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 قبة الأمير سودون العجمى بالسيدة عائشة بالقاهرة . منشئ هذه القبة هو الأمير سودون من جانى بك الشهير بسودون العجمى اتابك - اى القائد العام للعساكر بالديار المصرية على عهد السلطان المملوكى قانصوه الغورى عام 910هـ / 1504م

 The remains of a head of an Osirid painted limestone statue of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, with the traditional false beard of kings. They originate from her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari. Hatshepsut reigned for almost 22 years (circa 1479-1458 BCE) during the 18th Dynasty, both as a regent for her nephew, the young Thutmose III, and then as the outright 'King of Upper and Lower Egypt'. These wonderful fragments (JE 56259 and JE 56262) are now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Araldo De Luca

News 📰   Two Royal Statues Returned to Egypt to Be Displayed at Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) 🇪🇬 Two huge royal statues arrived today, Thursday, at the homeland, which were included in the artifacts displayed in the exhibition “The Sunken Cities: The Enchanting World of Egypt” in the United States of America. The newly restored statues will join the other artifacts on show in the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). Dr. Mustafa Waziri, Secretary- General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, explained that these two statues were returned after approval of the Council of Ministers and they will be transferred to the GEM. Waziri pointed out that these statues were on show in the exhibition “The Sunken Cities: The Enchanting World of Egypt”, which started its foreign tour in 2015. The exhibition took place in the French capital, Paris, the British London, the city of Zurich in Switzerland, and four cities in the USA. It is now displayed in the Virginia Museum for Art, USA. The ex...

Sphinx the Schepenupet II, "God's consort of Amun" 🇪🇬 Dynasty: 25th Dynasty Geography: Upper Egypt, Karnak, Amun Temple, at the "Holy Lake" Medium: Granite  Present location: Egyptian Museum, Berlin

Pharaoh Psusennes I.   21st dynasty   For the ancient Egyptians gold was thought to be the flesh of the gods whilst silver was thought to be their bones.  call him the Silver king

The Golden Throne of King Tutankhamun - Side View  Winged cobras form the arms of the throne, and they wear the double crowns that represent a united Egypt. The theme continues along the back support with smaller cobras peering out, with one wearing the silver crown of Upper Egypt, and the other adorned with the gold crown of Lower Egypt.

A passageway within the crypt of the Dendera temple complex in Egypt. It is within this crypt that the famous Dendera light is carved, sealed within the darkness in a narrow passageway beneath the temple of Hathor.

Nefertari - First Queen of King Ramesses The Great Nefertari is the most famous Queen of the time of Ramesses II, was granted one of the most spectacular tombs in the Valley of the Queens.

Amenhotep III, the Ninth King of Egypt's 18th Dynasty Amenhotep III wearing the Crown which was a sign of war and worn in ceremonies

Stele of Nachy in front of Osiris and Anubis  The stele of Nachy was probably found in Deir el-Medineh. It comes from the New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty (1550 - 1186 BC).  The upper register shows Nachy in a gesture of worship before the Gods Osiris and Anubis, in front of whom there is a table with offerings.  In the middle register on the left, Nachy and his wife Nefertari receive a libation offered by Amunuasu, a priest of courage and probably the son of Nefertari from a previous marriage. Further descendants follow in the lower register. The presentation of offerings on steles like this guarantees the constant care of the dead in the hereafter and keeps the memory of them alive.

Detail of the Goddess Selket  is the Goddess of healing poisonous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology from the canopic shrine, tomb of Tutankhamun,  Reign: 1332-1323 BC.  New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt

Statuette of Amun  Third Intermediate Period Dynasty 22. , ca. 945–712 B.C..

Statue of a princess - priestess Takushit.  The figure's characteristic garment is executed with inlaid decoration, a technique in which the engraved design is inlaid with precious metal wire.  The motifs are hieroglyphs and deities of the northeast region of the Nile Delta, Takushit's homeland.  The statue had a votive, ritual and funerary use.   25th Dynasty. Found from Kom Tourokha, near lake Mareotis south of Alexandria. Now in the Athens Museum

Head of Goddess Mehet-Weret The head of Goddess Mehet-Weret or celestial cow, wooden, copper, lapis lazuli and gold sculpture, found in the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. The black color used on the horns and neck of the animal is a reference to the color of the Egyptian soil following the annual innudations by the Nile.

