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"Egyptian Buzuq Solos ca. 1950s"
by #DrAbdelLatifGohar
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/egyptian-buzuq-solos-ca-1950s
Released December 3, #2025
via #CanaryRecords
#Arabic #Egyptian #Buzuq
#شكراًياجماعة!

Donzelli, Pietro - ,

#Donzelli #Pietro #Egyptian #DonzelliPietro’s #undefined

https://www.fondazione3m.it/page_scheda.php?id=4186

The black and white photograph depicts a person sitting on the ground beside an imposing statue. The figure appears contemplative, wearing dark clothing that contrasts with their pale complexion due to the monochrome effect of the photo.

This individual is seated next to what seems like part of another sculpture or perhaps even another person in close proximity, as suggested by partial outlines and shadows visible around them.

The focus of the image is on a large statue portraying an Egyptian woman. The figure exudes an aura of antiquity with detailed carvings adorning its body; it's dressed traditionally, featuring what appears to be a headdress or headpiece indicative of ancient Egyptian royalty or deities.

This sculpture showcases intricate craftsmanship: there are visible folds in the garment that could represent cloth draped over the shoulders and torso. The statue is seated on ornate stone-like bases for both feet, adding to its grandeur.

The background features darker tones which might be part of an outdoor setting with other sculptures or structures faintly discernible but not clearly defined due to the depth of field used in capturing this image.

There's a visible signature mark at the bottom right corner, indicative of it being taken by a professional photographer. This particular photograph is associated with Donzelli Pietro’s work and can be referenced for further context via the provided URL link.

#Egyptian house in #Penzance Cornwall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_House,_Penzance

front of a house decorated in ancient egyptian art

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Cairo and the pyramids. Pyramids and the Sphinx. Taken from the S.E. between 1950 and 1977.
Matson Photo Service
1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in.

#Cairo #Sphinx #MatsonPhotoService #GreatSphinx #thePyramidofKhufu #theGreatPyramid #Khafre #Menkaure #Egypt #Egyptian #Jīzah #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705831/

The image shows the iconic Great Sphinx of Giza, with its massive head and body composed of limestone. The face has a human-like expression and is highly detailed, suggesting it was carved from one large block. Behind the Sphinx are two towering pyramids known as the Pyramid of Khufu (also called the Great Pyramid) on the left side and possibly another pyramid to the right, which may be that of Khafre or Menkaure.

The ground appears sandy with patches of erosion and wear, indicative of an arid climate. The sky is a clear blue without any visible clouds. A slight vintage tint suggests this photo might have been taken during the mid-20th century.

This image captures one of Egypt's most famous landmarks and offers insight into ancient Egyptian architecture and sculpture techniques.

Mashuta (Pithom), Egypt between 1950 and 1977. 1 slide : color ; 2 x 2 in.

#Mashuta(Pithom #Egypt #Egyptian #Pithom #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019705842/

The image depicts a picturesque rural landscape, likely taken in Egypt between 1950 and 1977. The scene features lush greenery with palm trees prominently displayed against the backdrop of a clear sky scattered with soft white clouds. In the foreground, there's a serene body of water reflecting shades of blue, bordered by dense vegetation on one side.

To the right, tall reeds or grasses emerge from the ground near what appears to be an earthen embankment along the edge of the riverbank. Two cylindrical objects made of woven material sit in front of this bank, adding a touch of human presence and possibly serving as markers for boundaries or protection against erosion.

In the middle distance, beyond the water, fields can be seen stretching into the horizon with small clusters of trees dotting the landscape. The overall impression is one of tranquility and natural beauty, characteristic of rural Egyptian countryside during that era.

Buongiorno 🌞 Vorrei alzarmi così 😂 #Egyptian #Menkawra

Marouf / Champollion Rd, Cairo 🇪🇬
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Camels at the Pyramids of Giza
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Wild flowers of Palestine. Field of Egyptian pinks (Silene aegyptiaca L.f.) [approximately 1900 to 1920]
American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department
1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 5 x 7 in.

