#royal chambers

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Lian's / Conláed's chambers in the castle of Velaris

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Royal Chambers by Wang & Söderström. 2023

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CM PUNK WWE SmackDown, January 31st, 2025

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The Tomb of a Royal Scribe Discovered in Egypt

Czech experts have made another important discovery in the Egyptian archaeological site in Abusir. They found the hitherto unexplored tomb of the royal scribe Dzhehutiemhat, which is richly decorated in the form of many hieroglyphic texts and images. They mainly consist of ritual and religious texts, which were supposed to ensure the soul of the deceased an eternal life in the next world.

In April and May of this year, another part of field research by Czech Egyptologists regarding shaft tombs from the middle of the first millennium BC took place in Abusir, Egypt. It was here that the archaeological team of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University discovered the tomb of a hitherto unknown dignitary from the time of the Persian invasion of Egypt.

“It is a richly decorated shaft tomb of medium size, whose owner, a certain Džehutiemhat, held the office of royal scribe,” explains Ladislav Bareš, who has been coordinating the research of Abusir shaft tombs for a long time.

From the tomb, the above-ground part of which was destroyed already in ancient times, only the main shaft was preserved, at the bottom of which lay a burial chamber made of limestone blocks at a depth of 14 meters. Access to it was provided by a small, more northerly shaft and a narrow corridor approximately three meters long connecting the access shaft with the burial chamber.

For reasons still unknown, this access shaft was largely filled with several dozen decorated limestone blocks, originating from the dismantled above-ground part of the nearby majestic tomb of General Menechibnekon.

A tomb with rich decoration

The burial chamber is richly decorated with texts and other scenes. A long sequence of incantations against snakebite from the Pyramid Texts covers the north entrance wall. Interestingly, the snakes mentioned in these magical texts represented a potential danger, but could also serve as powerful protectors of the deceased and his mummy.

“While the entrance to the nearby Menechibnekon’s burial chamber was protected by the guardians of the gates of the 144th chapter of the Book of the Dead, in the case of Džehutiemhat, snakes from the Pyramid Texts play this role,” adds Renata Landgráfová, director of the Institute of Egyptology and an expert on the ancient Egyptian language and texts.

The south and west walls are covered with a sacrificial ritual and an extensive sacrificial list. On the ceiling of the burial chamber are depictions of the journey of the sun god Reo through the sky, first in the morning and then in the evening celestial bar. The depictions are accompanied by hymns to the rising and setting sun. Inside the burial chamber covered with relief decoration is a large stone sarcophagus, which also bears hieroglyphic inscriptions and depictions of gods, both outside and inside. The lid is decorated with texts taken from the Book of the Dead, but also excerpts from the much older Pyramid Texts, which partially repeat sayings that also appear on the walls of the burial chamber.

Ritual texts for eternal life

On the bottom of the inner wall of the sarcophagus bath, the goddess of the west, Imentet, is depicted, and its inner sides bear the so-called canopic sayings, spoken by this goddess and the earth god Geb. “The goddess of the west inside the sarcophagus represents the protector, guide and symbolic mother of the deceased,” explains Jiří Janák, who analyzes and interprets religious and magical texts as part of field research.

All the mentioned spiritual-ritual texts were supposed to ensure the deceased a smooth entry into a blissful and well-secured eternal life in the afterlife.

The tomb of the scribe Dzhehutiemhat was discovered almost empty, as it was robbed probably already in the 5th century AD, similar to other tombs in this burial ground.

The deceased suffered from sedentary work

From the anthropological analysis of the skeletal remains, which was carried out by leading Egyptian experts, it was found that Dzhehutiemhat died at a relatively early age of around 25 years, he bore the signs of a kind of occupational disease (wear and tear of the spine during sedentary work) and suffered from severe osteoporosis, i.e. thinning of the bones.

The latter fact could place him in the family of other inhabitants of the Abusir shaft tomb burial, in whom the disease was also confirmed, such as the famous Iufaa, the owner of a nearby much larger tomb, whose unlooted burial chamber was discovered in 1996.

It is therefore possible that most of the owners of the tombs buried in this part of the Abusir necropolis belonged to one extended family, firmly anchored in the military elite of late Saiyan Egypt. However, Dzhehutiemhat’s mother probably came from completely different circles and a different part of Egypt at that time. Her two names can be translated as “Nubian” and “Fox”, while the latter is written in an unusual, most likely Berber form.

They also found a collection of pottery in the tomb. “The discovery of a large fragment of a Chian amphora with a perfectly smoothed edge is also very interesting, because the ancient looters probably used it as a shovel,” says Květa Smoláriková, who is an expert on Egyptian ceramics and Greek imports in the Czech team.

“The recently discovered tomb of the dignitary Džehutiemhat on the Abusír archaeological concession is the latest piece of knowledge in the mosaic of the history of ancient Egypt at the end of its glory in the late period, in the 6th century BC,” says Miroslav Bárta, director of Czech archaeological research in Abusír, about the discovery.

“The shaft tombs represent a special type of tombs of this time. They were created as a specific attempt by the ancient Egyptian elites for a renaissance and are based on the form of the tomb of King Djoser, the founder of the famous Old Kingdom, the time of the pyramid builders in the 3rd millennium BC,” he adds.

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FIRSTPRINCE AU: The Kissing Chamber (or, Marco x Elliott) "all you can do is love them... and make sure they know that you're never gonna slip away."

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The Duchess of Cambridge for British Vogue 100 Year Anniversary, 2016 “I wanted to keep it quite generic because knew one picture would end up in the National Portrait Gallery and because the Duchess felt she's been photographed in quite a lot of evening wear already. But she's very open. She's intelligent and engaged with everything. That girl next door is just shtick. You can't do that job and be ordinary. What strikes me is that she really loves William." — Famed British Vogue Fashion Director, Lucinda Chambers.

