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Related: About this forumA cave painting found in Egyptian Sahara depicts a nativity scene 3,000 years before Jesus' Birth
5,000-year-old rock art depicting the oldest nativity scene ever found has been found in Egypts Sahara Desert: A newborn between parents, two animals, and a star in the east.
Reminiscent of the Bibles account of Jesuss birth, the prehistoric painting predates the biblical account by around 3,000 years.
A team of Italian researchers found the painting inside a cavity, which has subsequently been dubbed the Cave of the Parents, in the Egyptian Sahara during field expeditions between the Gilf al-Kebir plateau and the Nile Valley.
A newborn between parents, a star in the east, and two animals are depicted in the rock painting. According to Seeker.com, it was discovered on the ceiling of a small cavity in the Egyptian Sahara desert. Researchers believe it dates to the Neolithic or Stone Age.
The discovery was made an expedition between the Gilf Kebir Plateau and the Nile Valley
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A cave painting found in Egyptian Sahara depicts a nativity scene 3,000 years before Jesus' Birth (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Dec 2023
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i guess the egyotian civil liberties union got on pharoah's case about that one!
rampartc
Dec 2023
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rampartc
(5,835 posts)1. i guess the egyotian civil liberties union got on pharoah's case about that one!
tanyev
(45,056 posts)2. Interesting.
That reminded me of the Isis and Horus precedent for the Madonna and child paintings and statues.
sinkingfeeling
(53,640 posts)3. Almost everything in the Bible was taken from other sources.