Egypt, then history

06/01/2022

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23/10/2021

A limestone statue of Minister Maya and his wife Merit, where Maya was a minister of treasury in the era of King Tutankhamun and Horemheb

New kingdom 18th dynasty

Leiden Museum (Netherlands)
تمثال من الحجر الجيرى للوزير مايا وزوجته ميريت حيث كان مايا وزير للخزانة فى عصر الملك توت عنخ آمون وحور محب

الدولة الحديثة الأسرة 18

متحف ليدن ( هولندا )
Egypt, then history

23/10/2021

foldable bed that turns into a chair more than 1300 years BC 😳😳

The bed belongs to King Tutankhamun. It is a wooden bed of its natural size, with a length of 180 cm. Tut used it on his travels as a seat or as a bed to lie on. and he is dying

20/08/2021

Sky goddess Nut, holding Ra Horakhty and a solar disk in the tomb of Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings. It has been opened since ancient times, and the colors are still bright and vibrant by the ancient craftsmen.

02/05/2021

The beginning of the celebration of the pharaohs on that holiday officially dates back to the year 2700 BC. ... The name “Sham El-Nessim” with this name refers to the Pharaonic word “Shamo”, which is an ancient hieroglyphic word with two images. Create the world as they imagined

22/04/2021

(Hem Iono) is the greatest engineer in human history, designer and architect of the Great Pyramid.

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22/04/2021

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22/04/2021

The creativity of the ancient Egyptians 😳😳

22/04/2021

Ahmose-Nefertari statue

Queen Ahmose-Nefertari was one of the most influential and respected women in Egyptian history. This wooden statue shows her standing with her right arm extended on her side. He carries left to chest, to hold the now lost lotus flower. The color of the skin is related to rebirth: black is the color of the most fertile earth.

The New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1562-1495 BC. In the Egyptian Museum in Turin.

18/04/2021

Grandfather, grandson and feelings are the same and the difference is thousands of years 🇪🇬

06/03/2021

A perspective on just how immense the Great Pyramid of Giza truly is.

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03/03/2021

Mohamed from Alexandria 2021 🇪🇬
King Akhenaten 1330 BC

محمد من الإسكندرية سنة 2021
وجده أخناتون سنة 1330 قبل الميلاد
تشابه طبيعي بين الجد وحفيده.

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02/03/2021

Hieroglyphs were used as an official writing style for recording events on monuments and religious texts on temples, tomb walls, statues, engraved stone tablets, and tablets.

01/03/2021

Restoration of King Akhenaten statue, Luxor, Egypt,

الشبه كبير بين الحفيد والجد ❤️🇪🇬
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26/02/2021

Did you know?

Tutankhamun was so frail that he probably needed a cane to walk. He was suffering from a particularly nasty bout of necrosis in his left foot. No less than 139 canes were found in his tomb.

When his mummy was examined it was also discovered that he was carrying not one but multiple strains of Malaria. The most ancient evidence of the disease ever recorded.

He was found to have a fracture to his leg, an unusual cavity where his ribs should have been, a cleft pallet, a slightly enlongated skull, and his heart had been removed during the mummification process.

That’s quite a long list of ailments.

22/02/2021

Hundreds of visitors witness the passage of the sun over the Abu Simbel temple

18/02/2021

The Famine Stela
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It is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphics on a 2,5 m high and 3 m wide block of granite located on Sehel Island, Egypt.

The stela tells the story of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser (ca. 2686 BC–ca. 2613 BC).

It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, king Ptolemy V (205 – 180 BC) about 2200 years ago.

The top part of the stele depicts three Egyptian deities and in front of them Djoser carrying offerings.

The text describes how the king is upset and worried as the land has been in the grip of a drought and famine for seven years and how the Egyptians are suffering as a result of the drought and that they are desperate and breaking the laws of the land.

At the time of the first translation of the stela, it was thought that the story of a seven-year-famine was connected to the biblical story in Genesis 41(Joseph).

More recent investigations have shown that a seven-year famine was a common thing to nearly all cultures of the Near East: a Mesopotamian legend also speaks about a seven-year-famine and in the well known Gilgamesh-Epos the god Anu gives a prophecy about a famine for seven years.

Another Egyptian tale talks about a long-lasting drought appears in the so-called “Book of the Temple”.

16/02/2021

The ancient Egyptians helped a cow to give birth

15/02/2021

Second Sphinx.

There is a popular hypothesis that the Great Sphinx of Giza was actually one of two. A sister Sphinx has been rumoured to exist at some point during ancient times.

Apparently, according to the Greeks, Romans, Muslims and even the ancient Egyptians themselves, a second huge Sphinx was located on the opposite bank of The Nile.

This placement is thought to represent the invisible dividing line between Northern and Southern Egypt.

Since these kinds of monumental structures usually appeared in pairs it isn’t unreasonable to think that there was once a second Sphinx.

Where is it now?

If it did exist then it was either deliberately destroyed by invading forces or deconstructed by the Egyptians so that they could reuse the material in newer building projects.

So far, archeologists have yet to find any evidence of its existence.

