#Egyptian museum

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Ashayet | Egyptian Museum

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Dog Collar

This is considered as the one of the oldest known 'dog collars' in the whole world from ancient Egypt.

It belonged to the dog of Pharoah Amenhotep II, the 7th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.

1400 BC

📍Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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The Sun and Moon boats ☀️🌙🛶

Based on these two stelae I saw at Turin's Egyptian Museum:

(don't mind the quality, I took the pictures myself with my crappy phone lol)

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The verso of the Narmer Palette. Narmer, considered by many Egyptologists to be the first ruler of a unified Egypt, stands over a defeated foe and is about to bring his mace down on the foe's head. Narmer is shown here wearing the white crown (hedyet) of Lower Egypt, while on the recto he is depicted with the red crown (desheret) of Upper Egypt, perhaps symbolizing his unification of the two realms. Artist unknown; sculpted ca. 3200-3000 BCE. Found at Hierakonpolis (Nekhen), pre-unification capital of Upper Egypt; now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo credit: Heagy1/Wikimedia Commons.

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Fascinating article by Christina Riggs on the Egyptian Museum in Turin.

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Egyptian tomb figurine

* Egyptian Museum of Turin

Turin, June 2023

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the mask of Tutankhamun 

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Oct 19 2024

Mooseem day 🤭❤️

(i will post more pics in a reblog and yap about the day! Wait!)

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The youngster and the sphynx

Egyptian Museum

Cairo/ Egypt

photo cjmn

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7.23

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There is a full-length NUDE statue identified as Mark Antony in Egypt?? How did I not know this before? Why can't I find image of it anywhere on the internet?

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Canopic Chest of Tutankhamun (1342-1324 BC)

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes, Luxor, Egypt.

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Canopic chests are cases used by ancient Egyptians to contain the internal organs removed during the process of mummification.

Once canopic jars began to be used in the late 4th Dynasty, the jars were placed within canopic chests.

Although the first proven canopic burials date from 4th Dynasty reign of Sneferu, there is evidence to suggest that there were canopic installations at Saqqara dating from 2nd Dynasty.

The first canopic chests were simple and wooden, but as time went on, they became more elaborate.

Then, around the 21st Dynasty (1069–945 BC), Egyptians decided to leave the viscera inside mummies.

But because they had been using canopic chests for thousands of years, they kept putting them in tombs, just without anything in them.

Canopic chests fell out of use during Ptolemaic Kingdom.

The style and materials were different at different times, though always reflected Egyptian ideal of perfectly measured and precise beauty.

This alabaster canopic chest of Tutankhamun is considered to be one of the finest masterpieces of King Tut’s collection.

The interior of the chest is divided into four compartments, each with a cylindrical hollow covered by a lid elegantly carved in the form of the king’s head.

At the four corners of the chest, carved in high relief, are four goddesses: Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Serket — who stretch out their arms to protect the contents of the chest.

Each of the four compartments of the canopic chest held a miniature coffin. Covered in linen, they stood upright in their cylindrical compartments.

Each was almost glued to the bottom owing to the hardening of the unguents that had been poured in as part of the ritual.

It was the duty of the goddess Nepthys, whose name is inscribed on the front, to protect the lungs of Tutankhamun, which were placed inside, after first being preserved.

The figure, fashioned of solid beaten gold, contains inlays of colored glass and semiprecious stones.

It is very close in design to the second coffin in which Tutankhamun was buried; in fact, it is almost a miniature version.

📍 Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 60687)

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When you come to Sharm El sheikh there is one excursion, which is a must. This is to go and see the wonderful city of Cairo. This is where you get the chance to see one of the last remaining wonders of the world, which of course are the Great pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza.

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Mummy case with gilded face (cleaned in the 1970s) containing the mummified body of a young girl called Tjayasetimu. The mummy case has been covered in black goo. Egyptian, c. 900 BC. read more

Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ | British Museum

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The Mummy Returns

After snatching a few hours of rest the night before, our first day in Cairo started early. Making sure all our luggage was in order, Popo and I came down to breakfast prepared for a long day ahead. Thankfully, with my planning skills in full display, we were able to enjoy a lengthier breakfast without having to cut it short to rush back to our rooms to collect our luggage - which had been located down a very long corridor was basically at the very tipping end of the building. 

Once the rest of our tour group was ready we go, we headed onto the coach for a day out exploring and appreciating Egyptian antiquities. Along the way, I got to observe how the people in Egypt drove (which was basically a free-for-all with lines marked out on the road serving mostly as guidelines and liberal uses of the horn to serve as warning to other drivers). 

