And of course gold can be melted down and re-cast.
On Dec 30, 2:11 pm, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 19, 10:15 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, > > Allan, Ramesses the Great/Seti I/Ramesses II was Hollywood! > > The Pharoah at the time of Moses was Amenhotep III. His eldest son, > Prince Tuthmose (Tutmosis) WAS Moses. Although most 'scholars' say > that Crown Prince Tuthmose 'predeceased' his father, I don't think > so. The 'Tut'/'Tuth' prefix was a testimony that he was dedicated to > Thoth (although he was a Priest of Ptah, the Creator God), the rest, > 'Mose/Mosis' was his proper name (Musa/Moshe). When they discovered > Crown Prince Tuthmose's tomb, his body was NOT entombed there, in > fact, the only mummy IN the tomb was his pet cat. I think that's most > likely because Moses LEFT Egypt and worshipped a different God. This > would NOT have gone down well in Egypt and, subsequently, the poor boy > was disinherited. When Amenhotep III died, his son, Akhenamun, who > had seen the power of Moses' God, became the first monotheistic > Pharoah of Egypt changed his name to Akhenaten. His son, Tutankhamun > (originally Tutankhaten!!) didn't last long as the old priests wanted > their jobs back and Egypt was back to being polytheistic. > > The Hebrew (not Jewish!!) slaves would hav ehelped do all sorts of > things, but they weren't slaves forever. The Egyptian dynasties go > farther back than 400 years prior to Amenhotep III. And, of course, > one would think that it wasn't only the Hebrews that they enslaved > over time. Nubians and Abyssinians would have been subjugated as > well. But, the Egyptians themselves would have been honoured to help > build a pyramid for a well-liked Pharoah. > > The Jews were in Goshen, on the Eastern side of the Nile Delta. As > for the gold, I think it was stolen and used by those who raided tombs > and, of course, by those who conquered Egypt. Think Alexander!! He > would have distrbuted much gold around Greece and the Ptolemaic > dynasty that he created would hav esold a lot of it to keep the > peace. I reckon most of the Egyptian gold was gone by the time of > Cleopatra. And, then, one has to think of the Islamic invasions and > Crusader invasions that took place after that. Plenty of time to > spoil.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
