Seth , the invincible force !

Seth , the invincible force !

Seth is counted evil in common referring to the ancient myth of Osiris, Osiris the heir of Ra and his legal descendant and the good brother for Seth. Osiris death by Seth would not be evadable; his body portions had to be spread around Egypt then to be reassembled by his wife and sister Isis which referred to the unification of Egypt. The ancient Egyptians due to such creed considered Osiris to be the fertility causer and gave him different colours to emphasize his fertility such the blue which indicates the Nile fertility and it’s indigo which was brought by it’s inundation floods or the green to indicate Osiris force that effected vegetation . Seth on the other hand had been sentenced for ostracism and the exile .So due to that destiny Seth’s realm had turned to the wasted lands, the arid and the barren lands as well as the salty water. Looking at the deep meaning behind such isolation for Seth make us more familiar of Seth’s incredible power which Ra had privileged him with , the force that can reclaim arid desert to vegetation ,the force that can desalinate the sea and the force which can hunt and tame the evil. The papyrus scene shows the use of Seth’s force to tame or hunt down the coiled snake of evil. In such notion Ra and Seth refer to the Yen and yang or the positive and the negative forces so there no wonder to find some mighty pharaohs such Seti I to be named and related to the invincible force of Seth. Written by Yasser kamel for Museumegypt.2006@.All rights reserved.

The bent and the red pyramids of Dahshur, the fourth dynasty,reign of King Snefru-2600 B.C.Conducted by Yasser kamel

Famous Prince Abbas cruise-ship in lake Nasser

Famous Prince Abbas cruise-ship in lake Nasser.
Sailing in lake Nasser is the most enjoyable way to visit the Egyptian temples in the Egyptian desert which was named by early explorers as the Nubian Desert! The visits include sites such as the Kalabsha temple, Bait el waly temple, Wadi El Seboa, the Derr site and the great Abu Simble temples and their famous approach from the lake side.
Yasser kamel

Walls and Floors in ancient Egypt-C

The Pyramids of Giza represent a different type of stone interlocking  which is based on a tenon and mortise  method.

                                  Tenon and Mortise method. F-1.

The method of the Tenon and Mortise was used to attach the outer limestone blocks of the pyramids “F-2”.

F-2 shows the deeper stone blocks while the stone tenons being kept.

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F-2

Written by Yasser kamel for Museumegypt.2006 .All rights reserved.

Today ...Museumegypt is 7 years old!

Today ...Museumegypt is 7 years old!-Yasser kamel

The Art of the Egyptian Papyri."Part-3"

The Art of the Egyptian Papyri  

Within the New Kingdom period, 1500- 1100 B.C, the funeral papyri “Book of the dead” became widely spread around the whole country and also it became affordable to others than royals. The popularity and the spread for that type of papyrus books had synchronized with a simplicity trend for the accompanying art of those papyri. The use of the classical drawings in book of the dead, in ancient Egypt, did require a highly skilled artist as well as much of time which had a negative effect on papyrus cost while the use of the simplified art on papyrus which requires less skilled artist and takes less time to finish was a help to allow major number of people to get it. The Egyptian artist used the stroke-order style or the simplified for the repeated and exact god’s figures which used to be made in classical style before. The  figures above show the simplified style for a man  and the possible strokes led to have them drawn. Another example of such stroke-order use is  for the funeral papyrus of khonu ,the 18^th dynasty where the stroke –order rule is applied –F-1

The following stages are the possible ones to create such stereotype images on Khunso Papyrus.

Stage-1 it simply done by drawing the human head and the head dress.

Stage-2. is done by drawing a straight line which ends with a human hand.

 

Stage-3. drawing the disc

 

Stage-4. drawing a slash to represent the torso and the left leg.

Stage-5. is where to draw what looks almost like a straight line which refers to the back and the right leg for the human figure.

Written and painted by Yasser Kamel for www.museumegypt.blogspot.com.All rights reserved.

Just finished two informative and detailed full days of visits where I took the students of the University of Arkansas accompanied by Jerome Carl Rose ,Professor of Anthropology

Just finished two informative and detailed full days of visits to historical sites in Cairo  and Giza  including a lot of mastaba tombs, pyramids and museums where I took the students of the University of Arkansas  accompanied by   Jerome Carl Rose ,Professor of Anthropology.

Yasser kamel
Tour guide and Egyptologist
17-May-2013

Ancient Egyptian Fine Art

A master- piece of fine art represents wife of Assiute’s nomarch and dates back to Middle kingdom ,reign of king Senusert I, which was about 1950 B.C. The statue bears the traditional Egyptian features of art for Assiute Nome . Assiute was the 13th Nome of Upper Egypt and Webwawut jackal god was its own local deity. Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006.