15/02/2021

إعادة بناء وجه ملكة الأسرة الثامنة عشر في مصر القديمة ، نفرتيتي (1370 - 1330 قبل الميلاد).
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Face reconstruction of the queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, Nefertiti (c. 1370- c. 1330 BC).
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13/02/2021

EARLIEST BREWERY IN HISTORY FOUND IN NORTH ABYDOS IN SOHAG

An Egyptian-American archaeological mission headed by New York University and Princeton University has unearthed what they believe to be the earliest high-production brewery in history in Sohag's North Abydos.

The factory is thought to date as far back as the First Dynasty during the reign of King Narmer (credited for the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BC). It's believed that the beer from this factory was reserved for royal rituals.

The remains contain eight large sectors used to produce beer, each containing forty pottery basins arranged in double rows used for heating grain and water. New York University's Dr Matthew Adams claims that studies prove the factory would have produced 22,400 litres of beer at a time. This factory was actually originally found sometime in the early 20th century, but due to imprecise (or simply misplaced) records, it was lost to time (again) until just now.

13/02/2021

A closer view of The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

03/02/2021

Details of a statue of great beauty and splendor, made of schist stone, of the deity (Amun) wearing his famous crown called the crown (Alaatef) and the grip of the stick of judgment (heka) and the whip (al-nakhkh).

The statue dates back to the Late Period, the 26th Dynasty

Egypt ,then history

29/01/2021

New artefacts unearthed at Taposiris Magna in Alexandria
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The team succeeded in revealing 16 catacombes, inside the big necropolis that was previously discovered, where mummies were covered with a layer of cartonnage bearing gold and others had golden tongues.

The Dominican-Egyptian archaeological expedition from Santo Domingo University has uncovered several artefacts during their excavation work at Taposiris Magna archaeological site in Alexandria.



They succeeded in revealing 16 catacombes, inside the big necropolis that was previously discovered, where mummies were covered with a layer of cartonnage bearing gold and others had golden tongues.



Kathleen Martinez Head of the archaeological mission said that the most interesting part is that all the graves had the heads of the mummies oriented to the west, towards the temple.



She added that two of the uncovered mummies were covered with traces of gold and with unique cartonnage wrapping represented as the mummified God, Osiris from the end of the Ptolemaic period. One mummy wears the Atef crown with gilded horns and a cobra in its forehead. It has a falcon-headed terminal Usekh collar and a golden rectangular pectoral that hangs at the neck.



The mission has also unearthed a beautiful funerary mask of a woman featuring the head, the face, the neck, and the chest, eight golden pieces; two of which are mummies' tongues and the rest are pieces of gold leaf for a diadem.

Eight very well carved marble portrait sculptures from the Graeco-Roman period depicting the facial features of people were also unearthed.



Throughout the last ten years the mission made several interesting discoveries at Taposiris Magna, that shed light on the Greco-Roman period in Alexandria.



Inside the wall of the temple, the expedition had previously found important artefacts such as coins with the portrait and name of the famous queen Cleopatra, several granite royal statues and the foundation plaques of the Taposiris Magna temple that proves that it was built at the beginning of the dynasty by Ptolemy IV.

28/01/2021

Reconstruction of the beautiful face of Hatshepsut 💓

28/01/2021

The throne chair of King Tutankhamun

27/01/2021

Statue of Cleopatra VII Philopator
For the modern era, Cleopatra is the definitive Egyptian queen, although she was descended from the Macedonians who ruled Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great. Black basalt, 146 cm tall. Ptolemaic Period, 1st century BC. Now in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

27/01/2021

Sectional form of the Great Pyramid of King Khufu:
1. The original entry
2. Safe entrance (current entrance)
3. A junction between the descending and ascending corridors
4. Downward corridor
5. An underground chamber in the rocks
6. Ascending corridor 7. The Queen's room and “two wind tunnels p

27/01/2021

This is the doctor’s plate.
From Temple of Kom Ombo
180–47 BC.
located in Aswan.
The painting includes scissors, hooks, scalpels, all modern medicine tools.

26/01/2021

The special hieroglyphs at the bottom of his coffin can be seen here -Tut 🇾🇪

26/01/2021

Group statue showing Ramesses II between two gods.

was found at Maskhouta Hill 1865 during Drilling the Suez Canal.
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مجموعة ثلاثية يتوسطها الملك رمسيس الثاني مع إثنين من الآلهة.
تم العثور عليه في تل المسخوطة سنة 1865 عندما كان يتم حفر قناة السويس.
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26/01/2021

Page from the Book of the Dead in Cursive Hieroglyphs from the Papyrus of Ani, c. 1250 B C

25/01/2021

The God Nun Raises the Sun
Nun, god of the primeval waters, origin of all life and chaos, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra (represented by both the scarab and the sun disk) into the sky at the beginning of time.

Nut, goddess of the Sky, is hanging from above, holding the god Osiris, also hanging from upside down, who holds the sun from above. This union, between the sun and Osiris, represents a solid eternal union between the soul and the body which meant to be a complete resurrection of the human being.

Vignette from Book of the Dead of Anhay. Ramesside Period, New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, ca. 1189-1070 BC. Now in the British Museum.

25/01/2021

The body of the pyramids

And in these mons, talismans that the king had to memorize and recite in order to pass through the gates of the other world and save himself from snakes and all the predatory creatures that obstruct his path.