This is a great movie with Frank Langella, Mark Lehner, Zahi Hawass, Bob Brier

Basically it’s about:

Journey back to the rich and fantastic world of Ancient Egypt–a world where animals could magically jump out of a hieroglyph and change the meaning of your writing. Where giant pyramids were a gateway to the afterlife. Where a king’s ransom could по-человечески безнравственном 70-day process that would guarantee the eternal preservation of your corpse. Episodes: The Great Pyramids, The Sphinx, Hieroglyphics, King Tut.

Mummies And The Wonders of Ancient Egypt is awesome. I’ve probably seen it 20 times, and I never get tired of it. Have you seen it? If you click the image above you can learn how you can watch it now, or any time.

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It’s a rhetorical question for Piccione. For years this 51-year-old academic sleuth has investigated the mysteries of seker-hemat, a bat-and-ball game that predated Wee Willie Keeler and Big Train Johnson by at least four millennia. Piccione’s seminal lecture lures crowds far outside Charleston — he’s given his baseball talk in Chicago, Dallas and Cooperstown; this month he’s booked at Emory University in Atlanta — and the way he tells it, the original sandlot was the Sahara. And the top hitter of 1475 B.C. was the pharaoh Thutmose III, a Near Eastern Leaguer as immortal as Babe Ruth.

An authority on ancient Egypt for three decades — his doctoral dissertation decoded the rules of the Egyptian board game senet, a distant uncle of Parcheesi — Piccione is the first scholar to propose that baseball grew out of a Pharaonic fungo. [Not quite, see above.] By decoding reliefs and texts on the walls of temples, the Brooklyn-born Egyptologist has determined that the really old ball game was played by kings during the festivals of certain goddesses and in front of the statues of deities. References to seker-hemat (roughly, “batting the ball”) go back 4,400 years. In Piccione’s reading of Pyramid Texts Spell 254, gods command a pharaoh to cross the heavens and “strike the ball” in the meadow of the sacred Apis bull.

A thousand years later, at the shrine of the love goddess Hathor in Deir-el-Bahari, Thutmose III was depicted playing pepper. In one hand T-3, as Piccione calls him, brandishes a sort of Memphis Slugger; in the other, a ball resembling the stitched leather orbs that have been found in excavations. Two priests, arms upright, grasp balls in their hands. The inscription: “Catching it for him by the servants of god.”

The aim of the game, Piccione reckons, was to swat at and destroy the evil eye of Apopi, the serpent of chaos. Though it’s unclear if T-3 was a designated Hittite, the professor suspects seker-hemat involved umpires, baserunning (”Running was a big part of Egyptian games” ) and huge crowds. “Who wouldn’t want to see the Pharaoh beat Apopi?” Piccione asks.

I know what some of you are thinking. “So what? Some of the buildings in Washington, D.C. are designed with the world’s most noted ancient civilization in mind. Everyone loves Ancient Egypt.” Actually, Brother Browder’s exhaustive research proves that the very design of the city utilizes Kemetic sacred science to attempt to harmoniously channel divine energy for sustenance of this nation. The entire city is a monument to Ancient African symbolism.

Our story begins with the first president, George Washington, announcing the creation of a permanent capital along the banks of the Potomac River on January 24, 1791. The plan called for a perfect diamond/square with straight 10-mile boundaries at 90 degree angles from land ceded from Virginia and Maryland. Washington charged Andrew Ellicott with surveying this “sacred” location with the help of Benjamin Banneker. Banneker’s background is quite interesting. A free-born African, he seems to have been descended from the Dogon people of West Africa who are known for their long tradition of tracking the heavens (more on this in a later post). Banneker was a self-taught astronomer of the highest order and perhaps a genius. He was able to accurately predict solar and lunar eclipses which he взаправду онкологическим заболеваниемyear almanacs. He was also reputed to have borrowed a watch from a traveling merchant and replicated each piece in wood. His working wooden watch was able to chime hourly, and continued to operate efficiently until long after his death.

