With the holiday season in full force, we thought it would be good to spend a week with the Em Hotep BBS folks looking at ancient Egyptian feasts and festivities. Inside you will visit an Egyptian feast, with its menus and entertainment; we learn about some of the major holidays such as Opet, the Beautiful Feast of the Valley and heb sed jubilees; we look at music and dance; sacred processions; getting drunk good and proper; more.
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Tags: Beautiful Feast of the Valley, Dance, Festivals, Food, Heb Sed, Music, Opet, Processions
This week Em Hotep BBS, our daily Facebook presence, took up the subject of Hathor—the beautiful, the bovine, and the beastly. Herein we explore her temples, we examine her iconography, and we appreciate her art. There is a museum hop, suggested links and good reads, plus the wonderful photography.
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Tags: Deir el Bahri, Deir el-Medina, Dendera, Hathor, Nubia, Philae, Sistrum
This week’s Digest is dedicated to all things Amarna—the place, the people, and the religion. Discussions, book recommendations, original photography and more.
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Tags: Akhenaten, Akhetaten, Amarna, Aten, Nefertiti, Tel el Amarna
Em Hotep Digest is a new weekly installment to Em Hotep. If you haven’t joined us yet on Facebook, Em Hotep BBS is the semi-topical daily discussion where professionals and amateurs come together to share and discuss our mutual passion: Egyptology. The Digest is a compendium of the weekly goings-on at the BBS. This week the topic was W. M. Flinders Petrie.
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Tags: The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, William M. Flinders Petrie
