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The Ancient Egyptian civilization dates back to the 4th millennium BC, but its many achievements continue to fascinate mankind to this day.
For example, a thread on X showcasing surviving artifacts from that era has just been viewed over 13 million times!
Intrigued by the pictures, we set out to dig within the platform even deeper in hopes of seeing how many more discoveries we could find. Here are the results.
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Apachebathmat 9 months ago
I have been here, if any of you get the chance, go and visit and I promise you will be amazed at everything you see, truly mind blowing 🤯
XenoMurph 9 months ago
You really can't even imagine a "why"? Why intensely religious people would align a temple to the most obvious alignment in the "heavens"?
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tom (bat/man) 9 months ago
If you're going to San Francisco be sure to wear some glazed composition beaded necklace in your hair
Vee Lyons 9 months ago
Exactly. It looks so fresh and modern. A bit like a little girl's necklace to be honest, maybe it was.
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Lowrider 56 9 months ago
Shouldn't the British museum be giving these artifacts back to Egypt? That's where they belong
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UKDeek 9 months ago
Either this one, or one very similar, was sold at auction in 2024 for approx. £6000 (according to Google) - https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/an-egyptian-amethyst-cat-amulet-late-period-to-pt-126-c-1e6481dac0
Rose the Cook 9 months ago
Beautiful, I haven't seen this one before. No mention of which museum it is in. Anyone? Possibly a private collection?
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Margaret H 8 months ago
Don't worry - the interior designers will soon be in to paint it white.
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Nea 9 months ago (edited)
Gorgeous 🧡 I want to say I want but for some reason I fee like I dont deserve this.
XenoMurph 9 months ago
The queen was probably mean and cruel. You probably deserve them much more than she did.
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Robin Roper 9 months ago
Looks like some of what we've seen on the red carpet in the past few years.
Upstaged75 9 months ago
Is this where Bianca Censori got the inspiration for her see through dress? ;)
Colleen Glim 9 months ago
No. Because this dress is classier than that ho could ever be
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Otto Katz 9 months ago
Yes. Think of fish-net stockings, there is 'give' in the design
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Otto Katz 9 months ago
Today is your lucky day! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1647870334/replica-ancient-egyptian-earrings
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For those of you who want to know the rest of the title - Earring with Duck Heads This pair of earrings is the most beautiful of the four pairs discovered in Tutankhamun’s treasures. The ducks with outstretched wings form a circle and its feet hold the shen sign. The head is made of translucent blue glass and the wing is fashioned in cloisonné. Under the duck hang gold and blue glass beads with five uraei (rearing cobras). The earrings show a great aesthetic sensibility, and duck held specific erotic symbolism. Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 61969 Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/earrings-of-tutankhamun-with-duck-heads/ So, if you wear a duck it means you want to f.....never mind. 😏
CatD 8 months ago
They've got raptor feet, not duck feet. Supposed to be a hawk.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Did they all happen on the same day to the same person? That would have been a day to forget all right.
Wendy Boustani 9 months ago
If we're attempting to mince words, then the response would be focused on 'among' - if it was one person, then we need to know the other reasons.
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Dariusz M. D. 8 months ago
Over 3000 years later, drinking beer is not a valid reason to miss work. Some progress, eh?
Ece Cenker 9 months ago
The description on the British Museum page reads "Ostracon with register of attendance at work. Labelled 'Year 40' of Ramses II, it provides a workmen's register for 280 days of the year. There are twenty-four lines of New Egyptian hieratic on the front and twenty-one lines on the back. A list of forty names is arranged in columns on the right edge of each side, followed to the left by dates written in black in a horizontal line. Above most dates is a word or phrase in red, indicating the reason why this individual was absent from work on that date."
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StumblingThroughLife 9 months ago
At first thought the left was a "this is what it originally looked like", but they're 2 different daggers - the sheaths have different designs, & blade colours, so assuming it means the one on the right?
Pyla 9 months ago
Those guys building the pyramids could have used some meteorite iron. A lot harder than the copper tools they did use.
CatD 8 months ago
It was very rare, they did eventually use bronze which was a lot harder.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
OK, you guys forced me to look it up: "Two genera of hedgehogs are found in Egypt today, Hermiechinus and Paraechinus, within which five species of hedgehogs are known: one so-called 'long-eared hedgehog' and several species of desert hedgehog." From MDPI (Publisher of Open Access Journals).
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DetriMentaL (It/That) 9 months ago
Hehehehe starring Imhomertep, Bartunkhamun and Lisapatra. Ok im done
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Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
That show reached its peak during the reign of Tutankhamen and has been going downhill ever since
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tom (bat/man) 9 months ago
well to be fair it really is a small chocolate bar, all I see are stars
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AnnaB 9 months ago
Below, resting upon a boat, can be seen a lapis lazuli sun-disc, with an image of the enthroned god Amun-Ra-Horakhty before the goddess Maat at its center. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 887-885 BC. Tomb of Shoshenq II at Tanis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 72171
Molly Cule 9 months ago
seen a lapis lazuli sun-disc, with an image of the enthroned god Amun-Ra-Horakhty before the goddess Maat at its center. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 887-885 BC. Tomb of Shoshenq II at Tanis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 72171
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DetriMentaL (It/That) 9 months ago
The ancient version of tryna throw your hard drive into the ocean
Mary Kelly 9 months ago
it looks larger IRL...saw it w/ a traveling exhibit of artifact from these two sunken ancient cities...exhibit was great b/c there were artifcts from everyday life, so it was nice to see and learn more about everyday life at the time/place.
