The Vanished City Of The Pharaoh 消失的法老城市 This magnificent ancient capital was built 3000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, but long ago the it disappeared. When finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened ...
消失的法老城市 This magnificent ancient capital was built 3000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, but long ago the it disappeared. When finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle - because whe...
You might think this would make the search for Pi-Ramesse easy. But you'd be wrong. Well, the big problem of finding Pi-Ramesse was the problem of the eastern branch of the Nile which we know it lay on had gone. Over time. the branches of the Nile i...
So we have the whole thing reading Ra-Messe-Shu marry Amon, or Ramesses, beloved of Amon. Pi-Ramesse, we know, had major temples, particularly dedicated to the god Amon. Any site we should claim to be Pi-Ramesse must have evidence for temples. And f...
Montet's destination was Tanis in the northeastern corner of the Nile Delta. Tanis was a very remote site at the end of a very long track set in a landscape that looks like the surface of the moon. When Montet eventually reached the remains, his hop...
He published journals and identified the remains of a massive temple dedicated to the God Amon. As Montet's work progressed, his fame and reputation spread across the world. The more his teams excavated, the more statues and obelisks of Ramesses the...
And then, other strange anomalies began turning up. Puzzling finds from other places suggesting Piramesse might lie elsewhere. Show me. He says it was dug up about 30 kilometres from here. He claimes it's from Piramesse. Well, cartouche is certainly...
Manfred Bietak was interested in the role played by the Nile in ancient times when he stumbled upon the strange truth about Piramesse. He was trying to trace the lost river beds and waterways of the Nile in order to map out what the Delta would have...
That pottery can be dated, and so tell you the date of the city itself. By dating the pottery of all the settlements along the ancient lost branches of the Nile, that will tell you when each settlement was inhabited. And therefore, when that particu...
So he had never painstakingly dated at all. If he had, he would have discovered the bizarre truth about Tanis, that there was no city here at the time of Ramesses the Great. Not a single pottery sherd has been collected from the time of Ramesses the...
No statues, no obelisks, no temples, nothing to suggest this could once have been home to the ancient world's great lost capital. When I came first to this area and to this site, I was shocked. Nothing was to be seen at the surface. No clue where to...
When they unearthed the floor of the buildings within which the objects had been found, they discovered another surprise. We found a special set of stones, consisting of a tethering stone up front here then an opening in the ground surrounded by lim...
But it had taken Pusch and Bietak years of excavation just to unearth the garrison. At this rate of digging ,it would take hundreds of years to prove if they had truly found the site of Piramesse. And so they turned, instead, to a new technology tha...
The most wonderful part of all this huge area is a building in the middle of our scan, one huge structure covering more than 41,000 square meters, the center of which is a building which shows a sequence of rooms. All of them with symmetrically arra...
The modern day town of Qantir is a jumbled collection of ramshackle buildings typical of a delta town today. Judging by its central position on the scan. It is almost certainly sitting slap-bang on the top of Ramesses II s palace. According to accou...