It was essentially like being back in Asia and witnessing cars squeeze in wherever there was a free space, along with bikes. In all honesty, I could not help but be reminded of my times in China. Although, at least with China, there still seemed to be traffic lights. In that first fraught day in Cairo, there appeared to be none.

I also took the opportunity to take in the city itself, observing the buildings and seeing how Egyptians lived. While it couldn’t be described as terribly run-down, when compared to the west, it seemed a bit more chaotic with unfinished buildings that had yet to install windows or doors, or even a roof! This was later explained by our tour guide by people that had built their homes on illegal land to avoid fines from the government.

Then, of course, there were the people that wandered the highways, looking to get picked up by friends or strangers! 

But back to the agenda of the day, our first destination was the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. There, we inspected artefacts that dated back all the way to the Old Kingdom. Statues, as well, abounded in the halls of the museum. But of importance was that the entrance of the Museum had two depictions of the Goddess Isis standing guard, flanking Hathor (at least according to our guide). 

Inside, there were plenty of depictions of King Ramesses II, although there were also statues of Hatsheput and even of Akhenaten himself! Of note, and as pointed out by our tour guide, Ahmed, was the Narmer Palette, which contains some of the earliest hieroglyphics inscriptions ever found and shows the unification of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms of the Nile. 

There was also a huge block of text that had inscriptions detailing tax reforms that included Greek as well! I think it was part of the Rosetta Stone or had come from the same source as the rock that sat centre-stage at the British Museum.

Regardless, the Egyptian Museum of Cairo also contained busts of Graeco-Roman individuals due to their presence in Egypt in the latter half of BCE. After all, who can forget the great love story of Cleopatra and Marc Antony: an Egyptian Queen and her Roman lover.

In any case, any trip trip to Egypt - and to Cairo - would be remiss if such a stop was overlooked. Visiting the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is a must. Especially as it details a lot of the history of the country and has some excellent displays such as the one that detailed what ancient Egyptians got up to in their spare time including sports and games. As an Australian, what amused me was the fact that the creation of this wing had the help of the Australian Consulate. And there were even boomerangs on display to show similar hunting tactics!

More importantly, though, the Egyptian Museum also featured the sarcophagi as well as the mummified remains of Yuya and his wife, Thuya. These two are the grandparents of Akhenaten and were located in KV46.

Animals, too, had been mummified in the past. As we walked through the gallery, I noted the remains of a crocodile, dog, monkey and a sacred fish!

If these aren’t enough to impress, the museum also featured a display dedicated to King Tutankhamen and that of a pharaoh whose tomb was discovered during the height of the Second World War (and is thus not greatly remarked upon by most individuals), Psusennes I. 

Now, he was a pharaoh with a most impressive collection that was also mostly untouched upon discovery. Better yet, his sarcophagus was lined with silver, not gold. And during this period in Ancient Egyptian history, silver was considered much more valuable than gold.

After touring the museum, and picking up a commemorative fridge magnet, we lunched at a restaurant not far from the pyramids (and which was praised for the fact that it had pigeon on the menu). Afterwards, we headed straight for the looming tombs of Khufu, Khafre and Kenkaure - with the Great Pyramid of Khufu being considered the oldest and last surviving Ancient Wonder of the World.

Strangely enough, after we went to the pyramids and completed the customary photographs outside the old tombs, as well as taking the traditional selfie with the Sphinx nearby, it was later discovered the next day that there might be another secret passage close to the entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza. 

Clearly, it was my presence at the pyramids that day that was the key for the researchers to uncover more hidden secrets. Will this lead to me becoming the next Jack West Jr.? Will I become embroiled in a quest to save the world from the upcoming apocalypse?

Or will I be co-opted into the Order of Hidden Ones and become a full fledged assassin, leaping off buildings and parkouring around the modern cityscape?

So many options, so little time!

Regardless, after we had drunk our fill of the Pyramids of Giza and the Khufu Sphinx, as well as enjoy a camel ride across the great desert, we headed to dinner at a different Chinese restaurant to the one we went to the night before. Afterwards, we headed directly to the airport for a domestic flight.

Our destination?

The beach-side holiday resort city right next to the Red Sea: Hurghada. 

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The oldest and largest Egyptian Museum in the world! An experience I don't regret! It was truly wonderful and educational! I wished I was more well rested and had more strength in me that day to truly immerse myself in it!

One of my favourite things of this trip! ❤️😍📸✨

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