5,000-year-old "nativity scene" reportedly found in Egypt
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/5000-year-old-nativity-scene-reportedly-found-in-egypt/ar-BBxv6b3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignoutItalian researchers may have discovered the oldest nativity scene ever found, predating Christian nativity art by about three millennia, according to the travel and exploration website Seeker.
The rock painting depicts a newborn between parents, a star in the east, and two animals. It was discovered on the ceiling of a small cavity in the Egyptian Sahara desert, Seeker reported. Researchers believe it dates to the Neolithic or Stone Age.
“It’s a very evocative scene which indeed resembles the Christmas nativity. But it predates it by some 3,000 years,” geologist Marco Morelli, director of the Museum of Planetary Sciences in Prato, Italy, told Seeker. The site reports that Morelli and his team discovered the rock art in 2005, but only now are revealing their findings under the title “Cave of the Parents.”
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I am not prone to jumping to quick conclusions. I found the referring article has an uncropped pic that shows more detail
It is very primitive. I see 2 large humanoid figures; one perhaps female and the other male. There's very little difference between them. The 3 figure is like them but smaller and is levitating above and between them. Off to the right is a dot about the size of the adult figure's head. Is that supposed to be a star?
There is a protrusion of stone above this pictograph. Above that ledge is something that looks like a sauce pan with a handle. It maybe a bison the Seeker article calls it a lion, hard to tell without seeing from a better perspective. To the lower right is something I cannot make out. It appears that the same stone flaking that decapitated the "woman" was at work here.
This may be an image of a mother, father and child or it may be something else altogether. There is noway to know without more information.
http://www.seeker.com/5000-year-old-nativity-scene-found-2161058490.html?ftag=MSF0951a18
"... the Virgin Birth story was not new when the Messiah was born. Mythology is full of such stories. An Egyptian Virgin Birth story, told about 2,000 years before the Messiah, had many details identical with those found in the Gospel accounts. ...
"...In Egypt, long before the Christian era, and before any of its doctrine was conceived, the Egyptian people had several messengers of God, who were conceived through Immaculate Conception. Horus was known to all of ancient Egypt as having been born of the virgin Isis and his conception and birth was considered one of the three great mysteries or mystical doctrines of the Egyptian religion..."
is at least in part because civilizations tended to grow in river valleys, where the water is, and where flooding is pretty common: Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus, the Chinese great rivers.
Well that, and the fact that societies were not as insular as we tend to think. Stories got traded like goods did. Good stories are likely to travel well.
That's why I call Jesus a Greek myth.
by way of the "holy spirit."
saviors born in caves, including the cave in the story of Jesus' birth, and the 'cave' of his entombment. It seems almost every year about this time, we have a review of sun-god myths and womb to tomb circle of life symbolism. 
...it's the earliest known depiction of two people playing Backgammon... or maybe Badminton...
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