Posted by Mr. Matera in Featured Articles on Oct 11th, 2009 | no responses

Everyone has their own perception of mommies and pyramids. These are the hallmarks of an ancient civilization that was much more advanced than the rest of the world at that time. As most “tribes” and in my humble opinion were still hunting and gathering, the Egyptians were engineering and empiring. The Egyptians were not only building huge pyramids but they had constructed irrigation canals, multi story houses, massive fortifications that would be unrivaled till the middle ages in Europe. Masters of construction, conquerors of the nile valley, and a powerful empire that lasted for more than three thousand years.

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There are not many things which took all attention of the ancient Egyptians more than the preparation for leaving their lives.

Some started to prepare earlier, some later, but everyone from lowest to highest class society were engaging themselves after burying their own parents into collecting and gathering all things necessary along the journey to an everlasting life in the kingdom of Osiris.

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Mysterious brown spots in the Tomb of Tutankhamun will be fully investigated during a five-year project to restore the burial of the boy King, Egypt’s antiquities department announced today.

The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has partnered with the California-based Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) to work on the conservation and management of the more than 3,000-year-old tomb.

“I am happy that Getty will look at the tomb and preserve its beautiful scenes,” Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said in a statement.

Located in the Valley of the Kings, the tomb of Tutankhamen is among the most heavily visited sites in the Theban necropolis. The five-year conservation project follows concern that the large number of people visiting the pharaoh’s resting place may be contributing to its physical deterioration.

Discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter with almost all of its contents intact, Tutankhamen’s is the smallest of the 26 royal tombs discovered in the Valley of the Kings.

Of the tomb’s four rooms, only the walls of the burial chamber are decorated.

However, the wall paintings in this chamber, as well as some of the tomb’s other surfaces, are marred by disfiguring brown spots, which were first noted by Howard Carter when he discovered the treasure-packed burial.

The nature and origin of the spots have never been fully ascertained, and they are among the technical conservation challenges presented by the tomb.

“I always see the tomb of King Tut and wonder about those spots, which no scientist has been able to explain. I have worried about these, and have asked experts to examine the scenes,” Dr. Zahi Hawass said.

The conservation plan will involve a two-year research period to determine the causes of deterioration, followed by a three-year implementation plan.

“The SCA-GCI project will include scientific analysis of the problems afflicting the wall paintings,” said Tim Whalen, director of the GCI. “But that is only one aspect of the project. The ultimate goal of our work with our Egyptian colleagues is to develop a long-term conservation and maintenance plan for this tomb that can serve as a model for preservation of similar sites.”

Kategorie: Kultur-Kunst

Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council on Antiquities, Egypt

Nefertiti, Egypt, Altes Museum, Berlin.

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As its title proposes, To Live Forever explores the age-old wonders of immortality and life after dying. For ancient Egyptians, death was an foe that could be overcome through a piece of ingenuity and certain training. If their drives were successful and the gods were appeased, the end of life on ground was merely a portal to another beginning.

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As soon as a pharaoh was named, construction on his tomb was set out. Tomb building continued throughout his life and stopped only on the day on which he passed. As a result, some tombs are very large and finely decorated, while other tombs, like that of King Tutankhamun, are small because he ruled as a pharaoh for such a short time.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The “World of the Pharaohs” muster in Little Rock does some-more than etch the lives of kings during the 3,000 years of pharaoic rule. The equipment upon arrangement additionally spell out what every day hold up was identical to in the abounding Nile delta.

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It is not something one is accustomed to see - even in Las Vegas. But there is big on the strip, a giant pyramid. The Las Vegas Luxor was one of the first issues mega-resorts in the city. But it is the ancient Egyptian design that really sets apart as one of the most unusual hotels in the world.

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The ancient Egyptians enjoyed many natural barriers. There were deserts to the east and west of the Nile River, and mountains to the south. This isolated the ancient Egyptians and allowed them to develop a truly distinctive culture.

The Nile is the world’s longest river. It is over 400 miles long! It is shaped like the lotus flower so often seen in ancient Egyptian art. Each spring, water would run off the mountains and the Nile would flood. As the flood waters receded, black rich fertile soil was left behind. The ancient Egyptian called this rich soil The Gift of the Nile.

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5th Dynasty - The sun cult is promoted. A sun temple is built at Abu Ghorub as well as a small pyramid at Saqqara.

The worship of Ra, the great sun god, chief of the cosmic deities, was perhaps more closely related to the fate of the royal house than to that of the people, but his cult was nevertheless one of the most important in ancient Egypt. His symbol the pyramid became the design of the monumental tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Ra was said, in fact, to be the direct ancestor of the Pharaohs of Egypt, and in certain hymns was even addressed as a dead Pharaoh. But he was more specifically thought of as a living power, whose daily cycle of birth, journey, and death was a fundamental theme in Egyptian life.