Banneker and Ellicott collaborated to create a astrologically harmonious plan for the new capital. Banneker возмещающему in генерящему while charting solar and lunar movements for approximately 3 months. Ellicott visited him daily to assist with translating these movements into land surveys. These measurements were given to a Frenchman, Major Pierre L’Enfant, to create the actual street plan. However, due to his addiction to alcohol it is likely that L’Enfant was unable to complete his work. The plan was probably completed by Banneker.

Planning the capital city in its entirety prior to construction allowed for sacred masonic (read Ancient Egyptian) principals to be ensconced into the design. For example, 16th street was planned as the corridor which bisected the city into two equal halves and also marked the sun at its highest point in the sky (also known as Aten-Ra). This “corridor of light” also crosses into the most important building in the United States, The White House. Ever wonder why The White House has some many rooms in different primary colors? It is a symbolic “refractor” (prism) for spiritual energy. Ironically, these powerful masons used sacred African aesthetics to edify themselves at the same time they subjugated and enslaved our African ancestors.

This incredible tour includes major stops at the Meridian Hill Park, the Scottish Rite Temple, the House of the Temple (Scottish Rite headquarters), and the Library of Congress. The masonic buildings are included to elucidate some of the fundamental masonic principals which are culled from Ancient African sacred science. You don’t want to miss this tour! I’ve included a short video of my experience below. Be sure to take a look at it. Brother Browder has done the kind of work with which the ancestors must be very pleased. For more information and scheduling, visit http://www.ikg-info.com/.

What’s the bottom line? Know thyself, African! This nation’s founding fathers signed the greatest monuments to their power with YOUR signature. I wonder what happens when we arise to claim ownership. Shem em Hetep (Go forth in Peace)!

Egypt’s rich history is still as mesmerizing now as it was when we first discovered evidence of ancient civilizations. If you’re on a tight budget, but still want to brush up on your Egyptian history and gaze at some of the country’s most well-known treasures, then you’re in luck. Gate1 Travel is offering an exceptional 6-night package deal that will have you enthralled in Egypt’s culture in no time.

Travelers will start their Egyptian journey by spending two nights in the bustling city of Cairo. Here, guests will have the opportunity to explore the marvelous (and colossal) Pyramids of Giza, as well as famous, old mosques. On day four visitors will fly to Aswan where they will board a cruise ship and begin their 2-day sailing up the legendary Nile River with ports of call in Kom Ombo, Edfu, and Esna. The vessel makes a final stop in Luxor, also known as the city of Thebes in ancient times. Before flying back to Cairo, guests can discover the city’s many ruins on foot or relax and tour the biggest sites on a horse-drawn carriage. Once in Cairo, visitors will spend their last night in Egypt at the Iberotel Cairo Hotel & Casino before flying back to the United States.

This package is priced as low as $1,349 for departures on December 1 and 8, and includes round-trip airfare from New York City to Cairo, domestic airfare in Egypt, hotel accommodations, the Nile River cruise, as well as 12 meals.

Removie all the cards from the pyramid by selecting pairs of cards that add up to 13. Aces count as 1, Jacks as 11 and Queens as 12. Kings count as 13 and can be removed on their own. All other cards are at their face value. To aid you, you may place a single card in the Temp Card Store.

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Fear and Loathing:Tales of Moral Decay.

Nebet’s lot would not have been so bad, compared to that of her contemporaries elsewhere. For many centuries, the women of ancient Egypt were luckier than most of the women in the world.  In the Greek civilization that existed parallel to their own, women lacked many of the rights granted to Egyptian women.  For example, instead of needing an older brother or father or son to settle legal affairs as in Greece, Egyptian women had equal rights in the law.  They could own, inherit and sell property, begin lawsuits, and freely divorce their husbands. 

Some speculate that this freedom had to do with a different order to society. Deeply ingrained beliefs held that the Phaorah was the embodiment and personification of Egypt, and that every man and woman who lived in Egypt was therefore equal in governmental relationship to the Pharoah.  In Greece, the central unit of social organization was the family rather than the individual, making the “man of the house” the spokesperson for all that went on in the house.  Divorce especially highlights the difference between these cultures. 

