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Photo by @deon.hoon Impala bounce into the air to escape a cheetah which leapt up to catches it and perform a wrestling move on him to pin him down thefor kill. in the Pilanesberg National Park. #Wild #Nature #Wildlife #Impala #Cheetah #Animals #Igs_Africa #Wildeyesa #Pilanesberg https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SPus0gPIb/?igshid=1t3s4qw09dcew
“It is easy to commit an injustice undetected, but impossible to be sure that you have escaped detection.”
— Epicurus, Vatican Sayings (via philosophybits)
The Ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals and birds, but, perhaps because the reason behind this practice was so obvious to them, they never wrote down why they did it. Though some pets were mummified, most animal mummies were animals raised in temple precincts for eventual sacrifice and mummification. Specially chosen animals were the avatars of gods, such as the sacred hawk at Edfu or the Apis bull at Memphis.
Most animals, however, may have been seen rather as heralds who entered the Afterlife grateful to the sponsor who paid for their care and feeding and embalming. They were very often given as Votive Offerings. Hawks and falcons represented the god Horus and his mother and aunt, Isis and Nephthys. Some ‘hawk’ mummies are the remains of birds who were bred and lived in captivity. Many hawk mummy bundles contain only partial skeletons, or none at all.
Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC (left), Roman Period (right), ca. 30 BC - 395 AD.
from Saqqara. Now in the Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto.
“The contributors were representatives of different disciplines and research methodologies: archaeologists, architects, Egyptologists, specialists in religious studies, historians and conservators. The papers in the present volume encompass interdisciplinary reviews of both new and long-term studies carried out in various regions of the ancient world.
The papers present research that was conducted in different regions ranging from ancient Mauritania, through Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, as well as sites in Crimea and Georgia. The topography of cities, the architecture of public buildings, as well as houses and their décor — architectural, sculptural and painted — are presented. Religious syncretism and the importance of ancient texts are discussed. Studies on pottery are also presented.
The volume includes studies on the conservation of architectural remains, sculpture and painting. Several articles are devoted to the study of Marina el-Alamein; others talk about ancient Alexandria, Deir el-Bahari, Hermopolis Magna, Bakchias, Pelusium, Kom Wasit, Berenike, Ptolemais, Apollonia, Palmyra, Nea Paphos, as well as Chersonesus Taurica and Apsarus.”
