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Egyptonews

2012-01-17T15:44:00.000+02:00

Egyptonews

Luxor city/ Valley of the kings.A deep burial shaft was discovered during a routine cleaning carried out by aSwiss archaeological mission on the path leading to King Tuthmosis III’s tombin the Valley of the Kings. It led to a burial chamber filled with a treasuredcollection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The tomb dates back to the 22ndDynasty (945-712 BC) and it belongs to the daughter of Amun Re, a lector priestess in Karnaktemples and also the singer of the God Amun Re. Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister ofState for Antiquities, said a wooden sarcophagus painted black and decoratedwith hieroglyphic texts, and a wooden stelae engraved with the names anddifferent titles of the deceased were discovered. (Egypt travel news.)

Ancient Egyptian walls and floors.B

2012-01-16T17:24:00.000+02:00

F-6 . The step pyramid complex.

Lookingat the ancient temples walls and floors would inspire one technique that wasfollowed in order to cut stones can interlock in such the way observed in ( F-2)which is being stones cut from one spotin a specific quarry according to an exact plan. The pre cutting plan shouldhelp in creating such interlocking stones for unrepeated structure which meansthat such floor or wall would not be removed or restored without the originalplan!. The great evidence on such theory is our obvious fail to reconstructfloors of the ancient temples which had to be rescued because of lake Naserand the effect of the High dam between 1960-1980 see (F-4).

F-4. Thefloor of Philae temple after it has beenreconstructed.

The mostancient stone structure that was laid out on interlocking stones is the steppyramid complex which goes back to the 3^rd dynasty and to Zoser’sreign(F-5) &(F-6).

F -5. The step pyramid complex was laid out on interlocking stones.

ソベク　神様　は　古代　イジプト　の　鰐　神　です。

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ソベク　神様　は　古代　イジプト　の　鰐　神　です。

古代　イジプト　の　神話　で　ソベク　神様　は　悪 と　あくま　を　あらわされた。

ソベク神、鰐　神　は　コモオメボ町の　こくみん　神　でした。今　カイロ博物館　と　コモオメボ　博物館　に　たさん　　わに　の　ミーラ　が　あります。今まで、イイジプト　ナイロ川　は　ズダン　も　鰐　まだ　います。　

Ancient Egyptian walls and floors.A

2012-01-08T13:37:00.000+02:00

One of the mostchallenging issues in the Egyptian archaeology is comprehending thearchitectural rules and layouts for the ancient walls and floors. AncientEgyptian walls and floors of temples were designed and created to maintain aprofound resistance for erosion, quakes and earth slides. The most obviousmethod to consolidate the temples floors and walls was the use of the dove-tail locking betweenstones which is phenomenal in the late Egyptian temples but not much followed in earlier temples.

The dove-tail lock isdepending on the quality of the filling and the plaster use rather than thesolidness of the stone itself. However, the dove-tailing is so impressive butit is easily traced and comprehended. The actual challenge comes from the veryancient temples and the Pyramids once we fail to reconstruct an ancient wallhowever having most of its stone found. The stunning fact is that those ancienttemples survived in much better condition due to their unique layouts. In suchtemples, the interlocking stones which are hooked to each other and needlesslyfor plaster or mortar are the main reason behind their survival. The dilemmafor restoring those temples is that each stone is unique and one of its kind oron other words none of the stones are equal in shape or size or weight, whichis totally different to modern criss –cross walls and floors. Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006.Copyright@museumegypt.

Know more about ancient Egypt !

2011-12-30T00:30:00.001+02:00

Know moreabout ancient Egypt ! Ancient Egypt had inspired the old and themodern world the emblem of the eagle which is always implanted in flags ofcountries and empires. Originally the falcon Horus was chosen by ancient Egypt as aunifying god and a shared one between north and south. In fact Horus wasdeified for its skill of hunt, speed , precision and strength. The symbol ofHorus was introduced to both the Greek and the Roman empires and became locallydepicted as an eagle which is due to being it more indigenous and common. Justafter ancient Egyptthe eagle became to represent Zeus and Jupiter as well as kingdoms .Information and Photo by Yasser kamel for Museumegypt.2006.

Happy New Year

2011-12-29T13:24:00.002+02:00

Museumegypt wishes all its followers , visitors and readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Yasser Kamel
Senior Museumegypt tour guide and Publisher , Author of Book " A Journey into The Sun"

Visit Artspace

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The Doni Tondo ,Sketched and copied by Yasser Kamel ,

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Know more about ancient Egypt!

2011-10-18T18:53:00.000+02:00

Know more about ancient Egypt!

Within the New Kingdom period, about 1400 B.C, the funeral papyri “Bookof the dead” became widely spread around the whole country and also itbecame affordable to others than royals. The popularity and the spread for thattype of papyrus books had synchronized with a simplicity trend for theaccompanying art of those papyri. The use of the classical drawings in book ofthe dead, in ancient Egypt, did require a highly skilled artist as well as muchof time which had a negative effect on papyrus cost while the use of thesimplified art on papyrus which requires less skilled artist and takes lesstime to finish was a help to allow major number of people to get it. TheEgyptian artist used the stroke-order style or the simplified for the repeatedand exact god’s figures which used to be made in classical style before. Thetwo figures above show the simplified style for a man and woman and the possiblestrokes led to have them drawn. Written and painted by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006. Allrights reserved.

Pre-historic Egypt, The Scorpion King. ”special articles” Part-2

2011-10-04T23:02:00.000+02:00

The amazing pre-historic finds and fact never cease anopportunity to stun its lovers. Among the unique finds of pre-historic Abydos small fragments of an ivory mace cover thatrecorded the oldest known attempt of unification between South and North of Egypt. Theearliest unification was established by a unique Egyptian king who was calledthe Scorpion king. The scorpion king unification had preceded king Narmer foralmost a millennium .The estimated dating for the mace cover fragmentsdetermines the possibility to exceed 4000 B.C. The mace was the royaltraditional weapon for pre-historic and archaic kings of Egypt. The macewas pointy always and usually poisonous, therefore, the cover was so requiredand many cases the cover can be incised with carvings that commemorate aspecial event such as victory. The one above represents Egypt status in post-war time, once the ScorpionKing war on Lower-Egypt”Northern Egypt”succeeded. The cover contains three registers of carvings, the first one showsa row of hanged lapwing birds on poles that carry flags of the main districtsof Egypt.The lapwing bird “Rekhit” is a representation for the locals or thecommoners as it can be traced in later hieroglyphic vocabulary, and it sounds likethose who were depicted as hanged birds were in fact the ones did resist thewar against the north. The second register sounds more cheerful and pleasant asthe Scorpion king became ruling the north as well as his native land which wasthe south of Egypt or Upper Egypt. Obviously the Hieroglyphics was still to bedeveloped as we only see few primitive signs such as the one for the Scorpionname, on the other hand abeginning for a welfare in the north as king Scorpion is shown while holding awooden plough, followed by his fan bearers and assisted by someone who could behis vizier as he represented while providing grains to allow farming. Also weshould not miss seeing the Papyrus plants which was carved there to refer thenorth of Egypt, . The third registeris so related to second as it shows more of the Scorpion achievements, such forthe canal and farming around .In fact the glorious unification of the Scorpionking did not last enough long which required king Narmer, about 3200 B.C toreunify Egypt .Once more the Pre-historic Egypt never seemed primitive in manyaspects as those who had known farming, textile, cloths ,weapons and buildingcanals should not included by such word.

Information and Painting by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006.

Ancient Egypt, Martial Arts. E

2011-09-29T00:04:00.000+02:00

F-1. A scene represents one of the throwing techniques,Nage-Waza 投げ技 in ancient Egypt.

There is more than evidence on the authenticity of the martial art in ancient Egypt as it goesback to much earlier time than the Old-kingdom period.

The scene above comes from BeniHassan tombs and represents a practice for one of the throwing techniques ofmartial arts. The throwing techniques or the Nage-Waza 投げ技 are almost practiced by all modern martial arts after ancient Egypt.The scene “F-1” showstwo players while practicing a throwing technique , player. A isattacked by player. B as B seems to aim to punch A but A tilts with his body tothe left side in order to miss the punch, meanwhile he steps backward with hisright foot. The scene shows player A while grasping with right hand player B’swaist and with left hand B’s foot in order to throw him down.

F-2. The presumedstances for A and B players before beginning the throwing.

The throwing technique which is described above depends muchon the opponent rushing body force andhow to take advantage of it which we can boldly trace in modern martial artssuch the Aikido” Information and Painting by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006.Aikido practitioner Copyright@museumegypt.

ホーラス神　は　一　番　古くりょうし

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ホーラス神　の　すはい　は　先王国　時代　から　３５００　年　紀元前　です。　古代　イジポト　かみがみ　は　ホーラス神　は　かんぜん　な　りょうし　です。　　　ホーラス神　は　隼は　でした。隼神　に　古代　イジポト　人　は　しゅりょう　ならいました。かれ　は　　一　番　古くりょうし　ですから。

Ancient Egypt , Martial Arts. D

2011-09-25T00:31:00.000+02:00

F-1. A martial art scene represents the throwing technique,tomb of Vizier Ptah-Hotep , Sakkara.

A unique scene” F-1 of Young Noblemen while practicing thethrowing technique, it goes back to the fifth dynasty which is around 25.00 BC.The ancient Egyptians had known in their martial arts the throwing technique whichis now to exist in modern styles of martial arts. For example the Egyptianthrowing style can be traced in both of the Japanese martial arts and theChinese which is recognized as 投げ技 ”The Nage Waza” or the throwing style.

F-2.呼吸　投げ技 ”こきゅう　なげわざ”Kokyuo-Nagewaza!

呼吸　投げ技 ”こきゅう　なげわざ” Kokyuo-Nagewaza! TheBreathing-Throwing technique is a fascinating Aikido technique uses thebreathing energy for causing a sudden unbalance for the opponent body then,throwing him down.

ByYasser Kamel” Aikido practitioner

Ancient Egypt, Martial Arts. C

2011-09-16T01:15:00.000+02:00

The amazing knowledge of the human body’s anatomy in ancientEgypt,which is clearly observed in almost all the ancient carvings, had a greatinfluence on developing the Martial arts. That special knowledge enabled themto discover the pressure points in the human body as well as the center pointwhich controls the balance for the warrior’s body.

F-1. A scene from tomb of Amenmhat, one of Beni Hassan tombs whichexceed 3000 years old.It represents 隅 落とし” すみ おとし “Sumi Otoshi” technique.

The scene above came from the group of the wrestling scenesof Beni Hassan and it matches the well known Aikido Martial art technique “Sumi Otoshi” 隅落とし” すみおとし which means thecorner drop as fighter A counterattacks fighter B by striking down his elbowand his forearm at once which must synchronize with fighter A foot work as fighterA must step with his right foot forward into the left side of fighter B aimingat breaking his balance and dropping him to his body’s corner.

F-2. The Aikido technique of SumiOtoshi.

F-2 shows fighter Awhile performing the Sumi Otoshi technique on fighter B by using fighter B forceof attack and shifting it in order unbalance him, meanwhile pushing his right armdownwards.

By Yasser Kamel” Aikido practitioner

The Author and the writer of Museumegypt.Self-painted

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Ancient Egypt. Martial Arts. B

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The roots of martial arts extend to ancient Egypt long time before to take its complete shape in China and the rest of Asia. Ancient Egypt, which always had a striking military force, was the pioneer in inventing most of the weapons of the ancient world and developing its fighting techniques. The ancient Egyptian invention for the training sword is solid evidence on having early marshal art practice. Seeing such wooden training swords in the Egyptian museum may surprise many of us specially with the common believe that the use of such sword would be limited to china or Japan” 木剣, The Bokken sword in Japan”.

