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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Additionally, the messages in question can only be seen from a specific angle. In particular, when the obelisk stood at the entrance of Egypt’s Luxor Temple, one of the messages would have been visible to vessels sailing on the Nile

It's a tall structure (based on the people in the photos), stood by the Nile (presumably far from the yearly-flooding banks), with an inscription near the top that is "secret" due to the addition of one little picture of a table below the god. Did the elite have super-eyesight? I don't recall any articles mentioning telescopes. Or was this a, "You glanced at it even if you didn't see it, so it's true" thing, like an Apple end-user agreement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And the secret message is "I, Ramses II, am buddies with the gods, and all around awesome guy." Why keep that a secret?