In this long-awaited book on modern forgeries, Professor Manu Ampim systematically documents what he calls "two of the greatest forgeries in the history of ancient African archaeology." For the past 10 years, Professor Ampim has carefully documented that the statues of Prince Ra-Hotep and his wife Nofret in the Cairo Museum are not authentic ancient Egyptian statues, but were in fact created in the 19th century by the hands of modern conspirators.
Prof. Ampim presents a painstakingly
researched argument to show that these famous statues could not have been
created in the great pyramid age around 2600 BCE, and that they were instead
created by modern conspirators in a bold attempt to place a strange pale-skinned
couple in the middle of the fourth dynasty African royal family. Ampim
presents an array of data to show that the Ra-Hotep and Nofret statues
are indeed modern forgeries.
Ampim uses several categories
of evidence to present a well-documented case of modern fraud. For example,
he discusses:
- The historical context
in which the Ra-Hotep and Nofret statues were
supposedly found in the 19th century, a period which has been
considered by some historians as "the age of fakes";
- Comparisons of the
famous "Ra-Hotep statue" with all
other known images of him, as well as comparisons with his family
members and with dozens of other statues from the Old Kingdom;
- The clearly defined
ancient Egyptian artistic rules, which were well established by
the fourth dynasty, and that the forgers of the Ra-Hotep
and Nofret statues were unaware of these definitive rules
as the forged statues, literally from head to toe, are in contradiction
of these rules;
- Other documented forgeries
such as the well-known forged statue of Queen Tetisheri,
which was previously displayed in the British Museum; and
- The systematic and
deliberate defacement and destruction of ancient Egyptian images
on temple walls, in various tombs, and in museums around the world.
Ampim describes this "de-Africanizing" process as "The
Vanishing Evidence of Classical African Civilizations."
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