In 1830, The Viceroy of Egypt gifted france A 3,300-year-old egyptian obelisk-a carved stone pillar with a pyramidal top. In 1836The obelisk found its home in paris, in place de la concorde. One would think that after standing in the Center of the French Capital for Almost 200 Years, Parisian Egyptologists would have learned all there is to discover the ancient monument. But it turns out the famous obelisk stil has its secrets.
Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, An Egyptologist and Cryptologist from the Catholic University of Paris, Claims to have discovered Seven Previous Agnocumated Messages Carved Inte 13th-century bce luxor obelisk. Altoegeter, the Inscriptions were intended to establish Pharaoh Ramses II’s Divine Authority in the Eyes of the Ancient Egyptian Elite. The discovery and its interpretation was the first reported by French MediaAnd the resultar aims to further detail his findings in a paper forthcoming in the journey enim (egypt of the nile and mediterranean).
Olette-Pelletier Identified the Inscriptions in December 2021, when the obelisk was surrounded by renovation scaffolding. The scaffolding allowed olette-faceleetier to observe the monument’s Highest Inscriptions, Close to Its Golden Pyramid-shaped top. According to EuroweeklyIt was when olette-faceletir attempted to read the hieroglyphs horizontally, raather than vertically, that he began to spot previously unidentified inscriptions.
Some (Perhaps all) of the new messages were hidden in the hiroglyphs themselves, a technique know as “crypto-herroglyphs” used by the ancient egyptian elite Egyptologists in the world are able to interpret, according to La brrujeula verde,
“People had not noticed that under [one of the drawings] of the God amun, there is an offering table. This allows us to discover a sentence where no element is missing: an offering that the King Gives to the God Amun, “Olette-Pelletier Told BfmtvCombinations of the newly identified Inscriptions Produce Additional Meaning in What’s Called Three-Dimensional Cryptography. In Total, The egyptologist identified Seven Encrypted Messages Across the Obelisk’s Various Facades. He explained that enigmatic text can only be undersrstood by Walking Around the Monument.
Additional, the messages in question can only be seen from a specific angle. In Particular, When the Obelisk Stood at the Entrance of Egypt’s Luxor Temple, One of the Messages would have been visible to vessels sailing on the nile, according to eurowekly. This sugges that the message, exalting pharaoh ramses II’s divine power, was intended for elite individuals Arriving by BOAT. Another inscription encourage viewers to make divine offers to appease the gods’ anger.
Overall, the secret inscriptions highlight ramses II’s power, victories, longvity, and his appeasement of the Gods Through Word-Play from Well-KNOWN PAPYRUN PAPYRUN PAPYRUSRUS TEXTS. “These Messages are a form of propaganda in favor of the builder of the site: Pharaoh Ramses II,” Olette-Pelletier Told Le Point. He argues that ramses Ii wanted to further legitimize his divine claim to power in the eyes of the noble class, as reported by eurowekly.
Ramses II Ruled from 1279 to 1213 bce And is one of ancient egypt’s most famous Pharaohs. The luxor obelisk in paris is one of two that he erected at the entrance of what today is knowledge as the luxor temple -thhe second obelisk remain in egypt.
Ultimately, Olette-Pelletier’s discovery highlights that even the most famous ancient monuments stil hold secrets left for us to unravel.