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ispeak catanese 9 months ago
Another intricate animal head on a simpler human body. I wonder if two artists worked on these?
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
Nope, as all of their gods had animal aspects. There were stringent rules about how the gods were shown, so all artists followed the traditions.
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Suzana Lukic 9 months ago
The head looks freshly carved compared to the rest of the stone. Wonder if it was someonen elses head and they adapted it later on?
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tom (bat/man) 9 months ago
probably had a couple of cats to get rid of the mice but they became friends instead
tom (bat/man) 9 months ago
now that I think about it, the cat on the right is about to clock the rat with a frying pan while the cat on the left is lulling it into a false sense of security...team work
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Sarah Bailey 9 months ago (edited)
I bet that was top of the line back when it was worn. Imagine the amount of time and skill to sew human hair into such a well made wig so many years ago..... To do so many other advanced things in their time I feel as if they advanced then we fell back and have yet to completely catch back up and understand some of the things that were accomplished then, let alone surpass.
Breadcrumb. 9 months ago
A touch of blonde in the front to frame the face. That style never gets old.
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WindySwede 9 months ago
Reddit: The course has been there since 1899, 70 years before UNESCO world heritage sites (which Egypt helped establish) were even a thing."
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DetriMentaL (It/That) 9 months ago
Solving the age old problem of not placing all your eggs in one basket. Genius
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Tom Faehnle 8 months ago
The rising waters of the lake threatened to submerge the historic Abu Simbel temples. To preserve these significant cultural artefacts, the temples were dismantled and moved to a new location between 1964 and 1968. The temples were relocated to a site 65 meters higher and 200 meters further inland from their original location. This new spot was on an artificial hill, ensuring that the temples would remain above the water level of the newly formed lake. The larger of the two temples is dedicated primarily to the god Amun, but also to Ra-Horakhty, and Ptah, as well as to Pharaoh Ramesses II himself, celebrating his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. This smaller temple pictured, also known as Nefertari's Temple was dedicated to Hathor, the goddess of love, music, and motherhood, and to Nefertari, Ramesses II's chief consort, acknowledging her significant role alongside the pharaoh.
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st4x2gt974 9 months ago
Third from the bottom on the left has the most magnificently realistic eyes I’ve ever seen. I took a photo of it at the Egyptian museum with my flash and the statue came to life and stared in to my soul in a way I cannot ever put in to words.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 9 months ago (edited)
How… interesting. I suppose even Egyptians like big butts.
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Spacey Stacey 8 months ago
I'd imagine your hair would get caught up in those golden coils.
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MsPlants 9 months ago
most pharaohs and their wives were siblings throughout the dynasties, same as thousands of years later in europe
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Tucker Cahooter 9 months ago
Looks like she should have been applying sunscreen instead of oil, really bad case of sunburn there
The Scout 9 months ago
The colors are indeed unsual. Traditionally egyptian art depicted men in red-brown, while women usually were depicted in yellow. So having them both have the same skin tone clearly marks this artwork as work of the Armana period.
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Berni 9 months ago
Any chance the king was a size 3? Those sandals will go well with some Indian outfits I have.
DetriMentaL (It/That) 9 months ago
Imagine pleading at the foot of the Pharoah for something and you hear that annoyed "tappity tap"? Would be sweating buckets
Francesca Annoni 9 months ago
These toes protection were necessary because they had solid gold bedside tables and gold bedframe
Abdullah Abd Rahman 9 months ago
Tutankhamun sure was a firm believer in conspicuous consumption , needless to say....
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Pandemonium 9 months ago
It's amazing that they were able to see into the future and construct an homage to the monument in Washington D.C.
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The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
Is it more or less unsettling than a god that has sent billions to an eternity of torment because they don’t even know the god’s son existed?
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Margaret H 8 months ago
That is exactly the face of one of my first dolls, especially after my brother decided to see what was under her wig.
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Berni 9 months ago
Even ancient grave robbers knew what would be unleashed if they broke the seal.
Emma Goudie 9 months ago
I love the fact that the knot itself is an arm, with the fist holding onto the handle.
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ispeak catanese 9 months ago
I find the detailed animal heads fascinating when combined with the stylized bodies.
Gregory Logan 9 months ago
Totemism. FURTHER evidence that they were non-Caucasian.
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Upstaged75 9 months ago
Dude, what's your deal? You're making the same comment about black people on all of these. Do you think we don't know that the Egyptians were black? Egypt is in Africa.....not hard to understand.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Thank you, Kirsten, Srinivasan, and StumblingThroughLife - I knew immediately I had made an internal connection with this one but didn't realise what it reminded me of until I saw your comments!
