Ancient Egypt was an amazing civilization that has taught us so much about the old world,
but many of its most interesting elements remain shrouded in mystery. How were the pyramids
built? Why were they so technologically advanced compared to other empires? A bombshell discovery
alleges that the truth might literally be out of this world. Today we’re diving into
the Tulli Papyrus: AKA the first ever written account of an alien encounter.
Most of us are familiar with the major wonders of Ancient Egypt; the massive pyramids, elaborate
underground tombs, and mummification rituals have been fascinating people all over the
world for centuries. But despite all we know about their society, there is so much left
unanswered. However, an ancient scroll known as the Tulli Papyrus may be the key to unlocking
the truth.
In 1933, Alberto Tulli was visiting an antique shop in Egypt when he came across an interesting
scroll. Tulli was the director of the Egyptian segment of the Vatican museum at the time,
so he was well-versed in Egyptian history and knew that he was looking at something
special. But the papyrus scroll was too expensive for him to purchase, so he simply made a copy
of the text. His copy was later recopied, and this version substituted the original
hieratic script with hieroglyphs.
Tulli was amazed at what he found. If the text is accurate, it is the first record of
alien aircraft ever written down. Here is a translation of the scroll written by R.
Cedric Leonard:
In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day [...] among the scribes
of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no
head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odor. Its body was one rod in length and one
rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty's house. Their heart became confused
through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the king, to report it. His
Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty
meditated on all these events which were now going on.
After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined
in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four
supports of heaven [...] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks.
The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal
when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles
rained down from the sky: a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country.
And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of
the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the
Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] for ever.
This old style of writing can be kind of hard to follow, so let’s break it all down. The
scroll starts off by describing a giant “fiery disk” in the sky. The writing says that
it was “one rod in length and one rod in width,” and a rod translates to 150 feet.
That means that this disk was absolutely huge, and there’s no way it could have been a
bird or any other animal.
Next, the people who first saw the disk got scared and confused, taking cover and dropping
to the ground for safety. And when the sighting was reported to the king, he ordered that
the ancient scrolls in the House of Life should be consulted to tell them what to do.
Then, after researching for several days even more disks appeared in the sky. And the scroll
says that they shined brighter than even the sun. So then the king assembled his army and
got ready for a battle. But instead of attacking the Egyptians, the disks just rose higher
into the sky and started dropping fish “and other volatiles” onto them.
After the fish started raining down from the sky, the king ordered his servants to bring
incense as an offering to the god Amun-Re, and for them to record the event so that it
would be remembered forever. Unfortunately we don’t have any idea about what happened
next. Did the strange disks disappear forever? Was there further contact? As of today we
simply don’t know.
When Tulli made his discovery, it instantly became one of the most important pieces of
Egyptian history ever found. If the copy of the scroll is accurate, it changes everything
we know about the ancient world. But skeptics say that there are some major holes in the
story that make it hard to believe.
The biggest issue with the Tulli Papyrus is that the original scroll has never been seen
by anyone other than Tulli himself. He seems to be a pretty reputable source, but the fact
that other experts haven’t been able to examine it means that we don’t know for
certain that it even exists. Plus, even if it is real we don’t know how accurate his
copy of the text was. And not only that, but his copy was then recopied into an entirely
different language. So the version of the story we have today is a translation of a
translation of a copy of a scroll that may or may not exist… confused yet?
Even though the origins of the papyrus are a bit shaky, that hasn’t stopped people
from believing it. The US Air Force even investigated the alleged scroll in 1968. They asked the
Vatican for the original scroll, but the Vatican responded by saying: “The Papyrus Tulli
is not the property of the Vatican Museum. It has disappeared and is no longer traceable.”
And later, a Vatican Egyptologist named Gianfranco Nulli later told the US military that the
whole story was probably fake.
So we don’t know for sure that the original scroll is real, but the Tulli Papyrus isn’t
the only ancient record of extraterrestrial encounters. On April 14, 1561, a German town
was terrorized by what they described as a “dreadful apparition.” The entire story
was recorded in an early news report called a broadsheet, which was like a newspaper carved
into wood.
In the morning of April 14, 1561, at daybreak, between 4 and 5 a.m., a dreadful apparition
occurred on the sun… At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular
arcs… And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there
stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color.
The reporter then describes more shapes appearing in the sky and says that they “started to
fight among themselves” and were flying around all over the sky. According to the
report, the “battle” lasted for over an hour. And afterwards, the flaming shapes crashed
to the ground and burned away.
And just five years after this sighting, another one appeared in Switzerland. According to
a pamphlet from 1566, the sun began to “weep tears of blood” and the sky went black.
There were strange shapes in the sky that “chattered as if they led a fight,” and
when it was over they fell to the ground and burned just like the objects in Germany five
years before.
There are even more strange sightings like these throughout history, but we can’t talk
about them all in one video. But even among all of the crazy stories about unknown objects
in the sky, the Tulli Papyrus still stands out.
Even though experts have been studying ancient Egypt for centuries at this point, there’s
still so much we don’t know about it. They had access to knowledge and technology that
was ahead of any other civilization, but we don’t understand how. Their doctors were
performing open heart surgery before most people even knew how to treat a broken bone.
No one else constructed anything even close to the great pyramids, and that’s not even
to mention the fact that they managed to build giant temples inside of mountains.
But that’s not to say that we can give all the credit to an alien visitor who may have
passed along some knowledge. It might simply be that the ancient Egyptians put more of
a focus on science and technology than other empires. Regardless, there’s still a lot
to learn about this amazing civilization. And hopefully future discoveries will reveal
the truth behind the Tulli Papyrus and the other great Egyptian mysteries. But who knows?
Maybe Tulli was right, and the Egyptians were the first civilization to ever have contact
with sources outside of our world.
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