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Weird Phenomenon: The Time Travelers in an Abydos Temple

May 3, 2011

Featured Content, Philosophy, Weird Phenomena

Hey folks! I’m conducting another experiment. Today I’m introducing the “Weird Phenomena”, blogs on weird stuff that happen/have been seen around the world. I’ll post Weird Phenomena blogs on Tuesdays from now on. I hope you enjoy!

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Look at the above image. What is it you see?

Clearly, there is a helicopter, a tank or maybe a submarine, a UFO (or zeppelin).

The Temple of Seti I

These hieroglyphs were found in the Temple of King Seti I in Abydos.

Some people consider these hieroglyphs as proof of time travel. Would the Egyptians have found a (now long lost) way to travel to the future? Or did we, people of today (or tomorrow) find a way to go back? If so, I wonder why we took military machines. The notion certainly is interesting.

Contrarily, others think these are retouched, photoshopped images, or that the original hieroglyphs were damaged by erosion and/or later adjustments. These people suggest that these hieroglyphs are just an optical illusion of modern looking things, that our brain “replaces” the hieroglyphs with something that looks recognizable to us, people from the modern day and age.

What do you think? Real or not real?

Personally, I don’t even mind whether it’s real or not. The idea alone is very cool. It’s good stuff to write stories about – time traveling Egyptians that visit us or us visiting the Egyptians and declaring war on each other. I wonder who’d win. I bet they would have created a way to neutralize our modern machines in one instant – or perhaps I’m wildly overestimating them. I’ve always admired the Egyptian culture.

What story ideas pop up in your head?

Who else is getting Stargate SG-1 flashbacks when reading the word “Abydos”? Lol.

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About Manon Eileen

Dutch 23-year-old SF/F YA writer, BSc in Psychology and soon MA in Global Criminology. She is creative, easily bored, and craves tea all the time. Also: "science isn't about why, it's about why not" - Cave Johnson.

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  • http://twitter.com/CMStewartWrite CMStewart

    OK I had to look it up. :) I’ll keep my findings secret and not spoil it for everyone else. ;)

    The carvings do look similar to modern vehicles . . but they don’t look “remarkably* similar, IMO. Yes, you could make the case for artistic interpretation, but you’d still be injecting you own bias if you suggested the sculptor’s interpretation is your interpretation.

    “Time travel” is possible- it’s been demonstrated in a lab recently. It’s just not possible (using our technology) on a large inter-dimensional scale.

    • http://www.manoneileen.com Manon Eileen

      Ooohh I want to know your findings! Also, do you maybe have a link to the article or news announcement of that huge feat? :p

      Thanks for stopping by!

  • Kasper

    found your blogg through facebook manon, nice! anyway, timetraveling is bs.. (atleast traveling to the past, see: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity) :-P

    If i start to think about timetraveling on my own, my brain keeps telling me that when something has happened there should only be one thing that is left of it, which is the light in which the event was captured.

    CMstewart: you are right but that particular experiment (thought it had something to do with transporation of a single atom) was about traveling to the future, which theoratically speaking should be possible within the boundaries of Einstein’s concept.

    “our brain “replaces” the hieroglyphs with something that looks recognizable to us, people from the modern day and age” so true.. :-)

    • http://twitter.com/CMStewartWrite CMStewart

      Yes, and here is info about traveling to the past: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-grandfather-paradox.html

    • http://www.manoneileen.com Manon Eileen

      Hi Kasper, so nice to see you here, thank you for stopping by! :D

      I’m probably too much of a daydreamer to really truly (absolutely) believe that time traveling isn’t possible and will never be possible ;p.

      Interesting thoughts, though.

      I loved the video! That was a great way of explaining Einstein’s theory.

      Someone on Twitter suggested the term “pareidolia” for when a vague stimulus is perceived as something familiar, so that would be the appropriate for this “optical illusion” of sorts.

      (I know it’s not particularly scientific to link to a Wiki article but here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia)

  • http://www.nigelblackwell.com Nigel Blackwell

    Hi Manon.
    I’m going with photoshop. My argument against being able to travel back in time is that if it were possible we would have seen people from the future. Mind you as Einstein showed, spacetime (if you believe the mathematics) is so seriously weird that even he didn’t believe all his conclusions. Like the conclusion that time comes to a halt inside a black hole … or maybe is spews into another universe …
    Cheers!

    • http://www.manoneileen.com Manon Eileen

      Hi Nigel, thanks a lot for stopping by :)

      How would you know those people were from the future? Perhaps they’re just observing, and they wouldn’t loudly announce they’re from the future…….. You’d never know!

      A black hole that spews into another universe is a fabulous concept :O!

  • http://twitter.com/pathunstrom Patrick Thunstrom

    I don’t think it’s real, but I do agree it’s an awesome idea. I actually saw an overlay of period hieroglyphic images that could have eroded into those shapes at one point.

    • http://www.manoneileen.com Manon Eileen

      Ah! That’s interesting. Could you share those images? I’m curious!

      Thanks for stopping by!