Egiptul Antic

08/02/2024

Goddess Nephthys with her outspread wings, depicted on the second-largest shrine within Tutankhamun's tomb.

Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/goddess-nephthys-with-her-outspread-wings/

06/02/2024

View inside of the Egyptian Museum of Turin Italy

06/02/2024

Golden cuff bracelet of Prince Nemareth (Nimlot B)
22nd Dynasty, c. 940 B.C.
Sa el-Hagar, Sais, Egypt.
British Museum. EA14595
Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/prince-nemareth/

06/02/2024

Canopic shrine of Tutankhamun on gilt wooden sledge, tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 18th Dynasty pharaoh who came to the throne at the age of 8 or 9 (reigned c. 1334-1325 BC).

06/02/2024

Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass
Hellenistic Period, 3rd–2nd century B.C.
Materials: Gold, Silver & Glass
Met Museum. 1995.539.11a, b

06/02/2024

El Trono Dorado de Tutankamon 😱😱

06/02/2024

Scarab necklace found in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It dates to the 14th century BC.
It is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

05/02/2024

Inlaid Gold Bracelet of King Psusennes I
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Psusennes I, c. 1047-1001 B.C.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 85160
Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/inlaid-gold-bracelet-of-psusennes-i/

05/02/2024

Abu Simbel (6):
Between the two sets of colossal statues outside the Great Temple at Abu Simbel stands a statue of the god Re-Horakhty—to whom the temple is principally dedicated—flanked by a relief of Rameses II on either side.
Re-Horakhty ('Re-flying-high-within-the-horizons') was a falcon-headed combination of the sun god Re and the god Horus (the son of Isis and Osiris) from whom all the kings of Egypt were believed to be descended. Re-Horakhty was essentially the midday representation of Re, when the sun god was at his most powerful in his daily journey across the sky.
In his right hand, Re-Horakhty holds the jackal headed sign for power ('user'), and, in his left, the figure of the goddess of truth, justice and cosmic order, Maat. The ancient Egyptians were fond of word puzzles and this one spells out the first part of the name that Rameses II took when he became king, User-maat-Re ('the justice of Re is powerful' (in full 'Usermaatre-Setpenre'—adding 'chose of Re')).
The principal duty of an Egyptian king was to maintain cosmic order ('maat') in the face of chaos, not least by making offerings to the gods and, here, either side of Re-Horakhty, Rameses II offers an image of Maat to the central figure.
Yet his offering is not only to the central figure in that Rameses—who was certainly no retiring wallflower—is also effectively making the offering to his own name.
The theme of Rameses II's divine ambitions will be explored further as we enter the interior of the Great Temple next Friday.
(Photo: mine; If you are enjoying my posts about Abu Simbel, please consider purchasing my book 'Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples'.)

05/02/2024

Broad Collar

New Kingdom

ca. 1479–1425 B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

20/12/2023

28/02/2023

Tutankhamun's Golden pendant. Inlaid with semiprecious stones and colored glass. The central element of the composition is a winged scarab with a yellow stone, which grasps on one side a lotus and on the other a papyrus flower, flanked by two uraei (cobras.). A gold frame outlines the main composition and supports pendants of lotus flowers, papyrus. A slim solar boat rests upon the front feet of the scarab and carries the Udjat eye of Horus, flanked by two cobras. The Udjat eye is surmounted by a lunar crescent of gold and a silver disk with images of the gods, Thoth and Re-Horakhty, crowning the central figure of the king. From the tomb treasures of Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922 - 1923. Tutankhamun was an Egyptian King of the 18th dynasty (ruled c. 1332–1323 BC).

28/02/2023

One of Tutankhamun's thrones

28/02/2023

Cairo museum

06/01/2023

Head of Queen Tiye 💕❤️💕
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1355 BC.
From Medinet el-Ghurob / now at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany

Tiye was the Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten and grandmother of Tutankhamun. She is wearing the double-feathered crown with the sun-disc and horns of Hathor.

06/01/2023

Temple of Nefertari, The Small Temple of Hathor at Abu Simbel Egypt

06/01/2023

View into the temple of Dendera, Egypt.

📷Beshoy Nagib

06/01/2023

The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut of Dynasty XVIII (c.1478/72-1458 B.C.E.) Thebes - Luxor

06/01/2023

Have a nice afternoon
Temple of Isis at Philae, Aswan ♥️🇪🇬