Early Image of Jesus Found in Egyptian Tomb [View all]

[warrior1]

Does this count as religious woo?





http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/early-image-of-jesus-found-in-egyptian-tomb-140430.htm

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In this expedition, he led a team of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, the Catalan Egyptology Society and the University of Montpellier.

“We could be dealing with a very early image of Jesus Christ,” Padró added.

Oxyrhynchus is known for the worship of the Egyptian god of the afterlife Osiris: indeed the underground structure was located in the middle of a processional route that joins the Nile with the Osireion, the temple dedicated to Osiris.

But the painting is from much later, dating from between the sixth and seventh century A.D.

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I love this from the comments section:

Looks like "Live long and prosper" to me.

Young man, obviously short black curly hair, one hand raised. Looks more like Buddha to me.

Very interesting. By "Jesus", they mean someone who lived during the first millenium AD in the Greco-Roman-Mediterranean world. That could only be, about 100 million people. I like how they make it seem like the "Early Christians" too, when they are more or less falling into Islamic times by that point. Basically, it would be like drawing a painting of Christopher Columbus today, and saying it is drawn by the "people who knew and loved him".

It's a selfy!

Wait, how exactly does one make the leap from "young man with curly hair and dressed in a short tunic" to Jesus?