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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2009/08aug/RIR-090827.html [IMG]http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2009/08aug/cowstonenabtaplaya.jpg[/IMG] ^^This is the stone at Nabta Playa. Source: Robert Bauval The idea that it is a cow is speculation. Notice the upper left corner a triangular portion. It kind of looks like an animal head but it's from entirely different stone in the background. [IMG]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y421/amunratheultimate2/Misc/NabtaPlaya-Originofpharaonicstonecarving_zps5d154f25.jpg[/IMG] ^^ Amun Ra put it up I don't know the source.^^^ Look at the lower left photo above of thsi set of three, it doesn't have the triangular section. Now look at the lower right photo. It looks like a piece jutting out on top but It's that's the same stone on the background again not part of the stone they are lifting out of there. The stone seems to have a curve looks kind of like the front part a boat. It is described as having an oval shape, seems to be half an oval Here is another stone from the site: [IMG]http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/5597/WestandBauvalwithSculptedStonefromNabtaPlayaAswan2003.jpg[/IMG] here's the Robert Bauval quote that goes with that photo [i]Author: Robert Bauval (82.201.197.---) Date: 09-Feb-08 02:12 Extract from 'Sahara Dawn': "In May 2003 I met John at Aswan in the hope that we would be able to persuade the local police to grant us a pass for Nabta. But the red-tape proved too much for us, and we soon gave up on the idea. We consoled ourselves, however, by at least examining one of the Nabta megaliths that had recently been brought to the Aswan Nubian Museum. Unfortunately it was dark when we finally got to see the megalith in the yard of the museum, an irregular oval stone of hard limestone that was clearly one half of a much larger one which, according to the museum director, was shaped like a ‘cow’. In these poor light conditions we could not ascertain this nor whether the boulder was artificially shaped, although the curvaceous contours seemed to indicate that it was. I discovered later that this boulder had been taken out of the largest of the complex megalithic structures, labelled Complex Structure A (CSA) by the Wendorf team. It had originally been buried above a chunk of table rock that lay at a depth of about 2.6 metres. The boulder was labelled ‘the secondary stone’ of CSA and described by Wendorf et al. as having ‘the vague resemblance to a cow and may have represented a surrogate sacrificial cow’. If this is correct, then this mysterious stone is the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of prehistory, for it would represent the earliest known statuary of a cow-deity in Egypt and probably in the whole of human history."[/i] ________________________________________________ the larger semi oval shaped carved stone thought by some to be a cow diety: [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-27-19.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-27-19.png[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcFJFstpD68/TMUhmmawTgI/AAAAAAAAFII/m1PRV2nPmRg/s400/watsabi-cow-500.jpg[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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