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Tutankhamun scarab and its relationship to outer space

Tutankhamun scarab and its relationship to outer space
 
All the days the entire world was talking about the ancient Egyptian civilization. Since, who was talking about it with great admiration and fascination, and others who talking about it as a divine civilization. From the wonders of this civilizationis the ancient Egyptian scarab, which called the name of Khepri.

In 1922 the researcher Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen's tomb and he found treasures and jewelry which makes the cemetery is the largest tomb in the pharonic history. Among the jewelry he found little scarab made of high hardness glassy rock which is unknown how it made. Carter and other scientists are unable to find out the rock composition and they just said that rock made of rock called Alcalceron, and every time the scientific research on that scarab gave the same result which is that scarab made of unknown rock or at least is rare material.

In 1998 the Italian researcher de Micieli Vincenzo de Michele examined the scarab again, and he doubted the scarab material came from outer space and not a substance can be manufactured on Earth, and already all researches transfer to an agency European Space Agency and NASA space, and there was amazing discovery by a group of scientists, which was the world, including Egyptian Scientist Farouk El-Baz.

What are they discovered?

The rock of the scarab exposed to the temperature of 1800°C and these very high temperatures which can not generate by traditional burn tools. Finally, the conclusion was that rock was remains of lava of a defunct volcano in somewhere in North Africa. But!!! Lava temperature is not more than about 1300°C, and the volcanic rocks characterized by black colour, while the color yellow scarab yellowish-green. So, this rock did not result from a volcanic eruption.

Then the research took different paths and drilling in all countries of the world about this rock material. Already by help geologist Dr. Ali Barakat, they found little of those glassy rocks in the Western Desert of Egypt and in the Libyan desert and they did not find any trace of that material elsewhere on the earth. Then the NASA began focus its efforts on the Western Desert of Egypt and began to study history using scientists and geologists.

What they found was amazing too!!!

They found out that Western desert from 10.000 years ago was green oasis filled by lakes, forests and the settlement areas which filled by civilization. As they returned back by time more and have studied more in-depth in the soil and found that the Western desert since about 40 million years was in bottom of the ocean and this explains the presence of some of the effects of whales in the western desert of Egypt.

But, what happened to the bottom of the ocean? and what the relation of all these scientific fact with this scarab?

After exploring the land of Egypt by NASA and European Space Agency, was discovered in the desert regions of Western subjected to a sudden high temperature and in some cases to 2000°C.

The reason for such high temperatures is the collision of a very large meteorite since about 30 million years and the effect of this shock rapid and sudden melting of sandstone in the center of the earth due to the intense which heat generated, then rapid hardening molten which resulted this type of glassy material.

Also, there are some believes that this meteorite may be the cause of the decline of water for that region of the globe. At the same time, scientists have discovered history that the Western Desert of Egypt which settled by ancient man for agriculture and build his civilization for more than 20.000 years, and they used that rock from the meteorite for jewelry and industry, agricultural tools and the Western desert were until recently (10 thousand years) was an area fertile by lakes and tortured. Anyway ancient Egyptian knew the importance and scarcity of those rocks and began to exploit and use them for decoration and reached us, including some jewelry to some of the kings of the Pharaohs and of course the best known of Tutankhamun.

This limit of NASA and the European Agency research, but did not end with geologists’ researches where they explored the depths of the Western desert and they by used satellite images to study the soil of Western desert.

What they found was amazing!!!!

Since, they found that the Western Desert of Egypt floats on a sea of fresh water which it does not cost a lot of money to dig some areas of the desert and water extraction and transfer the desert again to pretty green oases as it has been since 10 thousand years ago. This is what Dr. Farouk El-Baz by himself when he said in the program Good Morning Egypt nearly in 2003 where he said that Egypt floats on fresh water that can turn the desert into green areas?

Finally, this simple scarab was a theoretical reason which explains the decline of sea water which so-called in Egypt since 30 million years ago. He was also reason to know the geologists the presence of water inside the Western desert and that we could turn that barren desert once again to the beautiful green oases.
 
 
Dr. Manal Ahmed Maher
Head of Scientific Laborateries
Grand Egyptian Museum