(via Ancient Egyptian Tombs Discovered Dating Back Before the Pyramids)
… 68 were constructed during the Buto 1 and 2 civilizations, which began in 3300 BCE; five were constructed during the Naqada III civilization, which preceded the unification of Egypt in 3000 BCE; and the remaining 37 were constructed during the [Second Intermediate Period] known as the Hyksos period, when Western Asian nomads wrested control of the country from the pharaohs between 1650 BCE and 1500 BCE, according to Al Jazeera.
“This is an extremely interesting cemetery because it combines some of the earliest periods of Egyptian history with another important era, the time of the Hyksos,” Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo, told Reuters. “[Scholars] are working to understand how the Egyptians and the Hyksos lived together and to what degree the former took on Egyptian traditions.” … Read More »
Amulet of the God Bes
Medium: Faience
Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’ of ancient Egypt discovered | Egypt | The Guardian
...“The city is 3,000 years old, dates to the reign of Amenhotep III, and continued to be used by Tutankhamun and Ay.”
It called the find the largest ancient city, known as Aten, ever uncovered in Egypt.
Betsy Bryan, Professor of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns Hopkins University, said the find was the “second most important archeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun”, according to the team’s statement.
Items of jewellery such as rings have been unearthed, along with coloured pottery vessels, scarab beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing the seals of Amenhotep III. ...
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Via the mery of my ankh and Royal Mummies Paraded Through Downtown Cairo In Museum Move : NPR
Twenty-two mummified members of ancient Egyptian royalty passed through downtown Cairo in an awe-inspiring parade on Saturday. The event, which drew fanfare to the country's robust collections of antiquities in an elaborate procession, saw the mummies being relocated from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, about 3 miles away in nearby Fustat.
The spectacle was named The Pharaohs' Golden Parade and comprised 18 kings and four queens, including some of Egypt's most prominent rulers of the past....
The royal figures were transported in vehicles specially rigged to carry the remains and a security motorcade surrounded the convoy. Due to the fragility of the preserved pharaohs, they were placed in nitrogen filled boxes for protection. The roads along the route were even repaved to ensure a smooth relocation. Read More »
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Sekmet with her kitties - Cairo Museum [x]
Most humans might not still believe in the old Gods, but cats know what’s what!
Love that lion-flavored kittehs are lyin’ there.
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Egyptian gold finger-ring; cornelian bezel in form of cat; wedjat-eye on under-side.
1070 - 712 BCE
© British Museum
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50 ancient coffins uncovered at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis | Egypt | The Guardian
Wooden sarcophagi discovered at site south of Cairo along with funerary temple of Queen Naert
Three Cosmetic Vessels, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art
Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Anhydrite
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/698622
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