F-1. King Tutankhamen wooden sword, 1400 B.C ,The Egyptian Museum.

In fact taking a detailed look at battle scenes and the hieroglyphic carvings would help very much in tracing the starting of most of marshal arts and for example in F-2 we can observe the ancient Egyptian way of holding and grasping a sword which does not differ from modern styles of sword fight as for kendo or Aikido. As per F-4 which represents the modern style of sword fight, the right hand has to be the upper one while holding the sword and the other hand has to be the lower one which was applied by the ancient Egyptian thousands of years before.

F-2. Carving of hieroglyphic shows the way to hold a sword.

F-4. The modern style of holding swords in Kendo and Aikido.

F-5&6. Represent breaking the falling in Aikido ”Mae-Ukemi”

Another great example in history through the Hieroglyphic refers to the authenticity of martial art in ancient Egypt which is the hieroglyphic characters that represent falling in fight. Aikido techniques for breaking falls by rolling the body see F-5&6, or what is called the Mae-Ukemi techniques surprisingly were practiced by ancient Egyptians. F-7 shows one of the carvings of an Egyptian Mae-Ukemi! The Mae-Ukemi starts by bending the body while standing, then stepping with the right foot forward then extending the right arm forward while bending the left arm inwards then falling on the ground while bending head towards the left side as in F-5&6.

F-7.A carvings of an Egyptian Mae-Ukemi

By Yasser Kamel” Aikido practitioner

My Pyramids Tour

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大ピラミッド　は　素晴らしい　ですね。

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大ピラミッド　は　素晴らしい　ですね。

クフ王　の　ピラミッド　は　ギイザ　に　一番　大きい　物　です。大ピラミッド　の　高さ　は　１３７メーテル　ですくて　、おもさ　は　せんまん　トノ　ですね。　クフ王　の　ピラミッド　も　さんじゅうまん　いし　の ブロック　が　あります。その　ピラミッド　は　今　から　　４５００　年　凡そ　です。

Best wishes for Ramadan

2011-08-05T22:52:00.000+02:00

Photo by Yasser Kamel.

Egypt now is enjoying the holy and the spiritual month of Ramadan.

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.4

2011-08-01T21:06:00.000+02:00

Mummy of the pharaoh Ramses II was the first to be carried on a plane abroad. In the year 1977, mummy of the great pharaoh was allowed to leave Egypt on a plane to Paris with the permission of the smart Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat as it was reported to him that the mummy was about to suffer serious fungal problems. The mummy as soon as arrival in Paris was treated royally by the French government which dedicated its best medical teams to help Ramses II mummy to cure. Then, the mummy returned to Egypt nearly after a year with a full recovery. The French medical experts published several books that represent their researches on that unique mummy.
Preserving a mummy is a great challenge even with our so modern technology but making a perfect mummy is the toughest target to reach.
A perfect mummy needs to be prepared in almost a vacuum container or an air sealed laboratory which should have no more than 1% of oxygen and almost no moisture to exist. Thinking deeply of what ancient Egyptians should have done to stick to that formula, makes the mind boggle. We may confirm that using a stone case to keep the mummy safe from the reach of air makes a lot of sense as well as covering it with flowers and plants sounds to be a smart technique to vacuum the oxygen. It seems that leaving that much of flowers to surround the mummy inside the sarcophagus was not just a bless for the dead but it had to do with making plants and flowers to consume oxygen once the sarcophagus is sealed and once to become dim. In side the Mummy case and while the absence of light, the chlorophyll substance and the Photosynthesis which normally allow plants to produce oxygen in sunlight would not function. Flowers such as Mandrake "mandragora", Night shades berry species and red berry were usually left with the royal mummy. The species of flowers which usually found next to the mummy are by natures toxic and poisonous which may also protected the mummy from insects attack. The second method to get rid of the oxygen which may surround the mummy could be by the use of a flaming substance that can be inserted into the sarcophagus in order to burn the remaining oxygen. After all the serious efforts of cutting and digging out such a heavy sarcophagus which in average could weigh 40 tons aims at making no access to air and moisture.
By Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrigt©Museumegypt.

Hunt in ancient Egypt, Horus, the ultimate hunter.Part-2

2011-07-22T21:26:00.000+02:00

The use of dogs in hunt was so ancient and the Egyptians were the first to breed specific kind of dogs for the hunting purpose. Then the Egyptian breeds of hunting dogs were introduced to Europe during the Greek dynasty. The Basenji dog which was the authentic barkless - hunting dog for the ancient Egyptians “The figure above”. Surprisingly was used in the red fox-hunt by the ancient Egyptian Nobles once the red fox was indigenous and before to become extinct. The amazing fact here is to realize that the ancient Egyptians started that sport before Europeans. The scene above is from tomb of Prince Nefer- Maat , son of king Sneferu , the unique scene goes back to the fourth dynasty which is about 2600 B.C. Also the grey hound and the saluki dog were used in hunting by nobles of ancient Egypt.

A hunting scene from Bani Hassan tombs,1400 B.C

By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrigt©Museumegypt.　

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.3

2011-07-18T16:20:00.000+02:00

The great progress in the medical aspect by the ancient Egyptian doctors had its incredible effect on the Mummification art. Just by looking in the hieroglyphic pictograms we get astonished of seeing the wealth of surgical knowledge which allowed them to have precise pictograms that describe human and animal internal organs such as f-1 which represents the lungs and F-2 which represents the heart. Another tremendous progress achieved by the ancient Egyptians once they discovered and used the sterilization for the first time. The palm-alcohol which was extracted by the ancient Egyptians out the date-palm tree was the best choice as a disinfectant for treating the mummy skin , cavities and tissues . The palm-alcohol was used repeatedly in a heavy concentration form in order to sterilize the mummy internally. The embalmer second great wish was to preserve the human appearance for the mummy which includes the facial features and body exact look which may give a big hope for the mummy to be recognized by its spirit. The embalmer main challenge while accomplishing that target was being him forced to allow the use of oils and ointments in order to retrieve the missing elasticity which the Natron salt deprived the mummy from. Returning the corpse elasticity is not an option as the step to follow should be the stuffing and the filling process for the mummy due to the need to approach restoring the original body image for the dead. So the paradox was by getting the oils to reach the body which may cancel and turn the dehydration process to be in vain. But the magical solution which the embalmer discovered was just the re-use of alcohol or simply repeating the sterilization for the mummy. The use of palm-alcohol becomes so critical once the embalmer to start to remove remains of the Natron salt after to finish the dehydration of the mummy which may take weeks. In most of cases , in ancient Egypt the embalmer was more than keen and efficient to clean all remains of salts by the use of that alcohol except of rare cases as for the mummy of Queen Hentaway who was unfortunate of getting the ancient embalmer to fail to wash the salt from her body before using the different oils which resulted of getting both the salts and the oils to interact then produce a foam such a soap foam. Queen Hentaway mummy history refers to the unlucky efforts made by the embalmers to restore by re-washing the salt from her body even the unluckiness projected once the Egyptian museum mummy restorers tried to treat the swollen face of her mummy which is due to the foam accumulation below the mummy skin but their treatment did not last for long. The air after all is the toughest enemy for the embalmer as by getting the air to remain in the corpse or allowing it in, defiantly it can speed up the decomposing process for the mummy. So the embalmer never gave up resisting the air during the embalming as he started his treatment by removing the mummy lungs as an air cavity to represent then his best treatment was once he used the tar substance to case the whole mummy with. Most of mummies were cased with tar which functions to seal the mummy skin and to keep the mummy an air- proof . Also tar protects the mummy skeleton from calcification. By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrigt©Museumegypt.　　

Know more about Egypt!

2011-07-17T15:17:00.000+02:00

Painted by Yasser Kamel.

Know more about Egypt! Once more, the Basenji dog which was the authentic barkless-hunting dog for the ancient Egyptians. Surprisingly was used in the red fox-hunt by the ancient Egyptian Nobles once the red fox was indigenous and before to become extinct. The amazing fact here is to realize that the ancient Egyptians started that sport before Europeans. The scene above is from tomb of Prince Nefer-Maat , son of king Sneferu , the unique scene goes back to the fourth dynasty which is about 2600 B.C. Information and Art by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt2006.All rights are reserved.

The Last Pharaoh

2011-07-17T01:17:00.000+02:00

The Last Pharaoh and man of war and peace.Mohamed Anwar El Sadat. Painted by Yasser Kamel.

Ancient Egypt, Horus, the ultimate hunter.Part-1

2011-07-15T20:01:00.000+02:00

Horus, the falcon was the most ancient god for Egypt as Horus cult goes back to much earlier time than the Egyptian pre-dynastic period. The ancient Egyptians were keen to choose the ultimate skilled hunting bird to patronize as the hunt was one main source for survival at that time. The admiration for Horus continued once Egyptians found another valuable virtue in the falcon which was the valor and the fearlessness and that once they observed it while hunting a prey could be four times bigger than itself. That virtue inspired the Egyptian warriors the skill and the courageousness in battles and motivated them to present their invocation to Horus for his protection.

F-1, The Egyptian falcon,painted by Yasser Kamel

The skill of hunt for the ancient Egyptians was a required feature for a patron god which the falcon enjoyed as well as many other gods did. Horus’s eternal enemy and rival Seth seemed according to the Egyptian myth to share Horus the skill of hunt. Osiris and Isis myth mentions how Seth while hunting in a night lit by the moon, managed to find Osiris dead body then worked on destroying it. But Horus surpassed his enemy and prevailed over his rivals then had the whole Egyptian lands under his domain.

F-2, Narmer Tablet, the Egyptian museum.

Ancient Egyptians recorded their unification history on Narmer tablet which was about 3200 B.C, where they described the victory of Narmer , the upper Egyptian king over lower Egypt kingdom with the support of Horus who had captured and hunted for Narmer 6000 captive in that war “F-3”.

F-3. Horus while grasping with his talons 6 papyri each represents one thousand captive.

By Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt,Copyright@museumegypt. All rights reserved.

Know more about Egypt!

2011-07-14T23:55:00.000+02:00

Know more about Egypt ! Horus, the falcon was the most ancient god for Egypt as Horus cult goes back to much earlier time than the Egyptian pre-dynastic period. The ancient Egyptians were keen to choose the ultimate skilled hunting bird to patronize as the hunt was one main source for survival at that time. The admiration for Horus continued once Egyptians found another valuable virtue in the falcon which was the valor and the fearlessness and that once they observed it while hunting a prey could be four times bigger than itself. That virtue inspired the Egyptian warriors the skill and the courageousness in battles and made motivated them to present their invocation to Horus for his protection. Painting and information by Yasser kamel for Museumegypt.Copyright2006@museumegypt.All rights reserved.

Ancient Egypt crowns-1

2011-07-11T21:54:00.000+02:00

F-1
Egypt Northern kingdom crown or Lower Egypt crown.F-1
It was used by kings of north Egypt before the unification with south of Egypt and usually is painted in red colour and sometimes to be made of gold. Also it bears the cobra-snake goddess of Lower Egypt.

F-2
Egypt Southern kingdom crown or Upper Egypt crown.F-2
It was used by kings of south Egypt before the unification with north of Egypt and usually is painted in white colour and sometimes to be made of silver. Also it bears vulture goddess of Upper Egypt.

F-3
The double crown which combines both local crowns, its first use goes back to king Menes about 3200 B.C, the unifier of Egypt which his vanquish to Lower Egypt was the main cause for Egypt unification to succeed .It bears both goddesses “ the snake and the Vulture”
Painted and written Information by By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrigt©Museumegypt.　　

