#Egyptian Mummy Project

[solitariussanctumartarchitecture]

For the first time since the 11th century BCE, scientists have unwrapped – virtually, using CT scans – the mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I (r. 1525 to 1504 BCE), the only royal mummy to remain unopened in modern times. They show that the pharaoh was around 35 years old, 169cm tall, circumcized, and in good physical health when he died, apparently from natural causes.

This was a fascinating read and it emphasises how modern technology can really help in the field of archaeology. I read the original paper published, which goes into more detail. The link is within the article if you wish to give it a read.

[maked-artyshenanigans]

So, I saw this image on Facebook, and it was supposedly showing what Queen Nefertiti would have looked like in real life:

Now, I thought this AI generated garbage was just truly terrible on a number of levels; first off, she looks wayyyyyy too modern - her makeup is very “Hollywood glamour”, she looks airbrushed and de-aged, and as far as I’m aware, Ancient Egyptians didn’t have mascara, glitter-based eyeshadows and lip gloss. Secondly, her features are exceptionally whitewashed in every sense - this is pretty standard for AI as racial bias is prevalent in feeding AI algorithms, but I genuinely thought a depiction of such a known individual would not exhibit such euro-centric features. Thirdly, the outfit was massively desaturated and didn’t take pigment loss into consideration, and while I *do* like the look of the neck attire, it's not at all accurate (plus, again, AI confusion on the detailing is evident).

So, this inspired me to alter the image on the left to be more accurate based off the sculpture’s features. I looked into Ancient Egyptian makeup and looked at references for kohl eyeliner and clay-based facial pigment (rouge was used on cheeks, charcoal-based powder/paste was used to darken and elongate eyebrows), and I looked at pre-existing images of Nefertiti, both her mummy and other reconstructions. While doing this, I found photos of a 3D scanned sculpture made by scientists at the University of Bristol and chose to collage the neck jewellery over the painting (and edited the lighting and shadows as best as I could).

Something I see a lot of in facial recreations of mummies is maintaining the elongated and skinny facial features as seen on preserved bodies - however, fat, muscle and cartilage shrink/disappear post mortem, regardless of preservation quality; Queen Nefertiti had art created of her in life, and these pieces are invaluable to developing an accurate portrayal of her, whether stylistic or realistic in nature.

And hey, while I don't think my adjustments are perfect (especially the neck area), I *do* believe it is a huge improvement to the original image I chose to work on top of.

I really liked working on this project for the last few days, and I think I may continue to work on it further to perfect it. But, until then, I hope you enjoy!

Remember, likes don't help artists but reblogs do!

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,000-Year-Old Fayum Portraits from Roman Egypt: also known as "mummy portraits," these funerary paintings were often fastened to the coffins of the people they depicted

Above: Fayum portrait of a woman from Roman-occupied Egypt, c.100-110 CE

Fayum portraiture was a popular funerary practice among the upper-class families of Roman Egypt from about 50 CE to 250 CE. Given the high mortality rates for children during this period, many of these portraits depict children and youths, but adults were often featured, too.

Above: portrait of a youth wearing a golden wreath, c.130-150 CE; the wreath and the background of the portrait are both gilded

The population of the Faiyum Delta, where most of these portraits were found, largely contained individuals with both native Egyptian/North African and Greek heritage. The Greek lineages can be traced back to the Ptolemaic period, when the Greeks gained control of Egypt and began to establish settlements throughout the region, gradually leading to a cultural diffusion between the Greek and Egyptian populations. The Romans eventually took control of Egypt in 31 CE, absorbing it into the Roman Empire and colonizing much of North Africa, but the demographics of the Faiyum Delta remained largely unchanged.

Above: portrait of a man with a mole on his nose, c.130-150 CE

Many of these Fayum portraits reflect the same blend of ethnic and cultural roots, depicting individuals with both Greek and native Egyptian heritage (a claim that is supported by both archaeological and genetic evidence). Some portraits may also depict native Egyptians who did not have any European ancestry, but had been integrated into Greco-Roman society.

