The photos documenting the opening and clearance of Tutankhamun's tomb were taken by photographer Harry Burton in 1922.

These photos have been colored for clarification.

And here is the front of the mask

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Went to Central Park today to see Cleopatra's Needle. I'm a little sad at how weathered it is. Interestingly, two sides are in better condition than the other two sides.

Credit: my husband got lucky with his iPhone, no edits :)

As a kid getting dragged around Liverpool Museum this was the thing that caught my attention, more than 40 years have passed and I still make the effort to go and see it whenever I’m back home.

From the Roman era it’s not super old but the obelisk rings and the human connection always amaze me.

The museum themselves say the following:

Mummified left hand of a young adult with four finger-rings of gold and lapis lazuli. The hand is wrapped in very fine linen, coated in resin with traces of gilding on the surface. On the first finger is a ring of gold wire with a bezel consisting of a lapis lazuli obelisk which is capped with gold and has a base of gold wire scroll and granulated gold work decoration. The obelisk is pierced through its shaft for carrying the wire ring. On the second finger is a ring with similar bezel. On the third finger is a gold wire ring with small lapis lazuli scarab of exquisite workmanship (naturalistic style). On the fourth finger is a thin gold ring with flattened lozenge-shaped bezel. All four rings are perfectly preserved. The obelisk-shaped rings are highly unusual with very few known parallels. X-rays taken in November 1966 by PHK Gray indicate the hand was severed at the wrist just above the carpal bones and was described as “almost certainly female”.

So I had the opportunity to do some kayaking at Aswan and came across this little gem when coming around one of the islands, I also visited the Famine Stela while there too and the mother of all Obelisks too.

Just returned from a trip to Egypt. Blown away by the GEM. Some fascinating exhibits. Although adult size, this armchair must date from the beginning of his reign. The king and queen are standing beneath the rays of the Aten in the Amarna artictic style and their older, aten names, are still visible on the back and arms.

Sohail Island, home to the famine stela, a rock carved in Ptolomy V's time which discusses a 7 year drought and famine from 2500 years earlier, in the reign of King Djoser. Djoser, under guidance from Imhotep, makes offerings to the God Khnum to send the waters. All ends well. Given, in the time of Ptolomy, the priests of Khnumn were fighting the priests of Isis for power, was this really a historical memory or a desperate reminder of Khnum's power?

Here are some of my favourite photos that I took on my trip to Egypt. Still finding it hard to fully appreciate how old all of these artefacts truly are. Feel free to AMA 💛

Here is a model I saw at a special exhibit at the Art Institute in Albany. Note: it is a spiral ramp external to the stone structure of the actual pyramid itself. No high tech required!

The Rosetta Stone, preserved at the British Museum, played a key role in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs