#Hieroglyphs

[antiquitiesandlabyrinths]

Ceiling and imagery of the Tomb of the Vineyards, burial of Sennefer, Mayor of the Southern City, Thebes, during the 18th dynasty of Egypt.

Photos taken by me, August 2023

It’s hard to tell which way is up and down when walking through the tunnel leading from the surface into the tomb. Before entering the main chamber there is a small antechamber whose ceiling is quite low, and then a shallow arch which leads to the main room depicted in the above photographs. Both chambers contain a good deal of paintings, however the main chamber holds the most numerous and well preserved paintings, of course. Besides the ceiling, everything is encased in glass.

#ancient egypt #egyptian mythology #egyptian hieroglyphs #egyptian art #ancient history #egyptian gods #egyptology #hieroglyphs #archaeology #egyptian history #egypt

[egypt-museum]

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, 1968

White Chapel of Senusret I, Karnak Open Air Museum

Photo: Brian Brake

#ancient egypt #white chapel #senusret i #12th dynasty #middle kingdom #hieroglyphs #relief

[holycosmolo9y]

A gold ring owned by a priest named Sienamun, ca. 664-525 BCE

The symbols spell out the name "sA-m-Imn": Sienamun.

Literal translation of the symbols comes out to "Son of (the god) Amun"

while the first two lines indicate he was a priest: "Hm-nTr" and a certified horse girl (i.e. a caretaker of horses): "imy-r smsmw"

#art #archaeology #ancient #egypt #ancient history #ancient egypt #gold #gold jewelry #bce #egyptology #ancient kemet #kemet #heiroglyphics #hieroglyphs #hieroglyphics

[archaeologicalnews]

Jade mask depicting Maya storm god unearthed in royal tomb in Guatemala

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old royal tomb in Guatemala that's overflowing with funeral offerings, including an intricately designed jade mask depicting a Maya deity.

The tomb, which is located at an archaeological site known as Chochkitam near the borders of what are now Mexico and Belize, was the burial site for a previously unknown Maya king, according to a statement from Tulane University.

Along with the mosaic mask designed to resemble the Maya storm god, researchers found 16 mollusk shells and hieroglyphs carved into human femurs (thigh bones), including one drawing depicting a man holding a jade mask similar to the artifact tucked inside the tomb. Researchers think the hieroglyphs identify the king's father and grandfather and serve as a link to the ruler of the Maya states of Tikal and Teotihuacan. Read more.

#archaeology #archeology #tomb #guatemala #jade #maya #shells #hieroglyphs #jade mask

[speedilydeepruins]

Dendera Temple Complex 3

#original photography #photographers on tumblr #travel photography #original artist #archeaology #ancient history #ancient architecture #ancient monument #egypt #egyptology #ancient egypt #egypt tours #ancient #hieroglyphs #antiquity #dendera temple complex

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A fragment of the brightly decorated coffin of Tanetaa, from the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, at the Liverpool Museum.

[A piece of a white coffin with columns of colourful hieroglyphs. Above and below the writing is a coloufful geometric frieze.]

#Ancient Egypt #Third Intermediate Period #Twenty Fifth Dynasty #coffin #hieroglyphs #Liverpool Museum

[viridian-pickle]

#aesthetic #beautiful #adventure #egypt #ancient #ancient egypt #temple #architecture #stone #dessert #column #hieroglyphs #sun #gods #egyptian #history #travel

[crispychrissy]

I FOUND A THING.

I'm watching Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight, and there's a nice closeup of the chest area of the costume. I noticed something funny about the hieroglyphs on the right side of the decal.

I can read hieratic, so I translated it. It was a simple alphabetic translation, not syllabic, meaning each hieroglyph corresponds to an English letter to spell an English word.

AND NO JOKE, the sandy moon pigeon himself SIGNED HIS OWN NAME on the suit.

(The animal/human hieroglyphs always look toward the beginning of the text, so the quail chick should actually be facing the other way, but I'm ignoring that and assuming Ramy Romany was overridden on that decision. lol)

#moon knight #assembled #costume #khonshu #moon knight suit #hieroglyphs #translated #chest #moon darts

[batbusiness-schooldropout]

I have attempted to translate the phrase "Hey there demons, it's me, ya boi" into hieroglyphs.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of this, so I cannot subject you all to it until after work

#ancient egypt #hieroglyphs #watcher #buzzfeed unsolved #im a boogara with the attitude of a shaniac

[antiquitiesandlabyrinths]

Scenery and imagery from the Hathor temple at Dendera, built in the Greco-Roman period

photos taken by me in August, 2023

Some parts of this temple, when I visited, were off limits. However it was very hard to distinguish what was and wasn’t off limits, so my companion and I wandered everywhere. We also bought passes to the different hidden chambers of the temple; well worth the price in my opinion. You descend or ascend cramped, steep stairs to get to seemingly secret and certainly hidden tunnels filled with vivid imagery of the Gods and worship. Unfortunately, the Dendera calendar filled with zodiacs, has been stolen and replaced with a black cast of what it once was. The original now rests in a museum in Europe.

