Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Who Was Tutankhamun


 

Stuart Cheese, may be the UK Director of Operations for One World Tours but his partner’s love of Tutankhamun was what got him into the business in the first place. Let us see how much he has picked up from her and see how much can be understood about the young king, Known to the world for his stunning death mask.

Well who Tutankhamun is, is still one of the biggest enigmas of all times. According to an inscription found at the temple of Soleb on a red granite lion, Amenhotep III is supposedly his father. This seems unlikely however, as Akhenaten, Tut’s predecessor reigned for roughly 16 years and Tutankhamun was approximately 9 years old when he became king.
 




It is believed by some that Amenhotep III is more likely to be his grandfather and that Akhenaten was his father.

This however brings up another question as Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s chief wife, was always depicted in the paintings to be accompanied by daughters and never a son.

This has also led to the speculation that his mother must have been another queen in the court, the most prominent one being a lady called Kiya. There appears to be evidence that she was married to Akhenaten as one of her titles. “Greatly beloved wife” testifies.


We do not know Tutankhamun’s exact place in the sequence of king’s as his name was omitted from the classic king’s list of Abydos and Karnak.

The items that were found in his tomb are relics that date back to his life at the Aten court.

We do know for sure that Tutankhamun was young when he died and evidence to this shows on some clay seals on wine jars that were laid in his tomb. These seals recorded the vineyard, type of the wine and also the name of the chief vinter.

It also records the year in which the king reigned. The latest date recorded on these seals was year 9 which suggests that this was the year that he died.

Tutankhamun’s mummy gave no clues as to how he met his death. It was believed that he died of consumption but there is no evidence of this.



In their endeavour to uncover the mystery of how the young king did die experts have undertaken autopsies and taken x-rays which have located a tiny sliver of bone in his skull. This has caused some to believe that Tutankhamun may have been deliberately struck meaning that he may have been a murder victim or that he may have suffered a fatal accident. To this date there is no hard evidence to prove either.

Everything I have written so far tells us nothing factual about the most famous young king. All that we really know is that Howard Carter discovered his burial tomb in 1922 and the contents of that burial chamber have immortalised King Tutankhamun and made him an enigma to the rest of the world.

The Ancient Egyptians went to an enormous amount of effort to make sure that the young man was well prepared for the next life and although he is not here with us physically in the twenty first century, he is most certainly very present in all of our lives. Everyone knows who is even though we know very little about him and it would appear that he has certainly achieved immortality.




Thursday, December 10, 2020

GOD BAS . the god of fun

 The old Egyptian icon (Bas) drives one of the chariots of the brilliant ruler (Tutankhamun). 


It was made of wood covered with gold and decorated with flaps of agate, plants and blue lapis lazuli, to create an amazing composition of extraordinary excellence and magnificence. 


The divinity (Bes) was critical to our antiquated Egyptian predecessors, being the lord of fun and fun and one of the gods answerable for securing youngsters.  



Tuesday, September 15, 2020

ancient Egyptian

The inclination of the antiquated Egyptian development over the civic establishments of the old world 

Egypt has all the fixings that could prompt the rise of an effective development, as it appreciates a special area at the gathering purpose of three landmasses: Asia, Africa and Europe, and the incomparable Nile River goes through its properties, which was set up on the two shores of human advancement. Egypt additionally had secure characteristic boundaries, as a desert in the east and west, and gondolas block the course of the Nile waters in the south, and the Mediterranean in the north, which presented to it a decent lot of security and soundness. 

Egypt delighted in the benefit of simple correspondence between its various parts, and this is because of the absence of tough grounds, the nonappearance of mountain ranges remaining before this, and it appreciated a steady atmosphere to an enormous degree, which furnished the Egyptian individuals with an occasion to play out their work under appropriate climatic conditions. 

At that point there is the Egyptian man who was able to worry about out the concern of this human progress, and who associated with all the past fixings, and this collaboration brought about that recognized development inventiveness. The old Egyptian man was certain of his capacities to lead, and that is the reason he called himself: "the individuals of the sky," or "the individuals of the Nile," which is the individuals who were made from the tear of the eye, and any remaining people groups of the earth were made from an offending fluid. 

A people who has every one of these fixings, the components of material and elusive development, needed to have advancements at the degree of what was ready for it from the fixings. 

The Egyptian progress has been since man gotten comfortable the place that is known for Egypt (in the fifth thousand years BC and all through the Pharaonic time). It has gained incredible ground in numerous everyday issues, as it was accounted for by numerous contemporary developments, which thus gave it over to the human advancements that followed them, which can be followed in certain perspectives, even in the progress of the cutting edge age. 

Also, if the Western human progress owes credit to what it has reached to the Greek human advancement, and they seldom get some information about the rise and improvement of Greek development, its association with the Egyptian human progress, and the degree of its impact with it. 

