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egypt-museum · 2 months
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The Great Pyramid of Giza
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ancientegyptdaily · 11 months
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Great Pyramid of Giza: to the bottom center can be seen the original smooth white limestone which would have originally completely covered the inner darker stepped blocks. The inner blocks were quarried in the Giza area while the while higher quality limestone was quarried up river at Tura and had to be transported via the Nile to the pyramid’s location.
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ancientorigins · 6 months
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The objects found in ancient tombs tell us a lot about the people they were buried with. Emperor Qin took his Terracotta Army with him to the grave while some Pharaohs took boardgames.
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shayerathals · 3 months
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feel the need to share this thread anytime i remember it happened
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lionofchaeronea · 1 year
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Head of the ancient Egyptian king Khufu (Cheops), originally from a limestone statue. Artist unknown; ca. 2400 BCE (4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom). Now in the State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany. Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.
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The secret shafts in the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza are a fascinating and mysterious subject. Discovered in 1872 by British engineer Waynman Dixon, these shafts , sometimes referred to as air shafts or star shafts, have raised numerous questions among archaeologists and enthusiasts for decades.
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Climbing the pyramid of Cheops around 1900.
Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC).
He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but many other aspects of his reign are poorly documented.
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danskjavlarna · 1 year
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Very good, up to a point: my collection of vintage pyramid imagery.
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Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu in Egypt
French vintage postcard, mailed in 1901 to Saverne, France
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ancientstuff · 1 year
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Well, this is most exciting. There has been speculation about this kind of corridor in the Great Pyramid for a while. The consensus right now is that the blocks were hauled up via an inside corridor, with spaces at the corners large enough to cope with turning the blocks. One of those spaces is visible near the top on the northwest corner of the pyramid. This corridor is above the main entrance (as it is now), but still could have fulfilled that function. If anyone is interested in the science of 'space particles', the archaeologists in charge of this have an article in Nature describing the math. I've not included it here because there's a reason I went into Arts.
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psionic-cynic · 2 months
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egypt-museum · 6 months
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Pyramid of Khufu
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ancientegyptdaily · 2 years
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1.01 Egypt's Ancient Empire — EGYPT FROM ABOVE (2020)
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ancientorigins · 10 months
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The Ancient Egyptians weren’t just master builders; they were brilliant shipwrights too. Their masterpiece was the Sekhet, a super ship capable of transporting vast amounts of cargo.
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shayerathals · 3 months
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found my prince khufu & princess chay-ara fancasts, both are egyptian as well!
- omar honore
- asmaa abulyazeid
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Carter: this is tomorrow’s newspaper. on the front page, there’s a picture of me kissing khufu by the lake
Sadie: why were you kissing him by the lake?
Carter: i caught a fish, i was excited. i kissed the fish too, but of course they don’t show you that
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