Above: portrait of a bearded man, c.170-180 CE

These representations of native Egyptians provide us with unique insights into the actual demographics of Roman-occupied Egypt (and the ancient world at large). Non-European peoples are rarely included in depictions of the classical world; it's also interesting to see the blend of cultural elements that these portraits represent.

Above: portrait of a priest of Serapis, c.140-160 CE; the man in this portrait is shown wearing a fillet/crown that bears the seven-pointed star of the Greco-Egyptian god, Serapis

As this article explains:

In the 1800s and early 1900s, Western art historians didn’t know what to make of these portraits. Scholars of Roman history labeled them Egyptian. Scholars of Egyptian history labeled them Greco-Roman. These binary academic classifications failed to capture the true complexity of the ancient (or, indeed, modern) Mediterranean. In reality, Fayum portraits are a syncretic form, merging Egyptian and Greco-Roman art and funerary practices. They reflect the cosmopolitanism of both Roman and Egyptian history.

Above: portrait of a man, c.80-100 CE (left); portrait of a bearded officer, sometimes referred to as "Perseus," c.130-175 CE (right)

Above: portrait of a young woman in red, c.90-120 CE

Nearly 1,000 of these portraits are currently known to exist.

Above: portrait of a man wearing a gilded ivy wreath, c.100-150 CE

Above: portrait of a bearded man, c.150-170 CE

Sources & More Info:

Curationist: Fayum Portraits

Harvard Art Museums: Giving the Dead their Due: an Exhibition Re-Examines Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt

Getty Museum: APPEAR Project

Getty Museum: Faces of Roman Egypt

National Geographic: Ancient Egypt's Stunning, Lifelike Mummy Portraits

The Athens Centre: The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

Forbes: Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism and Color in the Ancient World

[whencyclopedia]

Food & Drink in Ancient Egypt

Food and drink in ancient Egypt relied on barley and wheat, the primary crops cultivated along the Nile. The Egyptian diet was based on bread, beer, and vegetables. Meat was expensive and only rarely eaten. The majority of people ate fairly basic meals, while the upper classes consumed more exotic and varied dishes.

Pantry Scene, Tomb of Menna

The Yorck Project (Public Domain)

Bread & Porridge

Breads and porridges were the base of the Egyptian diet. They were both typically made with barley or emmer wheat, the two staple crops of Egypt. Grain was ground by hand with stone querns to produce flour. Despite efforts to prevent it, grit and sand often found its way into flour while it was being processed and transported. Many mummies have teeth worn down from years of eating gritty bread.

Egyptian cuisine in fact allowed for the preparation of bread in all possible shapes: flat, conical, spherical, sometimes molded into shapes of objects or animals, and extremely varied ingredients could be added to the dough for sweetening or aroma: lupine seeds, coriander, a decoction of figs, and poppy or ryegrass seeds. (Tallet, 320)

The most common style of bread was a dense flatbread made with flour, salt, and water. The dough was typically formed into round or triangular shapes, but it could also be shaped into human or animal figures. This could be baked on a stone inside an oven, on the floor of the oven itself, or even buried in hot embers.

Because bread was so important, many different varieties were invented. Some types of bread included fats, oils, eggs, or dairy in addition to the basic ingredients of flour and water. Leavening was used to create fluffier loaves. Special types of ovens and pans were used to bake bread of different shapes and consistencies. Bread was sometimes topped with seeds, seasonings or nuts before baking.

Model of Bakers from Meketre's Tomb

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Copyright)

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[jstor]

Any suggestions for articles relating to “Romanisation”* in Egyptian art and architecture 100 bce - ce 100?

* please note the scare quotes I hate that term as much as anyone

Here is an Open Access book titled "Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project"!

