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Christian Science Monitor
· World / Middle East
Egyptian archeologists puzzled by recent find
A stone sculpture of man smoking pipe was found in Egyptian tomb. The sculpture looks more like something from American pop culture than from ancient Egypt. This new find has created a huge uproar in the Egyptology community. Most scholars are calling it a fraud.
By Kevin Ranger, Correspondent / September 22, 2010
Cairo
Students on a dig from Johns Hopkins University found the object in a tomb more than 4,000 years old and said that it belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza. One of the students who refused to be identified claimed that the find was authentic. “There is no way anyone could have planted that. The tomb was in pristine condition and had shown no evidence of being disturbed for thousands of years”.
In addition to what appears to be a very modern tobacco pipe. The sculpture has a spiral of 13 symbols on the base. These symbols appear to be modern looking representations of ancient archetypes. The archeologists have been unable to come up with an explanation for these symbols.
Egypt’s archaeology chief Zahi Hawass has neither confirmed nor denied the sculptures existence. He was unavailable to answer the flood of questions coming in from news crews from all over the world.
Most scholars have dismissed the finding outright and have refused to say that is authentic. “If this is authentic I’ll eat my shorts” said noted Egyptologist E. Henry Smith.
The Church of the SubGenius has claimed the head is a representation of the church’s icon J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. “This proves everything we have been saying for over twenty years”, said a church spokesman Ivan Stang. Membership has doubled over night and the Church of the SubGenius has “gone viral”.
"Bob" Dobbs is depicted as a cartoon of a Ward Cleaver-like man smoking a pipe, an image originally seen in one of the many "can you draw this" ads commonly found in the back of comic books in the 1950s and 60s.
The find has also raised a new debate among physicists about the nature of time and space altogether. The cafeteria at the CERN Large Hadron Collider was buzzing with conjecture about how such an object could found in an ancient tomb. “If this turns out to be true it changes everything”, said one physicist off record.
Photos of the statue taken by the students at the dig have been circulating on the web. No official pictures have been released. The object is being held by Egyptian authorities and is not available for inspection by the media.
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