#egypt

[h20-erti]

some things never change no matter how old we get

[mysharona1987]

[animentality]

[smsomah]

Egyptian silver fish fertility pendant, circa 1913

Coins and fish commonly represent abundance and prosperity. In Egypt's Abu el-Numrus region, fish-shaped pendants were especially popular and were likely crafted by local Egyptian Jewish jewelers.

[starsandwhales]

I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :) [ID: a detailed, realistic painting of the hathor columns at the dendera temple complex in dendera, egypt. /end ID]

[life0verflow]

[occidentalist]

The thing is, I’m not even particularly opposed to Egyptian artefacts being in museums around the world. I really am not, I’m a firm believer as an Egyptian that the entirety of the ancient world is all of our shared history as a species, none of it is more ‘mine’ than it is yours, or anyone’s. I think it can get really reactionary and bourgeois really fast when people allow themselves to get nationalistic and territorial about their people’s ancient past and accomplishments, and we’ve seen firsthand how appeals to ancient greatness and sowing nationalism that way can be deployed to distract the people from their depreciating material conditions under an imperialist-installed regime. But it’s not all without context is it. The fact artefacts from the history of the imperial periphery specifically are scattered across the globe is not a phenomenon that came to exist by happenstance and in a vacuum. The fact that like only 9 out of the 29 obelisks discovered in Egypt are still on the continent isn’t because Europe just started sprouting granite pillars in the 19th century. So every time I read about some new ancient Egyptian exhibit somewhere half the world away, my first thought will always be “I wonder which era of colonial plunder they got this one from.” Which kind of poisons the well a bit