[crisalidaseason]

Whenever I see people ask why The Kane Chronicles are so underrated I want to rant about it so here it goes:

Releasing it too soon. The Red Pyramid was released in 2010, only a year after The Last Olympian. After the success of his first series people were hungry for Percy Jackson. It did not help that it was announced a sequel so soon, with The Lost Hero programmed to release in 2010. Maybe if they did not announce the sequel of Percy Jackson so soon and pushed The Lost Hero for 2011, leaving 2010 solely for The Red Pyramid, the fans would feel more compelled to read the Kane Chronicles as a way to pass the time or maybe have a Percy cameo.

Writing style. Although I like the idea of multi-POV and the two siblings sending the author a recording, it felt badly executed at times. There were situations that I forgot it was supposed to be a recording and sometimes the change between Sadie and Carter broke the flow of the situations. I believe many people did not enjoy this style. I don't hate it at all, but it could have been better executed.

I know people won't like what I'm about to say, but I don't care. The initial dislike for Carter Kane simply for being black. Many people from the communities I participated in complained about Carter Kane. Saying he was not interesting, he was annoying or a cheap copy of Percy. But I have my suspicions people did not give the book a chance because most readers could not project on Carter. Carter is the first narrator we are introduced: a black teenage boy. Because of that, many people dislike the book from the start. Many white folks have a hard time projecting onto characters that are explicitly described as being POC. You can try to fight me on this, but it's the plain truth.

Egyptian mythology was not that explored in fiction. Unless you consider the Mummy franchise - which does not really talk about mythology - there was almost nothing regarding Egyptian mythology targeting kids/teens media. As a consequence, it made people not really interested in reading The Kane Chronicles in the first place.

Now, those are my opinions as to why this series has not received so much attention from the fandom, I am not saying this is the truth at all! You can have a different opinion and share your thoughts as long as you are respectfull - or else I'll block you.

[cricketnationrise]

Updates on Sundays!

In which Alex would like to fucking rest, but a combination of a determined Henry and an Ancient Egyptian Curse (TM) conspire against him. Good thing he's got a lot of weapons.

The Mummy AU has landed y'all. Holy guacamole. I wrote the first drabble in this universe back in SEPTEMBER 2022 and gdocs says i'm over 23k right now with at least 4 chapters left to write. WILD.

[void-writing]

Okay I’m back on my Mummies nonsense and I’m thinking about the untapped potential of Amanda Carnovan and wanting to bite something.

Like, I get that this is a late 90s Y7 show so of course the normal adults aren’t necessarily going to be involved very much given who the target audience is but we could have had SUCH FUN DYNAMICS between Amanda—technically mother of the pharaoh and also a certified Egypt nerd—and the Mummies. The Mummies, who would be an ancient civilization researcher’s WET DREAM because they’d be the ULTIMATE primary sources to their era of ancient Egyptian history. I may be projecting a bit, but having people who LIVED IN a civilization three thousand years ago AND who would be able to verbally talk about their experiences (biases and all) would be so cool.

Plus, I think Amanda and the Mummies would have gotten along so well. Like, they canonically respect her despite never really interacting with her purely on account of what Presley says about her.

I can see Amanda talking parenting and leadership with Ja-Kal and them confiding their doubts and hardships to each other that they wouldn’t talk about with anyone else. Like, for example, Amanda is a single mother working a full time job, and Ja-Kal struggled with balancing his responsibilities as the prince's guard with his duties as a father and husband. I think both of them would have a lot to talk about regarding work-life balance. Plus, Ja-Kal in the show was edging very close to "dad who stepped up" territory. I'm not saying that Ja-Kal and Amanda would get a romantic subplot (Amanda doesn't seem to be interested in looking for a boyfriend and Ja-Kal isn't either) but I feel like they'd become platonic co-parents in the right circumstances.

I can see Amanda just absorbing every historical and arcane lesson Rath gives and chiming in with her own knowledge. They’d butt heads and argue over specific facts for hours, both being entirely too stubborn at times to give the other an inch, but at the end of it all they’d do it again because they’re both nerds and love the pain of their research.