In spite of the fact that an individual can't deny the goodness of Greek development in the fields of theory, medication, cosmology, sports and all parts of craftsmanship, simultaneously we can't overlook the acknowledgment by numerous Greek researchers because of the progress of Egypt and other old Near Eastern civic establishments, some of whom concentrated in Egypt, And they took in a ton from its researchers in the fields of science and human expressions, and some may find out if the old Egyptian progress was the most seasoned progress in the antiquated world, or if there were civilizations that went before or started simultaneously. 

Truth be told, the particular meaning of the word human progress will without a doubt help answer this inquiry. On the off chance that the importance of human advancement is the appearances of the advancement that man has accomplished in his life, at that point there is no uncertainty that man has prevailing with regards to accomplishing this in numerous pieces of the earth at the same time, then again, actually he didn't proceed with it and push it advance and create himself, and accomplish more developments as progress did Old. 

The Egyptian progress, despite the fact that it is the most established human advancements, is simultaneously the most antiquated and true developments that have enduring effect on contemporary and later developments. In spite of this initiative and the reasonable effect on different developments, one can't prevent the prudence from getting different civic establishments in later times, for example, the Babylonian and Assyrian human advancements in Mesopotamia, the Phoenician progress in Syria, the Persian civilization in Persia, and the Greek and Roman human advancements in Greece and the Romans. 

At the point when we take a gander at certain parts of progress, we ensure the degree of authority and profundity of the impact of the Egyptian human advancement, for instance composing arrived at Egypt around 3500 BC, where hieroglyphic composing showed up, at that point hieratic composition, at that point demotic content, at that point Coptic content, before others. Developments of the Ancient World. 

Furthermore, if Egypt didn't have a clue about the total letter set, as its phonemic development depended on signs with one letter, two with two letters, and three letters with three letters, and if the Phoenicians in Syria were the principal people groups to know the full letter set, at that point they were influenced in that by the Sinaitic letter set (proportion To the Sinai Peninsula), which uncovered its signs in the stones of Jabal al-Maghara and Serabit al-Khadim in South Sinai. From the Phoenician letter set, the Greek and Latin letters in order were determined, from which the advanced European letters in order were inferred. 

In the field of composing materials, the Egyptians prevailing with regards to making paper before others of the papyrus plant, which is a three-sided stem plant that used to fill in shrubs and swamps, and on the banks of the Nile and the shores of lakes. 

Papyrus stayed being used all through the Pharaonic time, and in the Greek and Roman times, and imported from Egypt, Greece and the Romans, and was sent out to the nations of the East through one of the Mediterranean ports (which is the port of Byblos close to Beirut), which was referred to in Greek messages as "Byblos", which is the name It is gotten from the word papyrus. Bedouins kept on utilizing papyrus until the 10th century, when they embraced the Chinese technique for making paper. Papyrus is as yet utilized in Egypt and outside Egypt for the travel industry purposes, and a declaration of correspondence between the past and the present. 

In the field of writing (particularly astuteness writing, exhortation, axioms, and serenades), the old Egyptians arrived at an extraordinary arrangement, as this sort of writing left an incredible effect in Asia, so the melody of Akhenaten (one of the eighteenth administration rulers who controlled in the fourteenth century BC) - is the principal thought An Egyptian calls for monotheism that depends on the love of one god, specifically: Aton (the circle of the sun), and he dismissed the assortment of the divine beings that won in Egypt before Akhenaten went out to the old world with his new calling, and picked a spot other than the capital Thebes (at present Luxor), and this spot is Tell el-Amarna (Dermawas Center, Minya Governorate), to dwell in it and welcome him to his god Aton. 

Akhenaten got away from his new god with a magnificent song recorded on the dividers of the burial place of one of his partners, Ay, the High Priest of Aten, who later became lord of Egypt. Scientists in the study of relative religions have seen that there is a practically complete match between what was referenced in the song and what was referenced in Psalm 104 of the Psalms of the Prophet David, upon him be tuberculosis.
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Sunday, September 13, 2020

