There is an Egyptian proverb “Man is afraid of time, and time is afraid of pyramids”. Its meaning is that the Egyptian pyramids are so ancient that it is impossible to count their age. It is interesting that a variety of sources confirm that the Egyptian civilization is much older than it is commonly believed.
630,000 years ago
It is officially accepted that the history of civilized Egypt began around the 5th millennium BC. However, many sources give completely different dates and indicate that long before this time, a developed civilization already existed in Egypt.
The famous Herodotus, for example, in “Euterp” (the second part of his famous “History”) wrote: “Until now, the Egyptians and their priests passed on to me legends about ancient times. They explained to me that from the time of the first Egyptian king and up to this last priest of Hephaestus, 341 generations of people passed and during this time there were the same number of high priests and kings. But 300 generations is 10,000 years, counting three generations per century. Yes, over 300, 41 more generations give 1340 years."
These numbers, given by the father of history, far exceed those accepted in the official historiography of Egypt.
The Byzantine historian Georgy Sinzell, who lived in the 8th century, also wrote quite interesting things about the ancient Egyptian dynasties: “The Egyptians have a certain slab called the Old Chronicle; it contains thirty dynasties over 113 generations over a period of 36,525 years. The first dynasty of princes is the Aurites, the second is the Mestroen, the third is the Egyptians."
The famous philosopher and scientist Diogenes generally argued that the Egyptians conducted astronomical observations for almost 49,000 years before the appearance of Alexander the Great, by the way, who was born in 356 BC. And the Greek philosopher Simplicius, who lived in the 6th century AD, went even further and wrote that the Egyptians studied space for 630,000 years!
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A story from a priest
But what the Egyptians themselves wrote - let us give the floor to Manetho, who lived in the III century BC, the high priest of the temple of the city of Heliopolis. Heliopolis (today the city of El Matariya near Cairo) was considered the center of scientific thought in Egypt.
Many documents, ancient papyri, tablets with hieroglyphs and other evidence of the past were kept here. All this information allowed Manetho to write a unique "History of Egypt".
It listed various dynasties of Egyptian kings, compiled from original documents. However, Manetho's work perished in a fire in the Library of Alexandria - along with many other priceless manuscripts of the ancient world. From the "History" of Manetho, only a few passages have survived, which were quoted in the works of the ancient historians Julius Afrikan and Eusebius.
And this is what the history of Egypt looked like in the description of the priest:
“The first man [or God] in Egypt is Hephaestus, who is also known to the Egyptians as the discoverer of fire. The heir to his son Helios [the Sun] was Sosis, then in turn Kronos, Osiris, Typhon, brother of Osiris, and finally Horus, son of Osiris and Isis. They were the first rulers of Egypt. After that, the royal power passed from one to another, without interruption, up to Bidis for 13,900 years. Then for 1255 years the gods and demigods ruled, and again for 1817 years another royal family gained power in the country. Then another thirty Memphis kings ruled for 1,790 years, and after them another 10 kings - for 350 years. Then came the reign of the "spirits of the dead", which lasted 5813 years."
Agree that these numbers do not in any way correspond to what we know about Egypt.
Papyrus of Luxor
The existence of the most ancient rulers of Egypt is confirmed by the Turin papyrus. It was purchased in 1820 in Luxor by the Italian Bernardino Drovetti and taken to Turin, where it is kept to this day. The papyrus was originally about 170 centimeters long, but during transportation it crumbled into several fragments. The exact time of its manufacture is not known, but on the back there is the name of Ramses III, who ruled in 1185 - 1153 BC. This papyrus lists the names of all the Egyptian pharaohs and kings, and it is obvious that this list was copied from more ancient sources.
The dynasties of kings listed in it are much broader than those known to science. It is curious that it begins with a dynasty of gods: Ptah, Amon, Anubis, Ibis, Apis, Mnevis and others.
The most curious thing is that only in 2009 it was announced that several previously unknown fragments of papyrus were found in the storerooms of the Turin museum. The question arises - why such a rarity was lost for so many years, and what is written in these found pieces. It is not excluded that it is about some even more ancient dynasties.
In the same place, in Italy, is kept the Palermo stone, exported from Egypt under unknown circumstances. For a long time he lay in the Palermo Museum, without arousing any interest. And only at the end of the 19th century, this ancient black basalt slab interested researchers, and the stone began to be studied in detail. It turned out that it lists the names of the mysterious ancient rulers of Egypt. And later it turned out that this stone is one of its own kind, so somewhere there are similar steles, with carved names of the rulers of Egypt who lived many, many millennia ago.
Dendera temple
However, the most curious evidence that the civilization of Ancient Egypt is much older than one might imagine is kept in the Dendera Temple. More precisely, it was kept, because the enterprising Europeans, who plundered Egypt in past centuries, took this evidence out of the country in its entirety.
We are talking about the famous ceiling in the Dendera Temple, which impressed the French so much that they sent it entirely to Paris. Now it is kept in the Louvre, and its exact copy has been recreated in the temple. This ceiling depicts the Zodiac Circle of amazing beauty.
But the most curious thing about this ceiling is that later it turned out - the signs of the zodiac on it depict the stars in the position in which they were located approximately 90,000 years BC! So those who created this Zodiac circle clearly saw a different sky on them …
Stolen piece
And recently, sensational news was printed in the media, which confirms that the Egyptian civilization is much older than you might imagine. In Egypt, there was an almost curious incident that proved that the pyramids were indeed built earlier than it is generally believed.
The official history states that the construction of the Cheops pyramid was completed around 2540 BC. And so two German students climbed inside this pyramid, split off a piece, secretly took it out of the country and checked its age in Germany. It turned out that this piece is more than 20 thousand years old! And it is not yet known how many thousands of years more - it is possible that by a lot.
But since the method of obtaining information by students turned out to be, to put it mildly, illegal, research has not received the usual course - how can one rely on a piece stolen and smuggled out to prove the antiquity of the pyramids?
So nothing has changed in the official historiography of Egypt - and all the secrets of the past are bypassed by scientists …
N. Trubinovskaya