{"id":3885,"date":"2015-06-29T19:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:53:04","slug":"hieroglyph-in-temple-of-abydos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/hieroglyph-in-temple-of-abydos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hieroglyph In Temple of Abydos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"__w2_VgGONZP_text_snip\" class=\"expanded_q_text\"><span id=\"__w2_zN8Cd1J_toggle_link\"><span id=\"ld_apfozf_33162\"><span id=\"ld_xjxstb_28463\"><span class=\"inline_editor_value\">For me, this is really a controversial piece of hieroglyph in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abydos,_Egypt\">temple of Abydos.<\/a> Some people (who claim that Egyptians had some contact with aliens) believe that this hieroglyph is real and in its original form.<br \/>\n<br class=\"inline_editor_value\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"ld_pwxigc_28550\">Some others say that the carving was altered by the successors of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramesses_II\">Ramses II<\/a> (maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merneptah\">Merneptah<\/a>). It was a common practice among <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_pharaohs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pharaohs of Egypt<\/a> to destroy the symbols and glory of their forefathers in order to showcase themselves. An example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluffton.edu\/~sullivanm\/egypt\/deirelbahri\/deirelbahri.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hatshepsut\u2019s temple at Deir el Bahri<\/a>, where statues and wall paintings were destroyed by her own son.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3992 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hieroglyph-in-the-temple-of-abydos2.jpeg\" alt=\"hieroglyph in the temple of Abydos2\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" \/><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4c\/Tempel_der_Hatschepsut_%28Deir_el-Bahari%29.jpg\/330px-Tempel_der_Hatschepsut_%28Deir_el-Bahari%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The temple of Abydos was built by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seti_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seti-I<\/a> and finished by his son <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramesses_II\">Ramses II<\/a>, the greatest of all pharaohs. So it is natural that his successors tried to erase the trace of <span id=\"__w2_zN8Cd1J_toggle_link\"><span id=\"ld_apfozf_33162\"><span id=\"ld_xjxstb_28463\"><span class=\"inline_editor_value\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramesses_II\">Ramses II<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> from the minds of common people and brought their own image to the front.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, this is really a controversial piece of hieroglyph in the temple of Abydos. Some people (who claim that Egyptians had some contact with aliens) believe that this hieroglyph is real and in its original form. Some others say that the carving was altered by the successors of Ramses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145],"tags":[125,315,478,728,847,882,916,982],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histroy","tag-ancient-egypt","tag-deir-el-bahri","tag-hatshepsut","tag-merneptah","tag-pharaohs-of-egypt","tag-ramses-ii","tag-seti-i","tag-temple-of-abydos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}