Zodiac hieroglyphs from the Tomb of Seti I
Historical artwork of the hieroglyphs from the ceiling of the tomb belonging to Seti I, a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (r. ca. 1290-1279 BC) and the second ruler of the 19th Dynasty. Seti’s well preserved tomb (KV17) was found in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni in the Valley of the Kings. It was the longest (at over than 120 meters) and deepest of all the New Kingdom royal tombs. Published in I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia) between 1832 and 1844. Science Photo Library
Yellow volume in Sumida-ku, Tokyo | © Jan Vranovský, 2019
Statue of princess Takushit
Copper alloy hollow cast statue of the princess-priestess Takushit. The statue was found in 1880, in Lower Egypt, on the hill of Kom-Toruga, near Lake Mariut, south of Alexandria. It had ritual, votive, and funerary functions. The use of the statue was ceremonial while the priestess was alive, and was part of the ritual equipment of the sanctuary, in which there was a priestess.
After her death, it was used for votive and funerary ends and it decorated her tomb, which, according to the custom of the time, is located within the sanctuary precinct.
Third Intermediate Period, Late 25th Dynasty, ca. 670 BC. Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.
.“The Man Who Sleeps” (French: Un homme qui dort) directed by Bernard Queysanne and Georges Perec, based on Perec’s 1967 novel “A Man Asleep”
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The super blood wolf moon is seen beside a quadriga on the top of the Cinquantenaire arch in Brussels, Belgium (x)
