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Karnak botanischer Garten

Tempel Thutmosis III.: "Botanischer Garten"     http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Karnak achmenu hieroglyphen

Tempel Thutmosis III.: Hieroglyphen an einem Architrav  http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Skarabäus in karnak

Vielfach berührter Skarabäus zwischen Hatschepsuts herausgehackten Namen read more at        http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Hatschepsut-Kapelle: Karnak Tempel

Hatschepsut-Kapelle: Detail des Thot-Reliefs an der linken Wand - über ihm eine ausgehackte Kartusche mit Hatschepsuts Thronnamen Maat-ka-Re Read more at  http://egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_excursions.htm

Tomb of Kheruef at Elassasif Luxor-Egypt

The Tomb of Kheruef  is one of the most important, both religiously and historically, in the Theban necropolis.   It has helped us understand the history of  rituals celebrating kingship . The owner was most likely an significant individual who organized the first and third jubilees for  Amenhotep III , though he probably died in during the reign of  Amenhotep IV  (Akhenaten). He was a Royal Scribe and First Herald to the King, he was later appointed Steward to Queen Tiy. The tomb was first explored by the German Egyptologist Adolph Erman in 1885. This investigation was later published by Heinrich Brugsch in his Thesaurus Inscriptionum Aegyptiacarum in 1891. In the 1940s, Alan Gardiner also worked the tomb and then after it was robbed in the 1940s, the Egyptian Department of Antiquities in association with the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago cleared, recorded and finally published their results in 1980. The most important scenes within the to...

The painted Tomb -Chapel of Nebamun Masterpiece of the ancient egyptian art in the British museum

Today I received an interesting book from an English friend about The painted Tomb -Chapel of Nebamun . Masterpiece of the ancient egyptian art in the British museum the book is written by Richard Parkinson  Richard Parkinson discusses the history of paintings from the ancient to the modern times .with a detailed description of these fragments from the tomb . www.egyptraveluxe.com the tomb was found in 1820 by Giovanni d’Athanasi . and quickly removed various scenes from the mud-plaster walls. Eleven of these were acquired by the British Museum, and have become some of the most familiar works of Egyptian art The tomb-chapel was in the northern part of the Theban necropolis, but the precise location remains unknown. Various strands of evidence suggest that it was probably in the area of the current Spanish–Egyptian excavations at Dra Abu el-Naga. The tomb commemorated Nebamun, a grain accountant of the Temple of Amun, who probably worked late in the reign of Amenh...

Party like an Ancient Egyptian

Follow my blog with Bloglovin   Most of the Egyptian elites party through festivals. When they throw a party bash, everyone invited can eat meat and drink beer at their hearts content! They can also savor pastries flavored with honey and ancient fruit cakes. Yummy! The nobles also hire dancers and musicians to make the party much more fun! Egyptian dancing shows more skin than most of us think. Wanna know why? Egyptian dancers do the erotic dances while naked! Talk about the bars on present day! Musicians also play various instruments such as flutes, lutes and harps. You don't have to look far to imagine how they looked like. Much like music bands today, they consist of males and females minus the singer. Obviously, musicians seemed dull, unlike the exciting female dancers! Servants act like customer service professionals in a party. They keep the guests well fed and taken care of much like their bosses. As a warm treatment to the guests, they place perfume cones in ...

Baboons or Police Dogs

According to ancient records, baboons were kept as "police dogs" by authorities, led on leashes and used to help catch suspects. On an Old Kingdom tomb a police baboon is shown helping to arrest a fleeing thief in the village market by seizing his leg.  Baboons were very popular in ancient Egypt, and were sometimes kept as pets.It was only the gentle female baboons that were kept as pets, as male baboons are notoriously aggressive and bad-tempered (in fact, the image of a male baboon with a raised tail serves as the hieroglyph for “enraged.”)  It was thought that baboons were the first creatures to pay proper religious observances.There was a belief that the most learned Egyptian priests understood the secret language of baboons baboons Thought by the Egyptians to be both a lunar and a solar animal, it was observed that baboons “sang” to the moon at night, and taken as a sign of worship. The Egyptians also observed baboons barking at the rising sun, which gave rise to a ...

The silence of the heron

In ancient Egypt, for example, the Bennu bird –– a mythical phoenix, the ba (manifestation or soul) of Re (the sun god) and a symbol of regeneration –– was sometimes portrayed as a heron. Not only was the heron a symbol of the rising sun, but it also represented life’s renewal on account of its habit of flying away from the rising water over neighbouring fields at the time of the Nile’s annual, ground-fertilising inundation.    In Christian tradition, the heron may represent Christ, for it preys on eels and snakes, serpentine symbols of Satan. Its probing beak has furthermore prompted comparisons with the search for hidden knowledge, and consequently with wisdom (or, less grandly, with nosiness).

War Scenes of Ramesses II

A sketch of one of the name rings with the palimpsest of the "Battle of Kadesh" narrative underneath. Unscrambling these two sets of inscriptions is a difficult task. Note the "spikes" on the oval representing crenellations or towers of a fortress.

War Scenes of Ramesses II

(Left) photo of a palimpsest showing an Egyptian soldier slaying a Hittite prisoner from the Battle of Kadesh narrative. Superimposed over this image are the legs of the god Amun seated on a throne. Wavy lines behind his feet represent the Orontes river from the Battle of Kadesh. (Right) a drawing of the palimpsest

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Shasu bedouin try to flee Seti's attack by running toward the town of Canaan on a hill. At the top, two men break their weapons as a sign of surrender. a third man waves his arms in submission.

karnak temple

There are scenes devoted to the presentation of booty and prisoners to the god Amen-Re. The caption over one reads: "Presentation of tribute by His Majesty to his father Amen...consisting of silver, gold, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, red jasper and every sort of precious stone. The chiefs of the hill countries are in his grasp to fill the workshops of his father Amen." The hieroglyphic texts also record speeches by the god praising the king for his actions and gifts: "Welcome in peace. I make you victorious over every foreign land and set fear of you in the heart of the Nine Bows (= all foreign countries). Their chiefs come ...

Karnak Temple -War Scenes of Seti I

  Returning from his "first campaign of victory," Seti I marches prisoners to the Egyptian border fortress at the town of Tcharu (Tell Hebua). A canal filled with crocodiles divides the two sides of Tcharu. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered both of the Tcharu fortress complexes during recent excavations.

Karnak Temple -War Scenes of Seti I

During a stop in Lebanon, Seti I forces the chiefs of Lebanon to cut down cedar trees.