Tagged “pareidolia”
Dendera Temple of Hathor
How did one of the best-preserved temples in all of Egypt — its painted ceilings, Hathor columns, and zodiac intact — come to be famous instead for a crypt relief that fringe writers insist is an ancient electric lightbulb?
main temple c. 54 BCE–20 CE (Ptolemaic to early Roman; on a much older sacred site) · Dendera, Qena Governorate, EgyptAdded July 2026
Temple of Seti I at Abydos
How did a temple that produced some of the most exquisitely precise painted relief carving in all of Egypt also become the birthplace of the world's most famous 'out-of-place artifact' — and what is really written on the eroded ceiling beam that so many mistake for a helicopter?
c. 1294–1279 BCE (reign of Seti I), completed under Ramesses II, 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom · Abydos, Sohag Governorate, EgyptAdded July 2026