I am going to start this section,with the technical side of these boxes. To show how precise in design they are. We have to understand that there was no room whatsoever for error, when constructing these boxes, any tiny deviation and the whole box would be incorrect in design. Twenty five of these boxes were […]
via The Serapeum of Saqqara part two. — MKW Explores Ancient Places
I loved the Indiana Jones films as a kid, the adventure, the mystery, the danger, the uncertainty and the nice tidy way they explained everything nicely by the end. So of course, i took to wanting to be an archaeologist. But as I got older I watched Time Team as much as i could, went out into the countryside and museums when I could and tried to work out theories from the very little evidence there appeared to be for things, despite years of study and research, there seemed very little to go on. It was disheartening but at the same time quite helpful. I started to understand that no-one actually knew the answer of long past historical events, it was mostly conjecture. These ‘educated’ people who had told me what history had been, just put forward theories and then tried to prove them, sounds scientific enough, but what you find with historians is that they seem to really believe all of their theories before they ever get proved, and proving them to be true is no longer the point.
I prefer to visit a site without a guide or host trying to tell me what it is, who built it and how it was for ‘ceremonial and religious purposes’ because they just don’t know. Neither do I, but i like the fact that it’s still up for grabs, the ideas of what may have been and why are there for the taking, if only we could look beyond what we think we know…
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