#Palestine #Egyptian #Jerusalem #PhotoDepartment #WildFlowersof #EricMatson #EdithMatson #theAmericanColony #Palestinian #7inches #dryplatenegatives #photography

https://www.loc.gov/item/2019696095/

This black and white photograph depicts a field with scattered trees against the backdrop of rolling hills. The landscape is dotted with what appears to be Egyptian pinks, also known as Silene aegyptiaca L.f., which are small wildflowers that bloom in such fields around Palestine during certain seasons. These flowers add specks of contrast and color to an otherwise monochromatic scene.
The image carries historical significance; it is estimated to have been captured between 1900-1920, as mentioned in the provided description from Wild Flowers of Palestine. It was taken by Eric Matson and Edith Matson at the American Colony (Jerusalem), a community founded during that time which played an influential role in documenting Palestinian landscapes.
This particular photograph is part of their Photo Department collection, consisting of one negative on glass dry plate format measuring 5 x 7 inches. The image captures the serene beauty of this natural landscape, showcasing both its flora and terrain with remarkable clarity despite being a black-and-white medium from nearly a century ago.

Return Nefertiti: Egypt renews claims while Germany cites fragility of bust youtube.com/watch?v=RZKvaYyR33… The Grand #Egyptian #Museum, recently opened near #Cairo, showcases over 100,000 #artefacts spanning seven millennia of Egyptian #history. (1/4)

Return Nefertiti: Egypt renews claims while Germany cites fragility of bust

youtube.com/watch?v=RZKvaYyR33…

The Grand #Egyptian #Museum, recently opened near #Cairo, showcases over 100,000 #artefacts spanning seven millennia of Egyptian #history.
Yet one of Egypt’s most iconic #treasures is noticeably absent—the bust of Queen c.
Carved over 3,000 years ago, the limestone #sculpture was unearthed by a #German #archaeological team in 1912 and controversially relocated to #Berlin the following year under a disputed agreement.

Egyptian #archaeologists, including renowned Zahi Hawass, are renewing calls for its return, alongside other artefacts such as the #Rosetta Stone. While some argue the bust belongs in #Egypt, German authorities maintain its legitimacy and cite concerns over its fragility. The debate spotlights larger questions about cultural heritage and ownership of antiquities displayed far from their place of origin.
#Germany

Return Nefertiti: Egypt renews claims while Germany cites fragility of bust

An #Egyptian glass inlay of a jackal. Jackals were linked with the dead, because they were present in the desert regions near to the cemeteries. The most popular jackal-shaped god was Anubis, the god of embalming. Dating 5th -1st c. BC.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: It’s Not What You Think It Is

One of my favorite things about the Egyptian Book of the Dead is the way it’s sometimes portrayed in fiction and modern media — like it’s a single, canonical book of black magic, filled with spells to wake the dead. If you play your cards right, you could become a powerful necromancer… but one wrong move and you’ll unleash a deadly curse!

From The Mummy, 1999

Take the above scene from the 1999 classic film, The Mummy, for example. There’s a heavy book with gilded, turnable pages. It’s locked, but if you hang around enough adventurers, you might just come across the mysterious key!

“It’s just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book.”

Well, that was the line spoken in the movie right before the characters opened The Book of the Dead and, consequently, resurrected a very angry Imhotep. How ironic.

Was it a terribly classic film or just classically terrible? You be the judge. Nonetheless, although I think you probably already know this: that’s not what the Book of the Dead is. In fact, it’s nothing like that at all.

Selene and I were at the Met Museum in New York a few days ago and I happened to walk by a funerary papyrus in the Egyptian wing. It reminded me of what the Book of the Dead really is. And hence, this article.

Funerary Texts

The Book of the Dead is a collection of funerary texts. The intention was to give the deceased person a set of spells, prayers, and hymns to use as they crossed over into the afterlife. Egypt was around for a long time, however, so this practice went through several different forms.

Old Kingdom (2675 – 2130 BCE): This time period is sometimes called the “Age of the Pyramids.” Funerary texts were carved directly into the walls of tombs. As such, these particular versions are known as the “Pyramid Texts.” Due to the ridiculous expense and effort it takes to carve giant scenes into stone, this was only done for royalty.

Pyramid Texts from Pyramid of Teti I in Saqqara. Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Middle Kingdom (1980 – 1630 BCE): This time period is considered a golden age for Egypt and was filled with expansion and trade. Funerary texts were written on the inside of rectangular coffins. Now we call them “Coffin Texts.” Since they’re slightly easier to produce when compared to the previous period, their use was expanded to also include higher-ranking government officials.

