If you’ve ever watched Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, you’ve probably seen a picture of the hieroglyph above. It’s often referenced as evidence by ancient astronaut theorists as proof that ancient Egyptians at least saw things, thousands of years ago,  like our modern flying machines.

And you can see why. The top-center figure bears a striking resemblance to our modern helicopters, including a top blade, cockpit, and rear blade. Many people have now seen this hieroglyph on TV and the internet, but most don’t know much about it.

As the story goes, in 1848, a group of archaeologists working in Abydos, which is a few hundred miles south of Cairo, Egypt discovered the strange inscription on a ceiling beam in the temple built a few thousand years ago by Pharaoh Seti. The inscription was carefully copied and brought back to Europe, but was eventually dismissed and deemed inexplicable by Egyptologists.

And nothing much more was said about them.

But the very nature of the strange depictions wouldn’t let them die out completely. People kept noticing them. Tourists in the 1990’s who visited Abydos kept photographing them and showing them to other people where they were eventually picked up by the internet and ancient astronaut theorists worldwide. And when the popular TV show Ancient Aliens latched onto it, the rest was history. It was considered clear proof that ancient Egyptians had knowledge of modern flying machines like we know today.

But Egyptologists continue to explain them away. And after many years of collecting extensive information of ancient Egypt and its mysteries, they have every right to do so.  They maintain that the figures were created in this way simply by the re-facing and re-carving of the original stonework over time. Referred to as palimpsests by Egyptologists, some weathering is believed to have occurred and some of the stone has fallen away leaving something that’s nothing like the original inscriptions. They explained that these were common events with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and that it’s ridiculous to entertain any other theories about it.  Particularly notions about ancient helicopters.

And of course, we should respect their research and their educated opinions about it. They may be exactly correct in their assessments.

But the one thing that bothers me about this is, that all this weathering, re-facing, re-carving, and erosion over these thousands of years has left a curiously detailed depiction of what looks exactly like a modern helicopter. What are the odds of that happening in exactly this way? And since we have so many other strange but fairly obvious-appearing depictions of odd flying craft in all kinds of ancient art, is it SO ridiculous to believe that this could be something similar?

I personally don’t think so. I don’t believe it’s ever wise to dismiss something as being ridiculous simply because it doesn’t fit with the perceived ideas of science at this moment.  But the debate will likely rage on for a long time. I guess we’ll all have to decide for ourselves.


Interior of the Temple of Seti in Abydos, Egypt.


For more information like this, check out one of my previous post
Ancient Alien Contact


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