A HAPPY EASTER

A HAPPY EASTER WISH FROM MUSEUMEGYPT

picture of the Great sphinex and the pyramid of king Chepheren. Don't you wish to be here?

Luxor, West Bank is rich with its geology too!

Luxor, West Bank is rich with its geology too!

Luxor city, Egypt is renowned of keeping one -third of antiquities of mankind. Also Luxor is rich with its geological finds of fossilized sea shells and petrified trees. A petrified tree, from Luxor's nature. . Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

Pre-Historic Palette-Naqada III culture. "Special articles"

Pre-Historic Palette-Naqada III culture. "Special articles"

It can be a unique experience for those who are fortunate for being familiar with Egypt Pre-Historic cultures" 6000-3000 B.C", and once they become able to observe it a lot more detailed. The collections of Pre-Historic cultures that are kept in the Egyptian Museum, the British Museum, the Louvre Museum and the others which include very informative and descriptive palettes and tablets refer much to that deeply antique époque. A lot of these tablets were commemoratives and created in record of a victory after a civil war or after a war with other nations such as the commemorative mace cover that describes the unification trial of the Scorpion king "4000 B.C" or the Libyan tablet which depicts an Egyptian defeat to the Tehno Libyan tribes. The pre-historic slate tablet represents the unstable status of Egypt during Naqada III "4000 B.C" and a civil war that was between Naqada culture or Upper-Egypt and northerners of Lower-Egypt. The upper part of the tablet represents captives are bound in poles with stylized arms that grasp each of the captives and in a shape of a war adze. Also we observe carrion-birds that stand still on each pole which emphasize a traditional technique of torture or punishment and that what could have inspired the ancients with the first crucifixion. Also we see the circle that is often found on pre historic tablets and next to that a carving of a high ranking captive is led by elegantly dressed man with a sophisticate rope that has fringes and ornaments. We can observe the high quality of the outfit and the quality of the metal or the stone in each of the war adzes. Generally, carvings represent a busy battle field with corpses of dead soldiers all are bearded with northern appearance similarly to those who were represented in Narmers palette "3200 B.C" and with many carrion-birds around such as vultures and crows. Also a carving of a lion that fierce eats a corpse.
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NULLS AND CROSSES

Most of ancient Egyptian temples have on its floor remains and hand carving of games the ancients had known. The forecourts and the areas before the temples gate or Pylons were often left for locals use or for some to wait for a provided service, there ,they practiced some of their traditional games such as what is recently called the Nulls and Crosses. The intellectuals in Ancient Egypt had their own style of games such the Senet which was the first known chess ever and the first form of the traditional game is known as Snakes and Ladders. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。
　

EGYPTONEWS

EGYPTONEWS

February, 2009. An intact mass-tomb contains 30 mummies includes a mummy of adog and several sarcophagi was discovered at Sakkara under the auspices of Hawas" the chairman of the supreme council of the Egyptian antiquities. The tomb of Senjdem in Sakkara dates back to the Saith period "600 B.C". The master sarcophagus was opened by Hawas with lots of care and contained a well preserved mummy with hundreds of golden a mulets within its shroud. The tomb is believed to be for a lector priest and his clergy. Akhbar newspa- per. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。