Dismantled Coffin of Khety ca. 1919–1800 B.C. with “Coffin Texts.” Public Domain, Courtesy of Wikipedia.

New Kingdom (1539 – 1075 BCE): This was probably Egypt’s most prosperous and powerful era, highlighted by imperial expansion and grand temples. At some point, they changed the shape of coffins. Instead of being rectangular, they were curved to follow the contours of a human body, which left less room to write things inside. To compensate, they started putting funerary texts on pieces of papyrus, which was easy to roll up and place inside next to the deceased. They could be used by anyone, even commoners, who could afford to buy one.

The Singer of Amun Nany’s Funerary Papyrus, ca. 1050 B.C.E. Public Domain, Courtesy of Met Museum.

Note: There are multiple schools of thought for exactly when each era started in Egypt. I’m pulling dates from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Memphis.

With each era, additional material and new illustrations were added to the standard litany of texts, but did you notice how there wasn’t a single period that said “funerary texts were written in a book”? That’s because they weren’t ever books.

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In fact, the entire term “Book of the Dead” is a bit of a misnomer. A more accurate translation of the title would have been “Spells of Coming Forth by Day,” but I guess people thought “Book of the Dead” sounded cooler, so it stuck.

During the New Kingdom, funerary texts were written on papyri in massive quantities — we know that thousands were produced. Many of the cheaper ones most likely followed a similar format and structure… but they were almost all unique!

If you had lots of money, however, you’d probably have a “special” one commissioned just for you that was slightly more personalized.

The Papyrus of Ani

When most people say “The Book of the Dead,” they’re referring the funerary texts from the New Kingdom. Actually, they’re referring to one specific version of those funerary texts, The Papyrus of Ani, which was created for a Theban scribe named Ani upon his death sometime around 1250 BCE. Of all the surviving copies of the Book of the Dead, this one is probably the best preserved and the most richly illustrated — it contains over 60 spells and vibrant colors in the depictions.

At some point in history, this papyrus was excavated from Ani’s tomb in Thebes. In 1888, E.A. Wallis Budge “discovered” it in Luxor. And by “discovered,” I mean he “purchased it” from “antiquities dealers” for the British Museum.

Here’s the thing: it wasn’t exactly a legal transaction. It was more like a black market heist.

Budge inspected several artifacts, including The Papyrus of Ani, to make the purchase, but before he could pick everything up, Egyptian authorities discovered that illegal activities were taking place. They sent several police officers to make arrests and sealed up the homes of the antiquities dealers, locking all of the merchandise inside. They also posted guards at the doors to prevent anyone from entering.

You know what they say right? When one door closes… another one opens…

Quite naturally, Budge had several local farmers tunnel under the house’s walls to retrieve all of his purchases. Meanwhile, he distracted the police with a nice meal.

You can read all about it in his autobiography, By Nile and Tigris, if you’re curious.

Today, The Papyrus of Ani is located in the British Museum in London. Kind of seems to me like it should have been returned to Egypt… but who am I to judge?

Weighing of the Heart. A famous scene from The Papyrus of Ani. Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

You can view the full papyrus here. Just follow the link, zoom in, and scroll.

The Egyptian Afterlife

In Ancient Egypt, the afterlife was really just a continuation of earthly existence. After you died, you got back up and went on a long journey that would take you west. West was associated with the afterlife because of the setting sun — so much so, in fact, that Egyptologist Bob Brier suggests that they basically called their dead “Westerners.” Egyptians lived on the east bank of the Nile River, so they figured the afterlife (the so-called “Field of Reeds”) was somewhere past the west bank.

It wasn’t really death like we might view death today. It was more of… waking up into a new world.

But like any adventurer, you’d need supplies. And that’s why they buried you with so much stuff! The Book of the Dead was just one of those supplies… hymns to praise deity, secret names of gods, passwords to allow entry through gates, and spells to command unruly spirits that might oppose you. If you were successful and passed all of the tests, you could live in an eternal land among the gods. If you failed, your soul would be destroyed. No pressure.

Just think about it. You wake up in a coffin. Everything seems strange and different. You’re confused for a moment, but then… oh, it’s just that you died. It’s time to start heading off into the sunset. Luckily, there’s a trusty little papyrus scroll tucked next to you with all the information you need to get started.