Art Space

2011-07-10T19:48:00.000+02:00

Free to Join with your art

Know more about Egypt!

2011-07-08T15:32:00.001+02:00

Know more about Egypt! Mummy of the pharaoh Ramses II was the first to be carried on a plane abroad. In the year 1977, mummy of the great pharaoh was allowed to leave Egypt on a plane to Paris with the permission of the smart Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat as it was reported to him that the mummy was about to suffer serious fungal problems. The mummy as soon as arrival in Paris was treated royally by the French government which dedicated its best medical teams to help Ramses II mummy to cure. Then, the mummy returned to Egypt nearly after a year and it recovered. The French medical experts published several books that represent their researches on that unique mummy. Painted and written Information by By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrigt©Museumegypt.　　

Egyptonews

2011-07-07T14:22:00.000+02:00

Egyptonews

July, 2011-Luxor city, Egypt.
The discovery of the enclosure wall of ptah temple as well as the gate of the pharaoh Shbaka in the Karnak by the French excavations was a great surprise. It was believed that Ptah temple was built in the Ptolemaic dynasty which is now proven to be wrong as many stone pieces with the pharaoh Thutmoses III were discovery inside temple of Ptah by the French team which refers to the temple to be much older. The discovery was announced by the Egyptian supreme council of Antiquities.” El Masery El Youm Newspaper.

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.2

2011-07-01T19:45:00.000+02:00

F-1, The Canopic jars of king Tutankhamen.

The evisceration which is the removal of the viscera became widely spread since the old kingdom period, where they started to store four specific organs into the Canopic jars”f-1”. The four chosen organs for evisceration were always, the stomach, the intestines, the liver and the lungs and it was practiced since the old kingdom. The removal of those organs, indicate the early knowledge about the fungal-bacterial damage which occurs in the early post-mortem phase for the corpse. The ancient Egyptian embalmer should have known about the disadvantage of keeping the viscera attached to the mummy so the removal for the stomach and the intestines can prevent the deterioration which is normally caused by the bacteria and the gases, the removal of the lungs can prevent keeping the oxygen in the corpse which never allow the fungi and the bacteria to breed and certainly the liver had to be removed as it naturally functions to strain poisons and germs and may store it. The Canopic jars lids generally take the shapes of the four sons of Horus who were believed to be the patrons of the mummy organs. Imset who has a human shape is thought to protect the liver, Hapi, who has a baboon shape, is thought to protect the lungs, Duamutef who takes the shape of a jackal is counted to protect the stomach and Qebehsnuf, who is given the falcon shape is believed to protect the intestines. The Egyptian Museum has the oldest viscera remains which belong to Queen Hetepheres, which is about 2500 B.C. the Queen was the mother of King Cheops and wife of king Snefru.

F-2,The four sons of Horus who were believed to be the patrons of the mummy organs. Imset ,Hapi , Duamutef and Qebehsnuf.

We may know the reason beyond the removal of the four visceral organs but we do not have yet a scientific reason to explain the reason behind the removal of the brain! The brain was removed in more than %80 percent of Egyptian mummies in a very specific way which is based on drilling the skull from the top and also penetrating the nostrils to evacuate the air. The Egyptian museum has more than a set of surgical instruments which some of it were used by the embalmers. The most famous instrument among is the hook which was used for emptying the skull from the brain. In fact, the brain never been the last organ to remove as every other organ had to be removed except of the heart and kidneys.

F-3, The surgical set of Komombo temple.

The surgical set of Komombo temple”F-3” has instruments such as hooks, needles and saws which are required for running the mummification process.

F-4, model shows the spots in the head where the surgery occurs.

Model”F-4” shows the spots in the head where the surgery occurs. Number -1 is the opening in the top of the skull which is followed by number-2 which is a drill in the nostrils. Both of 1&2 aim at removing the brain. Number-3 is the eyes removal. Model F-5 explains where the surgical incisions should be made by the embalmer. Three spot on F-5 occupy the left side of the torso , the upper one is incision of the thoracic cavity which helps to extract the lungs, the medium incision in the abdominal cavity helps in the entrails and the stomach removal, then the lower one which is done in the pelvic cavity helps much in removing the rest of organs with the minimal damage.

F-5, shows the usual spots where the embalmer makes his surgical cuts.

Osiris, F-6, according to the Egyptian mythology was the ruler of the north of Egypt in the very early start of Egyptian history. Osiris was a descendant of gods as well as his brother Seth who ruled the south of Egypt, then after Osiris regicide by Seth his body was mummified and he became the god of the underworld.

F-6. Osiris the god of death and the first mummy.

Then God Osiris managed to exceed in power most of his rivals and had the Imnty domain under his control. The rise of Osiris as the lord of the underworld or the west had synchronized with the flourishing of the mummification as seemed to become the most social as well as popular god for commoners. Osiris managed to offer equality of treatment and justice between the very poor and very rich even he became a phase that every deceased had to turn to and according to book of the dead everyone after death should become Osiris or take the form of Osiris. By Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt,Copyright@museumegypt. All rights reserved.

Museumegypt is Five years old.

2011-07-01T16:08:00.000+02:00

Museumegypt is Five years old.
Thanks for its followers and visitors
Yasser kamel

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.1

2011-06-27T15:49:00.000+02:00

No doubt that the ancient Egyptians were the only nation managed to defeat decay and deterioration and were the first to conquer time. The very confident faith on the realty of the life after death was the main motivation for the mummification art to begin. In fact comprehending the secrets of the art of mummification is encountering a lot of difficulty since its swinging between science and superstition. The mummification process aimed at preserving the body as well as keeping the look of the human body a match to the case before death which is a very difficult task as it should require a deep scientific knowledge in order to provide the confident skill that can lead the process to accomplish its target. Also the mummification process aimed to serve the faith of the resurrection which was the main creed for ancient Egypt. The invention of the embalming synchronized with the progress in the science of medicine and the surgery as it is observed with pre- historic and archaic preserved bodies. Ancient Egypt, in common had started the fetal mummification since its pre-dynastic.

Painting”1”, by the author. A pre-dynastic fetal mummy.

The spread for the fetal burial in Pre-historic Egypt is enough evidence on having the ancient Egyptians to be familiar with the surgery and the dissecting. Their attempt to mime the fetus in its final positions before birth is a clear reflection for that early knowledge they reached. Some of the archaic and pre-dynastic fetal mummies were fully dehydrated by getting it exposed to the sun and some were treated by getting it cased with bitumen. The mummy of Ginger” picture -1 “which is around 3200 B.C, is the oldest mummy found in history and in ancient Egypt also its is the best example for the fetal mummification style of the late pre- dynastic period. The main challenge for scholars and experts who would seek imitating the Egyptian mummy is the lack of recorded practical experience as no body saved any previous experience as well as the lose of the know how about the mummification from old generations to modern ones. It was so different with ancient Egyptians who managed to save their experience on the mummification art from one generation to another and even before the invention of the writing. The dilemma for getting an approval on one mummification technique to be effective is as simple as it requires passing the knowledge and the experience from the master embalmer to his flowers continuously, for more than three thousand years which modern scholars are not able to get.

Figure -2, A funeral label, Reign of King Djer ,3200 B.C, the Egyptian museum . Painted by Yasser kamel

A reference on getting the ancient Egyptians to abandon the fetal mummy style and to adapt the Osiried mummy style, found on king Djer funeral label “figure-2’ where you see the funeral bearers while holding a mummy which is most probably the mummy of king Den. Book of the dead refers to necessity of getting the deceased body to survive the decomposing and the deterioration factors, therefore, the ancient Egyptians believed that once to keep a copy from book of the dead which includes the essential hymns and spells it can protect their bodies against worms, insects and deterioration.

Painting”2” painted by the author. Book of the dead of Nakhet, about 1400 B.C. Royal scribe Nakhet while slaying a beetle.

Painting “2” represents Royal scribe Nakhet while slaying a beetle, most probably that beetle is from the dermastidae beetles which feed on flesh. Book of the dead of Nakhet has spells against worms, beetles and corruption. It is fascinating to imagine once we study Egyptian pre-dynastic fully naturally preserved mummies or semi-naturally preserved ones that the embalmers of that period would know about the value of being a dead body dehydrated in order to protect against decay. Ancient Egyptians seemed to share us a lot of scientific knowledge as for example the fact that a human body has what can represent %75 of its total weight just liquids and that what the fungi and bacteria can survive and breed on after death for the human being! So the embalmers had to find the right method to cause the dehydration for the corpse such as getting the body exposed to the sun as well as counting on the minerals of the Egyptian desert to cause the process of osmosis to begin. Then what happened later was amazing as ancient Egyptians discovered what minerals and salts could do for preservation. The importance for salts is more observed in the hieroglyphics as its word Netri or Natron had been driven from the word Neter which means god which literally means the divine salt. In fact the word Neter referred to nature in ancient Egypt and it inspired most of other languages, the word Nature. The Natron salt is found naturally as a mixture of sodium carbonate, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate ,sodium chloride and sodium sulfate, actually it is a stunning salt as it is cable to dehydrate with minimal damage to tissues meanwhile it keeps its fresh appearance intact. Egypt naturally gifted with that salt and mainly in the Natron Valley where it was found by the ancient Egyptians. Osiris was the first king that ruled Egypt and this is according to what ancient Egypt wrote, Osiris was the first to be mummified in a different style than the fetal one which is named the Osiried-style. The mummification art was mastered in ancient Egypt once the Natron salt was discovered but it flourished once embalmers realized the importance of the organs removal in order to get rid of the fungal and the bacterial damage.By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved.

Offerings of Gods in ancient Egypt.

2011-06-10T18:41:00.000+02:00

Offerings of Gods in ancient Egypt.

Religion in ancient Egypt occupied a great space of attention in a way that may allow us to count the Egyptians to be the most faithful people to their gods in the ancient times. In fact ancient Egypt heritage is the richest in number of religious structures and religious scripts. Once we search for ancient Egypt welfare indications we reach one bold fact which is gods of ancient were the luckiest. Egypt was first ever to produce the wine, the beer and the ale and certainly the Egyptians gods had their share. The wine produce was so common that scenes of tombs of Nobles never ceased to depict the techniques of making it. The amount of scenes of alcoholic drinks presented to gods is countless that scholar have to admit that Egyptian were alcoholic nation.

Egyptians were fortunate with weather as they enjoyed a stable one which helped in growing the best grapes and to keep the finest vine- yards, the scene above”1” is from the tomb of Vizier Sennefer , 1300 B.C, it represents a large arbour tree of grapes which is a part of the tomb’s ceiling. Tombs and houses of Aristocratic Egyptians were often to include a winery. The most incredible number of alcoholic containers which is estimated to exceed one thousand jar their shards were discovered in Sakkara under the step pyramid of king Zoser. Generally the Egyptian were keen to save records of making their alcoholic drinks to avoid obliterating that secretes of that unique art.

Carving “2” from Mastaba of Ka-gem-ni,Sakkara,2500 B.C.

The carving above “2” is from Sakkara and represents the workmen while sliding a massive pair of wine jars in the storage. The carving is found in the mastaba tomb of the judge and the noble Ka gem ni.

Carving “3” from Hatshepsut temple, west bank Luxor.

