Tag: Egypt
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Alexandria’s Winter Queen: The Untamed Life and Death of Arsinoë IV (Part 2)
Okay, folks, this week we are back with my girl Arsinoë and her insane family for Round Two of their shenanigans! When we last let our Ptolemies, they were standing over the headless remains of Pompey Magnus and awaiting the arrival of his rival/martial antagonist/ex-father-in-law/frenemy—namely, one Gaius Julius Caesar. Now, by this point, roughly 48…
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Alexandria’s Winter Queen: The Untamed Life and Death of Arsinoë IV (Part 1)
When I was doing my circle back to talking about the most important God’s Wife setting, Ombos, last summer, I was aware that I had left an even larger series stone unturned here. One that is particularly egregious considering that three of my six leading ladies are historical figures, and I have long ago done…
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Gods, Gods, Gods! : Mythological Hijinks with ‘Divine Egypt’ at the Met
I’m coming to my blog schedule late this week because we just got back from another short trip to New York City, and I’m still trying to get organized in the aftermath of that. Aside from some other activities, including scoring extremely good lottery tickets to Six, we burned another entire day at the Metropolitan…
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Giraffe City: Cusae and Egyptian Municipal Administration
“We are leaving the Arsinoite now, afibi-t.” She lifts her face to the breeze, her eyes closed. “What strategia does Memphis open to?””The Heptanomis,” I reply, trying to coax a dragonfly onto my fingers. “And the last is the Thebais.””Very good. What is the administrative division beneath the strategia?””The nomes, Aetia.””And how many of them…
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Egypt Under the Sun: Agatha Christie’s Akhnaton
AKHNATON: More lands, more subject peoples, bigger palaces, still greater temples to Amon, thousands of beautiful women where my father had hundreds? No, Horemheb, listen to my dream. A kingdom where men dwell in peace and brotherhood, foreign countries given back to rule themselves, fewer priests, fewer sacrifices. Instead of many women—one woman. A woman…
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Home By Any Other Name: The Multifaceted History of Ombos
“Once upon a time, there were larger, more elegant cities here, though now it was just one of many out-of-the-way places that dipped their feet in the river’s edge. Tombs from before even the Egyptians’ long memories begin dotted the surrounding desert, ones of massive scale said to be made when the gods were young…
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Border Patrol: The Multicultural History of Siwa
I really was going to move on from Egyptian content again for a bit (I like to keep you guessing), but then I went for a rare summer jaunt down to CMOA/CMNH just to stretch my legs a bit before Oakland fills up for the next semester. I usually don’t go to the museums much…
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Back By Popular Demand: Ten (More!) Unusual and Obscure Egyptian Deities
I’ve said before that, for good or ill on your folks’ end, I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about analytics here on WordPress. I do my write ups on things that interest me at the time and (try) to trust that some of you will be on board. That said, it’s hard to…
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Any Dream Will Do: The Enduring Legacy of The Tale of Sinuhe
“O God, whosoever thou art that didst ordain this flight, show mercy and bring me to the Residence! Peradventure thou wilt grant me to see the place where my heart dwelleth. What matter is greater than that my corpse should be buried in the land wherein I was born?” – The Tale of Sinuhe (Gardiner…
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Boats, Beads, and Bird-Eating Beetles: Adventures in Modern Museum Conservation
We’re hopping back into some museum content this week because last night I had the opportunity to attend a members event at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for their new temporary Egyptian exhibit, The Stories We Keep: Conserving Objects from Ancient Egypt meant to fill the gap during the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt’s…
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