Qin's Quiet Quests

08/04/2024

Sword from the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo ship-burial, dates to approximately AD 620. Suffolk, England.
This sword is one of the many artifacts discovered in the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, which is thought to have belonged to one of four East Anglian kings: Eorpwald, Raedwald and co-regents Ecric, and Sigebert. The artifacts of this burial were chosen to reflect the high rank of the king, and to equip him for the Afterlife.

08/04/2024

A Ex-Voto (votive offering to a deity or saint), produced and discovered in Egypt. Roman Period, 1st-3rd Century.

Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Museum of Art and History), Geneva, Switzerland. 009461

08/04/2024

A long double-edged sword with a silver inlaid hilt, found in the Iron Age cemetery of Pappilanmäki in Eura, Finland. 1100-1250 CE, now housed at the National Museum of Finland

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07/04/2024

One of two known surviving tea chests from the December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party when 340 tea chests were dumped into Boston Harbor by rebelling colonists.

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07/04/2024

Bracelet with name of Psusennes l, were discovered in the tomb of his successor "Amenemope" who may been his son!

- Gold, lapis lazuli, and carnelian
- Tomb of Amenemope
- 21st Dynasty
- Tanis/San el-Hagar

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Egyptian Museum in Cairo
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07/04/2024

The Sphinx was carved from a single mass of limestone instead of piece by piece. It is one of the largest and oldest monolithic statues in the world, measuring approximately 20 meters 66 feet tall and 73 meters 240 feet long.

06/04/2024

A statue of Anubis in Tut Ankh Amun"s tomb, taken during Carter expedition (1922)

05/04/2024

Guardians of Philae temple, Egypt 🇪🇬

04/04/2024

This may be what Abu Simbel looked like before! 😲

04/04/2024

A wooden netsuke of a raconteur, made by Ōhara Mitsuhiro (1810-1875 CE). From Japan

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04/04/2024

Ptah-Shepses

The judge, Inspector of Archivists, and Inspector of Priests.

- Limestone
- 5th Dynasty (ca. 2494 - 2345 B.C.)
- Saqqara

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04/04/2024

Book of the Dead of Panedjem II, Panedjem before Osiris
21st Dynasty, c. 1077-943 B.C.
Tomb of Inhapy (Thebes), British Museum. EA10793,1

04/04/2024

Anthropoid wooden inner coffin of Takhebkhenem, Lady of the House, daughter of Pedikhons, with polychrome painted decoration
Late Period, c. 713–332 B.C.
From Thebes
Now on display at the British Museum. EA6691

03/04/2024

Fall of the Rebel Angels, early 18th century, sculpted from a single piece of ivory. Unknown author (formerly attributed to Jakob Auer). Currently located at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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03/04/2024

The four daughters of Vizier Rekhmire and his wife, Meryt, stand before an offering table of tribute placed in dedication to their parents.
The two older daughters stand behind the two smaller, younger daughters. The four sisters offer their parents sistrums, alongside a perfume dish and vessel.

Tomb of the Vizier Rekhmire (TT100), reign of Thutmose III - early reign of Amenhotep II, c. 1400 B.C.
Theban Necropolis

03/04/2024

THE SPLENDOR OF TUTANKHAMUN"S TREASURES FROM HIS TOMB IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS (detail of the intermediate coffin of TUTANKHAMUN in wood with gold and cloisonné inlays, Carter nr. 254),

EXHIBITED IN THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM CAIRO 515 ©Hans Ollermann

03/04/2024

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Pyramid Complex of Khafre (Khefren)
Khafre (c.2558–2532 BC), whom the ancient Greeks knew as Khefren, was a son of King Khufu (Cheops), the builder of the Great Pyramid. He built the second pyramid complex at Giza, and constructed his tomb on slightly higher ground, making it appear just as tall as his father’s.
At 143.5 meters in height, however, his pyramid is only slightly shorter, and a tremendously impressive monument. Its core masonry is made of blocks of local limestone.
The top of the pyramid still preserves the beautifully polished blocks of high-quality limestone that once encased the majority of the structure’s towering height.
This white stone was quarried in Tura, south of Maadi, and transported here by ship.
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The mortuary temple of Khafre at the foot of his pyramid and the valley temple at the end of the causeway are larger than any of those of older pyramids, and also among the best preserved of the Old Kingdom.
Another development in the reign of Khafre is the complexity of their layout, with the elements constituting his mortuary temple becoming the new standard that its later Old Kingdom counterparts would follow. A unique feature of Khafre’s complex is the inclusion of a colossal statue beside his valley temple—the Great Sphinx.
The valley temple is made of massive limestone blocks encased in granite, floors made of alabaster, and its wide hall features monolithic granite pillars.
The symmetrically arranged niches along the walls of the hall once accommodated statues of the king, some of which are currently on display in the Egyptian Museum.
One of these, the famous granodiorite statue of Khafre with Horus as a falcon perched behind his head, is widely considered one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art.

03/04/2024

Giza at night

02/04/2024

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Gold is the secret of immortality... ..... ....
All peoples used gold, but no one was able to shape it and use it like the Egyptians..
Look, my friend, the truth is that gold was available in abundance in Egypt, and we have the first letter from the king of Mitanni, Lamenhotep III, asking him and saying, “Send me gold because it is available to you like dirt.” (He is the Mitanni who envied us.)
Due to the abundance of gold in Egypt, we have a map from the era of King Seti I. This is the first map in history that shows the ways to reach the gold mines. It is located in the Turin Museum.

We have mines and gold is available. What else do we need?
Of course, we need workshops. We actually have a cemetery in Saqqara that has scenes of gold making in the workshops. What is beautiful is that the ancient Egyptians used to employ dwarves in making and crafting gold. By the way, the dwarves had a big role in Egyptian civilization and they held positions as well. I will talk about them in a post alone.

He who loved someone used to give him gold as a gift, and the Egyptian woman bears witness to that. We have a view from the Sin Najm cemetery of his wife giving him gold as a gift (and the best greetings to all Egyptian women

The most important question here is why they used it so much, especially in their tombs
Because, my friend, they believed that it was the secret of immortality and eternal life, and that it represented their gods and deities, like the god Ra, for example, who was the god of the sun and from which gold came.

Of course, we all know the amount of gold that we found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun, like the coffin that you see. The truth is that not his tomb, but what was full of gold, as people believe. All the kings, notables, and nobles from the first Egyptian dynasties to the last, their tombs were all gold, but unfortunately it was stolen over time. Ages, except for two tombs of the Egyptian kings that were discovered in their entirety: Tutankhamun, Psusenes I, and the Dragon. The contents of their tombs are illuminated in the Egyptian Museum.

02/04/2024

A limestone ostracon with a representation of a s*x scene. It dates to 19th Dynasty (1295-1186 BC) or 20th Dynasty (1186-1070 BC) of New Kingdom, Ancient Egypt.

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Innermost coffin of Tutankhamun with large floral garland still in place, photographed by Harry Burton (1879-1940).
The Howard Carter Archives. The Griffith Institute. Burton Photo. No. P0731

28/03/2024

Woman looking up at the Farnese Hercules, a Roman sculpture from the early third century A.D. based on an earlier Greek sculpture.

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28/03/2024

This is an extraordinary child’s drawing on an ostracon. It was found in Athribis, Egypt, dated 1st c. BCE to 2nd c. AD

Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are pottery fragments used as surfaces for writing or drawing. They were used as notepads for private letters, laundry lists, records of purchases, and copies of literary works.

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27/03/2024

Ancient Solid Gold Coffin Dating Back 2,100 Years From the 1st Century BC Was Shipped From the US and Returned to Egypt