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Child of the morning
Reared by her Pharoh father to assume his throne upon his death, Hatshepsut--a real historical figure--has to contend with her weak half-brother before she can realize her dream.
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Masters and apprentices at the Chapel of Hatshepsut: towards an archaeology of ancient Egyptian reliefs
Ancient art is typically studied in terms of its aesthetic or historical value. This article presents an alternative approach, examining ancient Egyptian wall reliefs from a chaîne opératoire perspective. The reliefs assessed here adorn the walls of the Chapel of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in Thebes. The analysis reveals, for the first time, the sequence of the artists’ work, from the initial preparation of the wall surface to the master sculptor's final touches. This enables a reconstruction of the ergonomic organisation of the work, distinguishing the contributions of individual hands and revealing often intangible phenomena, such as master-apprentice interactions. A similar approach may be useful when examining carved reliefs in other parts of the world.
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Hatshepsut : the princess who became king
Describes how Hatshepsut rose to power within the patriarchal society of ancient Egypt.
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ARCHAEOMETRIC STUDY OF BLACK RESIN OF A LATE PERIOD COFFIN BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY
This paper aims to identify black resin's composition, beginning, and uses. Black resin was a resinous material used to cover the funerary wooden artifacts in the New Kingdom. It was used for religious purposes and for covering coffins, shabti statues and boxes, stelae, human and animal statues, statue bases, and canopic chests. First, black resin was used in the era of Hatshepsut. Then, its use expanded in the era of Thutmose III. Therefore, the New Kingdom was the golden era of its use. In the New Kingdom, black resin was glossier than later times. The study utilized gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) attached with Thermal Separation Probe (TSP) unit was used to analyze the black resin sample. Black resin is made from natural resins, such as mastic, colophony, beeswax, bitumen, and unknown compounds. The layer of black resin has, in its complexes, a group of natural resins and other substances whose properties are anti-fungal and antibacterial. It also has insect repelling properties. Natural resins contain essential oil. Mastic resin was of high value in Ancient Egypt. The sample was taken from a coffin dating back to the Late period, in the 26th dynasty to be analyzed because identifying its composition helps choose the best material for chemical cleaning and consolidation. The coffin under investigation was covered externally with a ground layer and a painted layer, while internally it was covered with a layer of black resin.
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A disastrous date
Paolo Cherubini and colleagues have demonstrated convincingly that the identification of olive wood tree-rings from Santorini is ‘practically impossible’. Thus, the single piece of evidence that might have persuaded some archaeologists to support the ‘high’ 1613±13 BC date for the Theran eruption is hors de combat. The Theran olive-tree branch has gone the way of the Greenland Ice Core results of similar date and which enjoyed a similar devoted following until shown to be from a different eruption. Taken with Malcolm Wiener's explicit exposé of the myriad shortcomings of 14C dating, especially for this time period and event, these results take us back to where we were before the ‘radiocarbon revolution‘, when the largest Holocene eruption in the ancient world happened as Minoan Crete enjoyed wideranging influence, perhaps even control, over the Aegean, when Late Minoan IA pottery styles proliferated, and Egypt was in the early stages of its New Kingdom period (Wiener 2012, 2013).
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When women ruled the world : six queens of Egypt
\"Explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power. What was so special about ancient Egypt that provided women this kind of access to the highest political office? What was it about these women that allowed them to transcend patriarchal obstacles? What did Egypt gain from its liberal reliance on female leadership, and could today's world learn from its example?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Descent into the Duat: Egyptian-American Diaspora and Hauntology in Immersive Theater
Through an immersive multi-media performance, my project has situated my diasporic Egyptian-American identity by repossessing Egypt's appearance in Western media and museum spaces through interrupting the narrative of the Ancient Egyptian story of Ra's twelve-hour Duat journey of death and rebirth. In doing so, I examined the nonlinearity of Ancient Egyptian myth by creating a new myth and narrative that captures the liminal perspective of my multicultural experience. Using \"the mummy\" as the lens through which death is examined, audiences have been called to examine their relationship with Egyptian aesthetics—especially in the museum space where mummies are most often seen—as I unwrapped and stitched parts of my identity to the spectator's experience. As the twelve hours progressed, time and reality became more complicated as the digital reacted to the live and vice versa as fantasy became reality, and reality, fantasy. This project answers the questions: who am I and how do I distill this identity into an experience through a critical framework?
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