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In the shadow of the Atonnism

Akhenaton's unique religion had left an outstanding impact on Egypt, regardless to hardness that the Atonnism had faced, as the oneness of Aton was not a tolerated concept for ancient Egyptians. The monotheism of Akhenaton was a true religious shock that caused a social and an economical disorder and due to the closure of most of major temple for Amun-Ra at Thebes which had a lot of effect on Egyptian stability of economy. The theme of the Atonnism had never allowed any rivalry to the one god concept and prevented establishing any other cults, temple, statues and any carvings which caused many of the workmen and the farmers who served in temples of gods to lose their jobs, that included temples architects and the layer of the Egyptian society who suffered it in a severe way. While being Akhenaton's policy tremendous in attracting the mass and the crowds to his new religion with his kindness ,simplicity and generosity as he used to spread the gold and presents out of his carriage that was not enough to allow his theme to prevail. The conspiracies and the plots which were hatched continuously against king Akhenaton was a good cause for him to abandon Thebes and to create his own Utopia.






Out of his many scattered ruins I would like to through the light on some of his ruins that been found at Luxor temple and still left there was no attention paid by most of visitors. The pictures show a damaged block of sandstone was most probably a part of a chapel Akhenaton had built and was later destroyed. It shows Akhenaton presenting his gold to his followers while crossing a rill on a boat also you can see all the Amarnian style which belongs to his new capital at Tell El Amarna.

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大英博物館。ミイーラ の ジンジャル

大英博物館　に　ジンジャル　は　まだ、一番　有名　な　ミイーラ　が　あります。全体　に　その　イジプト　ミイーラ　は　ななしですが しょうが かめ　でした。それから、その　ミイーラ　は　゛しょうが゛ジンジアーと言う でしたね。ジンジャル　は　凡そ、３０００年　紀元前　でした。ミイーラ　の　ジンジャル　は たい じ　 したい を 持ちます。

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Book of The Dead,The Turtle,good or bad ?

The British Museum



Among the most attractive objects in the Egyptian collection of the British Museum is a little wooden statue of a human headed turtle. It was found at Valley of the Kings in early1900 and was kept by the museum. Since its discovery, there was a debate on its nature and function, some thought the turtle would help the deceased to reach Osiris's land of justice and others thought it should be one of the obstacles that dead would be confronting in the underworld. While I agree about being the turtle representation is so rare to be found and maybe the one at the British museum seems to be the only one, I have what can lead our attention to its function as I have another representation to the turtle. The second and most probably the last, is found at the temple of Hathor at Dandara, north of Luxor city.



The carving represents the pharaoh stabs the turtle and as it is traditional in the Egyptian mythology to describe the pharaoh as god Horus or the good force and the river animals and reptiles to be each is a representation to god seth or the evil force. So here we can see the turtle is classified to an evil representation. This carving is older than 2000 years and dates back to the Greco-Roman era in Egypt.

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