#ancient egypt #dendera #Hathor #egyptian mythology #egyptian hieroglyphs #ancient history #egyptian gods #egyptian art #egyptology #ancient art #hieroglyphs #egypt

[nyahkmenrah]

Saving this copy pasta for later lol

L + dont care + CURSE OF THE NILE ‼️ ‼️

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[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Starry Night - Józef Chełmoński // Falling Stars - Franz von Stuck (detail) // Asking the Stars - Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (detail) // Hieroglyphs - The Oh Hellos

#thought i'd do this one since hieroglyphs won my oh hellos lyrics poll #stars #starry night #karl wilhelm diefenbach #franz von stuck #hieroglyphs #eurus #eurus ep #the oh hellos #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[ancientegyptdaily]

14th September 2022: 200th Anniversary of Decipherment of Hieroglyphs:

“According to Hermine Hartleben, who wrote the most extensive biography of Champollion in 1906, the breakthrough came on 14 September 1822, a few days before the Lettre was written, when Champollion was examining copies made by Huyot. One cartouche from Abu Simbel contained four hieroglyphic signs. Champollion guessed, or drew on the same guess found in Young's Britannica article, that the circular first sign represented the sun. The Coptic word for "sun" was re. The sign that appeared twice at the end of the cartouche stood for "s" in the cartouche of Ptolemy. If the name in the cartouche began with Re and ended with ss, it might thus match "Ramesses", suggesting the sign in the middle stood for m.

Further confirmation came from the Rosetta Stone, where the m and s signs appeared together at a point corresponding to the word for "birth" in the Greek text, and from Coptic, in which the word for "birth" was mise. Another cartouche contained three signs, two of them the same as in the Ramesses cartouche. The first sign, an ibis, was a known symbol of the god Thoth. If the latter two signs had the same values as in the Ramesses cartouche, the name in the second cartouche would be Thothmes, corresponding to the royal name "Tuthmosis" mentioned by Manetho. These were native Egyptian kings, long predating Greek rule in Egypt, yet the writing of their names was partially phonetic.

Now Champollion turned to the title of Ptolemy found in the longer cartouches in the Rosetta Stone. Champollion knew the Coptic words that would translate the Greek text and could tell that phonetic hieroglyphs such as p and t would fit these words. From there he could guess the phonetic meanings of several more signs. Upon making these discoveries Champollion raced to his brother's office at the Académie des Inscriptions, flung down a collection of copied inscriptions, cried "Je tiens mon affaire!" ("I've done it!") and collapsed in a days-long faint.” [X]

#egypt #ancient egypt #egyptology #archaeology #historyedit #mine #my edit #documentary #doc: the nile 5000 years of history #champollion #rosetta stone #hieroglyphs

[ikchen]

sn=j sw sp.tj=s wn xnt=j nn Hnq.t

"I kiss¹ her, her lips² are open, I rejoice (even) without beer"

- Gizeh Ostracon 584 (Hieroglyphs by Wilhelm Spiegelberg, Eine neue Sammlung von Liebesliedern)

¹ Ancient Egyptians kissed by touching noses / smelling each other ² Except for this instance which is interpreted as the one and only evidence we have of mouth-kissing

#egyptology #poetry #ancient egypt #love songs #hieroglyphs

[mapsontheweb]

Map of Ancient Egypt with names of towns also in hieroglyphs kush.

#maps #ancient egypt #hieroglyphs

[speedilydeepruins]

Dendera Temple Complex : Egypt My mother had made the decision to travel to Israel, Jordan and Egypt. It has been a life long pilgrimage for mum. She was soo disappointed when this opportunity came up, COVID hit. Eureka this time the trip went off without a hitch. So of course I asked to share some of her photos of the trip. Some not so clear as they taken on her iPhone

#original photography #travel photography #original photographer #original artist #photographers on tumblr #ancient egypt #egyptology #egyptian #Dendera Temple Complex #archeology #Middle Kingdom ancient egypt #hieroglyphs #ancient architecture #historical architecture #history