I look forward to your critique

I wonder if it contains the Book of Thoth? 😀 (with the spells that charm the sky, the earth, the netherworld, the mountains, and the waters, and to understand the language of the birds!) www.attalus.org/egypt/setne.... #Egyptology 🏺

And more #Caturday

This miw grabs the steering oar for #Caturday's post.

She is the lady of drunkenness, the queen of the dance. She stabs the enemy, drives back the rebels, kills off the enemies in the place of internment; she is Sekhmet the great, who has power over the masses--the countless crowd trembles upon seeing her. (OGC)

How my eyes felt today.

Day 114 of #photoaday An early 20th century song that reveals the West’s view of Egypt as an exotic eastern land #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge

Happy St. George's Day, April 23. "Here's an interesting Coptic image of cent 4 CE. of Saint George [Mara Girgis] and the Dragon. (Sandstone, Louvre Museum, No E4750)." The imagery here of course draws on the pharaonic iconography of the god Horus killing a crocodile, representing Set.

For 🌍Earth Day 🌏 I give you Naoto Nakagawa's A Mona Lisa for Our Time (one of a series) 🌎

Scientists Found An Egyptian Monument Dedicated to a Roman Emperor share.google/8CW1r8tBdbkN...

Samson poses proudly for a #Caturday post

#Caturday is the most important day of the week

Happy April Fools!

ᐅᐱᕐᖓᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ Upirngaqtillugu U-pirn-gaq-til-lu-gu First day of spring (Image: Kenojuak Ashevak's Sunburst Owl) Check out the link below! ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᕐᓗᒍ ᓇᕿᑐᐃᓐᓇᕆᐊᓕᒃ ᐊᑖᓂ! soundcloud.com/user-8176997... From www.facebook.com/share/p/16sb...

Jar lid decorated with a little bird just hatched from one of the eggs. Egyptian alabaster, wood, and ivory. Found in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun, 18th Dynasty, c. 1336-1327 BC. Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Statuette depicting a falcon (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (664-30 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Cutest little 🐏 ever❣️ "𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗖𝗘 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗻, produced in major glassmaking hubs like Carthage, Iran, and Syria, then traded along the expansive maritime routes established by the Phoenicians" 1/2

Happy St Patrick's

#Caturday post Blue faience ring with a seated cat Ca. 1390 BCE Art Institute of Chicago

The bread is perfect, the bread is warm, well-risen; the bread, golden, is baked to perfection, the delicacies are a pleasure in my hands. (OGC)

I'm giving a zoom lecture for ARCE-DC this Saturday (14th) at noon, Toronto time. Here's the url for the lecture page on their website sites.google.com/site/arcedc0... The lecture is free & open to all but people should email them at [email protected] for a link to register for this event.

Day 66 of #photoaday A late 19th century glazed tile showing a scene from William Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ …on display now in Prof Joann Fletcher’s “Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt” exhibition at Barnsley #365days #365daychallenge #365photodaychallenge

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

#Caturday Coloured faience ring with image of a spotted cat New Kingdom Thanks to Dyan Hilton

Thursday, 5 March 2026 is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland. Celebrated annually on the first Thursday in March, this event focuses on promoting reading for pleasure. You can never have too many 🌏🌍🌎World 📚Book 🌞 Days.

#Egypt arkeonews.net/singers-of-a...

Free online lecture « Private Ceremonies as Public Spectacles: Reward Ceremonies and Imperial Pageantry in the Amarna and post-Amarna Periods » par Dr Carla Mesa Guzzo Jeudi 5 mars 2026 à 19h (heure de Montréal) Hyperlien Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/85700474829

A 3200 year old limestone ostracon depicting a cat offering a seated mouse a chalice of wine Musée Louvre #Caturday

An example of the 8 Tamil graffiti discovered in 5 different tombs in the Valley of the Kings. The graffiti say "Cikai Korran"(the Indian merchant's name) & are dated 1st-3rd cent CE. The scholars who deciphered them gave a paper in Chennai a few days ago. www.facebook.com/share/p/188L...

#Caturday post "A illumination from Ms. Bodley 264, depicting a monk and his cat reading together. The 14th century CE manuscript was produced in Tournai, Belgium, and is now housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford." www.facebook.com/share/p/14X6...

Via @sarahebond.bsky.social and Pasts Imperfect, the 🌟 Heba Abd el-Gawad speaking Saturday afternoon (Pacific time) - online as well, details and registration in link below. #Egypt #museums🏺📜🗃️

Preliminary studies suggest that the southern part of Tel Aziz was part of the city’s central core, with the temple remaining in use for centuries, from the 26th Dynasty through the Roman period. #ancientEgypt

رمضان كريم يا مصر

马年大吉 Happy Year of the 🔥 🐎 #yearofthehorse

Bonne Journée du Louis Riel!

Happy Valentine's Day ❣️ " ᓇᓪᓕᑦᑎᒌᓐᓂᖅ Nallittigiinniq Na-lli-ti-gii-nniq Romance (Image: Kenojuak Ashevak's Courting Loon) " www.facebook.com/share/p/1Afi...

This is a great article about the 80 pairs of sandals 🩴 buried with King Tut (afterlife shoes!), but it’s disappointing that they don’t mention the 4 pairs of socks (from the Greek σύκχος) 🧦 discovered. Note: the socks worn with the sandals are just as interesting! www.zmescience.com/science/arch...

Teleilat Ghassul, just north of the Dead Sea, yielded an assemblage that has baffled scholars for a century: hundreds of ceramic vessels shaped like ice cream cones. Were they cups? Candleholders? archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2026/digs-discoveries/cup-or-cone/

ᓇᓪᓕᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖅ nallinirmut ulluq na-lli-nir-mut u-lluq Valentine's Day (Image: Kenojuak Ashevak's Raven's Proposal) Inuktitut Word of the Day ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gcw...

A rock shelter with paintings up to ten thousand years old discovered in southern Sinai www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

FEBRUARY 11th is 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

FEBRUARY 11th is 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

"Playing to the Crowd: Royal Ritual Performance in Context" Speaker: Prof Katja Goebs, U of Toronto 26 Feb 6:30 pm Eastern In person & online [For zoom link, contact [email protected] ] Free & open to all #ancientEgypt #freelecture

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍 From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.

"Inuktitut Word of the Day ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᑦ Uqalimaagat u-qa-li-maa-gat Books (Image: Ningiukulu Teevee's Sedna's Creation) " Originally at www.facebook.com/share/p/15hk...