The Mummy: The Prequel

One of the most ubiquitous images associated with Ancient Egypt is that of the bandaged mummy in its elaborate sarcophagus (stone/metal/wooden coffin). Another famous image is the beautiful golden funerary mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and perhaps the two most famous mummies themselves are those of the astonishingly well- ( Read more... )

New tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings!

This makes me so excited. Aside from the interesting fact that this is a woman who was not of the royal family and yet buried in the Valley of the Kings, this goes to show that there are still undiscovered tombs in the Valley, when many people considered Tutankhamun's tomb to be the last one to be ( Read more... )

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Sadly I am sitting almost exactly in the middle of my room and surrounded by books, and there are two possibilities:

Greek Mythology by John Pinsent: At some stage Io was tethered to an olive tree in the grove of the Mycenaeans and guarded by the ( Read more... )

It is Hallowe'en! Aka Samhain, All Hallows Eve, Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead and so on. It's even one of the Ancient Egyptian feast days of Bast, Sekhmet and Ra.

Sigh, I wish Halloween was a bigger event here. I'd LOVE to don a costume and scary makeup and have fun with friends, but when I asked Mum if I could just have a Halloween party at ( Read more... )

For _silverfox, who chose the prompt ‘Cat’ on my writing meme. This is a loose prequel to the Triangle prompt fill, where I wrote about the Plagues of Egypt. Since tomorrow (Oct 31st) is, in addition to being Samhain/Halloween, also one of Bast's feast days (although she shares this one with Sekhmet and Ra) I thought this was a fitting time to post this. :D ( Read more... )

2020 EDIT: This list has not been updated since 2011, and is extremely out of date. (I didn't write much for a few years and then I've mostly just been writing Tolkien fics since 2016.) If you are interested in following my current writing, please head over to my Archive Of Our Own account. I've been on a cleaning/organisational frenzy at home ( Read more... )

Featuring the Plagues of Egypt!

For Yubi/starspiritgate /misterbkeele who requested the prompt Triangle on the writing meme. (Also posted this at Gabriel's journal, here.) <3 I'm afraid that try as I might, the only thing I could think of for 'Triangle' was a pyramid. Which led to this; I've been working on it for a year. Tried my damndest to at least get a view of the ( Read more... )

This impressive tour of the Temple of Horus was created by UK programmers MellaniuM using its UNREAL gaming engine for 3D rendering of architectural prototypes.

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This brings back memories of when I was actually at Edfu last December. :D

The name Edfu comes from the hieroglyph Ebdu, meaning victory, for according to legend it was there that the ( Read more... )

Aargh. My A Levels were finished at the end of last November and I have a break until university starts much later this year. I'd been looking forward to this period SO MUCH last year, and planning what I'd do kept me going.

Now the months stretch ahead of me and I have so many things to do but just can't bring myself to finish them. Would the word ( Read more... )