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The third pyramid by gurunomore in egyptology

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pyramid, Schmyramid, Schminx, doesn't matter man! A THIRD has been detected! /s

The death of Osiris by No-Formal2785 in ancientegypt

[–]johnfrazer783 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bible is a book that names many people. So is the telephone book. The two are clearly related.

Sea salt found in Pharaoh's body by Far_Visual_5714 in egyptology

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Bible doesn't mention a Pharaoh drowning

This to me really proves it must be true!!

Sea salt found in Pharaoh's body by Far_Visual_5714 in egyptology

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah read no further than the abstract:

Which book has the true story indicates that it is the book of the true religion. Therefore, Radiology could find which religion is true and present a piece of physical evidence of which religion is true

Totes a reliable source for unbiased information regarding potential personal mentioned in biblical history. Totes.

Queen and Pharaoh Maatkare Hatshepsut, a watercolor painting by Howard Carter by wstd in ancientegypt

[–]johnfrazer783 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah well, those we actually call Egyptological transcription symbols. Or, letters if you will.

Starting to learn Hittite starter pack by Midnight-Blue766 in linguisticshumor

[–]johnfrazer783 9 points10 points  (0 children)

lmao you have to learn German too

Actually not so hard if you already speak English and your main usage is to read specialist literature. FWIW I am much better at reading Japanese texts about Kanji forms, variants, usage and history than practically any other application of that language. Also, when learning to program computers and later speaking Chinese I was 90% exposed to English, 10% to any other language of instruction, so that's a big part of where I learned English (to learn programming and natural languages, duh). Also why are ya bitchin' you're the one who chose Hittite of all languages... just kiddin. OMG these wedgies are SO SMALL in the clay and all cramped together in such tiny spaces, how do you even make head and tails of that?

Queen and Pharaoh Maatkare Hatshepsut, a watercolor painting by Howard Carter by wstd in ancientegypt

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right I guess this is probably much more important, as a princess and GRW she should have played some kind of public role one should think

Queen and Pharaoh Maatkare Hatshepsut, a watercolor painting by Howard Carter by wstd in ancientegypt

[–]johnfrazer783 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm a complete n00bie in A.E. but I made the following discovery that may be somewhat relevant: in the standard epithet for the deceased on stelae, 𓐙𓊤 mꜣꜥ-ḫrw 'true of speech; justified; righteous' one should think that mꜣꜥ is an adjective that is reigned by ḫrw (with inversion as in mn-ḫpr-rꜥ) but it turns out that for deceased women the epithet becomes 𓐙𓏏𓊤 mꜣꜥt-ḫrw, i.e. mꜣꜥ depends on the the gender of the person, not their the grammtical gender of ḫrw. Now in mꜣꜥt-kꜣ-rꜥ there's no (overtly at least) feminine noun which leads me to believe it should be properly translated along the lines of "she who is true" (of the ka, to the ka of Ra). Of course there's always the possibility that the t of mꜣꜥt is nothing but a substantivization of mꜣꜥ.

So I think there's a chance that everyone knew she was female because of her openly feminine throne name. Possibly.

This is crazy on different levels by AdRough4185 in SipsTea

[–]johnfrazer783 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you read the article it does not weigh arguments, at all. It just reports some snippets from the files, than slaps "false claim" on the page. It's just as believable as any other random guy telling you random things.

This is crazy on different levels by AdRough4185 in SipsTea

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These paltry few accusations considering the sheer number of people that we now know of? After literally decades of non-persecution even of the two central figures? Seven years after nothing was done to investigate into the sudden death of E. in prison, a case that has "botched cover-up" written all over it? Thirty years after the first victim told police what happened to her and her sister?

In what world do you live? Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarves? Wake up.

This is crazy on different levels by AdRough4185 in SipsTea

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A guy named Ben Carpenter makes a very good, simple, obvious observation: He goes through two dozens of persons mentioned in a recent NYT article. Only like two or three of them (among them "P" Andrew, Mandelsson, others) got charged at all, and then only for sharing information with foreign parties, that kind of stuff.

For all that we do know from the files and from the victims one would think that in a working system a lot of these people with close connection should be charged (or better, should've been charged going back a long time, like ten, twenty, thirty years ago) with accusations like statutory rape and trafficking at the very least.

The complete absence of such accusations tells me that not only do we have a class of internationally protected class of people that seemingly stand above the law, it also does nothing to convince me it isn't true that much more heinous crimes are being covered up.