It would really suck to die without one of those, wouldn’t it?

The Hymn to Osiris

The Papyrus of Ani is a fairly long document but here’s an excerpt that contains a hymn to be sung in praise to Osiris.

A Hymn of Praise to Osiris Un-Nefer,
the great god who dwelleth in Abtu,
the king of eternity, the lord of everlastingness,
who traverseth millions of years in his existence.
Thou art the eldest son of the womb of Nut.
Thou wast begotten by Keb, the Erpat.
Thou art the lord of the Urrt Crown.
Thou art he whose White Crown is lofty.
Thou art the King of gods and men.
Thou hast gained possession of the sceptre of rule, and the whip,
and the rank and dignity of thy divine fathers.
Thy heart is expanded with joy,
O thou who art in the kingdom of the dead.
Thy son Horus is firmly placed on thy throne.
Thou hast ascended thy throne as the Lord of Tetu,
and as the Heq who dwelleth in Abydos.
Thou makest the Two Lands to flourish through Truth-speaking,
in the presence of him who is the Lord to the Uttermost Limit.
Thou drawest on that which hath not yet come into being
in thy name of ” Ta-her-sta-nef.”
Thou governest the Two Lands by Maat in thy name of “Seker.”
Thy power is wide-spread, thou art he of whom the fear is great
in thy name of “Usar”
Thy existence endureth for an infinite number of double henti periods
in thy name of”Un-Nefer.”
Homage to thee, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,and Prince of Princes.
Thou hast ruled the Two Lands from the womb of the goddess Nut.
Thou hast governed the Lands of Akert.
Thy members are of silvergold, thy head is of lapis-lazuli,
and the crown of thy head is of turquoise.
Thou art An of millions of years.
Thy body is all pervading,
O Beautiful Face in Ta-tchesert.
Grant thou to me glory in heaven, and power upon earth,
and truth-speaking in the Divine Underworld,
and the power to sail down the river to Tetu in the form of a living Ba-soul,
and the power to sail up the river to Abydos in the form of a Benu bird,
and the power to pass in through and to pass out from,
without obstruction, the doors of the lords of the Tuat.
Let there be given unto me bread-cakes in the House of Refreshing,
and sepulchral offerings of cakes and ale,
and propitiatory offerings in Anu,
and a permanent homestead in Sekhet-Aaru,
with wheat and barley therein—to the Double of the Osiris, the scribe Ani.

Phew — it’s a good thing Ani didn’t have to memorize that. Lucky for him, it was all written down in his funerary papyrus, along with similar praises to several other deities.

He’s not asking for too much from Osiris, right? Basically just safe passage, some food, and a place to live in the afterlife.

If you’d like to read the full translation that Budge made of the entire Papyrus of Ani, you can do so here.

Conclusions

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, in all of its various forms, is an interesting thing to study. It obviously says a lot about how the Ancient Egyptians viewed life and death.

It was never a book, though. And there were thousands of different versions.

If you were prepping yourself for the afterlife, what would you need to bring with you? Maybe it isn’t a Hymn to Osiris or spells to command unruly spirits, but… is there something you’d need?

Don’t miss out. Here’s what’s coming up…

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Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.

On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

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#archaeology

The picture shows a completely preserved pair of Egyptian sandals, they resemble modern flip flops. They are made of woven reed and palm leaves, the sole with bound edges.

🎹 #8bit piece of #music in the style of #fm #mastersystem for your #indiegames or other projects 🎶

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Do I look #Egyptian?

#GrandEgyptianMuseum #bahdlex #colepalmer #Palmer #Cole

The Grand #Egyptian Museum Fully Opens, Completing Giza’s New Cultural Landmark #press

https://www.archdaily.com/1035595/the-grand-egyptian-museum-fully-opens-completing-gizas-new-cultural-landmark

On this day in 1925, the last of three coffins was opened to reveal the mummy and golden mask of King Tut; its first time being seen in 3,250 years.
Made of 18k to 23k gold, it weighs 23 pounds and is over 21 inches long (54 centimetres, 2 kilograms). The god depicted is Osiris but the face is Tut's. His eyes are lapis, quartz, and obidian (pupils).
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