I can see Amanda and Nefer-Tina becoming gal pals, maybe at first being friends solely because they’re the only women in the group but ultimately enjoying each other’s company; Amanda affirming that Nefer-Tina isn’t wrong for being fascinated by modern advances while Nefer-Tina gets Amanda to break out of her shell a bit by dragging her along to experience the modern world with her (I can see circumstances conspiring to get them stealing a car together and I think I’m right about it).

I can see Amanda and Armon bonding over cooking and exchanging recipes from their respective cultures, even if they may have to substitute a few key ingredients for Armon’s recipes (I doubt Amanda would be able to get her hands on hippo steak, sadly).

Plus! I also want to see Amanda’s reaction to hearing that 1) her baby boy is the reincarnation of a murdered Egyptian prince from three thousand years ago (and one she made a full exhibit about and probably rambled to Presley about for months), and 2) the man who killed him the first time is still around in present day trying to not only do that AGAIN, but use her son’s soul to attain immortality for generally nefarious purposes.

What I’m saying is I wish we could have seen Amanda’s reaction to the Mummy Nonsense because she would have been a WELL of interesting character interactions and also likely caused Scarab headaches personally by beating him up for trying to repeatedly murder her son.

And don’t even get me STARTED on Walter! He was presented to the audience as Presley’s best friend but we hardly see him at all! We could have had Walter as the best friend sidekick! The non-chosen character stuck in the chosen’s orbit! He could have been a Toby Domzalsky or a Connie Maheswaran before those characters even EXISTED! We could have had Walter struggling with pressure from the Mummies to be as dogged and dedicated in his defense of Presley as they are because they see Walter as Presley’s last line of defense, someone who can protect Presley where they can't. After all, the Mummies can’t follow Presley into school and have to be careful about going out in public on account of their whole undead situation. It could be really interesting to see Walter get continuously pressured by these adults who literally died in the line of duty to follow in their footsteps, even if it meant meeting the same fate as them. It would have been interesting to see the Mummies be struck with the realization that they made themselves forget that Walter is a kid too and someone very dear to Presley, and that they were wrong to try and pressure him into becoming a warrior like them. It would have been interesting to see them try to atone for the way they treated Walter as another soldier for their cause. It would have been interesting to see how Walter buckled under the pressure the Mummies heaped on him and even more so if Scarab tried to exploit it because in his darkest moment, Walter would have just wanted all of this Mummy Nonsense to STOP and for everything to go back to how it was before (even though that’s impossible) and almost costing Presley his life because of it.

And Elaine! How cool would it have been if she didn’t have her memories conveniently wiped and she just elbowed her way into the Mummies’ and Presley’s crazy world of gods and monsters out of rabid interest in getting the truth, even if she has to learn a lesson about how not all truths are created equal and sometimes lies and secrets are made and kept to protect the innocent! We could have had an episode where Elaine gathered proof of the Mummies and Presley’s involvement with them and was SECONDS away from publishing before she’s confronted with the reality that Presley keeps his involvement with the Mummies under wraps (ba dum tss) because the anonymity surrounding his modern identity is the only thing keeping an immortality obsessed madman from turning up on his doorstep or in his class to LITERALLY KILL HIM AND EAT HIS SOUL. We could have had her be the reason Scarab learns Presley’s modern identity and her having to atone for putting him in MORE danger.

Ugh. There's just so much wasted potential and it makes me sad.

[mysticsparklewings]

Obscutober 2024 Day 9: Arenose ⏳

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Arenose (adj.)

sandy, gritty; full of sand

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This is I think the 3rd time I've managed to squeeze my interest in Ancient Egypt into an #Inktober piece, so that means I had quite a bit of fun today. 😉

Could've had more if I'd started on it earlier, though. 😅

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Well, if I didn't like the late start I got on yesterday's mandala, today certainly wasn't any better. 😅 But this is totally my fault; I spent some more time today working on a different project that really could've waited until after the mandala was done, but as I tend to do I said, "Oh I'll just work on it a little and then move on..." And then, y'know, didn't. So excuse me while I attempt to fly through this description...

