#ancient-egyptian — Public Fediverse posts

I think I may have finally figured out how to type Middle Egyptian in Unicode:

𓄤𓊵𓏏𓊪𓋴 (nfr-Htp-s AKA Neferhetepes)

Unfortunately, the formatting (sign arrangement) does not render correctly in normal software when pasted (as above). In this example the t and p uniliteral signs should be under the Htp sign as in the picture.

Still not quite there, yet, so still have to use images for proper display. 😞

#middleegyptian #hieroglyphs #hieroglyphic #ancientegyptian

#Skeleton found in pot is first #AncientEgyptian to undergo whole #genome analysis
Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped #DNA survive past four millennia

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/02/skeleton-in-pot-first-ancient-egyptian-undergo-genome-analysis #science #ancientDNA #archaeology

Phys.org: The scent of the #mummy. Research discovers #ancientEgyptian remains smell nice
#history

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scent-mummy-ancient-egyptian-nice.html

Pan egipcio de la dinastía XVIII (1550-1295 a.C.) envuelto con vendas de papiro. Los egipcios hacían el pan con trigo escanda o con cebada, que contenían poco gluten pero producían panes densos. Podían contener granos enteros, cilantro, higos, dátiles o colorantes. 🏛️Museo Egipcio de Turín #antiguoegipto #ancientegyptian

Fósil de cicaroide, un tipo de erizo de mar del Eoceno (56-34 MdA), encontrada cerca de Heliópolis entre el 1292-332 a.C. con jeroglíficos que dicen "Encontrado al sur de la cantera por el dios del padre Tjanefer", donde probablemente fue expuesto. Museo Egipcio de Turín #antiguosegipcios #ancientegyptian #fosiles #fossils

2,200-year-old Egyptian hallucinogenic rituals confirmed by vase depicting dwarf god

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/11/2200-year-old-egyptian-hallucinogenic-rituals/

#archaeology #history #ancienthistory #anthropology #religion #religiousrituals #religions #religious #religousrites #egypt #ancientegypt #AncientEgyptian #egyptology

FUN FACT

#Ethiopia is the only country to use a 13 month calendar. Each month, except the last, has 30 days. The last month known as, Pagume, has only 5 days; 6 days, if falling on a leap year.

Tracing its origin to Ancient Coptic (Egyptian Orthodoxy). Which was itself derived from the Julian Calendar. The extra month serves to align with the Solar Cycle.

New Year falls on SEPTEMBER 11th.

#Funfact #funfacts #calendar #newyear #Coptic #egypt #ancienthistory #ancientegypt #ancientegyptian

I am still cry-laughing at this screenshot of my medical clinic's portal, they are REALLY dedicated to accessibility

#AncientEgyptian #MiddleEnglish #OldEnglish #ThisIsReal #LinguisticsHumor #LanguageNerd #Languages

Some time ago I posted a photo of the front of this statue, which shows Yuny and his wife Renenutet seated on a large chair. This is the back of that chair, which is as finely worked as the rest of the statue, with scenes of offerings and the inscriptions that tell us who’s who.

The upper register shows us Yuny and Renenutet on the left, and in front of them stands their son (name unknown as it was on the broken bit of inscription). Between them is an offering table piled high with bread and other foodstuffs for sustenance in eternity. 🧵 1/3

#egyptology #AncientEgyptian

Archaeologists find thousands of 'rare' Ancient Egyptian figurines deep inside hidden tomb
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/archaeologists-find-thousands-of-rare-ancient-egyptian-figurines-deep-inside-hidden-tomb/ar-BB1jfyyP?cvid=e6c5b97eb25e43f681a432ff62b53910&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=10

#Archeology
#AncientEgyptian
#Figurines
#Egypt

It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Anubis is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide of souls in #ancientEgyptian religion. He is commonly depicted with the head of a jackal as jackals had been strongly associated with cemeteries. The Greeks associated him with #Hermes because they both guided souls to the afterlife, resulting in the syncretic god #Hermanubis.

