Athanasius Kircher (Founder of Egyptology) & The Map Of Atlantis From Ancient Egypt

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Egyptology
Main article: Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Further information: Egyptology, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian language

The last known example of Egyptian hieroglyphics dates from AD 394, after which all knowledge of hieroglyphics was lost. Until Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion found the key to hieroglyphics in the 19th century, the main authority was the 4th century Greek grammarian Horapollon, whose chief contribution was the misconception that hieroglyphics were "picture writing" and that future translators should look for symbolic meaning in the pictures. The first modern study of hieroglyphics came with Piero Valeriano Bolzani's nonsensical Hieroglyphica (1566), but Kircher was the most famous of the "decipherers" between ancient and modern times and the most famous Egyptologist of his day. In his Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta (1643), Kircher called hieroglyphics "this language hitherto unknown in Europe, in which there are as many pictures as letters, as many riddles as sounds, in short as many mazes to be escaped from as mountains to be climbed". While some of his notions are long discredited, portions of his work have been valuable to later scholars, and Kircher helped pioneer Egyptology as a field of serious study.

Kircher's interest in Egyptology began in 1628 when he became intrigued by a collection of hieroglyphs in the library at Speyer. He learned Coptic in 1633 and published the first grammar of that language in 1636, the Prodromus coptus sive aegyptiacus. Kircher then broke with Horapollon's interpretation of the language of the hieroglyphs with his Lingua aegyptiaca restituta. Kircher argued that Coptic preserved the last development of ancient Egyptian. For this Kircher has been considered the true "founder of Egyptology", because his work was conducted "before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone rendered Egyptian hieroglyphics comprehensible to scholars". He also recognised the relationship between the hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts.

Frontispiece to Kircher's Oedipus Ægyptiacus; the Sphinx, confronted by Kircher's learning, admits he has solved her riddle. Between 1650 and 1654, Kircher published four volumes of "translations" of hieroglyphs in the context of his Coptic studies. However, according to Steven Frimmer, "none of them even remotely fitted the original texts". In Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Kircher argued under the impression of the Hieroglyphica that ancient Egyptian was the language spoken by Adam and Eve, that Hermes Trismegistus was Moses, and that hieroglyphs were occult symbols which "cannot be translated by words, but expressed only by marks, characters and figures." This led him to translate simple hieroglyphic texts now known to read as dd Wsr ("Osiris says") as "The treachery of Typhon ends at the throne of Isis; the moisture of nature is guarded by the vigilance of Anubis".

Although his approach to deciphering the texts was based on a fundamental misconception, Kircher did pioneer serious study of hieroglyphs, and the data which he collected were later used by Champollion in his successful efforts to decode the script. Kircher himself was alive to the possibility of the hieroglyphs constituting an alphabet; he included in his proposed system (incorrect) derivations of the Greek alphabet from 21 hieroglyphs.[citation needed] However, according to Joseph MacDonnell, it was "because of Kircher's work that scientists knew what to look for when interpreting the Rosetta stone". Another scholar of ancient Egypt, Erik Iverson, concluded:

It is therefore Kircher's incontestable merit that he was the first to have discovered the phonetic value of an Egyptian hieroglyph. From a humanistic as well as an intellectual point of view Egyptology may very well be proud of having Kircher as its founder.
Kircher was also actively involved in the erection of obelisks in Roman squares, often adding fantastic "hieroglyphs" of his own design in the blank areas that are now puzzling to modern scholars.

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[TehLawnmowerMan]

@5T4RSCREAM233 Of all the possible sites for Atlantis, I believe your find has the greatest chance of being the true Atlantis.

[5T4RSCREAM233]

@TehLawnmowerMan Thank you

[ST3PRODUCTIONS]

@5T4RSCREAM233 I am curious if you can recheck your Google map for the location.. Google just did some updating to the map system and i just wonder if their is a conspiracy to cover up your new found truth which is the most compelling evidence find of the millenia..they claim discovery of Atlantis corrected!!! i will message you the link privately to the article

[5T4RSCREAM233]

@ST3PRODUCTIONS I have a map link in the description. It works and is correct.

[TehLawnmowerMan]

Interesting find. One problem though... Plato described Atlantis as being a continent that was bigger than Asia. What if Kircher's map was to scale? Just a theory.

[5T4RSCREAM233]

@TehLawnmowerMan No it is not to scale. Plato described that but then gave dimensions (370km x 555km) which is obviously a lot less and fits to scale with what was found.

[benmacabre]

Be careful of this guy, he is preaching new age nonsense which is against Jesus Christ, who is the only truth. The 'we are gods' nonsense is the same thing that brought about the fall of man in the first place, buying into this scam again will cost you eternity.

[zendood]

with regards to kirchers map of atlantis. i think the two islands on the right of atlantis mark any two caribbean island. They indicate to the navigator of the ship that the first land they hit is not america...but islands and then america...

[CARROTTOPSK83R]

I believe you!!

[siriusstargoddess]

i think you discovered atlantis. i didnt quite understand if you explained why the map was upside down. i have a tendency to hear words in the morning when i wake up. today it was about the earth being upside down and the sun rising in the west. i found this: watch?v=xkhQeCZ3eLo

[Geronemoable]

em wikipedia ;)

[Geronemoable]

Not a good point... If i understud corectly, the Atlantis landmass corelates almoust perfect with the map, but the two island's don't? how can this be??? what if idland's are correct and the landmass is interpreted wrong??? try this link an rotate the picture 30 degrees to the left.. /wiki/File:Mer%D1%81ator_north­_pole_1595.jpg

[diannafreespirit]

It seems that the two land masses near the island have a very pyramid like shape.

[Godtaughtmehow]

Very cool. Great job. Peace.