I’m sure this subreddit gets a lot of mummy questions, so I‘m sorry if this is bothersome to anyone. I’ve heard that while most people who were mummified were royalty, some non-royals were mummified aswell, but it was expensive. How much did it cost to purchase a mummification? Thank you very much in advance! ❤️

Is there any chance someone is able to translate this highlighted portion? I'm working on some undergrad research and came across this but with no English translation.

Hello. I’m looking for an idea—what would be the deity most related to the art of illustration? I understand that Thoth is the god of sciences and writing, and I think Ptah is the god of craftsmen, right?

I’m asking because I’m an illustrator and would like to get a tattoo related to art. Maybe there’s a painting or text that references something like this, because I don’t think the scribes were the ones who painted the large Egyptian walls. There must have been painters and illustrators.

What are these dots on the top of the Great Pyramid? There’s a bunch of them in randomly sized patches.

Are these graffiti from modern times? Some sort of tally from Napoleanic wars?

My assumption is that they are drill marks from the original builders. It’s easier to drill a bunch of holes to a specific depth and quickly hack away the excess to roughly flatten rough faces.

I remember watching a program from a few years ago discussing that a candidate for her *possible* mummy had been found. ( An undentified female mummy had been found that fit within the time period that she would've been alive and they were doing multiple tests on it.) I don't remember the name of the exact series but I get Comcast (cable) and it was available OnDemand. Towards the end of the episode they also alleged that the specific mummy they had discovered was possibly murdered. I remember getting quite emotional bc her mummy was so tiny. Has anyone by chance caught this episode and/or have you ever heard any updates on this?

When I google this topic I get articles from 2022 and then nothing more recent...

Tonight, the Egyptian Art Department of the Metropolitan museum of Art held an introductory class on Stone carving in the Ancient Egyptian style. It was held in the pavilion of the Temple of Dendur. We were given blocks of soapstone, pencils for grid lines, paper copies of sone carvings in the collection, and some picks, and scrapers. Great Fun!

Ridiculous, I know, but humor me.

Hey everyone, it's me again. One of these days I'll learn how to read more than the three words I can currently decipher. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks yall! His name is Pa-Di-Atum, but he's previously been called Pasheshes. Believed to be from the late period. Unfortunately I am unable to say with any certainty where he's from-- I've only been able to find his locations during his time in the US.

I'm aware that in many places an earlier language (written or oral) were used for liturgical or 'official' uses. Is there any evidence that Egyptian writing was treated similarly? For example, New Kingdom literati using the language from the Old Kingdom for written documents and monuments? Or was the Ancient Egyptian language stable over that period?

Looks like Reddit doesn’t take Pano HEIC pix. Let’s try again, cropped but still showing Unas.

wtf is actually going on here? Is he rising up zombie style from his burial chamber below? Why is the bottom half of the door missing? I can’t find much on this. Is there anything similar or is this just an unusual and unique design?

Source of this particular image: https://steemit.com/steemstem/@laylahsophia/egyptology-the-hibis-temple-at-kharga-oasis-in-egypt

Okay, so first a disclaimer I am not a conspiracy theorist, I do enjoy them as they make me giggle often lol but that’s not what this is.

I say that as this is where the question comes from. For the first time I saw aomething that questioned what we know about the pyramids that was able to be checked with some simple math.

So our estimate of the construction time for Giza is 15-30 years Let’s go with the longest time to be conservative of 30 years As flood lights we’re not available I’ll assume that work happened during daylight Average daylight in a year per day in Giza is 10.25 hours So crunching the numbers this means that in order to complete the pyramid in 30 years they would have to average placing one block weighing 2.5 tons every 3 minutes. This is staggering to me

So I’m wondering two things: How accurate is our timeline on the construction period If the construction period is correct, how would it be possible to accomplish this

My buddy from work and I have been having this convo every day while we work trying to figure it out and it only leads to more questions so I’m coming to Reddit lol.

Cheers Rudie