King Tut Day

As pharaoh, Cleopatra had a strong personal and historical connection to the Egyptian gods and goddesses.

“The Greeks built the Parthenon and the Egyptians built the pyramids back when the Anglo-Saxons were still dressing in animal skins.”

Kofun tombs are up to 1,500 feet long and over 100 feet high, making them possibly the largest earth mound tombs in the ancient world.

In the end, the visit didn’t work out quite as Locke planned, since he got there too late for the initial opening and too early for the unveiling of the gold sarcophagus containing Tut’s remains.
– The New Yorker

And the architecture...gods, the architecture—gilded marble columns, dazzling mosaics, monumental arches, and terraced villas.

The guide told them how mummies were prepared and how Egypt’s dry climate helped to preserve them.

He worked with animals too and, having studied in France, he even dabbled in the new practice of embalming bodies before they were buried.

“Well now, if the falling of this bird is a sign of a curse or bad luck, we are in both. So I am eating every bit of it. You can do as you please.”

They reported that the Africans lived like kings, even wearing the fabrics of royalty: velvet, damask, and brocade.

In her hands, she held the symbols of her reign as Egypt’s pharaoh and as the last of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

These were men created from ants on the island of Aegina, in the reign of Aeacus, Achilles’ grandfather, and they were Achilles’ followers in the Trojan War.

She stopped an arm's length away and said, “I never introduced myself. Vasilisa Tsarevna, the heir to the throne of Kiev, no matter what my father’s henchmen think.”

“Your prioress is like a queen, the fountain of all goodness. All the sisters are her ladies-in-waiting, happy to live under her benevolent rule. There is a hierarchy, with servants in the lowest place.”

“He didn’t want anyone else in the kingdom to suffer as he had. So he ordered the destruction of all dragons.”

Just before he arrived, the third war between the Ptolemies and the Seleucid Empire broke out, this time over a succession dispute.

By March 1917, Czar Nicholas II had been forced to abdicate the throne.

In New York City there is an obelisk called Cleopatra’s Needle, which came from Egypt.

Like most monumental sculpture, Apollo and Daphne was intended for a specific location.

The sphinx and pyramids were built by people fed on crops originally native to the Fertile Crescent, not to Egypt.

“If the Pharaohs of Egypt were content to be represented by a scarab, so am I,” he said.

I greet the two large statues of draped women sitting in long skirts outside the library: Art, holding a paintbrush, and Science, holding the world.

Little remains of the Heraion on the Aegean isle of Samos, one of the wonders of the ancient world, a great temple dedicated to Hera, who began her career as goddess of the sky.

The male symbol was remarkably similar to the Anubis god representation on Tutankhamen’s inner-chamber hieroglyphics.

High up on many rock faces pictographs representing Native American rites of passage from centuries earlier could be seen.
– The Washington Post

“It’s related to the scarab beetle, which the ancient Egyptians worshipped as a symbol of the morning sun and the afterlife. Sometimes they wore it as jewelry.”

Aunt Chipo dressed the dead woman again and wrapped her in a cloth to await the funeral.

The villagers who still practiced the old Slavist rituals would decorate birch trees, string up flowers and branches, and leave extra offerings for the rusalki.

The influence of Greek art and literature became so powerful in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods, and were considered to be the same.

According to him, once the Kuhani entered the hall, patrons would be busy making offerings and asking him to relay their specific prayer requests.

In ancient Greek mythology, the Three Sisters of Fate spin out a person’s destiny within three nights of their birth.

What can archaeology can tell us about actual dates and places for the rise of farming and herding in Africa?

A century after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, archaeologists are still unearthing more artifacts — and controversies.
– NPR

Everyone in the grade got assigned an Egyptian artifact to work on for Egyptian Museum Day, which was in December.

As for the wealthy, their tombs were underground mansions crammed with gold and treasure.

The Egyptian civilization’s lack of zero was bad for the calendar and bad for the future of Western mathematics.

In addition to his tunic, Marcos wore a turban around his head and an Egyptian amulet around his neck.

Gold-inlaid tables were crowded with jade and ivory statues of the most exquisite workmanship.

Among the many textiles are 145 loincloths, 12 tunics, 28 gloves, about 24 shawls, 15 sashes, 25 head coverings and 4 socks, which had separate places for the big toe so that they could be worn with the 100 sandals, some worked in gold. There are also one golden and one beaded apron, real leopard skins and even one faux leopard skin woven of linen with appliqued spots.
– The New York Times

Egypt’s dry, sandy soil preserves papyrus scrolls very well—copious quantities of documents have survived.

There's also a large cosmetics case, only partly redeemed by its brutal imagery—carvings of lions attacking elk, and feet of the jar resembling the crushed heads of his enemies. Tut's eye makeup, said curator Dr. David Silverman, was practical. "It was for protection from the Egyptian sun--similar to football players using blackout on their cheeks."
– Chicago Tribune