The carving above “3” represents king Thutmoses III while serving god Horus the Erap wine jars. The second common scene of offerings is the one of gods food. Gods food is often shown laid on offering tables that are presented by the pharaoh. Gods generally offered the best of what was grown in any field and the best of any product as their satisfaction is essential to maintain the wealth and the fertility of the country. The pile of food provided to gods usually to contain variety of vegetables and samples of domesticated animals and changes are easily observed in scenes of offered food according to the dynasty and the Egyptian welfare. Most of old kingdom scenes of food offerings included birds except chicken and goose, also it had fruits apart from pomegranate! The Egyptian history mentions that the chicken and the pomegranate were introduced to Egypt then to Africa latter by the Egyptian king Thutmoses III just about 1300 B.C for the first time and both became tolerated by the Egyptians that no scene of food missed them ever since. The origin for the chicken , the pomegranate and the geese was ancient Syria. The goose was introduced by king Snefru about 2500 B.C after his expedition to Syria. Indeed observing the offering scenes can be an accurate source for getting familiar with the flora and fauna in ancient Egypt.

A carving “4” from the temple of Dakka, King Erkamun.

The carving “4” above from the temple of Dakka in Upper Egypt and it represents the food offered by King Erkamun to the gods and its noticeable the missing of the chicken and the pomegranate and it sounds that both were not common in Upper Egypt or lower Nuba yet.

Carving “5” represents an offering table includes chicken and pomegranate.

The carving “5” above shows the addition of the chicken and the pomegranate to the traditional pile of gods food. It is remarkable that ancient Egyptian gods had favoured more of wine and food and less of intangible offerings. However intangible offerings were rare, we still to observe few scenes of flowers presented to feminine deities such as for Hathor who represented love and fertility in ancient Egypt.

A slab”6” represents king Akhenaton , Nefertiti and their daughter while presenting flowers for Aton.

Akhenaton the unique monotheist pharaoh who called for Aton to be the only god did not allow food or sacrifices for his god. In fact the oneness and infinity of Aton had no paradox with being him to be a simple god and would tolerate the intangibles. By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved.

Picture & Comment

2011-05-29T15:46:00.000+02:00

Photo by Sara-Jane Sperrin

A column from temple of Komombo has the titles of the Roman Emperor Tiberius and carvings for Horus in a form of a sphinx as well as the vulture- goddess Nakhbet..

Picture & Comment

2011-05-29T14:23:00.001+02:00

Photo by Sara-Jane Sperrin
Ceiling of Komombo temple and represents the vulture goddess Nakhbet the patroness of Upper Egypt once while dressed the upper Egypt crown and once while wearing the lower Egypt crown. The surrounding text is invocation for herself and the wjet-cobra snake who was the patroness of lower Egypt.The colours are original and go back to 150 B.C.

Animals rituals in ancient Egypt. Part B

2011-04-27T22:10:00.000+02:00

The most incredible evidence of how much the Heb-Sed was essential to stabilize Egyptian powerful kings on their throne is represented on King Zoser’s the Heb-sed complex.

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Picture-2

In fact king Zoser ,the founder of the third dynasty was the first depicted king while performing the ritual that follows the fight of the Heb-sed. History of Ancient Egypt has mentioned a lot of kings that performed the same ritual as for king Montuhotep II who was the re-unifier of Egypt and the founder of the 11th dynasty. Montuhotep II fascinating statue in Cairo Museum about 1700 B.C exemplifies the king while dressed the Heb-Sed outfit”Picture 3”. King Amunhotep II carving from the temple of Amada,1400 B.C,the carving “Picture no.2” represents the pharoah while galloping before god Amun in order to present his thanks for being able to complete the Heb-Sed .

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The great influence of the ancient Egyptian Heb-Sed ritual can be traced allover the ancient world and even more obvious in the Greek mythology. The Greek myth of Hercules which describes Hercules famous adventure of fighting the Nemean lion, the picture below represents Hercules while fighting the lion of Nemea.

Picture-4 painted by yasser kamel and it represents Hercules while fighting the lion of Nemea.
By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrigt©Museumegypt.　　

Animals rituals in ancient Egypt. Part A

2011-04-17T19:02:00.001+02:00

Animals rituals in ancient Egypt. Part A

No wonder if the Hieroglyphic characters are in general to represent animals or portions of animal bodies as it belonged to a civilization is African in its core . Back to the early beginnings of the Egyptian cultures the flora and fauna were still rich as Egypt seemed to have a variety of wild animals as for African lions and panthers. Then the gradual change for the global climate such as having more of droughts and dryness had effected the northern African environment which forced many of savannah wild animals to migrate to southern Africa. The remarkable interaction with nature which was still intact had inspired the shapes of the hieroglyphics and its phonograms as for the case of the African lions in the north of Egypt or for the Egyptian vulture in the south of Egypt. The Naqqada “Nakkada”6000-5000 B.C cultures are among cultures that left finds very much relating to the wild nature of ancient Egypt. Naqqada cultures were well located as it occupied middle Egypt where nature was rich in rock formations, hillocks and plains where the savannah could be found. So lions were common as well as vultures and there where man had to confront lions and fight it in order to survive. Soon the lion became to represent a phenomenal force that signed for power and once to be overcome by a man it would sign for the human courage so much later it became what inspired a ritual should be accomplished by the chief of a tribe or by any ruler in order to prove courage , valor and fertility. The ritual of The Heb-Sed was the most essential rite in ancient Egypt that kings had to face to be able to hold throne for thirty years at least, that rite was to include a face
to face physical fight with a lion then later it became replaced with a fight against a bull which could be due to the rareness of lions caused by dryness and droughts.

Nakkada.5000-4000 B.C.Painted by yasser kamel

The very concealed aim for the Heb-Sed rite was to avoid the senility for the ruler as he by circumstances had to enjoy a lot of physical strength in order to lead his nation to a victory. Generally the African mythology can provide a lot of examples for the Egyptian Heb-Sed followed by many nations in Africa as in southern Sudan or in Kenya by the Masai tribe .

African Lion painted by yasser kamel

The Sphinx in ancient Memphis.

The most common tradition in Africa was to dethrone the senile king and crown his heir as most of old kings would not be able to kill a lion in direct fight, but in ancient Egypt kings had a different tactic to follow once they had to execute that rite, just were were keen to accomplish the rite while still been young so they would do it just after one decade of rule in order to keep their throne for another thirty years. The Heb-Sed was to include a throne renewal ceremony for the jubilee of the king as well as a rejuvenation rite. Man in Africa generally and in ancient Egypt specifically used the lion to sign for strength and protection and found in fighting it a great threat to defy, then ancient Egyptian were the first ever to depict their kings with lions statues and images as for the Sphinx of Giza which has a lion body and a man head. By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.　　

古代　イジプト人は　ぼっけん　を　つくりましたね。

2011-04-13T02:02:00.000+02:00

古代　イジプト人は　ぼっけん　を　つくりましたね。

ツタアンクメンのぶっけんは１４００年　紀元前ん　凡そです。

　ツタアンクメン　の　どうせ　つるぎ

日本製刀

古代　イジプト人　は　ぼっけん　を　造り　は　おどろきな　事ね。古代　イジプト　は　まことに　けんどう　と　けんかく　も　いました。全体　に　イジプト人　は　　たいてい　つるぎ　を　どう　が　つくりられた。カイロ博物館　に　ゆうめえ　な　おうじゃ　は　ツタアンクメン　の　どうせ　つるぎ　と　ぶっけん　も　ある、その　ぶっけん　は　１４００年　紀元前ん　凡そ、それね、　　その物　は一番　古く　ぶっけん　が　あります。By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　

Was Anubis to represent a jackal or else ?

2011-04-08T23:43:00.002+02:00

I have been searching in the impact and the influence of Ancient Egypt on the rest of the African culture and the Entire mankind cultures for a long while and ancient Egypt uniqueness never failed to astonish me. Always thinking of the amount of imagination required to innovate the Egyptian gods images and figures, the broad horizon of innovation that created the anthropomorphically gods who were depicted partly human and partly animal or shown as a mixture of two different beings as for god Ra as a winged sun-disc or as for the winged cobra snake or the headed scarab-man god or the winged scarab which has falcon wings once or Buprestidae -beetles wings instead and many other examples are found. In the of Anubis who was depicted as a crouched animal mostly described to be a jackal however to some experts Anubis shape is more to do with a dog most probably a Basenji than a jackal . The Basenji...the Egyptian Barkless Dog is a well-defined breed was tamed and bred by the ancient Egyptians in the old kingdom about 3000 B.C. Then it was introduced by the Greeks to Europe. The Basenji- Dog was kept in ancient Egyptian homes as a pet as for the example of the royal scribe Dedosobek votive stela which goes back to 2000 B.C. The stela represents Dedosobek , his daughter who sits on his lap and a basenji puppy is standing under Dedosobek seat. Anubis was often described to be the guard and the patron for both the mummy and the graveyard and always shown as a follower for the human in origin god Osiris as Anubis was to follow Osiris in everywhere he went. It seems that there was a muddle between the jackal and the basenji dog as being both animals similar in their habit of following human burials as a scavenger as for the jackal or just as a close pet as for the basenji dog.

The picture below is from prince Nekaw tomb in Sakkara, 2500 B.C and it represents him on his seat and his basenji dog.

カイロ　博物館、クフ王　の　座像　は　まれ　な　物　でずね。

2011-03-27T00:52:00.000+02:00

カイロ　博物館、クフ王　の　座像　は　まれ　な　物　でずね。

　カイロ　博物館　に　ゆいいつ　な　座像　が　ある。その　座像　は　象牙　を　つくりた、高さ　は　七　センチ、象　の　して　に　クフ　の　カレトシオ゛おうじや　の　名前　が　あらわしちます゛　も　ある。まあ、クフ　の　ざぞう　は　いちばん　小さ　物　が　発見された、しかし、クフ　ペラミッド　は　いち番　
おおきい物　でずね。By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

The IM-DUWAT, The judgment of Osiris. A

2011-03-20T19:51:00.000+02:00

Generally, Book of the dead or the IM-DUWAT “that which belongs to the second life “was a stereotype –book used to be written and provided to royal family members as well as to the very rich Egyptians. Just few of IM-DUWAT books were discovered in good order and completion.Most of discovered books were found located inside coffins of the Egyptian dead or kept hidden in kilts of stone or wooden statues. The first complete IM-DUWAT seems to go back to the new kingdom however its first chapter was written during the old kingdom specifically during Cheops reign which is about 2500 B.C. The full book of the dead was found as Papyrus scrolls that can fill more than 20 meters long papyruses and fit in 150 A4 pages approximately. The most common chapter from the IM-DUWAT is the chapter of the twelve hours of the night which is partly found or completely carved on walls of tombs as well as found written on papyrus. However, the chapter of the twelve hours of the night was the most repetitive; it was rarely found in complete order and that was due to the high cost for writing it as a full book. . The most popular part of the chapter of the twelve hours of the night according to finds of New kingdom papyruses and mainly the ones of the high-officials is the part of the 11th and the 12th hours which represent the final transformation of Amun-Ra and his rebirth. The second popular parts of that chapter are the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th and the 6th hours which are found in most of carvings of Valley of the Kings tombs. The chapter of the twelve hours of the night is found in complete order in tombs of king Seti I and tomb of king Thutmoses III in the Valley of the Kings.

The 12th hour of the night, Painted by Yasser kamel

The judgment of Osiris chapter is the most famous part of book of the dead, where Osiris leads a tribunal aims at granting the deceased the promised second life according his deeds and his faith.

The Judgment of Osiris, Book of the Dead of Hu-nefer, Painted by Yasser Kamel.

The painting above is a part of Book Of The Dead of the funeral -royal scribe Hunefer" 1400 B.C" The original is displayed at the British museum.

