Talk:Hamunaptra

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[edit] Fictional?

The IMDb trivia for The Mummy says "The City of Hamunaptra actually has never been found by any archaeologist." While that's certainly true if the city is fictional, the implication of that line is that it is written of in actual excavated texts or is rumored in some way. Anyone know if that's true? A quick google search reveals 87,800 results, they can't all be in reference to a fictional city just from this one movie. Elijya 02:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

See http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/11/2006/4/ or http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/112.200604.kuehner.teachingindia.html

which state that.......... "RICHARD H. DAVIS of Bard College suggested five "big moments" in the development of South Asia that are teachable in high school. The first was from 2600-1900 BCE, when urban civilization arose in the Indus Valley, only to be entirely lost. Hamunaptra (City of the Dead Man) was found in the 1850s when British engineers building railroad tracks in the area pillaged it for bricks. Archeologists began serious excavations there in the 1920s and realized they'd discovered a lost civilization, a complex, literate, urbanized, centrally organized society that covered an area larger than present-day Pakistan. Raw materials found there indicate that the civilization had long-distance trade with Mesopotamia. Why did it end between 1900-1700 BCE? One of the earliest hypotheses is conquest by a new group of horse-riding invaders, but no evidence of this has been found."

Not sure about the Indus Valley? Then read what the British Museum has to say at http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/indus/home_set.html ............... "The name Indus Valley Civilization is a little misleading. Some of the Indus Valley sites are a long distance from the Indus river and the river itself forms a floodplain rather than lying in a valley."

The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization as the first site found was the one at Harappa. Some Indian scholars also refer to the civilization as the Indus-Sarasvati Civilization after the name of another important river in India.

Yes, but this references a civilization in SOUTH ASIA. Is there such a place in Egypt or at least Africa? Elijya 20:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)