#ancient egyptian builds

[convexicalcrow]

Sometimes you don't relaise your base is gonna Do A Lore until you've already committed to it. Such as it is with my base on the hctcg server. I had no real plan for what I was gonna build or where. Maybe a taiga or a desert, those are my two faves. And when I saw the desert, well. That's where I went.

There was a lake that I decided to settle at, on the edge of a jungle, with a hill and a desert temple. Coastal. The kind of place you might find a settlement. And me being me, of course deserts aren't for anything other than ancient Egyptian builds, and so I started there.

At first, it was just going to be a town. I wasn't going to do villagers, bc well. I'm on a server where other ppl are willing to do villagers so I don't need to. I'll just build smol pyramids and grain silos and smol littol houses and whatever else I feel I need. Lots of little builds.

The docks were not meant to be this grand. But I can't help myself and so that's what's happened. The lower walls aren't completed yet, I only started those a few hours ago. But it sets the stage.

As does the desert temple, half-buried in the sand below the level of the lake. Obviously I wasn't going to build the Great Pyramid here; I'm not Cub, and well, it's been done before. But what if that small desert temple was the last thing standing. What if the rest of the pyramid had crumbled to dust a thousand years ago. Five thousand years ago. What if this small lake emerged five hundred years ago, as the jungle encroached, and perhaps people settled here. And perhaps they buried their dead on the western side of the lake, as Egyptians would do, tombs long since looted and abandoned.

Perhaps that's the place I've come to. The Valley of the Kings. An ancient place where the dead lie. A necropolis, if you will. A city of the dead. What if that's what this place is. And what if instead of small houses, temples. Perhaps that's what this place is and what I'm going to build there.

[sothasil]

Two blokes slacking off at work :p

Cretan diplomats based on a painting of the tomb of Rekhmire, Luxor. I was intruigued by the leopard skirt thingy one of them is wearing and drew a more or less realistic interpretation of it! The other guy's there so he can have a buddy.

While i usually draw people looking as average as possible, it's not the case here. It's fair to assume that within the "PR" context of the painting (representing their people in front of a foreign king) these would be the ancient aegean's hottest boytoys, so I kept them snatched and smooth shaved.

Originals under the cut!

Mural with my chosen duo highlighted

Cropped closeup, leopard skirt guy on the left (and the two arms of jugs guy!)

[thevastnessof]

conservatives are always like oghhg but we have to take pride in our jobs/kids these days dont have a work ethic/just be grateful for the opportunity. as if being a hater at work hasn't been our god given right since Day One babyyy

[egyptian-architecture]

Egyptian decoration art and ornament are an abstract to what their eyes saw, what their hearts believed.

Iteration denying arbitrariness, emphasizing that form followed philosophy and mirrored environment

if you can read our decoration, you can read our minds.

[dinodogs]

*screaming sobbing crying slamming my fists on the floor* 5000 YEARS IS NOT ENOUGH FOR 10 DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE GROUPS OF DRAGONS TO FORM WITH THEIR OWN ADAPTATIONS TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS, ABILITIES, BIOLOGY AND CULTURE!!!!!!!!!

[willtheweaver]

The enclosure wall and northern offering chapel will be provided.

This pyramid is roughly equivalent to the ones built by the Old Kingdom Pharaohs (c.2575-2134 BCE), but knowing this site, the resulting structure may look more like something built during the Middle Kingdom (2040-c.1640 BCE)

Coordinate for a cohesive structure, go unhinged to mess with AI.

[muchtoosweettea]

all the buildings in my ancient egyptian city, still in progress

[egypquotes]

Tefnut : You borrowed a crane?

Imseti : Not exactly.

Heka: You stole a crane?!

Imseti : Exactly.

[mamoru-chiba-ua]

[blueiscoool]

Greek-Roman Funerary Building and Mummy Portraits Discovered in Egypt

The building and the paintings date back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras.

A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country's antiquities ministry said on Thursday.

The building and the paintings, which are famously known as the Fayoum portraits, date back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras in the 3rd century B.C. They were found in Fayoum's Gerza village, which was known as Philadelphia during the Roman period.

"The discovered structure is a large building styled as a funerary building with colored gypsum tiled floors," Adel Okasha, who heads the antiquities department in Cairo and Giza, said in a statement. "To the south of it, there is colonnade hall where the remains of four columns were found."

The uncovering of the paintings was also hailed as one of the most important archeological discoveries this year, as it marked the first time such portraits were found in more than 110 years.

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, British egyptologist Flinders Petrie excavated at least 150 mummy portraits at a Roman necropolis in in Fayoum's archeological site of Hawara.

"The discovery shows the diversity and difference in quality of the mummification process during the Ptolemaic and Roman times based on the financial status of the deceased," said Mostafa Waziry, the head of Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council.

Waziry also said a "rare terracotta statue of [ancient deity] Isis Aphrodite was discovered inside one of the burials in a wooden coffin," as well as "papyrus-made records" with Demotic and Greek inscriptions that show the economic and religious statuses of the inhabitants of the area at the time.

Egypt, which has invested heavily in ancient discoveries in recent years, is hoping to revive its ailing tourism industry. The country also plans to inaugurate a state-of-the-art museum near the Giza Pyramids, which Egypt says will be the biggest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization.

By Hatem Maher.

[itsmejunior]

BLESSED FRIDAY ❤️

E G Y P T

[swagging-back-to]

the most unrealistic part of steven universe is that the zoomans speak and understand modernized english.

[bijoumikhawal]

:))))))

[ava-of-shenanigans]

I know I’ve been losing my mind over the lettuce thing for like a month now, but I just want to say that the best plot point in The Contendings of Horus and Set isn’t that, it’s the part during the boat race where Horus tries to kill Set with a hunting barb, but the Ennead is like “noooo don’t kill him”, so Horus goes “well fine then” and grumpily sails his fake stone boat all the way down to Sais to complain to Neith about it.

[metatemu]

Underrated potential in the artist/muse dynamic with Atem and Ryou.

[solitariussanctumartarchitecture]

Digital Giza is the world’s largest digital repository of Giza archaeological documentation? 😮 Not only you can access photos, maps, plans, drawings… but also an amazing collection of immersive 3D model reconstructions.