#ancient-egyptian — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/africa/440517/ 3,000-year-old burial of ancient Egyptian horse found — and a nearby stone carving depicts a captured prisoner #AncientEgyptian #archaeologists #Burial #Egypt #EgyptianMinistryOfTourism #HorseStables #LiveScience

https://www.europesays.com/africa/373440/ Strange Stone Circles Hint at a Lost Nomadic Culture of the Sahara Desert #AncientEgyptian #désert #DesertStoneCircle #Egypt #Nomad #StonesCircle

https://www.europesays.com/africa/365733/ Egypt unearths underground tombs, golden tongues ahead of construction in ancient coastal city #AncientArtifacts #AncientEgyptian #AncientEgyptianTomb #ArchaeologicalExcavations #Egypt #EgyptianAntiquities #ElAlamein #limestone #MarinaElAlamin #MarinaElAlamein #MohamedAbdelBadie

#AncientEgyptian princesses were ‘powerful’ weapon users, new analysis suggests

These findings challenge a long-held belief about weapons found in female burial sites

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen, July 17, 2026

Excerpt: " 'We wanted to see if the skeletons themselves supported the presence of the weapons found beside them,' [#ZeinabHashesh] says.

"By looking at the princesses’ internal bone structure and muscle attachment sites, as well as by analyzing chemical signatures left on the remains, Hashesh and her team began to piece together a picture of what the princesses’ daily lives and burials may have looked like.

" 'Our big takeaway is that these women were ‘active ritual agents’ whose lives involved disciplined physical strength,' she says, participating in activities that possibly included archery or the use of daggers.

"In Princess Ita’s case, her muscle attachments 'strongly reflect the habitual gripping of weapons like daggers or maces,' Hashesh says.

"Even more clear was Princess Noub-Hotep, whose skeleton, she says, 'provides the most definitive evidence for the 'archer’s grip,' including 'a unique bowing' of a hand bone, a feature that Hashesh sees as evidence of having to drawing a bow.

"Meanwhile, she adds, Princess Itaweret appeared to have survived 'significant trauma” to her ribs and feet bones, 'indicating a high-risk, active lifestyle.' "

Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-egyptian-princesses-were-powerful-weapon-users-new-analysis-suggests/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/R4QEx

#AncientEgypt #AncientWomen #WarriorWomen #AncientHistory

https://www.europesays.com/africa/344015/ New research finds Egyptian princesses buried with weapons were skilled archers #AncientEgyptian #BowsAndArrows #Egypt #hunting #RoyalFamily #RoyalWomen #WeaponsTraining #ZeinabHashesh

Why Bulgari’s Lotus Design Is Stirring Debate Over Ancient Egyptian Heritage

The lotus flower has once again become the center of an online debate after Bulgari’s latest Divas’ Dream…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Bulgari #ancient #AncientEgyptian #AncientEgyptian-InspiredJewelry #cairo #Egypt #EgyptianLotus #Jewelery #lotusflower #lvmh #MiddleEast
https://www.europesays.com/france/53582/

17-Jul-2026
#AncientEgyptian #princesses born 4,000 years ago were skilled #archers, new study shows
Strong muscle attachments and healed fractures show that royal women could use the #weapons they were buried with — but also that high status didn’t prevent hardship

^^no mention of #xena though ...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1135301

#science #humans #archaeology #AncientEgypt

Can you pass an ancient Egyptian math exam?

#Tibees #math #ancientegyptian #qubits

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• Fen Bilimleri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OHtfwwnKSY&list=UULF52kszkc08-acFOuogFl5jw&index=1

#AncientEgyptian ‘#AirConditioning’ could help cool modern buildings

One research team hopes to harness 5,000-year-old ideas to battle rising temperatures.

by Andrew Paul
Published Aug 22, 2023

"By retrofitting their shipping container test chamber with off-the-grid, solar powered battery storage, AL-Hassawi’s team can heat their chamber to upwards of 130 degrees Fahrenheit to test out their solutions while measuring factors such as air velocity, temperature, and humidity. The team is particularly focused on optimizing a passive cooling method involving large towers and evaporative cooling that dates as far back as 2,500 BCE in ancient Egypt. In these designs, moisture evaporates at the tower’s top, which turns into cool, heavier air that then sinks down to the habitable space below. In the team’s version, moisture could be generated via misting nozzles, shower heads, or simply water-soaked pads.

" 'It’s an older technology, but there’s been an attempt to innovate and use a mix of new and existing technologies to improve performance and the cooling capacity of these systems,' explained Al-Hassawi, who also envisions retrofitting smokestacks in older buildings to work as new cooling towers."

Full article:
https://www.popsci.com/technology/shipping-container-test-cooler/

#SolarPunkSunday #AncientTechnology #ModernTechnology #KeepingCool

https://www.europesays.com/africa/190980/ Archaeologists Uncover Mystery Object Hidden in 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Child Mummy’s Chest #AncientEgyptian #CuttingEdgeTechnology #Egypt #EgyptianMummy #MysteriousObject

https://www.europesays.com/africa/107196/ Old Kingdom tombs, artifacts discovered on Nile’s west bank #AncientEgyptian #archaeologists #artifacts #BurialChambers #discovered #Egypt #EgyptianAntiquities #OldKingdom #PotteryVessels #QubbetElHawa #SupremeCouncilOfAntiquities

The principles of Ma'at were used as moral code for the living and the standard that the dead would be judged by. The #AncientEgyptian culture believed that when one died, their soul would be weighed against these principles. Then it would be determined whether one would resurrect or be discarded.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:divsr6yqopdmsxsl23ih2l52/post/3maguepbgts2p

Meet Akhenaten’s ‘grandson’: man goes viral for resemblance to the ancient Egyptian king https://www.byteseu.com/1606975/ #Akhenaten #AlMasryAlYoum #AncientEgyptian #Cheops #Egypt #egyptians #GrandEgyptianMuseum #KingKhufu #Nefertiti #Pharaoh #pyramids #Tutankhamun #YoussefMohamed

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

How close is any of #NocturneAlchemy’s #Perfumes to original #AncientEgyptian formulas?

Today's poem:

Threshing
- anonymous ancient Egyptian writer

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/715199687091732480/threshing?source=share

#poetry #egypt #AncientEgyptian #overseer #oxen #ThreshingFloor #wheat #nile #flood #harvest

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