That said, this one was very fun—ticking clock aside—but I do think it could have been better if I'd given myself more time to chew on it.

Granted, the concepts are very simple: First thing I think of when I think of "sand" is Egypt (and loyal Sparklers won't be surprised by that; remembering that even though it doesn't come up too often that I habor a long-time fascination with Ancient Egypt and more specifically mummies). The second thing I think of is an hourglass—Especially in this case since the prompt is "full of sand," not just "sand."

And then trailing behind in a distant third would be sand castles. I did think of the beach, but A. I already got very beach-y back on Day 2 and didn't want to rehash too much of that just yet, and B. I genuinely didn't think of sand castles specifically at all until I'd already mostly finished my little hourglass motifs you see here. 😅

That said, you can definitely see the Egypt inspiration took center stage here. The hourglasses were my first priority, then I put tiny Pyramids in them, then took a brief detour to do the sand castles, and then the rest of the time was spent decorating/accenting what I had with mostly Egyptian or Egyptian-inspired imagery. In particular, you'll notice I couldn't help myself and got some teeny-tiny mummies in there, beneath the sand castles as if they were tombs.

The blue beetles are supposed to sort of be scarab bettles, which are very common in Ancient Egyptian iconography, and while I didn't really put them there with that as a plan, they did turn into a nice way to get an additional pop of blue color towards the center to tie in with the blue on the outer edges.

Speaking of: Those spiky blue things towards the corners are meant to be Egyptian Lotus Flowers. I've definitely seen them before but kinda forgot they existed until I went looking for more things I could use as motifs and noticed very mandala-esque depictions of them kept popping up. Then I went out of my way to get some references and did my best to bring them in, albeit simply, because I was really missing something between the hourglasses and the dead space above the sand castles.

Plus by that point I'd already had ideas of incoporating a darker blue as is semi-common in Ancient Egyptian jewelry. In the end I didn't push the color quite that dark because I didn't want it to be too distracting, but the blue did make it in at least a little.

A nice bonus was that I found out while I was Googling things that I somehow missed or overlooked that "Arenose" can also mean reddish-yellow, as in more like the color of sand and colors that work very well with an Egyptian theme. So that really sealed the deal on the color scheme for me. I already knew the traditional color of sand had to be there, that just told me to veer further from the browns that might make this look more like Day 3 and lean into the rusty reddish colors that are a step or two off from reds also seen in Ancient Egyptian jewelry alongside that blue color I mentioned.

Earlier, just after I'd finished the hourglasses, I was really starting to worry that this one might come out a little too far on the simple side for my taste, but I feel like letting the Egypt theme guide me really helped turned things around. As I said at the beginning, I do still wish I'd been able to give myself more time to chew on things and maybe get some more detail still in there, but this is still fun.

...I realize that's kind of my conclusion with every Obscutober (and even Inktober, looking to the past) piece, but in a way that's one of the main points of the challenge for me: Making something I'm happy with even if it's not 100% what I planned or if I would've handled things differently on a different time frame. And then this year, since I'm handling things so differently from usual, I would hope as a side effect that I'm training myself at least a little bit just to be faster at the creation process.

Obviously if my hope in that last point has any validity to it, it remains to be seen so far. 😅 But we're not quite 1/3 into the month yet, so there's still time! "Rome wasn't built in a day" and all that!

Mm, okay, actually I think at the very least I've managed to get a little faster at the cross-posting part as I've gotten more used to it and found a few small ways to try and streamline things, but that doesn't really help with the actual creative process. 🫠

Speaking of which, I think I covered all of the things I wanted to say about the art here—At the very least, I can't seem to think of anything I left out—So if you Sparklers will excuse me, I best be getting to said cross-posting now.