Marriage in Egypt was a simple matter of a man and woman taking up residency together. If a woman in Egypt wished to divorce her husband, she simply moved back to her parent’s home, and her dowry was returned to her.  In ancient Greece, a woman had to convince her father or another male official that the divorce was worthy.  Often, if a woman’s father saw that a marriage was unhappy, as long as the woman bore no child she could move back into her father’s house. Both of these steps could be easily halted by the husband, however, who could simply restrict his wife’s movements to the house itself.

Legal equality was joined by a certain social equality too.  Ancient Egyptian women were in charge of the household.  Certain other occupations were available to them as well, such as professional mourner or fabric worker, but for the most part the social role given to women was that of mother and maintainer of the family. 

This was not an easy task, however. All of the food preparation fell to the woman, from growing or trading for a bag of grain to grinding it on stone handmills, to baking it.  Washing linens and keeping the family “nefer” or pure and beautiful was also part of the woman’s job, as well as birthing and caring for the children. 

Ancient Egypt did not have a coin-based economy but rather a barter one; therefore, based on their housekeeping ability, women could trade what they grew in the kitchen garden or made by hand for other things they needed. In many ways, despite the greater freedom of movement that Egyptian men had to work and travel, women were the vital glue that kept Egyptian society clean, fed and clothed. 

Although women were equal in the eyes of the law, they were limited in their earning ability outside of this main occupation.  Widowed women could continue to carry on their husbands’ households, but few of the goods that their husbands’ jobs would bring in would be available to them.  Often, if a widow could not find a way to be self-sufficient, the only recourse was remarriage or living on a relative’s kindness. 

Women were not discouraged from finding other occupations, although the reality of life with limited birth control meant that women were most often mothers.  Poor women worked in the fields or in workshops run by rich estates.  Women also worked in the textile industry, and were fundamental to the harvest of flax, its spinning into thread, and weaving into the long, pale pieces of linen cloth worn by men and women alike. Noblewomen could run their family estates in a slightly enlarged job description of “woman of the house.” 

More rarely, women could become doctors;  historical records show that one of the first female physicians came from Egypt.  Women were as literate as men, meaning that only a small percentage of society knew how to read, but documents show that women also became scribes, administrators, and, of course, Queens.  Legally, women were not given the right to rule Egypt without being married to a King, but at least six women bent the rules to preside over Egypt in their own right - most notably Nefertiti, Cleopatra, and Hatshepsut. 

Ancient Egyptian queens ruled in spite of the religious injunction that only men inherited the god-given power to rule Egypt.  Often coming to power by regency over a weaker king, these queens managed to take the reins and run with them.  Hatshepsut ruled Egypt as regent to her son Thutmose III, Nefertiti through the great love of her husband Akhenaten who gave her unprecedented governmental power, and Cleopatra through regency over her child-husband Ptolemy XIII, who was only twelve when they married. Hatshepsut, the strongest of these queens, often wore the wigged beard that was symbolic of the ruler in order to more closely resemble a male pharoah.  With her beard or without it, Hatshepsut successfully некоторому long years before she was deposed by her son.

Nebet nodded.  The other two thirds would go to her son and daughter respectively. They were still of an age to have Nebet managing their affairs, however, and content to leave things as they were.  “We shall continue the garden, although now I must take on a slave for the herd.”  Wente had been a shepherd.  Their son would follow in his footsteps someday, but not yet.

“And so it is,” Khenemet said.  He did not ask about another marriage, not on a day of mourning, but it would solve much for Nebet. Wente had a brother; perhaps he could be persuaded to care for his sister-in-law.  The wailing of the women came nearer again and they both fell silent, watching as Wente was properly ushered to the next world.

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In Egyptian art, the ideal form is a youthful and slim figure with narrow hips, which anthropometric studies of pharaonic mummies have revealed is a fair representation of reality, at least in the case of Egyptian women. Furthermore, their hip to shoulder proportions are not greatly different from those found in male Egyptian mummies. While both sexes may be depicted in this way, representations of males are more likely to vary from the ideal.

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