DC -- Natl Geographic Society -- Exhibit: Queens of Egypt:
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Description of Pictures: Queens of Egypt
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Travel back in time with National Geographic to visit ancient Egypt, one of the world’s greatest civilizations, and get to know some of its lesser-known leaders—Egypt’s mighty queens. Learn about the hidden role of women in all aspects of Egyptian society. Meet seven Egyptian queens whose impact helped shape both the ancient and modern worlds. Then travel in the footsteps of women through their daily lives and into their tombs on their journeys to reach the afterlife
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NGQUE1_190516_316.JPG: Tombs in the Valley of the Queens
NGQUE1_190516_337.JPG: Queen Nefertari
NGQUE1_190516_346.JPG: New Kingdom Fashion
NGQUE1_190516_348.JPG: The Role of the Pharoah
NGQUE1_190516_354.JPG: Spoils from A Looted Tomb
NGQUE1_190516_369.JPG: Grave Robbing in Antiquity
NGQUE1_190516_378.JPG: The Remains of a Queen?
NGQUE1_190516_393.JPG: Inside Nefertari's Tomb
NGQUE1_190516_401.JPG: Sarcophagus Lid of Queen Nefertari
NGQUE1_190516_407.JPG: Inside Nefertari's Tomb
NGQUE1_190516_436.JPG: Nefertari
The Beloved One
NGQUE1_190516_439.JPG: The Reign of Ramses II
NGQUE1_190516_446.JPG: Ring with the Name Ramses II
NGQUE1_190516_455.JPG: Ostracon Depicting a Prince
NGQUE1_190516_458.JPG: Abu Simbel
NGQUE1_190516_461.JPG: Temples of the Pharoahs
NGQUE1_190516_465.JPG: The Temples of Abu Simbel
NGQUE1_190516_471.JPG: Model of the Lesser Temple
NGQUE1_190516_475.JPG: The Forgotten Temples
NGQUE1_190516_483.JPG: Life in the Harem
NGQUE1_190516_491.JPG: Symbols of Power
NGQUE1_190516_495.JPG: Statue Bearing the Name Thutmose I
NGQUE1_190516_502.JPG: The Secluded Ones
NGQUE1_190516_506.JPG: Box with Floral Motifs
NGQUE1_190516_510.JPG: The Growing Harem
NGQUE1_190516_528.JPG: Music in Egypt
NGQUE1_190516_540.JPG: Relief of Ramses III
NGQUE1_190516_544.JPG: Pharaoh Ramses III
NGQUE1_190516_547.JPG: The Harem Conspiracy
NGQUE1_190516_553.JPG: The Harem Conspiracy
NGQUE1_190516_556.JPG: The Plot
NGQUE1_190516_560.JPG: The Coup
NGQUE1_190516_563.JPG: The Outcome
NGQUE1_190516_570.JPG: Judicial Papyrus of Turin
This remarkable document, also called the Harem Conspiracy Papyrus, is written in hieratic -- a simplified, cursive hieroglyph form -- and read from right to left. It contains the conspirator's names and the punishments delivered by a judicial court. Some were severely reprimanded, while others were executed of forced to commit suicide. Tiy, the queen who instigated the plot, is not mentioned in the document, and her fate remains unknown, along with the fates of the other harem wives involved.
NGQUE1_190516_575.JPG: The Harem Conspiracy
NGQUE1_190516_599.JPG: The Unsolved Mystery of Ramses III
NGQUE1_190516_613.JPG: Tiy was a secondary wife of Pharaoh Ramses III. She wanted her son Pentawer to be pharaoh.
NGQUE1_190516_616.JPG: Ramses III already had an heir, Ramses IV. Ramses III was not well liked by his people.
NGQUE1_190516_619.JPG: Tiy plotted with several people to kill Ramses III and make her son pharaoh instead.
NGQUE1_190516_621.JPG: The conspirators attacked Ramses III and instigated a revolt, which failed.
NGQUE1_190516_624.JPG: Ramses III died of his wounds and Ramses IV became pharaoh.
NGQUE1_190516_626.JPG: Ramses IV had the conspirators captured and put on trial.
NGQUE1_190516_629.JPG: Scribes recorded the punishments for the conspirators on a papyrus scroll (part of which is displayed on the opposite side of this gallery).