But let us all take a moment and hope I can prepare for tomorrow's at least a little better since I've got some IRL things going on that I'll have to work around...🤞

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[erintoknow]

I really wanted to like this book, and like, I don't intrinsically have any problems with a protagonist who effectively is the reason the antagonist's plans work out, or is kind of a dumbass but like, it kind of undermines the girl empowerment vibes of having an opinionated and independent aspiring young woman in the 1800s going against the cultural grain only for the male characters to have been right all along to want to put her back on the boat home because yeah, she really did fuck everything up and make it all worse! Also, can we like, talk about how much pains this book takes to performatively call out the colonial exploitation of the time period and find ways to alleviate the guilt of setting a story in the zeitgeist of the worst of it while neglecting to make any native Egyptian character a central focus of the story? The ones we get are strictly background or permission givers to participate. That kind of sucks! I'm white, so like, maybe I'm just completely off base here - I've caught myself having blindspots before, but... like, if you want to go full in on the Hollywood fantasy of it, sure fine, whatever, I'm on board, but it's weird as hell to rub our nose in the horrible reality of it while making no actual effort to rectify or meaningfully change up the trope. By which I mean, this book fundamentally does not care about Egypt or egyptian history, you know? It's all just window dressing around a weird conflux of action archeology where 'we gotta race to find the tomb before the bad guys do!!' and family drama. You could set that literally anywhere in the world with ancient ruins around and nothing would meaningfully change. The narrator keeps telling me I should care about this exploitation and theft of history and context from the people it belongs to while the story itself happily engages in that very same practice! If that's something you want to investigate, and you want to stick with having our main character be native Argentinian then why not have the archology plot happening in Argentina? Why not dig into that directly? Because then it's not a Mummy riff? Is it purely just the nostalgia for that Hollywood exploitation image??? I just don't think enough is done with the shared understanding of suffering under colonialism angle to justify it when our main character doesn't actually meaningfully befriend any of the people actually effected by this colonial project - nevermind the fact that she comes from big money and was largely sheltered from the material effects of such in her home country! It just all comes off as a weirdly performative desire to have the cake and eat it too, I dunno my dudes. Like, I loved The Mummy (1999) too, but I'm not gonna pretend it doesn't have problems.

[wanderingskemetic]

I'm going to get to do a research project involving a real Egyptian mummy this semester. I'm so excited! Dua Djehuty! Dua Anpu! Dua Wesir! Sin Menrva!

[thehereticpharaoh]

The Egyptian actor Mohamed Sobhi from the movie Akhenaten by Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam. He embarked on the journey after the release of his 1969 classic The Mummy: The Night of Counting the Years, the project, however, was never realized, mostly because Egypt’s Ministry of Culture, which Abdel Salam had relied on for production (it had also produced his debut), would not take it on, and the budget for a production of that scale could not be guaranteed by anyone else at the time. Yet, Abdel Salam wrote the screenplay for the film, drew the storyboards in his usual elaborate fashion, designed its characters and their costumes.

[darchildre]

Look, I am in no way arguing that 1700s-era Joseph Curwen was at all a good dude. However, there is always a part of me that starts arguing when other characters take action against a villain based on stuff that the audience knows but that the characters can only suspect.

A list of things that the characters definitely know that Joseph Curwen has done:

Continued to look ~30 years old for far too long

Creepy book collection

Weird noises in his house at night

Goes through more cows than people think he should

Sometimes people go to his farm and you don't see them again, which I'll admit looks bad (but the characters have no real proof of it being bad)

Married a woman someone else was interested in

Took an active interest in local politics, civic projects, and his church community

Hinted at but did not confirm that he may have legally tried to import a ship full of mummies

That's it! Certainly, the characters suspect that he's a bodysnatching necromancer who has probably murdered a bunch of people, but they have no real proof. The reader knows it's true, but the characters don't.

I'm just saying, being a well-preserved weirdo with a nice library and an interest in Egyptian history (that reads very badly to a modern reader but would have been a fairly normal medical interest in the 1760s) doesn't really provide an ample reason for mail tampering, stalking, and invading the weirdo's farm with an army of sailors in the middle of the night.