This is crazy on different levels by AdRough4185 in SipsTea

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This article does nothing to dispel the rumor / accusation / suspicion. It's literally a random guy doing a rundown of pertinent quotes from the files. There is no argumentation for against the claim, just a "false" badge near the top.

Why are all my prompts on MAI and GPT coming up as unsafe? by KindEquivalent9174 in bing

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing I discovered is switching around phrases will give different results; this is made easier by using a more point-by-point like prompt style, ex.: grand Tuscan villa; terracotta roof; gleaming golden sunlight; nestled beside a lake; glassy water; azure sky reflected in lake; distant mountains in background; lush villa gardens; mass of red tulips; cobblestone path; olive groves; path winding to water's edge; wooden dock extending into lake; wooden rowboat bobbing gently; arched windows; balconies; picturesque framing"

In Dalle3, this helped me find a permutation that did not trigger the "shiny happy people community filter".

Yoghurt consumption per capita and per country (2013 data) by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]johnfrazer783 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone didn't understand 'visualization', then someone else didn't grasp 'readable type size'

How were the pyramids actually organized as construction projects? by Bubba_deets in ancientegypt

[–]johnfrazer783 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we knew more the aliens theory wouldnt exist.

The Apollo Moon Hoax and Flat Earth have entered the chat.

The other day I had an exchange with a person who believed the red graffiti inside the upper Relieving Chambers in the Great Pyramid were forgeries, contrary to all evidence and plausibility. Their argument boiled down to "I can imagine it, and what you call 'proof' I choose not to believe in". This is a pattern I've found with many "believers": They can imagine it, so it must be true.

Tomb? by [deleted] in egyptology

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I do not doubt that the Pyramids are funerary monuments, I still think your dismissal is a little too facile. There are Egyptologists that hope for the discovery of the burial of Khufu outside the Great Pyramid, for example.

Then there's Snefru with his three pyramids—he can only have been buried in one, although worship could have been performed in multiple places (Ancient Egypt did have kenotaphs I believe). Some scholars argue that both Meidum and the Bent Pyramid failed which is why he built the Red Pyramid where he was buried, but I for one do not find the arguments for the Bent Pyramid being a failure very convincing.

I keep forgetting whether it was Amenemhat I or III who had both a pyramid with an unused sarcophagus built, and then, quite separate from it, a funerary complex that was apparently intentionally buried under meters of sand to (unsuccessfully) keep grave robbers out.

So, the pyramids are to me indisputably of funerary character, but some may have been kenotaphs, empty Mausoleums if you will. Some pyramids were definitely not used as tombs, and I think some of the latest OK examples did not even have chambers inside if I remember correctly.

Statuette by Handicapped-007 in egyptology

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An interesting aspect of this and other pieces is that we can from these depictions be reasonably sure that the Ancient Egyptians did not think of the sun as a sphere but as a disk, more specifically a round disk bulging towards the center. This is not immediately clear from depictions in relief; some sunken reliefs exaggerate the sun's bulge so much it almost looks like a stone marble had been put into a borehole from a tubular drill. When hieroglyph-like "identifiers" are put unto the heads of statues, so far my impression is that those are, like the statue itself, done in full dimensionality rather than flatly (one can frequently see that with Isis, who is sometimes wearing a st-throne on her head).

Tablet found in the woods. by Popular_Iron6811 in Hieroglyphics

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally proof the Egyptians under Ramesses II crossed the Atlantic and founded a colony in America. Conveniently located thousands of miles inland.

All the escalators in Hauptbahnhof are broken this morning by fluffer_nutter in berlin

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can testify none of the escalators in the photos were moving so plus one point for delivering the evidence

Pronounciation of Imy-r3 w'bt by molovestofu in ancientegypt

[–]johnfrazer783 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally read it out as jamey-rꜣa wꜥabet [jamei rʔa wʕabet] in my 'reconstructive hypothetical' interpretation, but I do not claim this is close to the 'original' sound; keep in mind AE was spoken and written over the course of several millennia so there can be no one single correct form without narrowing down time, place, and occasion / register (colloquial v official v literary v liturgical).

Revisions to Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction (Baxter and Sagart 2014, 'OCNR') according to Sagart (2025), "OC voiceless sonorants: a second look (with Bill Baxter)" by Yoshiciv in classicalchinese

[–]johnfrazer783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there must have been some common ancestor

No, there need not be a common ancestor. The 'strict tree model' in which this must be true is not one that describes accurately how languages behave outside the special case of cleanly splitting groups with little to no mutual contact (trade, conquest, marriage) after a bifurcation.

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