What Melted the Ancient Egyptian Statues of TANIS? Greek Fire? | Ancient Architects
发布时间 2022-02-27 20:00:01 来源
摘要
Greek fire is the name given to an historical military weapon invented during the 7th century AD, the brainchild of the Byzantine Empire that gave them a distinct military advantage over their enemies, whether on land or sea.
Known also as sea fire, Roman fire, liquid fire, sticky fire or manufactured fire, it was inextinguishable by water and some sources say that adding water just intensified the flames, apparently burning at well over 1,000 degrees Celsius.
My interest in Greek Fire began a number of months ago, when I was researching the Egyptian City of Tanis, and after seeing Jimmy’s recent video on the Bright Insight channel (linked below), I wanted to give my own theory about the reason why many statues have the strange burnt appearance we see.
Yes, I think it could be from Greek Fire, damage possibly inflicted way after the dynastic era of history, either in the 7th century or 12th century AD. Watch this video to find out why I think this can be the only viable explanation for the damage we see.
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Sources:
http://ourancientworld.com/settlement.aspx?id=824
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_invasions_of_Egypt#Fourth_Crusader_invasion,_1168%E2%80%931169
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-mystery-of-greek-fire/139514
Bright Insight video: https://youtu.be/UvY_o-mLKpo
Brien Foerster Video 1: https://youtu.be/t-fYZ5ljIJk
Brien Foerster Video 2: https://youtu.be/l7v4tkGvsRc
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/tanis-egypt
https://oi-idb-static.uchicago.edu/multimedia/70180/oimp38.pdf
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/crusader-hand-grenade-and-bronze-knife-among-archaeological-treasures-020960
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