It begins with weighing the heart of the dead against the feather on the scales under the supervision of Anubis " the jackal-headed god" or the dog-headed god who shouldadjust the scales and in the presence of Horus" the falcon-headed god" who represents the advocate for the dead.Then the weight of the heart against the feather should be observed by goddess Maat who has her eyes covered with a band” The Blind Justice”, her symbol is above the balance.Then the verdict of the weighing must be written by god Thoth god of knowledge and wisdom "ibis-headed god" and always the heart to weigh less than the feather. If the heart would be ever heavier than the feather it would be fed to a monster " hybrid of a lion, a hippopotamus anda crocodile " Then the dead should gets to the negative confession hall where the dead should proceed to the jury or the 42 assessors “top of the picture" where he should deny his sins and they must take notice in order to decide if he said the truth or never then they can signify to that by holding their keys of life "Ankh" which refer to mercy or by hold their knives if he seemed to be lying.
The two verdicts should be revised by Osiris "the god of the underworld" who always is seen seated on his throne accompanied by his wife Isis and his sister Nyphtis.By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

Know more about Egypt History

2011-03-10T02:13:00.000+02:00

Know more about Egypt History…The Basenji...the Egyptian Barkless Dog was kept in ancient Egyptian homes as a pet as for the example of the royal scribe Dedosobek votive stela which goes back to 2000 B.C. The stela represents Dedosobek , his daughter who sits on his lap and a basenji puppy is standing under Dedosobek seat. Info and Art by Yasser Kamel

全体　に、　古代イジプト　は　馬　は　いませんでした。

2011-03-07T16:52:00.000+02:00

全体　に、　古代イジプト　は　馬　は　いませんでした。

アフリカ　は　せいらい　馬　は　いませんでした。全体　に　馬　は　アジア　に　きました。ヒクソズじん　の　せんそう　の　時　に　馬　の　しよう　はじました。イジプト　の　中王国　の　時代　凡そ１７００年　紀元　　前に　いちばん　　馬　の　馬車　が　つくりた。

Know more about Egypt History !

2011-03-04T02:37:00.000+02:00

Know more about Egypt History ! The Basenji...the Egyptian Barkless Dog is a well-defined breed was tamed and bred by the ancient Egyptians since the old kingdom, 3000 B.C. Then it was introduced by the Greeks to Europe. Art and info by Yasser kamel.

The Egyptian Museum, Humor in ancient Egypt.

2011-02-17T01:17:00.001+02:00

A wooden toy of dancing pigmies. The Egyptian Museum.

Egyptians are humorous and in fact they were lovers of fun and sarcasm since the beginning of history. The most well known goddess for joy and fun was Hathor who also was goddess of music to whom a lot of temples were dedicated. The second famous god in ancient Egypt was Bes the god of fun , joy and music who is origin was more African as he was represented as a pigmy god holding a harp. Some of the ancient papyri which date back to old kingdom around 2500 B.C describe the desire for the royal family to have African pigmies brought peacefully or else to Egypt where they be employed as clown and jesters. Actually some of those musicians and jesters were local dwarfs who became rich and well off. The Egyptian museum has an interesting collection of toys includes a wooden dancing pigmies toy operates by bulling the cords that are attached to the rotating discs where the pigmies are attached.

The dwarf Seneb and his family. Cairo Museum.

Another example found which is a carving from Hatshepsut temple represents the chief of Punt tribe and shows his wife with a deformed body followed by a inscription mocks at that situation.

The chief of the Punt tribe and his wife.

God Bes while Harping, Philae Temple
By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

Egypt is the biggest museum

2011-02-14T22:12:00.001+02:00

Egypt is the biggest museum

for humanity and its heritage as it keeps what can represent more than 50 percent of mankind history and monuments. By Yasser kamel for Museumegypt.

Egypt welcomes travelers back

2011-02-12T21:39:00.000+02:00

Dear Travelers, sorry for the temporary shutdown, Egypt was under necessary
maintenance, we're happy now to welcome you back in a much better Egypt. You’ll be impressed

Best luck for Egypt..

2011-02-11T18:53:00.001+02:00

Museumegypt.the best luck for our new Egypt.Mubarak is abdicated

2011-01-30T15:40:00.001+02:00

Museumegypt is wishing Egypt a much better future and thanks warmly the Egyptians for protecting the Egyptian Museum and deeply thanks the British youth for their symbolic protest around the British Museum.
Museumegypt

The Graffiti in the ancient Egyptian temples.

2011-01-28T01:09:00.000+02:00

The Graffiti in the ancient Egyptian temples.

The desire of keeping the self memory revived was not limited to kings and queens of ancient Egypt but was found with the very ordinary people of that time. The hidden reason behind having a lot of graffiti in ancient Egyptian temples or elsewhere was due to believing that the “ Ren” which is the title in the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, once it is kept it can lead the soul of the dead to find and recognize the deceased. Therefore leaving someone’s name can secure his rebirth and according to the ancient Egyptian religion and book of the dead, the creation of Man by god Ra required preparing five elements to make a human created. The first was the “ Ghed” which is the body, the second was the “ Ba” which is the soul, the third was the “ Ren” which is the name , the fourth was the double “ Ka” and the fifth was the “Akh” which is the shadow. The only hope for poor people to secure their rebirth was to carve their names on temples walls or floors or to be mentioned by their nobleman or lord in his tomb which we should not blame them for. The ancient Egyptian royal families and their entourage were able to afford to protect and keep their five elements so they never encounter much of obstacles that can prevent their resurrection, almost all were able to afford the expenses of the mummification so their Ghed can last and were able build tombs with much of texts, hymns and carvings which can lead their Ba back to them, also were rich enough to leave offerings that their Ka can enjoy it and therefore it remains nearby. Even were able to design tombs and burial chambers that overlook the true north to allow their “ Akh” or shadow to remain on sun rise and on sun set and definitely their Ren was easily saved in cartouche frames or carved in stone that can survive.

Ancient Egyptian Graffiti writings on Philae temple, about 300 B.C.

Some of the ancient Egyptian kings were keen to keep and protect their ancestor’s tombs and monuments and some kings were interested to carve their own names on statues of their ancestors after saving it from thefts or after getting it restored. Their aim was to secure the ancestor’s Ren as well as their own one.

A carving “above” from tomb of prince Nekaw, son of king Essi,2500 B.C shows the servant who was entitled to look after Nekaw’s grey hound hunting dog , the servant “Ren” name is mentioned right above. As it was traditional for rich people to allow their popular servants to be described in their tombs by name and exact features to ascertain their rebirth as reward for their achievements.

A carving represents praises for Thutmoses II and Hatshepsut.

The carving above represents praises for both king Thutmoses II and Queen Hatshepsut meanwhile it shows the removal of her “Ren” and her praises from the inscription for being her reign counted by the ancient Egyptians an illegitimate.

Nubian finger graffiti on an ancient Egyptian monument.
The Nubian nomadic tribes had inherited the ancient Egyptian graffiti culture. The Nubian pilgrims in their pilgrimage to Egyptian temples used to dig the sandstone with their fingers in a trial to leave their finger-prints and to collect the sandstone dust to bring to their village.
By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

Museumegypt team of Egyptian tour guides

2011-01-15T22:46:00.002+02:00

Museumegypt team of Egyptian tour guides is the most informative , each is qualified and has an Egyptology degree. To book a tour guide email. Yasserkamel@museumegypt.com.
Yasser Kamel
Senior Tour Guide

カフラ　の　座像

2011-01-08T23:08:00.006+02:00

カフラ　の　座像
カイロ博物館に　カフラ　の　有名　な　座像、その　ざぞう　は　ギザに　発見された。その　めいそく　は　たてあなの　いん　とく　が　あった、　あんぜん　から　でした。座像　は　大理石　が　つくりた。その　ものは　古王国　じだい　のもの、だい　４王朝,　2５００年　紀元前。座像　の　あたま　のうしろ　に　はやぶさしん　は　ホラス　守り神　です。
By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

Hatshepsut and the trick of the Hotep positioning.

2011-01-08T18:58:00.008+02:00

Hatshepsut and the trick of the Hotep positioning.

The Hotep-Shape Gardens in Der Elbahari temple.

Der Elbahari temple.

Queen Hatshepsut was one the most remarkable queens in the history of ancient Egypt as well as for the mankind history. Her unique personality and her natural intelligence next her outstanding determination were her most effective tools on her struggle for keeping the throne. She ruled between 1508–1458 BC and according to ancient historians as for she ruled in 1st Shemu “ summer season” on day4 and died in Year 22, 2nd Peret” winter season” on day 10 of her reign.
The sudden death of her brother-husband Thutmoses II was a serious shock for her as she became a very young widow and a mother for two daughters. Hatshepsut determined to become the ruling queen for Egypt however being a mother of two princesses and no male hair among, it seems that her plan of becoming the ruler of Egypt was much resisted by clergy of the Egyptian temples and also by some of her royal family members. In fact there was a wave of resentment on her decision to rule as a solo-ruler which inspired the opposition seeking an alternative successor for Thutmoses II and actually managed to reach Isis who was an unknown mistress for Thutmoses II . We just can imagine the shock which Hatshepsut had once that bad news reached her also the serious protection Isis was provided once she gave birth to a royal son. The queen’s opposition succeeded to claim his royal birth and announced him as Thutmoses III son of Thutmoses II and the legal successor for his father. Hatshepsut denied his royal birth right for rule as him was born of a mistress but her opposition were smart too as they forced the idea of allowing Thutmoses III to be married to one of her daughters to become appropriate for rule. Hatshepsut managed to become his princess-in-regent as well as a mother-in-law and a step-mother and according to many researches Thutmoses III was disdained by Hatshepsut and was allowed to share in the rule. The queen first trick was to portend that her refusal by her opposition is based on being her a female queen therefore Hatshepsut decided to be shown in all of her carvings as a man who is bearded and often dressed with a kilt even in her inscription on her temple the texts addressed her as a king .Her second trick was her claim of being herself divine in birth as born of her father god Amun the top of the gods pantheon which drifted her opposition attention to the event of being herself telling the truth or the vice versa. Her determination of getting a burial in the valley of the kings was so unusual but breaking royal and religious rules was impossible therefore her most powerful trick had to exist. The very early hieroglyphic character “ Hotep” which has several meanings such as verb to offer ,to calm ,to rest to relax ,to be happy and to be appeased or as nouns also it means offerings and an offering table. The same character was included by royal names of Middle kingdom kings as for the Montuhoteps as in name of king Montuhotep I who reunified Egypt and stopped its civil war therefore his name means Montu” god of war” is appeased. The most common use for the Hotep was to be the offering table for gods and kings once become deified in their tombs.

A stone table with the Hotep sign in the center. Alexandria national museum.

The Hotep sign resembles an inverted letter “T” in shape and it was inspired to king Muntohotep II to take as design for his temple where it contained his burial chamber and also pointed at his ancestors tombs direction. Doubtless that Senmut her architect and lover borrowed Muntohotep’s old design to provide Hatshepsut with a royal burial simply by building her a tomb at the back of her temple similarly with king Muntohotep II or by attempting to dig her tomb deeply in the cliff to be linked with the valley of the kings. Anyway her goal was reached as Her Temple at El der elbahary stood at a distance of only a few hundred meters in a straight line from the tomb that queen Hatshepsut had ordered to build for herself in the Valley of the Kings on the other side of the mountain. So her best trick to get an equal burial to male rulers was to adapt the Hotep positioning for her temple and tomb thereby she managed to get the equality she desired. It seems that her use for her father tomb Thutmoses I was unsuccessful and her admission to that tomb was prohibited but some final trick seemed to help her to cross with her body into the valley of the kings most probably after she sacrificed her identity where she was found. Her mummy was found in the tomb of her wet nurse, Sitre-Re, in kv60 as an unknown woman with no royal names or titles then latter was brought to Cairo Museum and left there for ages then just in the 2009 queen Hatshepsut identity was determined by the Egyptian Supreme council of Antiquities using the DNA test for the first time. In fact her mummy examination referred to her death to be normal in her middle age suffering Diabetes, arthritis.
By Yasser Kamel to Museumegypt, All rights reserved. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

A Happy 2011 to all

2011-01-06T20:05:00.002+02:00

Museumegypt wishes its followers and readers a very prosperous, wealthy and healthy year

King Tutankhamen was the son of Akhenaton! Was He?