NGQUE1_190516_633.JPG: Overseer of the Harem
NGQUE1_190516_637.JPG: The Harem Administrators
NGQUE1_190516_646.JPG: The Myth of Osiris
NGQUE1_190516_649.JPG: Religion in Ancient Egypt
NGQUE1_190516_652.JPG: Domestic Animals in Egypt
NGQUE1_190516_666.JPG: Wild Animals in Egypt
NGQUE2_190516_001.JPG: The Journey to Eternity
NGQUE2_190516_003.JPG: Rituals in the Temple
NGQUE2_190516_011.JPG: The Myth of Sekhmet
NGQUE2_190516_016.JPG: The Fearsome Goddess Sekhmet
NGQUE2_190516_025.JPG: Inside the Temples
NGQUE2_190516_030.JPG: Uncovering Sekhmet
Benson and Gourlay's Egyptian Excavations
NGQUE2_190516_033.JPG: Discoveries at the Temple of Mut
NGQUE2_190516_041.JPG: Egyptian Daily Life
NGQUE2_190516_053.JPG: Maintaining Ma'at in Ancient Egypt
NGQUE2_190516_058.JPG: The Temple of Mut
NGQUE2_190516_066.JPG: Life and Death in Deir El-Medina
NGQUE2_190516_074.JPG: Perfume in Ancient Egypt
NGQUE2_190516_076.JPG: Perfect Use in Egypt
NGQUE2_190516_085.JPG: Cleanliness and Grooming
NGQUE2_190516_093.JPG: The Importance of Cosmetics
NGQUE2_190516_103.JPG: Egyptian Beauty Routines
NGQUE2_190516_115.JPG: All That Glitters
NGQUE2_190516_125.JPG: Hair Care
NGQUE2_190516_134.JPG: Adorning the Body
NGQUE2_190516_145.JPG: Divine Protection
NGQUE2_190516_152.JPG: Life and Death in Deir El-Medina
NGQUE2_190516_159.JPG: The Town and Its Residents
NGQUE2_190516_171.JPG: Deir El-Medina's Religious Practices
NGQUE2_190516_178.JPG: Workers in the Tombs
NGQUE2_190516_184.JPG: Building the Tombs
NGQUE2_190516_193.JPG: Scribes and Their Studies
NGQUE2_190516_204.JPG: Death and Burial in Deir El-Medina
NGQUE2_190516_216.JPG: All About Hieroglyphs
NGQUE2_190516_219.JPG: What are Hieroglyphs?
NGQUE2_190516_221.JPG: How do we Read Hieroglyphics?
NGQUE2_190516_224.JPG: How do we Know What Hieroglyphs Mean?
NGQUE2_190516_227.JPG: Beliefs in the Afterlife
NGQUE2_190516_234.JPG: How to Read a Stela
NGQUE2_190516_271.JPG: The Tools of Mummification
NGQUE2_190516_274.JPG: Hooked Probe
NGQUE2_190516_278.JPG: Flint Knife
NGQUE2_190516_283.JPG: Canopic Jars
NGQUE2_190516_288.JPG: Resin
NGQUE2_190516_294.JPG: Linen
NGQUE2_190516_299.JPG: Headrest
NGQUE2_190516_304.JPG: Mummification
NGQUE2_190516_308.JPG: Components of an Egyptian Burial
NGQUE2_190516_322.JPG: Provisions for The Deceased
NGQUE2_190516_326.JPG: Food Storage Boxes
NGQUE2_190516_345.JPG: Fragments of a Washbasin
NGQUE2_190516_347.JPG: Jars and Vases in the Tombs
NGQUE2_190516_349.JPG: Anthropomorphic Vase
NGQUE2_190516_361.JPG: Books of the Underworld
NGQUE2_190516_371.JPG: Egyptian Funerary Texts
NGQUE2_190516_373.JPG: Pyramid Texts
NGQUE2_190516_375.JPG: Coffin Texts
NGQUE2_190516_378.JPG: The Book of the Dead
NGQUE2_190516_387.JPG: Book of the Dead of Hor
NGQUE2_190516_399.JPG: Inside Egyptian Tombs
NGQUE2_190516_404.JPG: What's in a Name?
NGQUE2_190516_414.JPG: Coffin of Ruru
NGQUE2_190516_434.JPG: Anthropoid Coffins
NGQUE2_190516_442.JPG: Coffin of Asetemhat
NGQUE2_190516_457.JPG: Queen Cleopatra
NGQUE2_190516_460.JPG: Egypt's Last Queen
NGQUE2_190516_464.JPG: Cleopatra VII
The Last Queen
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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