Egypt
- An Alternative View On The Sphinx
The Daily Grail (Rober Schoch) With 20 comments in response, at the time of posting. I first met the Great Sphinx face-to-face on 17 June 1990. She (yes, I consider the Great Sphinx a female) has influenced and in many ways defined my life ever since....
- Photograph - Anubis Statue In Trafalgar Square
Egyptian Gazette I would normally have saved this for Saturday Trivia, but the story on the page will change very soon, so it is now or never. The page shows a photograph of the Anubis statue which, ahving been transported up the Thames, is now standing...
- Superman: The Mummy Strikes
Here is a 1943 episode of Superman "The Mummy Strikes". An ancient inscription is translated at the Egyptian museum, the inscription is a warning about the tomb of the ancient Egyptian king Tush. As Clark Kent and party descends into the catacombs of...
- Tomb Of Nefertari Ca. 1920's
Here we have a short video from the Valley of Queens in the tomb of Nefertari wife of Ramses II. The black and white film gives the tomb a bit of a dark eerie feel. ...
- Avenue Of Sphinx's
Well after the evictions and the bulldozers the long sought avenue of sphinx's is about to be open to tourists to walk in October. The highly controversial excavation has been ongoing at the cost of the Egyptian people who lived in the area who were...
Egypt
Saturday Trivia: Silly Symphonies
A bit of high quality trivia for you today, thanks to Kat Newkirk:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LoCuZeyGwYU
The 1931 Walt Disney classic animation 'Silly Symphonies - Egyptian Melodies' can be seen at the above URL on YouTube. I'd never seen it before, and it is really quite charming. A spider, making a web at the side of the Great Sphinx travels into the Sphinx via a gate betweeen its front legs, and finds itself traveling to a tomb full of mummies who come to life and have a party. It is in black and white.
- An Alternative View On The Sphinx
The Daily Grail (Rober Schoch) With 20 comments in response, at the time of posting. I first met the Great Sphinx face-to-face on 17 June 1990. She (yes, I consider the Great Sphinx a female) has influenced and in many ways defined my life ever since....
- Photograph - Anubis Statue In Trafalgar Square
Egyptian Gazette I would normally have saved this for Saturday Trivia, but the story on the page will change very soon, so it is now or never. The page shows a photograph of the Anubis statue which, ahving been transported up the Thames, is now standing...
- Superman: The Mummy Strikes
Here is a 1943 episode of Superman "The Mummy Strikes". An ancient inscription is translated at the Egyptian museum, the inscription is a warning about the tomb of the ancient Egyptian king Tush. As Clark Kent and party descends into the catacombs of...
- Tomb Of Nefertari Ca. 1920's
Here we have a short video from the Valley of Queens in the tomb of Nefertari wife of Ramses II. The black and white film gives the tomb a bit of a dark eerie feel. ...
- Avenue Of Sphinx's
Well after the evictions and the bulldozers the long sought avenue of sphinx's is about to be open to tourists to walk in October. The highly controversial excavation has been ongoing at the cost of the Egyptian people who lived in the area who were...