Submarine & helicopter reliefs inside Abydos Temple What Do You Think?
| Are there really aircraft and a submarine depicted? Or, is it something much more mundane? What do you see? These hieroglyphs surely don’t represent any ‘modern technology’ (it would be hard to imagine modern looking helicopters in ancient Egypt). Instead, the drawings are nothing more than normal Egyptian hieroglyphs like the ‘hand’ or the ‘basket’.The ‘helicopter’, for example, consists of two ‘forearms’ that carry a thing like a table. The lower portion of the ‘submarine’ is the hieroglyph ‘basket’. The basket is – again – held by a forearm.If you look at the normal Egyptian hieroglyphs and compare them to these drawings, you’ll see that this is nothing ‘special’, only misinterpreted constellations of hieroglyphes. I don’t know what these symbols represent, but I can say for sure that they’re nothing unusual. It was common in Ancient Egypt for hieroglyphs to be re-carved and re-faced over the years. This process of writing on the same surface more than once is called palimpsest, and it was common practice when a new Pharaoh was establishing a dynasty to write over the hieroglyphs of his predecessors. It is well known that such a process took place at the temple of seti I in Abydos by his son Ramses II. |
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