I recently recieved an email attachment that stated some person had discovered Gold Wheels from off Chariots in the Red Sea. I doubt the find and wondered if anyone had seen or heard of such a thing from a science or Archaeology paper.
Is there a way to find out if the Egytians used Gold for wheels?
Monavis
There’s a good write-up over at snopes. This is a rather new email going around, and so far it seems to be based on a real discovery, but you should note that the wheels are “gilt” and not solid gold. The wheels were wooden, and then covered with a thin layer of gold.
This version of the story might be recent, but this exact claim has been doing the rounds for many, many years - and it’s been nothing more than unsubstantiated claims made by the same people who claim they know where the Ark of the Covenant is, and that Noah’s Ark has been found on mount Ararat.
Here is an earlier incarnation, for example, but I’m pretty sure this story has been circulating for decades.
Stories telling of finding parts of the Pharaoh’s chariot are several hundred years old. I am certain I’ve read it in a 1700’s text, and I’m also fairly sure that Mackay wrote about it in the 1800’s in his introduction (as an example of extraordinary delusions that folks have no trouble buying into.)
Er, unlikely to say the least.
About the most positive thing that can be said about the “discovery” is that it’s possibly the least outrageous claim made by Ron Wyatt, given that he also claimed to have found:
[ul]Noah’s Ark[/ul]
[ul]Noah’s tomb[/ul]
[ul]The site of the Cruxifixion[/ul]
[ul]Jesus’s tomb[/ul]
[ul]The Ark of the Covenant[/ul]
[ul]The tablets with the 10 Commandments on them[/ul]
[ul]The Tower of Babel[/ul]
[ul]Sodom and Gomorrah[/ul]
without ever really producing any convincing evidence. Not to mention:
[ul]A sample of Jesus’s blood, with chromosomal anomalies proving that he’d had a Virgin Birth[/ul]
Wyatt was long a notorious figure in biblical archaeological circles for trotting out such wild stuff. Even some sympathisers concluded he was utterly delusional and Answers in Genesis, of all people, dismissed his claims.
Thanks for that info. I answered the question rather quickly and had to run to work. That’ll teach me.