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#ancientegypt

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Jomes
More #Egypt 😄 (there's so much more to come 😅) After the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx we visitid the #StepPyramid in #Sakkara. I think that was the only time where we were almost completely alone. It was early afternoon and the temperatures were rising, but still in managable regions in the mid-twenties. It was magical and utterly silent, because this pyramid is far awy from everything else and to me it felt as if it's already the middle of the desert. Sadly, we didn't have much time to soak up the atmosphere because we were on a tight schedule towards the next sight 😅

#SightSeeing #travelling #vacation #AncientEgypt #Sky #desert
Horizontal photo of the Step Pyramid. It's taking up the whole photo, with a bit of pale dusty sky above it and a smooth sand yard in front of it. A single tiny figure in dark clothing is walking towards it (our guide).
Another photo of the pyramid, this time from a bit sideways so two sides of it are visible, one side lying a bit in the shadows with just the edges of the steps illuminated. The photo has been taken from further away, but it looks just as big. There are two tiny people, barely more than two specks, walking towards the pyramid.
#desert
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Jomes
Visiting the pyramids and the sphinx on my first day in Egypt was amazing, but also gave me a taste of the endless amount of people we'd have to fight for some nice pictures in all further locations. It's the definition of mass tourism. Every inch of the paths was covered in people despite it being early in the morning off season.

#Egypt #PyramidsOfGiza #Sphinx #vacation #holiday #travel #travelling #Sightseeing #AncientEgypt #tourism #history
Photo of the Sphinx in front of one of the big Pyramids of Giza. The Sphinx is sitting facing me, surrounded by scattered blocks of sandstone. The pyramid stands in the background, on top of the horizon, towering over everything. Everything is bright yellow sand coloured under a blue sky. There's a haze in the sky, muting the blue to a sandy colour towards the lower horizon. There's a light sandy road leading from the left towards the pyramid past the sphinx. It's filled with people - countless dark spots in various colours.
#history
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Sukha’s SacredBrew Logbook
"2020

I may not have found the answer to the Secret I was looking for in Kemet, but I shared something with the thousand-year-old lords of the Nile. Then, I remembered this passage from a story that some Bards once told:

[...] Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a god
Why can't I live on?
When the Life Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I'm a Slave to the Power of Death [...]

(Iron Maiden, 1984, Powerslave)"

[Excerpt from the Sukha' SacredBrew Logbook]

#egyptphotography #desertnature #abusimbel #abusimbeltemple #egypt #ancientegypt #aswan #aswanegypt #nineteenthdynastyofegypt #newkingdom #ramessesii #ramessesthegreat #upperegypt #microblog #blogging #blog #storytelling #storytime #travel #travelphotography #travelblogger #travelfed
Abu Simbel in its full glory, bathed in golden sunlight that enhances the warm brown tones of the ancient stone structure.
#travelfed
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Essex Egyptology Group

At our April meeting (Sunday 6th, ONLINE via Zoom), Dr Nicholas Brown will give a talk on "The Valley of the Kings: Its Life and Afterlife".

The Valley of the Kings is arguably one of the most famous archaeological sites in Egypt. For nearly five hundred years, the area was used by the kings of Egypt, their family members, and certain elite courtiers as a sacred necropolis during the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1069 BC) (1/3)

A scene from a state funeral, taken from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, showing a party of twelve high officials dressed in white linen and pulling a rope attached to the funerary sledge.
#ancientEgypt#egyptology#ancientHistory
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Jomes
I'm back in Germany! Over the next days (weeks?) I'll be posting photos of my trip to #Egypt. I took almost 2k photos, so there's a lot to show. Here're three photos of the first day. The #PyramidsOfGiza were our first station on day one and wow. What a way to kick of this vacation. Words cannot describe the feeling of standing in front of them.

#vacation #history #AncientEgypt #travelling #travel #TripDiary #Giza #TravelPhotography #MobilePhotography #sky #sun #wonder

Edit: has pixelfed fucked an update up, cos the photos do not look like I uploaded them. What are these formats and where's the rest of my photos...
Horizontal landscape photo of two of the three big Pyramids of Giza. The photo shows them from an unusal side angle. There's a sandy desert plane in front of the pyramids and both of them seem to be behind a small hill. A small dark speck in front of the right one is actually a camel. The lighting is pale and the blue sky looks almost milky white with a thick layer of dust and smog at the horizon. There are no sharp edges and clear colours. The sun is out of frame and only shines upon one of three visible sides of the pyramids.
The photo is taken very close to the big pyramid, looking up one side to the top. It's basically just a huge wall of giant sand stones forming a barely recognizable triangle. A group of people is standing in front and on top of the first row of stones for scale, showing how incredible high the pyramid reaches and how gigantic the blocks of stone are. The sky is blue and the sun peeks into the frame from the left as a blindingly white spot.
The photo is a close up photo of one of the blocks of sandstone with two arms reaching into the frame, showing how the fingertips touch the stone. The smaller hand and arm are a very pale skin tone. The bigger hand with a dark watch and a hairy arm are more tanned. Yes, we took a "Holy shit we're touching the pyramids" photo 😁
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𒌉𒀭𒆠𒀀🏳️‍🌈Qwynnyx🏳️‍⚧️𓅮𓅱𓏏𓏭𓏖𓏞

I'm finally done copying & rewriting the hieroglyphic text of the Khonsu cosmogony in JSesh!
Big thanks to Daniela Mendel for the comparatively rather clear original text and especially corrections with regard to Kurt Sethe's 1925 edition on which I've somewhat relied initially.
I'd upload a shaper 20 MB pic but this instance doesn't allow it.
I'm now moving to create a more economic phrasing of the text for myself.
#Egyptology
#AncientEgypt
#Theology
#Cosmogony
#EgyptianGods

The text in hieroglyphs
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Tales from the Two Lands

Egyptian culture isn’t self-contained and isolated from the world, at various times it spills out into other nearby places and sometimes it sweeps back in from those places too. This vulture statue is part of that mixing and diffusing of cultures.

It was found at a place called Sanam Abu Dom, at Merowe in Nubia, about half way between Abu Simbel (in Egypt) and Khartoum (the capital of Sudan) near Gebel Barkal and the pyramids there & at Nuri. So it’s quite solidly provenanced from somewhere other than Egypt.

But it’s quite Egyptian to look at, and the vulture is a key part of Egyptian iconography. Among other associations it’s the animal associated with the goddess Nekhbet, one of the Two Ladies who protects the king, and associated most closely with Upper Egypt. 🧵 1/3

A photograph of part of an ancient Egyptian (or Nubian) statue of a vulture. The statue is made of black granite, which makes the detail in the carving a little difficult to pick out in a photograph. Not all of the statue has survived, and this portion is the head plus one shoulder (and partial wing). The head faces to the left and it's the wing nearest us that survives. You can see just above the wing that there is a broad collar necklace carved into the shoulder of the bird.
#ancientEgypt#egyptology#nubia
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