2010-09-13T17:23:00.007+03:00

A bust for Tutankhamen, Cairo Museum. Painted by the author.

Most of archaeological studies led us to one conclusion which is being
king Tutankhamen is the son of Akhenaton but none of it provided us with any hard evidence. The DNA and the Ct tests that were made for Tutankhamen in the Egyptian Museum Clinic in 2010, which were followed by the supreme council of Antiquities statement. That statement determined that Tutankhamen was Akhenaton’s son but did not
Specify the name or the title for the referee mummy or mummies where the DNA sample came from once they were testing king Tut mummy which makes it’s results to be doubtful. For many decades Tutankhamen was believed by some Egyptologists to be Amunhotep III son and that was due to some texts found carved in the Karnak temple which referred to him as a son for a king imagined to be Amunhotep III!. Maybe that conclusion was due to having no written or carved names found for Akhenaton in the Karnak temple as being him hated by its clergy.

Text refers to Ankhesamun”Akhenaton’s daughter” to be Tutankhamen’s sister, Translated by the author.

This may surprise the readers of this essay, a text refers to the fact that king Tutankhamen was Akhenaton’s son. Reads “ It is mentioned {to } the king {by} Nebet-hat {who} comes wailing
{on} for {her} brother the Osiried- King.” The text is incised on the back of Tutankhamen innermost shrine. The Hieroglyphics writing can be tricky as in this text the use of the word Nebet-hat has a straight meaning which is merely a name of the goddess Nephthys who was Osiris sister by birth ? but the hidden meaning was to refer to
herself as a sister for king Tutankhamen who is considered in the text to be Osiris and therefore Nephthys is to represent Tutankhamen’s sister and wife “Ankhesamun”.

From the left. Head for Nefertity , A slab has Akhenaton and his family. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. B

2010-08-20T22:49:00.004+02:00

Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a
rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. B

" King of Upper and Lower Egypt- {Men –Kheper-Ra}, child of Ra of his body, his beloved { Thut-moses III } master of offerings, he who is given the life as the Sun forever, made with love two great obelisks in the abode of Amun, in the Karnak.” Translated by the author from the Hieroglyphics”

The area in the northern quarry where Thutmoses III obelisk came from.

Thutmoses III “ 1300 B.C ,is the great owner for the text found, in fact he was one of the best builders for temples and obelisks among the pharaohs in general and just enough to mention his four famous obelisks which occupy for vital spots in four countries. His famous in London which known as Cleopatra’s needle, then
His unique one in New York as well as his one in Istanbul and his fourth one in Rome.

Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

EGYPTONEWS

2010-07-10T00:29:00.000+03:00

EGYPTONEWS

July-2010.Sakkara. Two ancient tombs found in Sakkara discovered by the Egyptian delegation which is in charge of Sakkara since 1986.The discovery was under the auspices of
the supreme council of antiquities. Dr. Hawas mentioned that the first tomb was for a father called Sen-Dewa while the other was for his son. Hawas explained that the main tomb has a unique false door with intact colours and it belongs to Sen-Dewa who was a senior royal scribe and a nobleman lived during the 6th dynasty around 2374 B.C. Also it has a twenty meter deep burial shaft with a wooden coffin in addition to five stone plates with duck forms that contained duck bones as well as a small stone obelisk. The other tomb was for Sen-Dewa’s son Khonsu who inherited the same job titles and it has a similar design. Both tombs are located west of the step pyramid. Akhbar Newspaper. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

My most current visit to Petra

2010-05-16T12:06:00.000+03:00

Looking for a private chinese teacher in Cairo

2010-03-08T12:58:00.001+02:00

Call 0101670430 or 0123155284
EMAIL. yasserkamel222@hotmail.com
yasserkamel@museumegypt.com

Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. A

2010-02-01T14:31:00.007+02:00

Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a
rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. A

Always Aswan city was the main granite source for ancient Egyptians where they quarried the best quality of it. Due to this fact, 95 percent of the Egyptian obelisks came from Aswan quarries. Visitors of Aswan monuments always astonished of seeing such a gigantic obelisk in northern quarries. The obelisk rough estimation of it’s weight exceeds 1100 ton and it dates back to the new kingdom of ancient Egypt ”1400-1200 B.C” Egyptologists believe that cause for getting the obelisk left unfinished was having a flaw appeared in it’s monolithic body and led to obvious three cracks and due to that the work on it was abandoned. We only can imagine the amount of frustration the builders had felt once it happened especially it’s work was complete to 90 percent. It seems that the ancient labours had used cylindered wedges as well as pointy ones to cut the borders for the obelisk, the number of discovered wedges were often in sycamore. Knowing which wedge-log can fit for each stage of cutting the obelisk borders is so essential as the using
of the wrong sized –wedge may result a sever damage to the obelisk body. Either misjudging from the ancient architect on selecting the choice of the right sized-wedge in one main stage or choosing the wrong spot in the quarry to cut his obelisk from may lead to similar situation. Regardless to the hopeful researches on the ancient techniques that may ancient Egyptians followed in order to disengage the obelisk then to transfer and finally to erect no logic research is done yet.
We may happily accept the wedge method to disengage the obelisk from the granite quarry and tolerate the use of timber wood in order to case the obelisk body with which may help it to float once an enough strong flood be there.

But the matter is far more complicated than that as once someone to imagine the Nile flood with timber wood casing, done to the obelisk, would help the builders of the obelisk to float it just few meters out of it’s cut socket there be an actual challenge which is how to have a full control over a gigantic monolithic peace of granite that is bushed by a tsunami flood つなみ, 津波 in order to reach it’s destination which is supposedly the Karnak temple in Luxor which is about 150 mile north of the quarry. If luck helped the working team to reach with their obelisk the inside of the Karnak will be one final challenge to encounter which how to erect the obelisk over it’s pedestal ?! most of well known theories affirm the method for raising an obelisk should count on sliding technique which simply by creating mud slopes, ramps or embankments which could be in pairs
then having the obelisk sledged up the ramp then pulled down in between? In practice many thing turn to be so different such as for what quality of cords or ropes we should use that can hold the weight of the obelisk while it is pulled” keep in mind no metal chain or pulley were discovered from ancient Egypt yet”.

Also once to imagine the moment that the obelisk is to land in between of the ramps and the moment were it may swing or seesaw with such weight “ between 300 ton to 1200 ton” a splitting in its body and a catastrophe to result to the labours and to the surroundings of the crowded Karnak? Finally how to seek precision while following the previous method while keeping in mind that the obelisk bed is equipped with certain number of bibs or pegs that made mainly to nest on matching sockets on every obelisk pedestal. “Resumption for this essay will be soon” Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

古代　イジプト　の　こくそう　と　だいしょ　です。

2010-01-11T19:03:00.001+02:00

古代　イジプト　の　こくそう　と　だいしょ　です。

古代　イジプト　の　文化　は　２６００紀元前　年　前に　　はんじ　の　仕事　は　ありました。古代　イジプト　はんじ　は　たいてい　神官　も　だいしょ　いました。こ王国の　時代　に　ひとや　まだ　ありませんでした。しかし、どろぼう　に　ばつ　と　おうだ　何時も　ありました。メーレルカ　の　墓　は　２３００　年　紀元前　ぐらい、　その　墓　に　名場面　が　あって、その　リリーフ　で　ふぎり　な　だいしょ。その　だいしょ　の　こくそう　の　てんけん　の　時は　空　に　なりました。Copyrig ©Musegypt　

EGYPTONEWS

2010-01-09T13:41:00.000+02:00

EGYPTONEWS

January-2010. Alexandria city. A rare discovery for a statue that represents Alexander the great. The statue was discovered by an Egyptian-Greek excavation team in Hadaq El shalalat at the royal superb. The discovered statue dates back to 332 B.C. Also it is in very unique condition and counted to be the most complete statue for Alexander the great ever found.
Akhbar newspaper. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

EGYPTONEWS

2010-01-09T13:40:00.000+02:00

EGYPTONEWS

January-2010. Sakkara. Two ancient tombs were discovered the excavation team of the supreme council of antiquities in Raas El Gesur at Sakkara. Both tombs date back to 500 B.C and the 26th dynasty. The first tomb is counted among the largest in Sakkara and contained lots of ancient pottery and skeletons while the other tomb seemed to be looted during the Roman period. Akhbar newspaper. Copyrig ©Musegypt

Picture and Comment

2009-12-31T23:18:00.002+02:00

Could you send us some information on the Valley Of The Golden Mummies please we would be most grateful for any information you could give us. Dave & Irene Latch

The Valley of the Golden mummies.

This site is found in the Bahariya oasis which about 400 k.m south west of Giza. Valley of the golden mummies was an ancient Egyptian burial that dates back to different periods. The whole area was discovered by the Egyptian supreme council of antiquities and under the auspices of Dr. Zahi Hawas in 1996. The starting of the discovery was by mere accident as a donkey slipped into a tomb and led for the discovery of 250 mummies and roughly 45 tombs. The average age for discovered mummies is between 2000-2500 years. There is a rough estimation to number of mummies that may the future excavation bring to be 10,000 mummies. Also is believed that a lot of those mummies came from remote areas of Egyptian settlement, mainly during the Greco-Roman periods and that happened once the priests moved them to the desert. The reason beyond that was the taxation forced by the temple in order to store mummies and to maintain it and once space was lacked mummies were transferred secretly to the desert without letting somebody to know and to keep the tax continuously paid.

Yasser Kamel
www.museumegypt.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR.2010

2009-12-28T13:19:00.002+02:00

Alexandria,Egypt,Montazah Royal Park and Palace.

MUSEUMEGYPT WISHES IT'S VISITORS A HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Egyptian History, Reference on the use of female warriors in battlefields.

2009-09-14T00:02:00.004+02:00

The Egyptian History, Reference on the use of female warriors in battlefields.

Maybe it is not so common to imagine in the ancient battlefields that the female role would exceed the nursing service and its subcategories but the ancient Egyptian wars were familiar with some female fighters. History mentions queen Aiahhotep “alternatively spelled as Aahhotep” who had a great role in the Egyptian wars of liberation against the Hyksos, 1700 B.C and mainly after the death of her husband king Seqnenra while fighting his foes. According to her mummy examination she looked physically strong and muscular which referred to her physical participation in the actual battle. And due to her brave fight she was rewarded the golden flies’ necklace which used to sign for the unique valor for ancient Egyptian warriors. Another rich example that goes back to the reign of king Ramses II is found in Bait-Elwali temple, south of Aswan which is about 1200 B.C. A wall carving that represents king Ramses II wars in upper Nubba” southern Sudan “ where he is depicted in his triumph and receiving the spoils of war and a lot of Nubian handmade goods” such as incense, Myrrh , ivory, ebony, furniture, bows and so on”. Also it shows his sons while leading the army regiments and vanquishing their enemy. Surprisingly, a princess is shown while sharing an officer leading a chariot and the sign “ Heqa” which means ruler appears beside her. According to the text which is carved beneath she herself led a regiment,” Daughter of the king, from his body, his beloved Nu-Netri is going forth -while her lead- given power, the justified princess”.

