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may your ka live,
and may you achieve millions of years,
you who love thebes,
sitting with your face to the north wind,
and your eyes seeing happiness.
-- the wishing cup of tutankhamun

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kisstherain1:

ANCIENT HISTORY SERIES: Jewellery from Pompeii

tiny-librarian:

ceyths:

and here’s some ugly Mark Antony coin portraits

Total sexy beast right thur. I can see why all those women wanted in his toga.

(via vlajean)

And think of the smell of the shit!

Mary Beard, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town

[Pompeii] was like a cross between Las Vegas and Brighton.

Mary Beard, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town

folklaureate:

WE ARE NOT THE LORDS: WOMEN OF THE TROJAN WAR, greek mythology fanmix

a mix devoted to the women of war and the men who sent them to the pages of the greatest tragedies.

      001. the sword and the pen - regina spektor, 002. no hope in the air - laura marling

      003. poison & wine - the civil wars, 004. set free - katie gray

      005. wild tigers i have known - emily jane white, 006. bitch - meredith brooks

      007. rise and fall - sophie hunger, 008. tremble - charlotte martin

      009. the execution of all things - rilo kiley, 010. scars - anna nalick

      011. damascus - nerina pallot, 012. king and lionheart - of monsters and men

      013. hurricane - the hush sound, 014. elements - a fine frenzy

      015. two kids - anais mitchell, 016. crime for crime - ani difranco

      017. in our bedroom after the war - stars

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If the descriptions of Amun’s rituals of re-creation are to be believed, Hatshepsut was responsible for sexually exciting the god himself, presumably in his statue form. One of her priestess titles was actually “God’s Hand.” If we are to take the agenda of this title literally Hatshepsut was essentially responsible for facilitating the masturbatory act of the god in his holy shrine, instigating a sacred sexual release that allowed for the re-creation of the god, and his entire store of creative potential. As god’s wife, Hatshepsut used her feminine sexuality to enable the god’s continued renewal of the universe itself—it didn’t hurt that the position of god’s wife of Amun came with lands, servants, and palaces. It was a lot of power for a ten-year-old girl to take in.

hahaha I am so immature but hahahahahaha

One seal impression from Kea points in the direction that the EH/EC II culture would have taken if left to ﬂourish. A stamped hearth rim ( CMS V, 478) parodies Egyptian hieroglyphs, including a djed pillar, Ra sun sign, and a vase sign. The last is especially clever, for in Egyptian it would be the typical amphora, but here, in the EC II Aegean, it is the typical sauceboat. Obviously someone in the central Aegean knew enough about Egyptian writing to poke intelligent fun at it.

John G Younger.

I love finding evidence of ancient fun.

golden-bumblebee:

Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple - Deir el-Bahri

(via the-nile-river)

The Near East during the 1200s BC is more dramatic than the bloody build-up to WWI! Hatti has a succession crisis! Ramesses keeps conquering and losing Syrian states! Hatti exiles its former leader, who turns up in Ramesses’ court! Ramesses refuses to extradite the exile when the ruler of Hatti asks! Hatti mobilises! Ramesses probably mobilises!

AND THEN ASSYRIA HAS A CURB-STOMP BATTLE IN HANIGALBAT! There is no longer a buffer state between Hatti and Assyria! Hatti panicks, because it doesn’t have a Schlieffen Plan to deal with a two-front war! Hatti decides that maybe they can have peace with Egypt after all! They have a peace treaty! Ramesses has to give up Kadesh forever! Mutual non-aggression pact! It suddenly sounds more like the Cold War! Aaah, so many exclamation marks!

God, this is exhausting.

Obscure JSTOR articles

Egyptian Catalogues of Things

Charles F. Nims

Thutmose III and Ramses II’s interaction with any other kingdom—anytime…ever:

egyptologifs:

aboutegypt:

Templo de Karnak - Luxor-26 (by Troiti Vigo)

You know that the Ancient Egyptians were losing a war when the glorious victories kept getting closer to Egypt.

Bob Brier

If we could all just bask in the awesomeness that was past!me for having all the necessary hatshepsut notes except for images and, er, some holes. But past me even identified those holes!