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road to wrestlemania - vienna

on friday i watched them on tv, saturday in live. surreal but the best day of my life fr

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“Sleeping cuckoos”

Species: Black-thighed Cellophane-cuckoo bees, Epeolus variegatus

“Two cuckoo bees (Epeolus variegatus) fast asleep, grasping onto the grass with their mandibles. Still with a few drops of morning dew on them.”

by Luke Chambers (UK)

Royal Entomological Society’s Insect Photo Competition

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Are we getting Punk Cena Rollins McIntyre in the chamber?????

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the girls who "pretended" to be a boy in royale high when they were 10 are no longer just pretending

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the PRODIGY. 🎀✨️

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OH YEAH IVE UPDATED THE BASTARD

He’s now Extremely Fruity

Also

He has a page on the fanon wiki now!!! Got some stuff on here that may be interesting :3

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I know that Triple H wants to drag out who Jey Uso will pick as his WM41 opponent for the drama, but right now, it has to be Gunther. Cody does not make sense for Jey. What I mean is:

1) If Jey goes with Cody after Gunther told him that he can’t beat him, then Jey’s ducking Gunther. Even if he beats Cody, he’s basically admitting that Gunther is the better man. That would overshadow his entire reign, which would not be a good start for him as a main eventer. I know the IWC has complained about how Jey already lost to Gunther, but that’s the selling point! We want to see this man overcome the odds! Lowkey, the possibility of Jey not choosing Gunther feels like when Cody Rhodes didn’t choose Roman Reigns as his opponent for WM40. It just didn’t feel right, especially since Cody was hyping up his rematch with Roman. Jey needs this rematch with Gunther, especially now that Gunther has mocked him.

2) WWE would be facing a creative nightmare if it’s Cody versus Jey. When you have two massively over babyfaces fighting each other, the crowd will not know who to root for. And if the crowd sides with one of them, the other is getting hurt in the process. If they root for Cody, then Jey is getting buried. If they root for Jey, then Cody will have to turn heel, or else become a hated babyface. While that might sound good for some people, there needs to be a lot more groundwork for a proper heel Cody, especially since he’s coming off a victory against a heel (Kevin Owens) and is now being targeted by a returning heel (Solo Sikoa).

3) Just to add on to point 2, Cody and Jey don’t exist in a vacuum. Whatever happens in their storylines will affect the entire roster. I’m just saying, it would be strange to have Cody turn heel for Jey’s sake when he’s still being booked against established heels. And if you want to build up Jey Uso as a main eventer, you’d be taking a MASSIVE risk by having him go against your company’s top babyface. Why even risk that when you can book him against the heel world champion?

4) Cody-Jey doesn’t make sense anyways. They don’t really have anything to build off of in terms of a rivalry outside of the championships. In fact, there’s more reasons for them to be friends than enemies. If you want the feud to come off as organic, there has to be something more. Gunther-Jey already has the seeds of a feud, there’s no reason to not continue that storyline.

5) Adding on to point 2, if you want to establish Jey as a main-eventer, it’d be a disservice to him if the crowd is forced to choose between him and his opponent. That kind of match - two over babyfaces going against each other - only really works if the wrestlers are equal in terms of reputation (example: Rock vs. Stone Cold). Cody is a veteran world champion, Jey is just getting there. It wouldn’t be fair to Jey at all.

6) Jey not choosing Gunther would also be a disservice to Gunther. I feel like the entire WWE fanbase is so focused on who will challenge Cody Rhodes for the belt that they’ve forgotten that WWE has two men’s world champions. It’s not just Jey who’d benefit from the Royal Rumble bump, Gunther would too.

7) So far, we have John Cena, CM Punk, and Drew McIntyre in Elimination Chamber. Let’s be for real, does anyone want these guys to face off against Gunther? The answer is probably no, they’re more than likely to go after Cody Rhodes. Since that’s the case, Jey HAS to pick Gunther.

8) Going back to my point about organic storytelling, besides Jey-Gunther making more sense as the narrative going into WM41, Cody has other opponents who make way more sense than Jey. Off the top of my head, you got John Cena (passing of the torch), CM Punk (this was already teased from their intense promo before the Rumble), Roman Reigns (rematch from last year), Seth Rollins (old issues), and even Drew McIntyre (following up on Drew hugging Cody in the ring). I’m just saying, why force a storyline with Jey, especially when Jey already has his own storylines that make more sense for him.

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Uma holding hands with both Tay and Nick 💖💖💖

I keep forgetting that she also played Nick's mom in chambers where they had a lot of emotional scenes together, so they must have know each other very well before working on RWRB 😍 And seeing her at the event last night with both her 'boys' makes me feel things I can't even comprehend 😭😭😭

I knew she was holding Taylor's hand, but I never noticed her holding Nick's as well, I had to look through all the footage again, and I'd already giffed it and didn't even notice 🤣 but yeah, it's so cute!!

It's such a lovely coincidence that she's played both Taylor and Nick's mom in different projects. It did feel strange when I watched Chambers after just having watched RWRB, and hearing Henry call Ellen mom 🤣 she must have had a lot of fun last night with both of her sons/son-in-law 💖

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The Coronation of Quintana

Artist: Louis Lopez Piquer (Spanish, 1802-1865)

Date: 1859

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

The work represents Manuel José Quintana (Madrid, 11.4.1772-Madrid, 11.3.1857), politician, poet, playwright and tutor of Queen Isabel II, on the day of his coronation as an illustrious poet (25.3.1855) in the Senate chamber.