Posted on 04/14/2019 3:38:15 AM PDT by mairdie
Edited on 04/14/2019 8:56:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a major archaeological discovery, Egypt on Saturday unveiled the tomb of a Fifth Dynasty official adorned with colourful reliefs and well preserved inscriptions.
The tomb, south of Saqqara, a vast necropolis south of Cairo, belongs to a senior official named Khuwy who is believed to have been a nobleman during the Fifth Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt about 4300 years ago.
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I love that archaeologists are still uncovering Egyptian tombs and artifacts. To me, it’s fascinating to imagine what life was like in those times.
I couldn't agree more.
gnip
Thanks, mairdie, I so love Egyptian art. Even as a child, I would draw temples and columns and gods all the time.
Tomb selfies.
TXnMA
Fascinating!
Egypt never fails to amaze with it’s discoveries.
The timeline always floors me — a civilization that lasted so long (2-4K years depending on how you want to calculate) right up to the Common Era.
Think of Christianity’s 2,000 year history, now realize when Christ was born the Egyptian Mythos had already existed that amount of time — maybe twice as long!
A religion of death, yet far superior to that of islam, who, one wonders, haven’t yet destroyed these kafir monuments, as is their usual ilk.
more and better pictures:
The Muslim Brotherhood has threatened to!
The Islamic occupation of Egypt at various time have had a tolerate (mostly because we’ve forgotten our history!) - hate relationship with Egypt’s past. The modern West is who taught them their history!
Interesting article! Thanks!
This deserves a Prime Time special.
Ancient Egyptian Art to Ancient Music
An art history look at Ancient Egyptian Art to ‘Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks’ and ‘Ankh, the Sound of Ancient Egypt’. From Pre-Dynastic Period to Late Period.
https://youtu.be/05kSpcfUCyI
Fine Arts - Egyptian Fayum Portraits of the Ptolemaic Period
332-30 BC
The Ptolemaic Kingdom was founded by Ptolemy and ended with the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman conquest in 30 BC.
https://youtu.be/ghLdvoR81f4
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Thanks all!
wow
Actually the Egyptian ‘religion’ was focused on the afterlife - it was not all dire and gloomy worship of death, but a new life filled with hope, joy, love, walking beside the eternal Gods (which were not seen as personalities, but as aspects/concepts/principles - its difficult to make their concept clear). Their ‘religion’ (they had no such word, by the way) was far closer to modern Christianity then many realize.
All of a person’s life (where every aspect of daily life was seen as symbolic) was focused on doing good in the eyes of the Gods that they may be judged well and be allowed to pass on, else they would be called ‘the evil dead’, have their heads cut off, and then be stood their shoulders until they were devoured.
This way of life was pretty much true for most of the period from Old Kingdom circa 3,500 BC (or as wiki would have it - 2686 BC) to the beginning of the New Kingdom circa 1,570 BC. After that they moved away from the old ways which were mostly forgotten by that time anyway.
When reading about Ancient Egypt realize that almost everything written is wrong. This is because there are reputation that can only be kept by not asking questions and going along with the conscientious thinking so prevalent in modern Egyptology. Modern Egypt is heavily vested in the prevailing image due to its utter dependence on the tourist trade.
By the way, the whole of the dating by dynasty is pretty much meaningless since the dating is based on the Kings List - a known 19th century forgery,
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