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Art Focus Friday – Menkaure and Queen Kamerernebty, Love n’ Sculpture
14 hours ago
by plasticpumpkin
Menkaure and Queen Kamerernebty Old Kingdom, Ancient Egypt 4th Dynasty 2548-2530 BCE This week’s Art Focus Friday features another sculpture, this time from ancient Egypt, and several millenia older than Augustus of Primaporta. Menkaure was pharoah during the 4th dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, son ...
Art by Ren Adams - plasticpumpkin.wordpress.com · Rank: 99,560 ·  17 references
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Egypt lifts huge ‘Cleopatra temple’ block from sea
23 hours ago
by Egypt Travel
A crane was used to haul the block ashore A huge granite block thought to have once formed part of a temple pillar in a sunken palace of Cleopatra has been raised from the sea at Alexandria. The nine-tonne stone, said to be from a temple to the goddess Isis, was lifted by crane out of the waters whi ...
Red Sea Explorer - redseaexplorer.com · Rank: 195,359
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Stop Editing History- Ancient Egyptians and Race
1 day ago
by Indongch'o
One debate which you can't help but come across while researching ancient Egypt is the debate over the race of ancient Egyptians. Plenty of people- researchers, geeky hobbyists (like me minus this piece of wank ^^;), and civilians in general- are fond of the 'theory' that the ancient Egyptians were ...
Indongch'o - indongcho.livejournal.com · 6 references
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Greenleaf Press announces the publication of From Eden to Exile
4 days ago
by redhatrob
David Rohl is a modern-day, British Indiana Jones! He’s been shaking up the stodgy world of Egyptian archeology since the early 1990s, when he published a ground-breaking book arguing for a radical revision to the traditional chronology of Ancient Egypt – Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest. A few ...
Contending with the Culture - redhatrob.com · Rank: 152,216 · 7 references
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Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Reveals More Than the Sum of its Body Parts
4 days ago
by Rebecca T
I dropped my phone last week and it stopped working. As the daughter, sister, and wife of engineers, I generally regard most broken things as a challenge and I am quite often able to fix them, so I gathered tiny screwdrivers and a good light source and prised the handset open. Inside was a world mos ...
Heritage Key blogs - heritage-key.com/blog · 2 references
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The Seasons: Celebrating with a Drink
4 days ago
by Lindsay Townsend
By Lindsay Townsend In my historical romances, I write about every season and sometimes include scenes from seasonal celebrations, such as the winter Saturnalia in ancient Rome. Then, as now, drink was an important part of such festivals, but what kinds of drink? In ancient Egypt, people drank beer ...
Unusual Historicals - unusualhistoricals.blogspot.com · Rank: 36,846 · 68 references
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City of Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery
5 days ago
by Michael
Pushpitha Wijesinghe asked: Located in the Drake Circus region of Plymouth, City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery in England is the biggest and finest museum and art gallery in the city. Built according to typical Edwardian Style, this exceptional English museum and art gallery was built in 1907. ...
The Circus - circusstuntsisaw.com
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