#Upper Egypt

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Tunic with multicolored borders - Museo Egizio Collection

Inventory Number: S. 8530 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1425–1353 BCE Location Information: Deir el Medina / tomb of Kha (TT8)

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Silk and Telli embroidered dresses from Upper Egypt, Costumes of Egypt: The Lost Legacies by Shahira Mehrez.

She identifies these all as being "red" embroidery, but in many images the color reads as pink or purple instead; this could be that the dresses are old enough that the dye faded, or some struggle with photographing the color happened.

The honey comb motif is similar to medieval textile fragments. Mehrez identifies the trefoils here with the embroidery of some Coptic tunics from the Fatimid era, and notes they sometimes are used to crown saints in Coptic embroideries.

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Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (Polish-Danish, 1819-1881)

En ægyptisk pottesælgerske ved Gizeh

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Elephantine Island (2) (3) (4) (5) by Panegyrics of Granovetter

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Artist's Sketch of a Swallow

Egypt, around 1479–1458 B.C.

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Inner coffin of Amenemopet Period. Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, ca. 975–909 B.C. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.

Wood, paint, gesso

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▶️ According to Noah Salameh, Hamas has cornered the Israeli regime by accepting the truce proposal from Egypt and Qatar, but Netanyahu’s personal interests are preventing any agreement, as he would face corruption charges once the war ends.

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Upper Egypt. صعيد مصر. Haute-Égypte. Girgeh. Mosquèe d'Aly-Bey

Maxime Du Camp. Printer Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille French 1850

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‏‎صورة مذهلة لتمثال السيدة العذراء.

من دير العذراء في جبل الطير - المنيا💚✨

Amazing picture of the statue of the Virgin Mary.

From the Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Jabal al-Tayr - Minya 💚✨

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Light tunic with embellished neckline - Museo Egizio Collection

Inventory Number: S. 8543 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1425–1353 BCE Location Information: Deir el Medina / tomb of Kha (TT8)

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Telli embroidered dresses from Upper Egypt, Costumes of Egypt: The Lost Legacies by Shahira Mehrez. These are most commonly executed on black cotton fabric, but rayon became popular in the mid 19th-century. Mehrez also mentions a few rare silk dresses she's seen, but none are pictured here.

These two dresses are singled out by Mehrez as being most likely for Coptic women due to the large crosses around the neckline, though she identifies the trefoils, diamonds, and chevrons as likely being Christian in origin. The chevrons often end with crosses or diamonds, and Mehrez believes the diamonds are themselves stylized crosses, as surviving garments of Coptic priests from previous centuries sometimes have crosses enclosed within diamonds, and on a small scale (as with the chevrons) the shapes are quite similar.

The girls in these photos are identified by her as Coptic Christians as well, in part due to the diamond motif, which with the addition of smaller diamonds at the points, is more recognizable as a cross. The disparity in how much embroidery is used could signify that a lot of embroidery was considered inappropriate for a girl before marriagable age.

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Jean-François Portaels (Belgian, 1818-1895)

Marchande de fleurs, Le Caire

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Aswan (2) (3) (4) (5) by Panegyrics of Granovetter

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This is a video about people in Upper Egypt, in Nubia, who keep Nile crocodiles as pets. It's in Arabic, but the visuals are great.

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One remarkable carving says that an Upper Egyptian king named Narmer conquered Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE, while another suggests the involvement of someone called the Scorpion King.†

†The Scorpion King movies, sad to say, bear not even a passing resemblance to the little we know of the real Scorpion King.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

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Joseph: King of Dreams | Sons of Jacob