey. You will find a good amount of these ancient artifacts in museums or it has been remelted. Glass was also treasured and some insist it was developed in Phoenecia (modern Lebanon) which was an active Mediterranean trader. By the way, I think museums are modern thieves of other people's cultures, China is paying high prices to retrieve its "stolen" past. Cleopatra was Greek- so that would account for her introducing coins, perhaps. (Let's see how Angelini Jolie upstarts Liz Taylor's version! lol) On Dec 19, 4:15 am, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > I am hoping someone has the answers as they have been bugging me and the > more I find out the more I don't understand. > > I was taught that the Egyptian pyramids were built by jewish slave labor > turns out that archeology shows that they were built by by the Egyptians > themselves part of their tax system. the other thing I am finding out is > that they had no currency other than barter for grain. Ramses had grainery > complex large enough to feed all of egypt for over a year ,, now that is a > lot of grain.. and the nile is a tremendous agricultural area very fertile. > > Now the only coins known to be minted were created by cleaopatra and were of > a helenistic design and were never in circulation. > Now the Pharaohs are well known for the love of Gold in their burials and > lots of it to. Now to my knowledge there are no major sources of Gold within > the Egyptian borders which is not a problem as they had plenty of grain to > trade for all the gold they wanted.. > Nomadic tribes by their nature are not large 30 to 50 people at best. not > hundreds of thousands as taught. one of the questions is what happened to > the jews and just where were they? maybe still nomadic traders?? Isreal has > no major gold mines to my knowledge. and apparently slavery was not a big > thing either, although i am sure the was some trade in it.. just like today > it exist world wide,, but is not major.. > > The other question comes from the burial rites and the shear quantity of > gold that was involved disappearing by tomb robbers, that would be like > stealing all the gold out of the us depository at fort knox which is over > 4,000 tonnes of gold andit is small comparired to new york's vault which is > over 5,000 tonnes. what happened to all this gold it apparently does not > show up in the ancient Egyptian culture > > My questions come to this > 1: Where were all the jews in egypt in ancient times what did they actually > do? > 2: What happened to all the burial gold that was stolen from the tombs and > we are not talking about a few ounces either more like it the areas of tons. > > I hope some one can help me with these answers to these questions > Allan > > -- > ( > ) > I_D Allan > > If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