#ancientEgypt

It's the #DayOfAres / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Sekhmet is a warrior goddess of #ancientEgyptian religion. She is said to breathe fire and cause plagues. She acts as the vengeful manifestation of Ra's power, the Eye of #Ra. Once he sent her to destroy mortals but in her bloodlust she would have wiped out humanity had the other gods not dyed beer red as blood so Sekhmet lapped it all up and passed out drunk.
#mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Osiris is the god of fertlity and agriculture, life, vegetation, and afterlife in #ancientEgyptian religion. He is a god who died at the hand of his brother Seth. The festival commemorating his death marked the day of new crops being planted. The Egyptians made "grain mummies" of Osiris, filled with soil and sown with seed, symbolising Osiris rising from the dead.

This is a detail from the lower torso of the outer coffin of a woman called Djedmutesankh, who lived around 3000 years ago. She was buried in tomb MMA60 at Deir el Bahri alongside other members of her extended family, and the tomb was excavated by the Met Museum in the 1920s.

As you can see the coffin is one of those busy 21st Dynasty ones, with motifs and gods almost totally covering up the yellow background. In the centre of the photo is a falcon with its wings outstretched and a sun disk on his head, probably Re-Horakhty.

Above & below are more falcons with their wings in front of them facing in (above) and out (below) from the centre. You’ve got two Osirises flanking a djed pillar above, and two more flanking a scarab beetle with a sun disk (the god Khepri) below. 🧵 1/3

#AncientEgyptian #coffin #egyptology #egyptian

This is a false door, which was an architectural feature that was particularly common in Old Kingdom tombs. This example is from the tomb of Pepyankh the Younger at Meir, and he lived during the reign of Pepi II around 4000 years ago.

It’s clearly not a functional door that could be used by living people, hence why Egyptologists call it a false door. But it was functional for a part of the soul of the deceased person – the ka could pass through from the afterlife and into the tomb.

The reason the ka did this was that this was the place in the tomb where food offerings would be placed. It was clear to the Egyptians that nothing was eating the food, instead they believed that the ka (or life force) of the deceased was nourished by the life force of the food. 🧵 1/2

#egyptian #egyptology #tomb #AncientEgyptian

Domestic Space and Gender Roles in #AncientEgyptian Village Households: A View from #Amarna Workmen's Village and Deir el-Medina. Westgate
https://www.academia.edu/5665752/Koltsida_A_Domestic_Space_and_Gender_Roles_in_Ancient_Egyptian_Village_Households_A_View_from_Amarna_Workmens_Village_and_Deir_el_Medina_Westgate_R_Fisher_N_R_E_and_J_Whitley_eds_Building_Communities_House_Settlement_and_Society_in_the_Aegean_and_Beyond_

Deir el-Bahri was used as a place to bury the elite of Ancient Egyptian society for millennia, most famously in association with the temples of Montuhotep II and Hatshepsut but the burials continued long after this. And any given tomb might be used long after it was first dug.

These pottery fragments (ostraca) illustrate both those points: they were found in the courtyard outside tomb TT312 which was built for Nespekashuty who was a Vizier during the reign of Psamtik I in the 26th Dynasty, but two of the ostraca are from a later date than that.

The two drawings of column tops are probably contemporary to the tomb’s construction and may even be preliminary sketches for the decoration. At the back is an incised design of a crocodile which is probably from a couple of hundred years later during the Ptolemaic Period. 🧵 1/2

#AncientEgypt #AncientEgyptian #egyptology #egypt #archaeology

This is a relatively unusual object – it’s a human shaped granite sarcophagus, which is not unusual in itself but it belonged to a private individual who lived during the New Kingdom and at that period it was generally only royalty who got stone sarcophagi. 🧵 1/5

#AncientEgypt #AncientEgyptian #sarcophagus #coffin

This jar (acc. no.: 22.2.33) is part of a set of four that the Met Museum bought in 1922. Because they were purchased there’s no record of where they were found but they are thought to date to the reign of Amenhotep III, because similar ones were found in the tomb of his in-laws. 🧵 1/4

#AncientEgypt #AncientEgyptian #frog #AncientHistory #Archaeology #Egyptology

This is the inner coffin of a man called Khonsu, who lived in Deir el Medina and worked in the Valley of the Kings during the reign of Ramesses II (around 3200 years ago). He was found buried in his father’s tomb, and his coffins were sold to the Met in 1886 (acc. no.: 86.1.2). 🧵 1/7

#AncientEgypt #AncientEgyptian #Hieroglyphs #Coffin #photography