Sure, many of us heard about the ancient Egyptians and what they left behind them in Egypt, like pyramids, tombs, and graves.
But have you ever heard about the serapeum of Saqqara?
This mystery place who discovered underground
in Saqqara in Egypt.
We will travel to this place today to show one
of the mysteries and hidden histories in the world.
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A cemetery full of mysteries and secrets
- The Serapeum of Saqqara is an ancient Egyptian tomb dedicated to the sacred bull Apis, located north of Djoser's funeral complex in Lower Egypt in the Saqqara district of Giza Governorate.
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| King Amenhotep III |
- The origin of this cemetery dates back to the eighteenth Egyptian family in the New Kingdom of Egypt. Its foundation will be the work of King Amenhotep III and its first masterful extension to the reign of King Ramesses II.
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| King Ramesses II |
- This cemetery was not as famous as the tomb of Tutankhamun, despite the distinction of this strange and wondrous cemetery with unparalleled engineering and architectural miracles.
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| Real Mummy For Apis |
- This cemetery was dedicated to the calf, Apis, which is the living symbol of the god Ptah. The pharaohs considered the god Osiris, the god of death and life, to have reincarnated in the god Ptah, the god of wisdom, and became his embodiment in the image of the calf, Apis.
- And this calf is not any calf, but rather it has special characteristics, as this calf is rare in existence, as it is born from a cow that does not give birth to anyone else, and it appears every 14 years, is embalmed and is buried in a majestic ceremony.
The great discovery:
- The ruins of the Serapeum at Saqqara were discovered by Auguste Mariette on November 1, 1851.
- The young researcher was inspired by some manuscripts that date back to the testimony of the ancient author and geographer Strabo, who was in the first century AD.
- Take inspiration from the road between Luxor Temple and the courtyard of Amun-Re at Karnak Temple and continue this path surrounded by the Sphinx, then discover the entrance to the catacombs dedicated to housing the mummified bodies of the sacred bulls Apis. The discovery caused a stir.
Cemetery origins:
The construction of the tomb began during the reign of King Amenhotep of the 18th Dynasty in the thirteenth century BC until Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty, and the Serapeum is a Greek name given to every religious temple.
But what is the miracle in this unique cemetery, which is, as we mentioned, an engineering and architectural miracle by all standards?
- One of the wonders of this cemetery is that you find it cold in summer and hot in winter.
- The cemetery consists of passages carved into the rock for a distance of 380 meters, from which 24 side chambers branch out, each containing a sarcophagus.
- This cemetery has one entrance for entry and exit.
- Professor Atef Abu Dahab, Director of Giza Antiquities, says that the Serapeum tunnel is considered the first tunnel that was built on the face of the earth, and this tunnel has no analogs in all parts of the world.
- It is an underground corridor with a depth ranging from 10 to 12 meters and a length of 136 meters deviating right and left to reach a length of 380 meters.
- Upon entering, you will find several stairs up to 12 meters underground, and we find the corridor to the right and left of it 24 domed rooms carved into the rock, and the rooms do not face each other but were excavated alternately.
As for the coffins:
- they are made of high-hardness rocks, which are red and black granite rocks and quartz, in which the carving is accompanied by the latest current tools.
- They were brought from the city of Aswan in the south of the country, and the number of coffins reached 24, and they are well-made to an amazing degree, and they are enormous, as the coffin weighs 70 tons, and the cover weighs 30 tons.
- The height of the coffin is 4 meters, the width reaches 2.5 meters, and the length is 3 meters.
mean one coffin weight will be 100 tons while it closed !!!!!!!!
From here begins the endless puzzles and questions.
- The first mystery, how did the ancient Egyptian cut these very hard rocks and polish them with such magnificence, and how did he transport them from Aswan to Giza?
- The second mystery, how did those giant coffins reach inside the narrow tunnel that has one entrance, when a comprehensive survey was made of the mountain that contains the cemetery, but they did not find another door or opening for the cemetery?
- The third puzzle is how to see inside the dark tunnel, and there is no trace of torches on the walls. Was there electricity in ancient Egypt?
- The American engineer and researcher Christophe Dan relied on a field called geometric precision in interpreting the Egyptian civilization,
- and he mentioned that the ancient Egyptians used a highly developed technique in engineering and construction, by calculating the sides, so to obtain a right angle with an accuracy of 90 degrees requires high standards because simple tools do not give accuracy The required one hundred percent,
- so Christopher measured the treatment of the ceiling of the tomb in the Serapeum and the degree of its applicability to the stand and found that it was completely applied to the extent that even light was not allowed to enter, and this indicates that these boxes were built professionally, as it is known that cutting stone with this hardness may lead to a slight deviation in length or width.
But the angle was exactly 90 degrees without any decimal places!
This made the researchers certain that these stones were never cut in primitive ways.
- In comparison with one of the graves discovered from later eras, we find that it is not disciplined and tortuous. Which made it possible to carve it in primitive ways. However, the serapeum tombs, with that great engineering precision, can only be carved with very sophisticated tools.
- Christopher says in his book that he sent his study on Serapeum tombs to four giant cutting factories in America. And all of them confirmed the impossibility of establishing those tombs with primitive things. Hence, he confirms that a strange technology has completely disappeared from the Egyptian civilization, a technology whose greatness cannot be imagined. The strange thing is that it suddenly disappeared from existence. After an in-depth study of the Serapeum, we find that the theory of its construction for Apis and mummies is a very weak theory for several reasons, the most important of which is if it was so, where are the funerary inscriptions on it?
- By looking at the apparent inscriptions, we find that they were carved after successive eras, and this appears through the weakness of the sculpture compared to the accuracy of the design. Is it possible that whoever designed that geometry does that weak sculpture?
- Also, when it was built with a length of 4 meters and a height of 330 centimeters, four times larger than the calf, and if it was really for bulls, will it be built with greater accuracy than the accuracy of the royal tombs?
- The initial answer to this riddle is that the coffins of Serapeum are not tombs, but rather mysterious boxes.
- At first glance, we find that they are of different sizes and stones. It is noted that the accuracy of the sculpture appears from the inside only.
- Contrary to its appearance, as it is noted on the outside dents and lack of roof. This fully confirms that the inside is the most important, not the outside.
- Also, by looking at the walls of the boxes, we find that they are very thick and carved from one piece with a lid that weighs 30 tons.
- And that data indicates something certain that these boxes were designed to withstand high pressure. So the thread ends in boxes, they're designed to withstand high pressure. What is the point of that?
- Some people think that they were like batteries to generate electricity, as they need great pressure and endurance, and with time they were emptied and their traces remained empty. There is a lot of evidence proving that the ancient Egyptians knew electricity in the past.
Here we will find the fourth puzzle.
- It is the carving and polishing of these coffins without a single engineering error.
- Engineering scientists in the modern era measured the engineering error coefficient and found it to be zero percent.
- The flatness coefficient was also measured, and its presence is negligible, which is 002%, a degree that can only be reached by using high-precision machines and optical technology. light to obtain this complete flatness.
- In the end, if we research the ancient Egyptian civilization, we will find that there are inscriptions indicating the extent of the development that the ancient Egyptians reached for them, through their inscriptions, but this theory is invalidated by something that Egyptologists noticed that some of those chests inside were rough, and does this indicate that they are incomplete? Did the ancient Egyptians suddenly stop working?
- And when those who came after them did not finish carving and polishing it, this matter indicates to us a result that may be terrifying.
- And is that there is something strange that led to a collective annihilation of the building of the first civilization.
- The Pharaohs came after them as inheritors of that civilization. They only engraved their names and achievements.
