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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

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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

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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

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Moving any single piece would have taken a workforce of hundreds.Using sleds to transport the pieces through the city. Monuments,like statues and obelisks,would have been taken down and transported whole. Temples and other bulidings, a single piece

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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

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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

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