The Sehel Stele Proof
revelations of Imhotep, with a list
of mineral ingredients for a chemical formula.
On Sehel Island, some kilometers downstream from the city of Aswan on the river Nile, an ancient rock can be seen. It is known as the Famine Stele, and its text appears in hieroglyphs occupying 32 columns, that must be read from right to left. The first columns deal with the famine that occurred in the reign of the Pharaoh Djoser, around 3.000 years B.C, in a period earlier than the reign of Kheops.
The engraved hieroglyphs tell the following story: For years the Nile had periodically flooded its banks, watering the surrounding fields and making them apt for agriculture. In the reign of Djoser, however, the river did not rise. Hence crops were unable to grow, the soil dried up and became sterile, and the result was a great famine throughout the land.
The stele text was originally deciphered in 1889, but due to the limitations of scientific knowledge of the time, that part containing the formula was misunderstood or not properly translated. Now professor Davidovits, thanks to his chemical knowledge, has been able to decode its true meaning.
Professor Davidovits was particularly interested however, not so much in the historical passages on the flood as in those which describe a chemical formula used in ancient times by a priest and sage - the great Imhotep - to fabricate an agglomerated block of stone.
technology
A section of the stele (known by scholars as "The Revelations of Imhotep") contains significant words. One of them is ARI-KAT, a composite of two hieroglyphs which form one single adjective. ARI, is a verb meaning "to work with, to fashion, or to form". It is symbolized by an eye, alongside a seated human figure, which represents the man who does the work.The addition of KAT - two hands held aloft and a semicircle - gives a new meaning: man-made, created by man. ARI-KAT, therefore, is something fashioned by man and, when associated with minerals, something processed or synthetically made.