Neferhotep I, pharaoh of 13th dynasty

A finely detailed pendant (9 centimeters in height) depicting King Osorkon II, who reigned circa 874-850 BCE during the 22nd Dynasty at the time of the Third Intermediate Period. The king is shown as a crouching Osiris on a pillar. He is flanked on either side by his wife, Isis, and his son, Horus. The three figures are made of solid gold while the pillar is made of lapis lazuli. The palm leaves on the cornice and the base are fashioned in gold cloisonné inlaid with lapis and red glass. This masterpiece (E 6204) is now in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Photo: Corbis/Cordon Press "The divine trio of Isis, Osiris, and Horus had weighty political significance... The living Pharaoh was assimilated to Horus, while the one immediately deceased was identified with Osiris, ruler of the dead; the new Pharaoh's task, like Horus,' was always to re-establish cosmic order; order which had been thrown into disarray and confusion by the death of his predecessor. As for Isis, whose nam...

A limestone sunk relief depicting Queen Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of King Akhenaten, who reigned circa 1353-1336 BCE during the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. This piece was recovered from the remains of the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna. It may have been a sculptor's practice model: a pattern that guided the craftsmen carving the walls of the temple. Or it may have been a trial piece: a practice 'sketch' executed by an apprentice sculptor. This object (JE 59296) is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Kenneth Garrett. The relief shows Nefertiti wearing her distinctive tall flat-topped crown from which hang two uraei, "... a headdress which identifies her with Tefnut. This goddess and her twin Shu were the offspring of Atum and the first sexually differentiated pair in the Heliopolitan cosmogony. Shu was linked with Akhenaten, and Amenhotep III [,his father,] was considered an incarnation of Atum; thus husband, wife, and father-in-law (whether ...

Statue of the Lector Priest Kaaper. Sheikh el-Balad, Arabic title for the chief of the village, was the name given to this remarkable wooden statue discovered by the workmen of Auguste Mariette, the French archaeologist, because it resembled their own village chief. The statue depicts Ka-aper, the chief lector priest, in charge of reciting prayers for the deceased in temples and funerary chapels. It is one of the masterpieces of the private statuary of the Old Kingdom.

A granodiorite statuette (only 33 centimeters in height) of King Thutmose III depicted as a sphinx. He reigned circa 1479-1425 BCE during the 18th Dynasty. This piece (JE 37981) is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Dallet-Alba / Alamy Stock Photo The sculpture once stood in the Karnak Temple Complex near Thebes. However, it was discovered in 1903 buried with thousands of statues, stelae, amulets, inlay plaques, votive cubits, and other artifacts in the north court of the seventh pylon of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak. This is now known as the 'courtyard of the cachette.' Scholars believe that the hoard was ritually buried by temple priests during the Ptolemaic Period to relieve the crowding of statues and private offerings that have accumulated over the centuries. Most of the objects found date from the New Kingdom through the Ptolemaic Period, although some objects from the Old and Middle Kingdoms were also unearthed. "Unobtrusive as they may have been...

🇪🇬 Rectangular section of limestone temple-relief representing Arsinoe II holding a papyrus-sceptre and facing Ptolemy II Philadelphos, who wears the double-crown, holds a was-sceptre and brandishes an unidentified object, traces of red-brown skin colour survive on the male figure. Dynasty: Ptolemaic  Geography: Lower Egypt: Nile Delta: San el-Hagar: Chapel of Ptolemy II Medium: Limestone  Present location: British Museum

🇪🇬 Sycomore fig wood stela of Nakhtefmut: there is one scene on this round-topped stela, below a curved sky-sign and eight columns of text with the usual funerary invocation. The god Ra-Horakhty, mummiform, is enthroned on the left behind an altar covered by a lotus-flower. On the right stand the ỉt-nṯr priest of Amun Nakhtefmut, son of the mry-nṯr priest 'Imn-ms, and his daughter, the lady Šp-n-ʒst, in an attitude of worship. The stela is well preserved apart from a vertical crack on the right side and some gouges on the surface. The background of the stela is white. The sky-sign is blue. The hieroglyphs are black on yellow. Ra-Horakhty has a yellow body and face with black details, red poll, blue wig, red disk bordered by white, and a yellow uraeus edged in black. His arms are red with yellow bracelets, two sceptres are yellow, while the was-sceptre is blue. He is seated on a blue and red throne edged in yellow placed on two pink pedestals with red ends. The altar is blue and y...