[lumiereswig]

batb cast wake up in the wrong movies

"i really don't see what you're all screaming about, it's merely a simple case of patching the problem—I did something quite similar with my washing machine, once," says Belle, wondering why everyone thinks this titanic ship they're on is such a big deal

adam is in monsters inc and HOO BOY this is bringing up a lot of past traumas for him (he's finally human and now everyone else is furry and 8 feet tall? what gives?)

lumiere never had being in an egyptian tomb on his bucket list but he's having a great bisexual time flirting with everybody (oh yes there are beetles climbing up his skin but he'll get to that later, this old mummy guy is hOT)

cogsworth is bonding with aliens in hawaii and honestly does not want to go back (finally he's found his people! minus that weird little blue french bulldog that keeps prowling around)

plumette convinces aurora and prince philip to ditch their royal duties and run off to the woods with her as a threesome. the fairies' woodland cottage becomes an HGTV project and they compete against maleficent on the great british bake off, winning her over with a stunning passionfruit croissant with almond glaze

darth vader does not stand a chance against garderobe. the movie is now 10 minutes long.

chip becomes friends with this wild-eyed professor type who kinda reminds him of his gay uncles and they travel back into the past to make sure mr and mrs potts meet at the 'tea for two' high school dance. in the process chip picks up a red life preserver and they murder the town bully

mrs potts is in a jane austen movie and literally nothing changes

chapeau becomes the most iconic marvel character for no understandable reason and robert downey jr storms off in a huff

[skogenraev]

Ptah

Lord of the Sky; Lord of the Two Lands; Lord of Truths; Lord of Sunrise; Father of Fathers; Power of Powers

Origin: Egypt

In the beginning was the word. That phrase is now familiar as the first line of the Gospel of John, but is also familiar to devotees of Ptah, Creator of the World. He is the architect of the universe whose first building blocks were thought and speech. He is a primordial deity from the earliest epochs. Ptah means the “opener” but not only in the literal sense of opening a window or door. The word was used in the context of carving, chiseling, or engraving, which the Egyptians perceived as opening up the powers of stone or metal. Ptah is the patron of stone and metalworkers. Ptah is the craftsman of the universe. He fashions new bodies for souls in the Next Realm. Ptah was credited with inventing the Opening of the Mouth Ceremony, the ritual expected to reanimate the deceased. The Greeks and Romans identified Ptah with Hephaestus and Vulcan respectively

𓂃⊹ Iconography: Ptah is portrayed as a bearded man shrouded in a close-fitting garment or as a bearded mummy. He is entirely bound: only his hands project from a front opening. He may wear a menat amulet symbolic of joy, pleasure, and fertility. 𓂃⊹ Attributes: A scepter that combines several amuletic forms, including an ankh and djed pillar (See also: Osiris); builder’s tools 𓂃⊹ Consorts: Bastet, Sekhmet, and/or Wadjet. 𓂃⊹ Jewel: Lapis lazuli 𓂃⊹ Planet: Sun 𓂃⊹ Sacred site: Memphis, Egypt 𓂃⊹ Creatures: Rats

Ptah was lord of truth, and the patron god of sculptors and craftsmen (since he was considered to have sculpted the earth). he created the first mound of earth from Nu by imagining it in his heart and breathed life into things with his voice

Besides his role as creator of the universe, Ptah was also a master builder. He created the arts of stoneworking and architecture that allowed the Egyptians to build the tombs of the Valley of the Kings and, later, the pyramids. Ptah also ruled smithing and metalworking, sculpture, art, carpentry, and shipbuilding. Ptah’s priests were also often talented crafters, and were sought after for their advice and wisdom. Some became influential builders and advisors to the royal family, or even married into the royal family themselves.

Because of his association with tomb craftsmanship Ptah was also part of Egyptian funeral ceremonies. He was said to have created the important Opening of the Mouth ritual, which was a part of Egyptian mummification procedures. The Opening of the Mouth had to be performed to allow the mummy to use its mouth in the afterlife, so it could speak, breathe, and eat. The Opening of the Mouth was meant to represent Ptah’s own origin, when he used his mouth to speak the universe into existence.

