Egypt
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin)
With photos.
- Statue Of Ptah
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Photograph and description. The number of deities in ancient Egypt's pantheon was myriad. Popular devotion to Ptah, the patron god of artists and craftsmen, distinguished him from the hundreds of others since the...
- Daily Photo - Tutankhamun
As nearly all of today's posts feature Tutankhamun, I felt obliged to make today's Daily Photograph relevant to the boy king. However, when I last took photographs at the Cairo museum I didn't have a good enough camera for the job, so I decided...
- Tutankhamun In Chicago
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060503/cgw081.html?.v=5Somewhat inevitably, there is bound to be a whole plethora of articles in anticipation of the opening of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs, which is due to open in Chicago on May 26th. This article...
- Who Is Thuyu?
Thuyu has long been known to Egyptologists through the reference made to her and her husband on a scarab known as "the marriage scarab" created as propaganda for Amenhotep III to announce his marriage to the lady Tiye the daughter of Yuya and Thuyu. The...
- Stranger In The Valley Of Kings
Ahmed Osman Paladin Grafton Books London 1987 ISBN: 0-586-08784-2 This 1987 book is a study of the mummy of Yuya discovered in 1905 in the Valley of Kings and the biblical figure of the Patriarch Joseph. This short book requires no knowledge of the...
Egypt
Gilded coffin and funerary mask of Tjuya
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin)
With photos.
Yuya and Tjuya were the parents of Queen Tiye, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (r. 1390-1353 B.C.) and the grandmother of Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.). Commoners of high social rank from Akhmim, they were possibly foreigners by birth. Yuya's titles included Master of the Horse, Commander of Chariotry and Overseer of the Cattle of Min, the Egyptian goddess of fertility. Tjuya was Chief Lady of the Harem and a priestess of Amun, Hathor and Min. Because of the couple's royal alliance, they were buried in the Valley of the Kings. Partially plundered in antiquity, the tomb was discovered with their well-preserved mummies by archaeologist James Quibell in 1905. His find yielded Tjuya's magnificent Gilded Coffin and Funerary Mask (both ca. 1390-1352 B.C.) as well as other works on display in Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs. The ritual objects' elaborate designs attest to Yuya and Tjuya's importance at Amenhotep III's flourishing imperial court.
- Statue Of Ptah
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Photograph and description. The number of deities in ancient Egypt's pantheon was myriad. Popular devotion to Ptah, the patron god of artists and craftsmen, distinguished him from the hundreds of others since the...
- Daily Photo - Tutankhamun
As nearly all of today's posts feature Tutankhamun, I felt obliged to make today's Daily Photograph relevant to the boy king. However, when I last took photographs at the Cairo museum I didn't have a good enough camera for the job, so I decided...
- Tutankhamun In Chicago
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060503/cgw081.html?.v=5Somewhat inevitably, there is bound to be a whole plethora of articles in anticipation of the opening of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharaohs, which is due to open in Chicago on May 26th. This article...
- Who Is Thuyu?
Thuyu has long been known to Egyptologists through the reference made to her and her husband on a scarab known as "the marriage scarab" created as propaganda for Amenhotep III to announce his marriage to the lady Tiye the daughter of Yuya and Thuyu. The...
- Stranger In The Valley Of Kings
Ahmed Osman Paladin Grafton Books London 1987 ISBN: 0-586-08784-2 This 1987 book is a study of the mummy of Yuya discovered in 1905 in the Valley of Kings and the biblical figure of the Patriarch Joseph. This short book requires no knowledge of the...