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LOST EGYPT Fun Facts King Tut never rode a camel. The animals came to Egypt at the end of the age of pharaohs. As of 2002, AERA had catalogued nearly 25,000 pieces of flint, 200,000 fragments of animal bone, and 500,000 pieces of pottery from the Lost City site. Those numbers continue to grow. According to Richard W. Bulliet’s book The Camel and the Wheel, camels actually replaced pre-existing wheeled technologies in some parts of the Middle East because they didn’t get stuck in the sand. The first recorded restoration of the Great Sphinx at Giza took place nearly 3500 years ago, when Pharaoh Thutmose IV removed the sand that had buried it up to its neck. At the time of Thutmose’s restoration, the Sphinx was already 1000 years old. In the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones discovers the Ark of the Covenant in a hidden chamber in the ancient city of Tanis. Tanis was an actual city, and it served as the capital of Egypt from the Twenty-first to the Twenty-third dynasty (approximately 1078 BC – 740 BC). The mummy in both the 1932 film The Mummy and in the 1999 remake of the same name is named Imhotep. In reality, Imhotep was the engineer who designed the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the first pyramid constructed in ancient Egypt. Thutmose III covered the texts of Hatshepsut’s obelisks at Karnak Temple with stone in an attempt to remove any mention of her from the temple. Ironically, the stone coverings helped to keep these carvings in pristine condition almost 3500 years later. Using her work as a remote sensing expert, Dr. Sarah Parcak estimates that less than 0.01% of the archaeological sites in Egypt have been discovered. The words mummy, sphinx, and pyramid do not have Egyptian origins (mummy is derived from Latin and Persian, while sphinx and pyramid are derived from Greek). The popular myth of Napoleon’s soldiers shooting off the 41 CAMEL ON TH E GIZA PL ATEA U LOST EGYPT Great Sphinx’s nose is untrue. It is more likely that the nose was destroyed some 400 years before Napoleon ever set foot in Egypt. Around 99% of Egypt’s population lives along the Nile River or in the river’s delta. The total number of animal mummies found in Egypt is unknown. Animal mummies were so prevalent, sailors would use them as ballast (or weight used to stabilize a ship). It is unsure how many animal mummies left Egypt stuffed into the holds of ships. It took over 100 years to translate the Rosetta Stone. In popular culture, we often see images of mummies buried standing up. Archaeologists have not found any mummies buried standing up. There is a cemetery near the Step Pyramid at Saqqara dedicated entirely to Apis Bulls. Both in life and death, these animals were treated like royalty. After the funeral ceremony, some Apis Bulls were buried in sarcophagi weighing over 60 tons. STATUE OF NAPOLEON AT THE GREAT SPHINX 42 AN APIS BULL