🇪🇬 Cedar wood stela of Padiamun: Osiris is enthroned on the left of this round-topped stela, while on the right stands the prophet of Amenresonther and overseer of the craftsmen of the estate of Amun Pediamun, clad in a long robe and a leopard-skin and holding an offering of ointment. Between the figures is the fetish of Anubis. Six columns of text, containing a funerary invocation of Osiris on behalf of the deceased, are painted above the figures and the scene is enclosed in rounded border. The subject cannot be further identified. The stela is well preserved apart from some wear. The background is white and the border is blue. The hieroglyphs are black on grey between red lines. The crown of the god is white, edged in red, with a similarly coloured uraeus, blue feathers, and red streamer. His face is green, edged in black, with black beard and black eye on white. His upper collar is blue and lower grey with black dots. The straps across his chest are red and his sceptres grey, edge...

🇪🇬 Gold finger-ring: a stirrup shaped signet ring with long oval bezel cast all in one by the lost wax or cire perdu method. The bezel is incised with the prenomen or throne name, assumed on his accession by the king Akhenaten. The bezel inscription also contains an incompletely written rebus meaning "all Egypt is in adoration" (of the name). Dynasty: 18th Dynasty  Geography: Egypt  Medium: Gold  Present location: British Museum

Pair of gold bracelets: made from twisted gold wire, apparently on a bronze or copper armature, with snake-headed terminals at the ends 🇪🇬 Dynasty: New Kingdom  Geography: Egypt  Medium: gold, copper, bronze  Present location: British Museum

Bracelet with scarab 🇪🇬 Dynasty: 18th Dynasty  Geography: Upper Egypt: Biban el-Muluk (Valley of the Kings - Luxor) Medium: lapis lazuli, gold, cornelian, glazed composition Present location: British Museum

🐟 Polychrome glass vessel in the form of a 'bulti'-fish: this is the most spectacular of a small group of fish-form vessels, all representing the 'bulti'-fish common in the Nile and a standard feature of Egyptian decorative art 🇪🇬 Dynasty: 18th Dynasty  Geography: Middle Egypt, El-Amarna Medium: Glass  Present location: British Museum

Bust of Queen Nefertiti 🇪🇬  Dynasty: 18th Dynasty Reign: (Amenhotep) IV. / Akhenaten Geography: Middle Egypt, Amarna Medium: Limestone, painted; Piece; Beeswax, black; Rock crystal Present location: Egyptian Museum, Berlin

Sarcophagus of Isetenkheb. Isetenkheb was the daughter of Ankhsyeniset and Roriou,  a sacrificer in the Domain of Amun (the "City of the Dead") at West Thebes where the sarcophagus was found. Late Period , 26th Dynasty (664-500).

من نصائح #الحكيم آني : --ضـاعف كميـة الخبــز الذي تعطيه #لأمـك، واحتملهــا كمـا احتملتــك، إنهـا عنــدما ولـدتك بعــد شـهور مــن حملــك، اســتمرت تحملــك حــول عنقهـا، ثــم أعطتــك ثدييها سنوات ثلاثة، إنها لم تتقزز يوماا من فضلاتك، إنها لم تقل لك يوماا:  لم فعلت ذلك؟  لقد أخـذتك إلـى المدرسـة، إلـى حيـث تـتعلم الكتابـة، وانتظرتـك هنـاك كـل يـوم، ومعهـا الطعـام والشـراب الـذى أحضـرته مـن البيـت، فـإذا مـا كبرت واتخذت لك زوجة، وأصبح لك بيت خاص، فلا تنس أمك التى حملتـك  وزودتك بكل شيء، فانك إن نسيتها كان لها الحق فى تغضب عليك، وأن ترفع يديها شاكية إلى الله الذى سوف يستمع إلى شكواها..