Ptah was married to the lion goddess of war, Sekhmet, and their children were Nefertum, a god of healing and medicine, and Maahes, another war god. Ptah, Sekhmet, and Nefertum were the three most important gods in Memphis. Imhotep, a brilliant engineer, astronomer, and physician who lived in the 27th century BCE, was said to be Ptah’s adopted son, and became worshiped as a god himself after his death

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𝐵𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝐹𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒟𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽 - 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝓊𝑒

"You idiot!" I exclaimed, "Wake up!"

"What the hell?" Jin screamed waking up from his desk.

"Did you study the file? I swear to god if you didn't, I will make sure to call a butcherer to cut your limbs and sell you on the black market. We have to submit our report today. If we don't you know we're gonna get fir.. mmmmmpphhh." I was stopped by Jin shoving a piece of apple in my mouth.

"I know, I know. And I finished it. Here you go." He waves a blue coloured file in the air.

"Hmph. Give it here." I snatch the file from his hand while chewing the piece of apple.

I take another piece of apple from his container and started to read through his report scanning for mistakes. I graduated from Seoul University of Archaeology two years ago. I was working in an archaeological expedition unit sent from Korea, in Egypt. I've worked in Egypt for about 4 months with Jin, Namjoon, and Hoseok. I recently found a pyramid on satellite scans and asked for permission to excavate it since it looked very interesting from the satellite pictures. But my permission was denied since my team already had a project report pending. Hence, I was in a hurry to wrap it up and start my study on the newly found pyramid.

"Finally we can start the new project," I said sighing, "I can't wait!"

"Why are you so excited about this small pyramid? It doesn't even look that great." Jin asked.

"Well, usually pyramids are huge in size," I said emphasizing huge, "but this one is very small compared to the others. It looks very frail and on the edge of falling apart. Like it wasn't given any effort at all while being built. But usually, all the royal families built pyramids strong and big. But this one... it's a mystery."

"Interesting... hmmm," Jin sighed, "Well! Let's go get Namjoon and Hoseok. Let's submit this report and get working on the new pyramid."

"Yes!" I said in excitement.

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"Hmm.. so you want an excavation team for the newly found tomb?" Our senior archaeologist questioned us. 

"Yes, sir," Jin answered.

"I like your reasoning for exploring the pyramid," he smiled, "An excavation team will be arranged in two days. Get ready. Since it's located a little far from here, you will camp near the pyramid. Good luck Miss Yuna."

"Thank you, sir," I smiled at him.

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"MIN YUNA," Yoongi screamed through the phone, "YOU DID NOT CALL ME FOR 5 DAYS. DO YOU REALIZE HOW LONG THAT IS? 5 DAYS! I WAS WORRIED SICK. I CALLED YOU AND YOU DID NOT PICK UP-"

"I KNOW!" I screamed back to stop him but softened up, "I know... I know I didn't call you. I was busy. I'm sorry... I really am."

Yoongi sighs, "It's okay. But at least text me that you're fine."

"Yes," I breathed out, "I will."

"You better-" Yoongi began but,

"Anyway," I interrupted, "I am going away from the centre to a new location for a few days. We discovered a new pyramid and we need to excavate it. Since it's far from here, we'll be camping there. And... Unfortunately, there's no network available there. I won't be able to call you for a few days."

"Is there no way that you can stay back?" Yoongi asked.

"No! Brother, it's my life's work collecting information about ancient things. I can't stay back!" I exclaimed.

"I know," Yoongi sighed, "I just... I'm worried for my sister who's going to stay in the middle of nowhere to study a dead body."

"Correction," I said, "An ancient Egyptian mummy which holds the answer to several of our questions."

"Okay okay. Just be safe ok? Text me when you're leaving." Yoongi said with affection.

"Yes, brother. I love you," I said, "Mwuah!"

"Haha," Yoongi chuckled, "Love you too."

I cut the call and flopped back into my bed.

"This is going to be a long week."

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