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Paintings inside the tomb of Sennefer,the Vizier and the Mayor of Thebes (Luxor)
In a dark corner of the Egyptian Museum Caïro detail of a beautiful stèle with no discription.
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The Tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings, Egypt
A hippo (goddess Taweret) and a crocodile (god Sobek) near the midplane of the ceiling are configurations the Egyptians placed in the northerly sky. Tomb of pharaoh Seti I, Valley of the Kings, KV17, Egypt.
Image Plate from Owen Jones' 1853 classic, "The Grammar of Ornament".
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Tutankhamun
Anubis,Egyptian God of the Dead guarding the Chest. Found in Tutankhamun's tomb. He was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. He is popularly referred to as King Tut.
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Tutankhamun in Barcelona Horus. I'd love to speak with someone from back then and ask them the meaning of their symbols, not what someone from today thinks they mean.