Strange facts about Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
I couldn't resist to make memes with this scene of Castlevania Netflix.
Just for leave context, the hieroglyphics on question are D52 and D53 of Alan Gardiner's hieroglyphics list.
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Bronze age dates are so funny. I know in my head these are all BC, but hearing that Pharoah Senusret I erected a great Obelisk and dedicated a new temple at Karnak in 1941 is just kind of funny
"Great Pharoah, it is terrible! They just bombed Pearl Harbor!"
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Weird thing I have done as an archaeologist 2
Teaching students how to describe soil colors, but you’ve got no clue what greyish-brown or brownish-grey is yourself
I’ve probably eaten dead Roman
Trowel throwing competitions
Giving names to skeletons you’re excavating
You’re on a constant field walk. Architecture, place names, street signs... You spot it all
Comparing weather app predictions with your colleagues
Collecting pretty stones, preferably quartz or silex
Being very possessive over a shovel
Trying to find north without a compass so the lot of us are standing there hoping the sun breaks through
Bonus addition: I’ve seen plenty of archaeologists who collect broken bits of ceramic smoking pipes and they hold competitions to who has more, measured by weight
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People keep asking men how much they think about the Roman Empire but nobody's asking women how much they think about Ancient Egypt
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I love when people will translate something like "city guard" as "police officer" mainly because of the mental images. It varies for phrasing, such as a letter from a sanctuary to the Pharoah mentioning the "chief of police" who I am picturing as a guy with a big mustache and aviator sunglasses in a modern police uniform, or in a translation of aristophanes that has "Scythian police officer" whom I imagine as a stereotypical English constable with that very speicfic helmet.
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Ancient Egyptian insults have me laughing my ass off. I’m so using these.
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