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#ancientegypt

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Tales from the Two Lands

These are the last of my photos from my trip to Egypt in 2016, and I’ve got two small albums here from travelling back towards Cairo from Middle Egypt. First we visited a small set of tombs called the Fraser Tombs: photos.talesfromthetwolands.or

The tombs date to the 4th & 5th Dynasties, and were first described by a chap called Fraser hence the name. As I remember it they were really quite strict about no photos inside at these tombs, so my photos are of the scenery they were set in. 🧵 1/3

A photograph of the entrance to an ancient Egyptian tomb set into a cliff face. The entrance itself is in the top right hand quarter of the photo, and there are steps carved into the cliff leading towards the entrance. About the centre of the photo, where the stairs turn a corner, a woman dressed in blue stands next to a signpost waiting to guide you into the tomb. The whole scene is pale yellow-y grey except for the woman.
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Still working my way through my #Egypt photos. This is one of my absolute favourite shots. It was the Light and Sound show in the #Karnak temple and we had the incredible luck to have a full moon shining down on us as an addition to the light show. It was utterly stunning and breathtaking to walk through the smartly illuminated temple. We had the last show of the evening and were only 30 people instead of three thousand. It was incredible beautiful.

#LightAndSound #KarnakTemple #AncientEgypt #travelling #vacation #Moon #FullMoon #sky #history #LightInstallations #light #dark #obelisk #night
Vertical colour photo. It's night and we're standing in darkness between the giant columns, looking ahead to a path between them. The darkness gets interrupted by bright floodlights hidden behind the last two columns. They're throwing bright lights, illuminating two high columns on each side in a soft orange light and creating a criss cross shadow pattern on the ground. The light beams don't reach us. In the far back are a single obelisk and a broken wall getting hit by indirect light. Between the obelisk in the back and the column near us the bright glowing disk of the moon hangs low in the sky like a blue whisp hovering in the temple ruins. The rest of the visible sky is pitch black. The contrast between the orange sand stone or lime stone and the glowing moon with a wide spread very blue halo creates a fascinating visual.
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‘House of life’ filled with educational artifacts discovered at the Ramesseum in Luxor

A joint Egyptian-French team has uncovered new archaeological finds at the Ramesseum—the imposing mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II—on the West Bank of Luxor in the Theban Necropolis...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/hou

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‘House of life’ filled with educational artifacts discovered at the Ramesseum in Luxor A joint Egyptian-French team has uncovered new archaeological finds at the Ramesseum—the imposing mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II—on the West Bank of Luxor in the Theban Necropolis. The team, composed of experts from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the National Center for Scientific Research of France, and Sorbonne University. Built during the reign of Ramesses II, also called “Ramesses the Great,” the Ramesseum was not only a monument to the legacy of the pharaoh but also a living center of religious, educational, administrative, and economic activity. This discovery has brought a change in scholars’ understanding of the way ancient Egyptians lived, worked, and organized their world, according to Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
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Tales from the Two Lands

This is a piece of one of those busily decorated yellow 21st Dynasty coffins, with every bit of it covered in vignettes and protective symbols. It has no provenance, but it is now in the Ashmolean Museum (or at least it was when I photographed it in 2018).

The main scene on it shows some ba birds (human headed birds representing one of the parts of a person) pulling a rope attached to a boat. On the boat are several deities standing in a polite little queue facing in the direction the ba birds are pulling them. 🧵 1/3

A photograph of a piece of an ancient Egyptian coffin. This a single slightly curved board from the side of a coffin set upright with the decorated face towards us as if it were still part of a whole item. The background of the decoration is yellow, and the motifs are painted on to it in blue, black, white & red. At the top of the piece is a strip with alternating feathers & snakes. Below this is a rather busy scene with 7 deities, 6 of them standing or sitting on a boat and one behind the boat. They all face to the right, and as we look that way we see 2 rows of 4 ba birds one above the other pulling two ropes attached to the front of the boat to pull it along towards the right. A ba bird is a bird with a human head, and all of these birds are drawn with their bodies facing to the right but their heads craned round looking back towards the boat. The birds have bird legs, but as well as their wings (which are folded on their backs) they have little human arms which extend up & backward to pull the ropes. The are several short bits of hieroglyphic text above the heads of the deities.
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New study suggests King Tut’s tomb artifacts are linked to mysterious Osiris ritual

A new study by Egyptologist Nicholas Brown of Yale University suggests that Tutankhamun was the first pharaoh to have taken part in an unusual funeral ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris which would ensure his resurrection in the afterlife...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/kin

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New study suggests King Tut’s tomb artifacts are linked to mysterious Osiris ritual A new study by Egyptologist Nicholas Brown of Yale University suggests that Tutankhamun was the first pharaoh to have taken part in an unusual funeral ritual known as the Awakening of Osiris which would ensure his resurrection in the afterlife. Brown’s study, published in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, presents compelling evidence for the association of Tutankhamun’s tomb artifacts with this rite...
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3,200-year-old Egyptian tomb of Ramesses III’s military commander uncovered

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 3,200-year-old tomb thought to be that of a senior military commander during the time of Pharaoh Ramesses III. The tomb was discovered at the Tell el-Maschuta site, also referred to as Tell el-Maskhuta, in the Ismailia governorate...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/tom

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3,200-year-old Egyptian tomb of Ramesses III’s military commander uncovered Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 3,200-year-old tomb thought to be that of a senior military commander during the time of Pharaoh Ramesses III. The tomb was discovered at the Tell el-Maschuta site, also referred to as Tell el-Maskhuta, in the Ismailia governorate. The discovery illuminates the strategic significance of the area in protecting Egypt’s eastern borders during the New Kingdom period...
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Unknown Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb uncovered in Abydos

Archaeologists have unearthed a Second Intermediate Period royal tomb (c. 1640–1540 BCE) in the Mount Anubis necropolis of Abydos in Egypt. The discovery, by an Egyptian-American team directed by Professor Josef Wegner of the University of Pennsylvania, is an advancement in studies on the so-called Abydos Dynasty...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/unk

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Unknown Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb uncovered in Abydos Archaeologists have unearthed a Second Intermediate Period royal tomb (c. 1640–1540 BCE) in the Mount Anubis necropolis of Abydos in Egypt. The discovery, by an Egyptian-American team directed by Professor Josef Wegner of the University of Pennsylvania, is an advancement in studies on the so-called Abydos Dynasty. However, though the design and inscriptions of the tomb indicate that it must have belonged to a king from this period, the king’s name is unknown because of damage inflicted by ancient robbers.
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