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This is my take on Seti, Tausret, Merneptah, the Thraco-Trojans (Paris, Hector, Aeneas, Rhesus, and Priam), Bay, Adad-shuma-usur, and Suppiluliuma, all wearing oriental costumes.
Wishing you a vibrant Year of the Horse, where every day is filled with joy, laughter, and cherished moments with loved ones. Cheers to good health and happiness this Lunar New Year!
恭喜发财・马到成功 새해 복 많이 받으세요!
Inspired by Norman Rockwell's "Freedom from Want", a part of the Four Freedoms.
Ra-Horakhty gives life, strength and power to King Seti II
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Video: Total War: Pharaoh - Dynasties (after completing the first minor victory)
Audio: Gigi D'Agostino - Another Way
Massive Ancient Statue Discovered Submerged In Mud In Cairo
Archaeologists working under difficult conditions in Cairo have discovered an ancient statue submerged in mud. A joint German-Egyptian research team found the 8-meter (26-foot) quartzite statue beneath the water level in a Cairo slum and suggests that it depicts Ramses II, according to Reuters.The team was working at what was once Heliopolis, one of the oldest cities in ancient Egypt and the cult center for the sun god.
Khaled al-Anani, Egypt's antiquities minister, posted on Facebook that one of the researchers who found the statue called it "one of the most important archaeological discoveries." In addition to the massive statue, researchers also found part of a life-size limestone statue of Ramses II's grandson, Pharaoh Seti II, Reuters says.
Ramses II was known to the Greeks as Ozymandias. Today, that name is most familiar thanks to a sonnet on hubris and the implacable passage of time, by Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley:
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
That poem is widely believed to have been inspired by a broken statue of Ramses II that is now, like many priceless Egyptian artifacts, in the possession of the British Museum.
In which Paris' lies unravel before the Pharaoh of Egypt.
A Pair of Gold Pendant Earrings containing the Name of King SETI II, discovered in KV56.
Tomb KV56, located in the Valley of the Kings, is known as the Gold Tomb, and was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in January, 1908. It contained what is thought to be the intact burial of a royal child from the late Nineteenth Dynasty. The burial and casket have disintegrated and the form was covered with a 1 cm thick layer of gold leaf and stucco around the original location. Also found were a pair of small silver gloves and a pair of silver bracelets with the names of Seti II and Twosret inscribed, and a set of golden earrings also marked with the name of Seti II. The original occupant of this tomb is unknown.
Faience Tile with Cartouche of Seti II, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, C. 1200-1194 BC