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The Stone

That Changed Egypt

Archaeologists discover a stone with carvings that
tells a lot about Egypt that we didn’t know about.
On April 1st of 2019, archaeologist John Kent
made a discovery that would change Egyptology
A picture of the carvings found in the stone. *Photo courtesy: John Kenticture of the carvings found in the stone. *Photo courtesy: John Kent
forever. It has attracted the eyes of many people A p
around the world. Their discovery was an ancient However, though archaeologists respect all these
stone, about 100 kgs in weight, that had a ton of theories and conceptions, they believe that this
Egyptian hieroglyphic carvings on it. To many, was too good to be a coincidence. They are plan-
this may seem like a common discovery that can ning to stop all excavation work for around a year
be found all over Egypt. However, what makes and focus only on this particular inscription and
these carvings different from other Egyptian try their best to understand the message. Kent
carvings is what message it contains. said “This stone inscription could really change
Egyptology forever and even change people’s
Primarily, it took Kent and his team of trustwor- thoughts and opinions on Egypt.
thy archaeologists a lot of time to decipher what
was written in the Egyptian stone. However, Similarly, archaeologists had never found any
when they did decipher it one day the message in other inscriptions that associated Tutankhamun
the stone shocked them.There were many things with Hatshepsut. When the news spread, people
written in the stone about ancient egypt . The thought that this was all a joke as the date when
message went somewhat like this: the stone was discovered was the first of April.
Even the Egyptian government would not believe
‘All hail Tutankhamun and Hatshepsut. The this until the stone was presented in front of them.
pharaohs of the gods. The children of Re’. This
was unbelievable. Archaeologists never even Lastly, this stone has a lot of significance as we
dreamed that Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh, and will be able to know a completely different part of
Tutankhamun, the son of Akhenhaten, would be Egyptian history that was never known to man-
associated in any way. kind before.

As expected, this created a new path for Egyptol- Egyptologists are trying their best to find more in-
ogists to follow and know about Egypt. However, formation about this unexpected association with
there have been many theories that this was just Tutankhamun and Hatshepsut. This is a challenge
a coincidence and it is due to the fact that Tut- that they had never faced before so they are trying
ankhamun was an important pharaoh as he re- to find more strategies on how to decrypt the an-
stored all the older gods that his father had de- cient writings. They are slowly but surely finding
stroyed and Hatshepsut because she was one of out more about it and this mystery will be solved
the only female pharaohs and had helped a lot in soon.
developing Egypt. D Abhani Gorkhalee