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Learning Egyptian
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Nut, sky goddess
Sky goddess Nut on top of a sarcophagus
Fascinating, this woman with wings. How she came to be shown like this, after first having been on hands and feet, her body the sky, is what i am curious about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_(goddess)#Names
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He told me he found it last year in the field next to the museum
It is the statue of a person, look at the hands by the sides. 
I see a jaguar 
The man said they were cobras. I see monkeys with suns on their heads. One of the more spectacular old statues at the museum of Mit Rahina, near Memphis, the old capitol of Egypt.
It turns out that this is exactly like on the complete statue of Ramses II at the Egyptian Museum i visited today (for the first time). More on this tomorrow.
The meters high statue of Ramses II and detail -
The oldest obelisk in Egypt
In Heliopolis it stands, 21 meters high. Other obelisks were carried to Italy, England, France etc. as ‘souvenirs’.
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Pyramid dress code: pyramid skirt
Djoser pyramid 
From Ty tombtemple https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastaba_de_Ti 
Statue of Mereruka in his tombtemple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereruka -
Stable
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On friday, the day of gathering, yom de guma, there is a sprawling market in Cairo and the largest prayer
Looking up at the entry to the old Hassan mosque https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque-Madrasa_of_Sultan_Hasan 
The mosque has no roof as building stopped when Hassan was assassinated in 1361 and is thus open to the sky. (this is my interpretation of why there is an open courtyard) 
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Artisans working on the pyramids?
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Saqqara
It is like anyone turns into an Egyptologist here. I am reading the fascinating biography of Jean Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson http://www.andrew-robinson.org
Today for the first time i enter a temple with reliëf painting and hiëroglyphs.
Djoser pyramid, it is surrounded by many temples! 
In the tombtemple of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep 
Just a little part of entire walls like this. So refined! This in the tombtemple of Ty 