Egyptonews

  

Egyptonews

A new discovery in Luxor by an Egyptian and German  archaeological team. The team succeeded to uncover  14 granite statues, 2 m high, that represent the Egyptian lioness goddess of war, devastation ,havoc and wrath , Sekhmet  . The finds came from the ruins of the funeral temple   of   Amunhotep  III( 1400 B.C) at the west bank.

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Karnak temple. A wall carving shows the two cartouches of king Seti II who was the son of King Mernptah and the grandson of Ramses II(The great)in about 1200 B.C. It seams that he was not powerful enough as he failed to protect Upper Egypt from his rival and half brother Amunmes who managed to rule Upper Egypt for a short while until Seti II succeeded to return it to his control.
The famous cartouche (from the left, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, first cartouche( User-Khebrow –Ra, Mer-Amun) which means “the mighty existence of Ra and the beloved of Amun) the second cartouche or the famous (Seti-Mer -Ptah ) which means “ The one of Seth and the beloved of Ptah).Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt,Copyright@museumegypt. All rights reserved.

Egypt Best Saffari. (Baharia, farafera....)

Yasser kamel
Museumegypt senior tour guide.

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Edfu Temple. A column has the coronation cartouche of Ptolemy XII,Euletes( Neos Dionysos) the Drunkard who was father of Cleopatra VII (the famous one). He was exiled by his elder daughter Ber

enice IV then managed to rule again. The upper register of hieroglyphics starts (from left side ) with the Osiried king, gods ,king of Upper and lower Egypt ,Kings Cartouche, beloved of Horus of Behdet (Horus of Edfu).
The lower register has the Cartouche in the center while the falcon –headed sphinx which is a form of god Horus from the left and the vulture goddess Nakhbet from the right. The text above the sphinx head reads Horus of Behdet(Edfu) and the one above the vulture translates to the drunkard king. Macedonian period 55.B.C. Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt,Copyright@museumegypt. All rights reserved.

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Luxor city, Hatshepsut Temple, West Bank.. A column with Hatshepsut royal tittles that was left intact on purpose to refer to her in spite of being the rest of her names and tittles were chis

eled out from the rest of the temple. The text reads (from the top) Her Coronation name (Maat –ka-Ra) then , daughter of Ra ( the sun and the duck) from her father’s body then her second cartouche which has her birth-name (Ghen-met- Emen –Hat-shep-sut) “the first choice Princess” ,then below of it reads Amun-Ra lord of thrones ,lord of the two lands. May life to be granted (given) to his beloved(Hatshepsut).Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt,Copyright@museumegypt. All rights reserved.

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King of Upper and lower Egypt( from left) Ptolemy VIII , Child of Ra, Komombo temple,170 B.C .Ptolemy VIII killed his brother Ptolemy VI and married his widow Cleopatra III. Yasser kamel. 

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The list of Prisoners of king Thutmoses III, the great Karnak temple,1400 B.C. The framed name which I explain is the “ Tetheres” who are identified as the Etruscans( Pre-Roman culture). Info by Yasser kamel for Museumegypt.2006.

Know more about history of Egypt! Codex of Sinaiticus.

Know more about history of Egypt! Codex of Sinaiticus.

Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest written Bible discovered and it goes back to the 4th century AD. It was written in Greek letters on parchment and originally contained both testaments and the Epistle of Barnabas but what survived is just the New Testament. Codex Sinaiticus was owned by Egypt and was kept by St. Catherine Monastery then accordi

ng to the Monks story that Tichendorf who was a scholar paid a visit to the monastery in 1844 and did borrow the codex then he smuggled most of it to Germany. On the other hand Tichendorf claimed that the monks were ignorant in way that they trashed the codex for waste and it was rescued by him. Today most of the Codex Sinaiticus is displayed in the British Museum and some are left in St. Catherine Monastery. Before the revealing and the introduction of the Codex Sinaiticus to the west the other Codex (the Codex Vaticanus) was counted to be the oldest. Written by Yasser Kamel for Museumegypt.2006.

First Egyptian astrophysicist

First Egyptian astrophysicist 16 years old to travel to the moon for his genius spiders experiments in the upper-space ( Amer was chosen from competitors exceeded 80 scientists by NASA) I wish the best luck for Egypt.

Happy Birthday Museumegypt

 Museumegypt is 6 years old now!

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