Indeed observing the princess on her chariot was almost imposable as she is depicted with so masculine body and a single hair-lock similarly to any prince.

The inscription may emphasize her early death which could happened during the battle or just before making that carving as it was traditional to provide the title “Maa Khrew” or the justified to the deceased. Copyrig ©Musegypt. 2006

The Journey into the Sun, the Solar Boats of Ra.

2009-09-10T01:15:00.003+02:00

The Solar Boat of Cheops

The original rowlock.

The Journey into the Sun, the Solar Boats of Ra.

The most ancient dream for mankind was the everlasting and so was it for the ancient Egyptians. Since the beginning of the Egyptian ancient cultures the search for the eternity never had stopped, the worship of the Sun-God Ra had been the initiation for the settle. Ra was the main creator god and force that had vanquished the dark, the chaos and the time. His journey into eternity was represented by his death or disappearance and his rebirth by his rise from death. The Egyptian myths describe the king to the mortal reincarnation of Ra and in post mortem melts in the sun. The world heritage of antiquates was enriched in the year 1954 by the discovery of the first solar boat. The discovery of the solar boats at Giza was the most stunning event for the archaeological organizations mere luck helped to establish that discovery. The first Ark was discovered in a deep ditch to the south of the great pyramid of Cheops, the ditch contained a dismantled ship of cedar wood. The Egyptian archaeological team had faced a puzzle once they managed to extract it, the countless cedar fragments “around 1200 peace” that represent the whole ark. Surprisingly. The condition of the ship was as perfect as 95 % included its original ropes. The first assumption on the ship main function was suggested to be used for loading and transferring the royal funeral belongings, that thought was abandoned once the boat’s anatomy was examined by the experts. Meanwhile working on assembling the ancient ark by Ahmed yousif and his team four other ditches were discovered around the great pyramid. Two of the ditches were found loaded with similar cedar piles of fragments that represent two more ships while the other two ditches were found empty. Book of the dead describes Ra full journey to be completed by the use of great arks, so according to that reference the idea of the symbolism of the ship had projected. The first ship was restored and assembled in almost ten years the restorers they took advantage of the ancient hieratic signs that were incised by the original builders in order to reassemble it. The solar boat of Cheops is the most gigantic ship that the ancient world had created as it is 54.5 meters long and dates back to the fourth dynasty which is about 2500 B.C. Copyrig ©Musegypt. 2006

Esna Temple needs an urgent rescue!

2009-09-01T17:16:00.007+02:00

Esna Temple needs an urgent rescue!

Esna temple is located few miles south of Luxor city, the temple is surrounded by the local houses and the village. Esna Temple foundations go back to the 18th dynasty of the Egyptian history which is about 1400 B.C. Its earliest excavations started by August Mariette in late 1800 as he managed to unearth most of the temple. Visitors to Esna are often stunned with its glamorous and vivid colours which exceeded 2000 years old. The temple has a rich inscriptions that record too many royal names for the kings who shared building the temple of Esna such as Thutmoses III , Ptolemy VI , Ptolemy VIII , Marcus Aurelius, Decius, Septimus Servus , Trajan and others. The temple is in very poor condition as it had been left surrounded by the village and its sewage as well as water table which caused obvious erosion to temple’s base and foundation. Also great part of Esna temple is still covered by the local houses. Museumegypt wishes to call the attention required from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities to be seriously and urgently concerned of saving Esna temple. Copyrig ©Musegypt. 2006

Picture & Comment

2009-09-01T01:03:00.001+02:00

Carving from the chapel of Hathor in Komombo Temple, the 1st century B.C. It represents the Roman Emperor Trajan while offering the goddess Hathor a pair of Sistrums” rattles “.Copyrig ©Musegypt

Egyptonews

2009-08-25T17:41:00.000+02:00

Egyptonews

Giza, The 23 0f August a national day. In a press conference on 3-08-2009, the day 23 0f August has been decided to be the city national day by the Giza state and under auspices of Professor Nour El Din” Professor of the ancient Egyptian language/Egyptology. Professor Nour El Din mentioned that the main reason behind choosing this day is that it is counted to be the exact date for the starting of the great pyramid construction which synchronized with the rise of the Sothic star at Giza in the year 2470 B.C. Copyrig ©Musegypt.

Museumegypt.THREE YEARS OLD

2009-07-15T14:40:00.003+03:00

Museumegypt.THREE YEARS OLD
I hope that Museumegypt did meet expectation of it's visitors.
Yasser Kamel

Musemegypt, a wave of grief for a racial crime in Germany committed against an Egyptian-Muslim woman

2009-07-06T23:29:00.004+03:00

Musemegypt, a wave of grief for a racial crime in Germany committed against an Egyptian-Muslim woman.

A German racialist had attacked 32-year old pregnant Egyptian-Muslim woman while his trial in a German court “Dresden”. Days before she was beaten by that male German racialist in a public park where he insulted her referring to her head scarf and offending her religion. On the day of the trial and after been accused for having abused her, suddenly he stabbed her 18 times till death and injured her husband too. The great disappointment comes from the German police officers who stood still the whole time and even someone shot her husband by mistake. The German police officers had an unexpected situation against the murdered woman as they searched her house for any evidence would make her a suspect. The murderer and his extreme hates to Islam represent a bad image for Germany where freedom and democracy is claimed. By Yasser Kamel

EGYPTONEWS

2009-07-01T20:53:00.000+03:00

July-09. The first museum for the Egyptian crocodile. A new museum attached to Komombo temple, south of Aswan with a cost of 10000000 Le dedicated to collection of the ancient mummified crocodiles which represented god Sobak the crocodile god . The new museum will be opened shortly mentioned by the supreme council of antiquities. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

EGYPTONEWS

2009-07-01T20:27:00.001+03:00

EGYPTONEWS

June-09. The 18th dynasty mummies examined in the 2nd DNA lab. The supreme council of antiquities authorized the transfer of the 18th dynasty mummies to the 2nd DNA lab at the Qaser Elaini hospital for a DNA examination. Copyrig ©Musegypt 。

みおも　な　ハイエナ　の話

2009-06-03T00:03:00.004+03:00

みおも　な　ハイエナ　の話

古代　イジプト　の　歴史　に　いろいろ　な　動物　の　話　が　あります。みおも　な　ハイエナ　の　話　は　本当　に　おこりました。古代　イジプト　の　古王国　の　時代、２４００　年　紀元前　前　に　有名　な　動物　の　物がたり、たとえば、メーレルカ　の　墓　です。メーレルカ　の　墓　は　２３００　年　紀元前　ぐらい、　その　墓　に　名場面　が　あって、その　リリーフ　で　ハイエナ　の　しゅっさん　が　みせいる。ばめん　も　ハイエエナ　は　じゅうい　さん　は　かんかい　を　上げます。じゅうい　さん　も　ハイエナ　に　いろいろ　な　食べ物　を　上げました。ハイエナ　は　象形文字　で　ヘセト　でした。Copyrig ©Musegypt　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

カイロ　博物館　に　いち　番　古く　かま　と　くわ　が　あります。

2009-05-09T16:27:00.002+03:00

古代　イジプト、　先王国　時代、３５００　紀元前　木製　かま。

カイロ　博物館　に　いち　番　古く　かま　と　くわ　が　あります。

古代　イジプト　の　先王国　時代　で　のうえん　が　わかられた。古代　イジプト　のうみん　は　いろいろ　な　かま　と　くわ　を　造りました。かま　と　くわ　何時も　木製物　でした。

Interested in Art ? Send us yours

2009-05-08T18:36:00.003+03:00

practice By Yasser Kamel

Interested in Art? Send us yours. See http://www.artspacer.blogspot.com or email http://www.museumegypt.blogspot.com

A HAPPY EASTER

2009-03-30T13:42:00.003+02:00

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!

2009-03-22T17:43:00.003+02:00

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"

2009-03-18T15:46:00.002+02:00

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.
Copyrig ©Musegypt .

2009-03-11T15:32:00.003+02:00

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

2009-03-08T10:05:00.002+02:00

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 。　

古代　イジプト　の　がはく　は　リリーフ　で　いがたを　使いました。

2009-02-08T16:53:00.002+02:00

古代　イジプト　の　がはく　は　リリーフ　で　いがたを　使いました。

古代　イジプト　の　がはく　は　場面　で　いがたを　使いました。カイロ　博物館　に　いろいろ　な　いがた　が　ある。いがた　は　たいてい　せいどう　が　造られた。リリーフ　と　場面　で　ごさ　まだ　おこりえる、しかし、いがた　が　使う。たとえば、ラメセス　二世　の　リリーフ　の　ワヂ　セボウ　神殿　に　ごさ　が　ある。この　リリーフ　で　イシス女神　の　だいめい　が　わすられた。あの　だいめい　の　大　は　象形文字　で　雀　です。あと　で　雀　の　リリーフ　がほりつけられたCopyrig ©Musegypt 。　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　

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2009-01-29T21:58:00.000+02:00

Jan-2009.Ein Soughna. 4000 years old store-rooms were discovered by an Egyptian-French archeological team in Ein Soughna"120 km north-east of Cairo". The store-rooms go back to the Middle kingdom"1700-2000 B.C". " Nine store-rooms and three corridors that contain jars and pots have the royal names of the fourth and the fifth dynasties carved in addition to cedar temper wood" Hawas mentioned. . Akhbarnews. Copyrig ©Musegypt

PICTURE AND COMMENT

2009-01-29T15:22:00.002+02:00

Picture By Carole & Rob Haines

PICTURE AND COMMENT.

This picture is from Edfu Temple and represents a carving that is found on the outer wall of the divine birth chapel. The carving represents king Ptolemy philomater serves god Khnum "ram-headed god" the Cataract god, the amulet of the crown in presence of goddess Hathor who is depicted as his mother meanwhile offering a breast-feeding to the same king in the figure of a baby. Copyrig ©Musegypt

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MUSEUMEGYPT TO ALL ITS FOLLOWERS.

2009-01-01T11:37:00.004+02:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MUSEUMEGYPT TO ALL ITS FOLLOWERS.

I wish 2009 to be prosperous, reach, healthy to all.
YASSER KAMEL

Art schools in ancient Egypt. B

2008-12-20T16:40:00.001+02:00

Art schools in ancient Egypt. B

The ancient Egyptian artist had known the use of templates and stencils in most of his carvings and wall inscriptions. That technique was beyond the precision and accuracy in every text goes back to ancient Egypt. Whoever the template-use can count reliable, faults and human-errors can evolve. The first example is from Wady Elseboua temple which is about 1200 BC and it is from a wall-inscription. That inscription was pressed on wet blaster and seems the work was done in rush as it resulted dropping some part of the text, the artist forgot to add goddess Isis title "great" then he did over-lab some of the text. . Copyrig ©Musegypt

Cairo Museum. King Snefru stays in the shadow.

2008-12-15T20:56:00.001+02:00

Cairo Museum. King Snefru stays in the shadow.

