Does the Tulli Papyrus offer proof of UFOs?
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Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 00:45:00 EDT by Thoth
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For those unfamiliar with the Tulli papyrus, this is reputedly an ancient text dating back to the reign of Thutmose III that disappeared after the death of its owner, Alberto Tulli, the former director of the Egyptian section of the Vatican museum. A second story which may be closer to the truth recounts how Tulli and his brother, Monsignor Augusto Tulli, discovered the papyrus in a Cairo antique shop in 1934.
Because of its high price tag, Professor Tulli could not afford to purchase the papyrus, but the owner of the shop allowed him to copy the text which was then transcribed from hieratic to hieroglyphics with the help of the Director of the Cairo Museum, Abbot E. Drioton.
Since then it has established itself as the Holy Grail of Ufology. The reason for the huge amount of interest in the text is that the Tulli papyrus is often cited as evidence of UFOs appearing in Egypt around 3,000 years ago.
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According to many Egyptologists, judging by the style of the language and grammar it uses, the papyrus is either genuine, or has been forged by someone very knowledgeable in hieratic script and vocabulary. The Tulli text also exhibits numerous parallels to other documents of the Thutmoses III era. It would require a considerable amount of skill on the part of the hoaxer to replicate the language and writing style with such precision.
Whether it is a clever hoax or a genuine text, no one can say for sure.
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UFOs?
One of the reasons the Tulli papyrus is so controversial and what makes it so remarkable is that it records a strange aerial phenomena that occurred around 1000BC. Ufologists often cite this as documented proof of a UFO sighting and the translations below certainly make interesting reading.
"In the year 22, in the third month of winter, in the sixth hour of the day, the scribes of the House of Life noticed a circle of fire that was coming from the sky [...] From the mouth it emitted a foul breath. It had no head. Its body was one rod long and one rod wide.¹ It had no voice. And from that the hearts of the scribes became confused and they threw themselves down on their bellies [...] then they reported the thing to the Pharaoh [...] His Majesty ordered [...] has been examined [...] and he was meditating on what had happened, that it was recorded in the scrolls of the House of the Life. Now after some days had passed, these things became more and more numerous in the skies. Their splendour exceeded that of the sun and extended to the limits of the four angles of the sky [...] High and wide in the sky was the position from which these fire circles came and went. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst. It was after supper. Then these fire circles ascended higher into the sky and they headed toward the south. Fish and birds then fell from the sky. A marvel never before known since the foundation of their land [...] And Pharaoh caused incense to be brought to make peace with Earth² [...] and what happened was ordered to be written in the Annals of the House of Life so that it be remembered for all time forward."
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Or was it an unusual meteorological occurrence?
Even if authentic, it is possible that the text is describing a very rare natural phenomenon. One alternative theory has suggested that the papyrus could be recording a plasma discharge created by electrical instability in the Earth’s atmosphere. This hypothesis is given some credence by the fact that the symbols that mean “circle of fire”, can also be translated as ‘circular object producing heat’.
The symbol used for fire was often used for heat or even energy, and the symbol that is used for circle is usually translated as circular object.
According to Egyptologists, the rest of the translation is perfect and could only be translated in the way it has been.
Secret History
Did something exceptional happen in the skies over Egypt at that time? There are no supporting texts in the public domain to help us reach an absolute conclusion as to what the Tulli papyrus relates to. What the text does make clear is the fact that whatever it was, it was quite out of the ordinary and left those that witnessed it struck with both awe and fear.
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