Tea at Trianon: 4,000-Year-Old Discovery in Egypt

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, January 18, 2019

4,000-Year-Old Discovery in Egypt

From FSSPX News:

The tomb of a priest that dates back over 4 millennia – possibly to the time Joseph arrived in Egypt – has been discovered on the site of Saqqara, near Cairo, by an archaeological expedition, announced the Egyptian authorities on December 16, 2018. The tomb of the priest named “Wahtye,” dates back to the 5th dynasty (between 2500 and 2300 B.C.), under the reign of Neferirkare, according to the Ministry of Antiquities. The tomb is “exceptionally well preserved, colored, with sculptures on the inside” and “belongs to a high-ranking priest”, explained the Egyptian minister of Antiquities, Khaled el-Enany, to the AFP.

The tomb contains “scenes depicting the tomb’s owner with his mother, his wife and family, and a number of alcoves with large colored statues of the deceased man and his family,” he added. In November, on the same site of Saqqara, the Egyptian authorities revealed the discovery of seven tombs, four of which dated back over 6,000 years, by the same Egyptian archaeological expedition. The scientists found mummified beetles and cats. The dates of the tomb are those of troubled times that historians on the Egypt of the Pharaohs call the First Intermediary Period and that marked the end of the Old Empire. (Read more.)