It called my full attention a week ago in Cairo museum garden seeing a slab in fine limestone with a text and a fine carving for king Snefru the founder of the fourth dynasty neglected in a shadowy corner of the museums garden. King Snefru ruled Egypt around 2575 B.C and built the two famous pyramids" the bent and the red" in Dahshur, south-west of Giza. This carving represents him, his titles and his cartouche under the protection of the Falcon –god Horus. Copyrig ©Musegypt

PICTURE AND COMMENT

2008-12-15T18:22:00.003+02:00

Picture by Paul Woods

PICTURE AND COMMENT

This picture came from the hypostyle hall/colonnade of the Karnak temple in Luxor city, the carving dates back to the 19th dynasty, reign of king Ramses II which is about 1200 B.C. It represents Ramses II while being assisted by priests of the main gods in order to tow the divine marriage-ship to join the marriage feast" the opet" Copyrig ©Musegypt

PICTURE AND COMMENT

2008-12-14T12:26:00.001+02:00

Picture By Carole & Rob Haines

PICTURE AND COMMENT

This picture came from Comombow temple, south of Luxor city and it represents Ptolemy VIII and his sister/wife Cleopatra II and his second wife Cleopatra III. The carving dates back to 100 BC and represents the king while wearing the Osiris crown and receives the scimitar sword from god Horus which emphasis that Egypt had some wars and therefore he was provided with war permission. Copyrig ©Musegypt

PICTURE AND COMMENT

2008-12-10T22:24:00.004+02:00

Picture By Carole & Rob Haines

A carving from Hatshepsut temple

This picture came from the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the chapel of Anubis.
The top of the picture has the traditional amulet of power and protection which is the winged sun –disc.

The Hieroglyphic text on the right of the picture was disfigured a part from the titles of the gods. The original text there was to refer to the queen herself. The left side of the picture has three complete hieroglyphic sentences read
1st. The living Horus, the mighty one, he who shines on Waset" Luxor" the ruler with the hounored heart.

2nd. Life to the king of upper and lower Egypt, " the coronation -cartouche reads he who is the firm existence of Ra" the beloved of Amun-Ra.

3rd. Life to the sun of Ra "the birth-cartouche reads Thut mass, child of the ibis-god, the good being" May "he "be given life forever. . Copyrig ©Musegypt

Cairo museum, Seth since the beginning.

2008-12-04T22:37:00.002+02:00

Painted by Yasser kamel

Cairo museum, Seth since the beginning .

We have enough evidence that Seth cult goes back to the beginning. Seth, the god and the force of chaos , disorder, confusion, dark and evil seems to be much older and stronger than his rivals in the Nile Delta. The Egyptian museum keeps at the moment the most recent finds of the excavations in the Nile-Delta which includes a terra cotta pot dates back to the Pre-dynastic era, about 4000 BC. That pot was discovered in Tal El Farkha "mound of the bird" the tiny hand carvings represent Seth in his traditional animal shape. Copyrig ©Musegypt

PICTURE & COMMENT

2008-12-02T16:15:00.003+02:00

Picture By Carole & Rob Haines

PICTURE & COMMENT
An unknown Cartouche

This cartouche is for Ptolemy the Neo- Dionysus " most probably for Ptolemy 11th" about 90 BC. The Hieroglyphic title of that Ptolemy reads "he who go forth while been drunk" or the drunken. This picture came from the entrance of the great temple of Horus "the falcon-god" in Edfu. Ptolemy the Neo- Dionysus had finished a lot of the Egyptian temples. Copyrig ©Musegypt

Egyptonews

2008-11-19T17:27:00.000+02:00

Egyptonews

Nov-2008. A newly discovered pyramid in the royal necropolis of Sakkara. A new pyramid for an Egyptian queen was discovered by an Egyptian excavation team in Sakkara, the pyramid was a royal tomb for queen Sesheshet , wife of king Titi who was the founder of the 6th dynasty"2345-2333" B.C. Sesheshat's pyramid original height was 14 meter with 22 meter wide-base. Hawas mentioned that he had started serial excavations in Sakkara since 20 years ago as he rediscovered a pyramid for the queen " Khuit" who was the main one for king Titi. Hawas "the chairman of the supreme council of antiquities "added that the whole belongings will be transferred to Cairo museum. Copyrig ©Musegypt

OBAMA HAS WON

2008-11-05T15:02:00.001+02:00

CONGRATULATION. OBAMA HAS WON.

カイロ　博物館、ジュセル　王　の　座像。

2008-10-25T21:57:00.002+02:00

カイロ　博物館、ジュセル　王　の　座像。

カイロ　博物館　に　ジュセル　おう　の　せっかいせき　座像　あります。ジュセル　王様　は　古国　時代　の　古代　イジプト　で　３０年凡そ　支配しまた。ジュセル　王　に　イムホテプ　は　階段　ピラミッド　を　建てました。古代　イジプト　の　歴史　に　イムホテプ　は　いち　番　有名　なけんちくか　でした。階段ピラミッド　は　２７８　年　紀元前　まえ　でした。その　座像　は　高さ　は　６０　メテル　ですくて、　サッカラ　の　墓地　で　発見　されました。. Copyrig ©Musegypt
　　

A PICTURE AND A COMMENT

2008-10-08T17:38:00.001+02:00

A PICTURE AND A COMMENT 　　　

　　　

Photo by Lin and Graham Mortlock

Mr and Mrs. Mort tlock have sent me this picture willing to know from where it came and what does it tell?

The picture was taken from the Dendara temple,birth-chapel of Trojan. The carving contains a text and a cartouche that belong to the Roman Emperor Trojan. The cartouche is an oval frame that isolates the royal name from the rest of the inscription. Copyrig ©Musegypt

Egyptonews

2008-09-19T22:19:00.003+02:00

Egyptonews

August-2008. Heliopolis, a huge temple and a massive statue both for king Ramsess II were discovered in Un city " modern Heliopolis" by an Egyptian delegation under the auspices of the supreme council of antiquities. Also a foundation for a cenotaph in side the same temple which reinforces the idea of following that tradition in early Egyptian temples as it was traditional with Tanis temples. The Egyptian delegation discovered a stone-head for god Khepri the scarab-god and a statute for the cat-goddess " Bastet" from EL Akhbar-newspaper.
Museuegypt comment.

"Un" also was the largest university and the oldest ever and it is believed that the title universe and university were driven from "Un". Un dates back to the pre-dynastic"6000-4000 B.C" Also Un was quite famous of its genius mathematicians who thought the whole universe the principles of the mathematics and the geometrics. Only I wish inform you that Pythagoras was one of its students" please read my article about the Rhind mathematical papyrus" Copyrig ©Musegypt

Egyptonews

2008-09-19T22:19:00.002+02:00

Egyptonews

September-2008. Fayyum city. A vaulted burial chamber and a pink granite sarcophagus for king Senusert II were discovered inside his mud-brick pyramid in El lahun by an Egyptian delegation under the auspices of the supreme council of antiquities. Also a number of misleading corridors were discovered, in addition to some greaco-roman rock-cut tombs filled with skeletons in their rock-cut sarcophagi and a shelter for terracotta pots and jars. A huge sum of Egyptian pounds were dedicated for the future excavations by Hawaz , the chairman of the supreme council of antiquities. EL Akhbar-newspaper.Copyrig ©Musegypt　　　　　　　　　　　

メーレルカ　の　墓　は　　すばらしい　もの　ですね。

2008-07-18T19:02:00.006+03:00

メーレルカ　さん　は　おかさん゛チィティ　さん　と　おくさん　゛ヘルワテトゲト゛　の　あいだ　に　たっていました。 　

古代　イジプト　の　さんぎょう、゛金工゛きんこう　と　グラスせい　の　物　が　ある。

こだい　イジプト　のぎょぎょう、ぎょせん　とぎょもうも　ありました。こだい　イジプトぎょみん　はにしん　も　しました。

メーレルカ　の　墓　は　　すばらしい　もの　ですね。

メーレルカ　の　墓、サッカラ　に　いち　番　有名　な　墓　です。メーレルカ　の　墓　は　２４００　紀元前　年　前　でしたね。メーレルカ　は　ティティ　王　様　の　大臣、むこ　さん　も　でした。メーレルカ　は　全体　に　書きやく　や　神官　も　でした。その　墓　は　サッカラ　の　いち　番　大きい　もの　だ、へや　が３１いつ　ある。メーレルカ　の　墓、何時も、マスタバ　とよう　です。メーレルカ　マスタバ　の　中　に　いろいろ　な　場面　と　リリフ　の　きが　が　あります。Copyrig ©Musegypt　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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Ancient Egyptian walls and floors.B

ソベク 神様 は 古代 イジプト の 鰐 神 です。

Ancient Egyptian walls and floors.A

Know more about ancient Egypt !

Happy New Year

Visit Artspace

The Doni Tondo ,Sketched and copied by Yasser Kamel ,

Visit Artspace

Know more about ancient Egypt!

Pre-historic Egypt, The Scorpion King. ”special articles” Part-2

Ancient Egypt, Martial Arts. E

ホーラス神 は 一 番 古くりょうし

Ancient Egypt , Martial Arts. D

Ancient Egypt, Martial Arts. C

The Author and the writer of Museumegypt.Self-painted

Ancient Egypt. Martial Arts. B

My Pyramids Tour

大ピラミッド は 素晴らしい ですね。

Best wishes for Ramadan

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.4

Hunt in ancient Egypt, Horus, the ultimate hunter.Part-2

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.3

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The Last Pharaoh

Ancient Egypt, Horus, the ultimate hunter.Part-1

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Ancient Egypt crowns-1

Art Space

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Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.2

Museumegypt is Five years old.

Special articles, The art of Mummification between science and superstition, part.1

Offerings of Gods in ancient Egypt.

Picture & Comment

Picture & Comment

Animals rituals in ancient Egypt. Part B

Animals rituals in ancient Egypt. Part A

古代 イジプト人 は ぼっけん を つくりましたね。

Was Anubis to represent a jackal or else ?

カイロ 博物館、クフ王 の 座像 は まれ な 物 でずね。

The IM-DUWAT, The judgment of Osiris. A

Know more about Egypt History

全体 に、 古代イジプト は 馬 は いませんでした。

Know more about Egypt History !

The Egyptian Museum, Humor in ancient Egypt.

Egypt is the biggest museum

Egypt welcomes travelers back

Best luck for Egypt..

The Graffiti in the ancient Egyptian temples.

Museumegypt team of Egyptian tour guides

カフラ の 座像

Hatshepsut and the trick of the Hotep positioning.

A Happy 2011 to all

King Tutankhamen was the son of Akhenaton! Was He?

Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. B

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My most current visit to Petra

Looking for a private chinese teacher in Cairo

Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. A

古代 イジプト の こくそう と だいしょ です。

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EGYPTONEWS

Picture and Comment

HAPPY NEW YEAR.2010

The Egyptian History, Reference on the use of female warriors in battlefields.

The Journey into the Sun, the Solar Boats of Ra.

Esna Temple needs an urgent rescue!

Picture & Comment

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Museumegypt.THREE YEARS OLD

Musemegypt, a wave of grief for a racial crime in Germany committed against an Egyptian-Muslim woman

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みおも な ハイエナ の話

カイロ 博物館 に いち 番 古く かま と くわ が あります。

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A HAPPY EASTER

ソベク　神様　は　古代　イジプト　の　鰐　神　です。

ホーラス神　は　一　番　古くりょうし

大ピラミッド　は　素晴らしい　ですね。

古代　イジプト人は　ぼっけん　を　つくりましたね。

カイロ　博物館、クフ王　の　座像　は　まれ　な　物　でずね。

全体　に、　古代イジプト　は　馬　は　いませんでした。

カフラ　の　座像

古代　イジプト　の　こくそう　と　だいしょ　です。

みおも　な　ハイエナ　の話

カイロ　博物館　に　いち　番　古く　かま　と　くわ　が　あります。

古代　イジプト　の　がはく　は　リリーフ　で　いがたを　使いました。

カイロ　博物館、ジュセル　王　の　座像。

メーレルカ　の　墓　は　　すばらしい　もの　ですね。