Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt

Post by andrepd » Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

xref wrote: post #3

Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt) Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and implementing monotheism around the Aten figure. After he died his monuments were destroyed and successors omitted his name from lists of kings as polytheism was restored, including by Akh…

Post by dr_dshiv » Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 7:21 PM UTC

gnatman wrote: post #20

dr_dshiv wrote: post #10

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Check out the Shabaka stone. While almost 600 years after Akhenaten, it was erected by a black Nubian pharaoh who was trying to return Egypt to its original religion. The stone claims to reproduce text from the first dynasty of Egypt! It focuses on the god Ptah, who is the god of design, craft and creativity — and the creator of the universe. It has some pretty esoteric sections and perhaps even foreshadows the rise…

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the el Daoud https://youtu.be/RzuyR6GeXRg