Cent NESU

Cent Nesu, "the king's sister."
  - In the era of the second transition
 The earliest known examples of this title can be traced back to the Seventeenth Dynasty, as it was taken by the two queens, "Sobek M.S. S."  And the queen, “Aah Hatti,” is the wife of the king, “Sqnen Ra the First,” and the mother of the king, “Ahmose the First”.
  - In the era of the modern state
 In the Eighteenth Dynasty, Queen Ahmose Nefertari, wife of Ahmose the First, took this title, as did the daughters of this king, who are: “Merit Amun,” “Sat Amun,” “Sat Khams,” and “Hantat Thameh.” The queen also took it.  Aah Hatta, the second, the wife of the king, “Amnehat the first,”; the two queens, “Aah Mas,” and “Mutt Naft”, the two wives of the king, “Tuthmosis the First,”; Queen “Hatshepsut,” and her daughter, “Nefru-Ra”;  The third, "Queen Aret," wife of King Tuthmosis the Fourth, and Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten.
 In the nineteenth family, queens did not take this title, while the wives of statesmen were described by the word (his sister).
 In the Twentieth Dynasty, only Queen Teti, wife of King Rameses III, took this title.
 It is worth noting that most of those who took the title (the king's sister) also had the title (the king's wife), or (the king's great wife).  Their assumption of the two titles together calls for thinking about whether the king's wife is really his sister, or that the title (the king's sister) does not mean in most cases that its bearer is really the king's sister, and that it is nothing more than an honorary title, and an honor bestowed upon the queens by the kings.
 In fact, the issue of (wife / sister) has differed according to the opinions of scholars, so the brother’s marriage to his sister, which is now seeing something strange to us, may have been a normal thing in ancient Egypt.  The two deities “Auxerre” and “Set” took from their two sisters “Isz” (Isis) and “Nabet Hat” (Nephthys) as their spouses, and this intermarriage between the deities may have become a model for the Egyptians, especially in the royal family, to preserve the purity of royal blood.
 In the Eighteenth Dynasty, Queen "Ahmose Nefertari" was the husband of her brother, King "Ahmose the First", and the Queen "Aah Hatti the Second" was also the husband of her brother, the King, "Amenah the First", among other examples.
 As for people, it was referred to - in their texts - to the wife as (his beloved sister, his beloved wife);  Sometimes she is referred to only as (his lovely sister);  Sometimes it was referred to as “the sister who occupies your heart”; or: “Your beloved sister who likes to talk to her.” Such phrases were undoubtedly referring to the wife.
 This and if the king’s marriage - if our interpretation of the sources is correct - with his sister aims to preserve the purity of royal blood, then the marriage of an ordinary person to his sister may have been the fruit of intimacy, affection and family bonding, or a desire to preserve the family’s property without squandering it by marrying strangers.
  It is also worth noting that if some of the holders of this title were sisters to their husbands, then some of them were not sisters to the husbands, whether they were kings or persons other than the royal house.  Because it seems that the word (sister) has come to mean (beloved), so the title (sister of the king) is nothing but a description that describes the queen, meaning that she is (the lover), and she is the one who is in the status of a sister.
 What confirms this is that the title (the king's wife) comes in most cases directly after the title (the king's sister), which indicates that both titles complement the other.
 Also, Queen T, the wife of the king, “Gendethe III,” - for example - was described as (his sister), and she is not a full sister or even half-sister of the king.
 Likewise, "Nefertiti" - the wife of "Akhenaten" has taken the title (the king's sister), and there is no evidence that she is the sister of King Akhenaten.
 Likewise, what confirms that the word (sister) has come to mean (beloved) is the Egyptian love songs, in which the lovers used to always address the words (my brother) and (my sister).
  In one of the songs the girl says
 "Brother, it is nice to go to the lake and wash in front of you."
   The boy says
 "When I see my sister coming, my heart rejoices,
 I open my arms to embrace her, and my heart will rejoice in its place. "


Saturday, September 12, 2020

cobra snake

The magnificence and accuracy of the ancient Egyptian artist
She appears with distinction in this rare masterpiece
(The cobra snake) It belongs to King Senusret II, the central state, the twelfth family. Today it is four thousand years old and it is of pure gold and inlaid with precious stones.
It was found in 1889 in the offering room in the pyramid of Lahoun in Fayoum.
Egyptian Museum.

Princess Nefert

Princess Nefert and her husband, Prince (Ra_hotep)
 The scientist Merritt found that the northern wall was wavy and uneven. Merritt realized that there was something behind the wall.
 He ordered the workers to drill through the wall to see what was behind it, and after they had drilled through it
And light the torches to see beyond the wall.
 The workers shouted in panic and ran out of the cemetery
And they were chanting, "In demons, in the neighborhood of people, this is a haunted cemetery."
 Merritt ordered the wall to be broken in order to see the most beautiful statue in the Egyptian monuments, Princess Nefert and her husband, Prince Ra Hotep.
 The lights of the torches were reflected from the eyes of alienation, giving the feeling that the statue was alive and looking at you ...
 Prince Ra Hotep, son of King Senefru, lived during the reign of Abiyya # _ the fourth family, and was a contemporary of his brother, King Khufu
Egyptian Museum .

god Amun

Statue of the god Amun
As imagined by the artist.
  Howard Carter bought it for one pound in 1917, and it is of pure gold .. and gave it to Lord Carnival on his birthday.
  It was found in the Temple of Karnak and dates back to the late era of the Twenty-second Dynasty and is now in the Metropolitan Museum.

The four sons of Hor

 The four sons of Hor They are responsible for preserving the body parts of the deceased The first: My head is watery .... special for the l...