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 9 months ago
I’ve seen this! I went to the field museum a few years ago and saw the Egyptian exhibit.
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alegra 9 months ago
I was lucky to see her once in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin and – believe me or not – it seems that her eye follows you when you go around her bust. Of course I know that this bust idealizes queen Nefertiri but nevertheless it shows one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen – pure perfection.
Corwin 02 9 months ago
Also apparently the bust has had a facelift , since there is a much older wrinkled depiction underneath
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 9 months ago
Sorry, genuine question, is that a joke or a real thing?
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TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago (edited)
Boeing did tests with replicas and found out that the design is actually very aerodynamic if used as frisbee
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TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago (edited)
Looks like a Khopesh - A blade weapon with quite a hightech design even nowadays
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
Mang, look at those two good bois! Apparently large-breed dogs were WAY better-behaved 4000 years ago! Behold my two juvenile delinquents when I tried to walk both of them together in January of last year! Sheesh!! XD (* jk, to be fair, the sadboye [Stilgar] on the right is a distemper survivor and has tons of issues due to the virus's effect - mobility and balance issues, neurological issues [myoclonus - constant and uncontrollable full-body twitching, even when he's asleep], and you can see that his heiny-quarters/back legs are bony/not well-muscled due to him not being able to walk for ~2 months while he was battling the virus as a pupper. So he gets a pass - he needs breaks on walks. The bro [Fenring] on the left, however, is a perfectly-healthy young Belgian Malinois. But he loves his "big brother" [~2 years older than him XD] so he constantly emulates Stilgar's behavior and mannerisms XD But Stilly has NO concept that there is anything wrong with him!) the_boys-6...05e187.jpg 
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
It's always been one of my favorite ancient cultures to casually study! My oldest cat Kohl's name is kohl because of the ground stibnite that the Egyptians used for cosmetics :)
Load More Replies... UKDeek 9 months ago
I love seeing the level of craftsmanship that existed years ago in cultures that some people consider "primitive". I also find it fascinating that we are still learning about these ancient cultures and re-evaluating what we know. For instance, talking about Egypt, an article in the New Scientist discusses how they believe even people considered "poor" received a burial in a pyramid tomb - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472409-surprising-skeletons-prompt-a-radical-rethink-of-egyptian-pyramids/
Carl Roberts 9 months ago (edited)
I absolutely love this. I've been fascinated with ancient Egypt since I was 7 years old, after my grandparents gave me a book they bought while attending a showing of Tut's treasures at the de Young museum is San Francisco in 1979. I was lucky enough to see the treasures with my own eyes when the exhibit returned to that very same museum 30 years later.
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
Tut's going on a tour soon, all that wish to see these with their own eyes.
Rose the Cook 9 months ago
Many of these appear to be from The Egyptian Museum souvenir book. More please.
DetriMentaL (It/That) 9 months ago
Again with the down voting in the comment section ey? This world is angry. No i was being serious though, i really wanted to know if there was lesser known art variant/s available in that culture during that era, especially since humans-by nature, are deviously creative at times and the stylised discipline that survived the test of time is what is famously shown? I recall writing an essay on Iconoclasts (not the same era) so was genuinely curious if breaking away from the norm was a no-no for the ancient Egyptians too. Ya'll must change the site from Bored Panda to Angry Panda
LakotaWolf (she/her) 9 months ago
It's always been one of my favorite ancient cultures to casually study! My oldest cat Kohl's name is kohl because of the ground stibnite that the Egyptians used for cosmetics :)
Load More Replies... UKDeek 9 months ago
I love seeing the level of craftsmanship that existed years ago in cultures that some people consider "primitive". I also find it fascinating that we are still learning about these ancient cultures and re-evaluating what we know. For instance, talking about Egypt, an article in the New Scientist discusses how they believe even people considered "poor" received a burial in a pyramid tomb - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472409-surprising-skeletons-prompt-a-radical-rethink-of-egyptian-pyramids/
Carl Roberts 9 months ago (edited)
I absolutely love this. I've been fascinated with ancient Egypt since I was 7 years old, after my grandparents gave me a book they bought while attending a showing of Tut's treasures at the de Young museum is San Francisco in 1979. I was lucky enough to see the treasures with my own eyes when the exhibit returned to that very same museum 30 years later.
Lee Gilliland 9 months ago
Tut's going on a tour soon, all that wish to see these with their own eyes.
Rose the Cook 9 months ago
Many of these appear to be from The Egyptian Museum souvenir book. More please.
DetriMentaL (It/That) 9 months ago
Again with the down voting in the comment section ey? This world is angry. No i was being serious though, i really wanted to know if there was lesser known art variant/s available in that culture during that era, especially since humans-by nature, are deviously creative at times and the stylised discipline that survived the test of time is what is famously shown? I recall writing an essay on Iconoclasts (not the same era) so was genuinely curious if breaking away from the norm was a no-no for the ancient Egyptians too. Ya'll must change the site from Bored Panda to Angry Panda
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