#رمسيس الثالث " أنا أراقب في صمت .. لكن عقابي قادم لا محالة .. من يرعى الشر لابد أن يكتوي بالشر .. من يهبط أرضي عليه أن يُطبق شريعتي وقانوني .. شريعتي شريعة الواحد الأحد في السماء .. وقانوني هو قانون الإنسان خليفة الله في الأرض .. من قتل يُقتل .. ومن أحيا يحيا .. ومن خالف الخير لا يحيا في الأرض .. وذاك هو العدل" كلمات قالها الملك #رمسيس الثالث معبد #هابو - #البر_الغربي - #الأقصر

#ملوك الاسرة الثانية  في الواقع وحتى الان لا نعرف الأسباب التي ادت إلى سقوط الاسرة الاولى وقيام اسرة ثانية . ونجهل الحوادث التي جرت في أيام ( قا – عا ) وانتهت باستيلاء اسرة اخرى على العرش ، ونجهل ايضا الصلة بين العائلتين اذا كان هناك حقيقة انتقال للملك من عائلة لعائلة أخرى . نحن نتبع مانيتون في تقسيمه للاسرات ولا ريب أنه كانت لديه الوثائق الكافية والتي تبرر ذلك التقسيم. وفى الواقع لا نرى اى تغيير ولا نحس بأى أثر لانتقال فجائى ، فإذن كل شىء استمر في سيره الطبيعى سواء من ناحية التطور الفنى أو تنظيم الحكومة بوجه عام. ولا يزال أمر ترتيب أسماء ملوك الأسرة الثانية موضع نقاش العلماء فهناك اختلاف ايضا بين قائمة مانيتون والقوائم الملكية الاخرى التي تعطينا أسماء تسعة ملوك أو عشرة على حين تمدنا الاثار التي تركها هؤلاء الملوك والتي عثر على أسمائهم عليها بثمانية ملوك تترواح مدة حكمهم جميعا بين 297 عاما و 302 عام . وهؤلاء الملوك هم : 1- الملك ” حوتب ( #حورس ) أو حتب سخموى . 2- الملك (نوب – نفر ) ( حورس ) ( رع نب ) أو ( نب رع ) 3- الملك (نى نثر ) ( حورس ) أو نى نثر ويسمى أيضا (نثريمو ) 4- الملك (...

الفارق بين المآذن في الشكل والعمارة  #Cairo #القاهرة

المشربيه والمشرفيه .... #مصر في القرن الـ 19 . انتشرت المشربية أثناء الحكم العباسي واستخدمت في القصور وعامة المباني على نطاق واسع، إلا أن أوج ازدهارها كان في العصر العثماني حين وصلت إلى أبهى صورها وانتشرت انتشارا شبه كامل في العراق والشام فى ذلك التوقيت. واستمر استخدامها حتى بدايات القرن الماضي ثم تلاشت تدريجيًا حتى اختفت تماما عن عيون العمارة الحديثة، واحتلت الأبراج والعمائر الشاهقة شوارع العالم العربي. وسميت #المشربية بأسماء مختلفة فى مصر قديما تعبيرا عن " قلل الشرب " والمشربة كانت توضع فيه، ويقال أيضا إن أصل الكلمة هو مشرفية لإشراف أهل البيت على الشارع منها ثم تحولت حتى أصبحت مشربية، وتدعى المشربية في بعض الدول الإسلامية" روشن"، وفي اللهجة العراقية" شنشول". وهي تعريب للكلمة الفارسية (روزن) وتعني الكوة أو النافذة والشرفة اهتم صانع المشربية بالقيم الجمالية وأظهر فيها قدرته الفنية والزخرفية، لتقترن بالزخارف النباتية، والهندسية، والمستلهمة من حيوانات أو طيور، وكتابات مثل "الله"، و"الرحمن " حيث تظهر فيها مهارة خرط الخشب الدقيقة على شكل مك...

مئذنتي وقبة مسجد الرفاعي ، ومئذنة مدرسة ومسجد السلطان حسن ميدان القلعه - #القاهرة .