Pharaoh Ramses II - Egyptian Architecture - Circa 1860

EGYPT: ABU SIMBEL Man standing on the colossal statue of Ramesses II at the great temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt.

  📷 Francis Frith, c. 1860.

Egyptians have actually known and practiced roof planting.

Hypostyle Hall, Luxor

We’ve all read a lot about Ancient Egypt, but what was it like to live there? Thanks to the hard work of archaeologists and historians we have a better idea than ever before.

A few days ago I decided to look into ancient Egyptian architecture. I found it an interesting and full enough subject to make a quick video on! I go over temple structures, pyramid towns, worker houses, priests’ villas, and palaces in all three major periods of Egyptian history; the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom.

The Egyptian priests, however, were very reticent about teaching these foreign students and those of one temple referred the newcomers to their colleagues at another Temple, on the fallacious pretext that the latter were earlier.

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Book Review: Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John and Colleen Darnell

Book Review: Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John and Colleen Darnell

The Darnells, a husband and wife team of Egyptologists, combine scholarship, suspense, and adventure in Egypt’s Golden Couple. I have always been fascinated by Egyptology, so I particularly enjoyed this book. Like The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women, Egypt’s Golden Couple is part history, part archeology, and part fiction. Each chapter opens with a scenario that is…

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Interior of an Egyptian Temple by Albert Holz

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I looked at how they depicted Olympus in that last episode. You know, trip to Olympus. Percy's biggest whoa! in the entire book. Then I went back to reread description from the TLT book and:

From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires. Roads wound crazily up to the peak, where the largest palace gleamed against the snow. Precariously perched gardens bloomed with olive trees and rosebushes. I could make out an open-air market filled with colorful tents, a stone amphitheater built on one side of the mountain, a hippodrome and a coliseum on the other. It was an Ancient Greek city, except it wasn’t in ruins. It was new, and clean, and colorful, the way Athens must’ve looked twenty-five hundred years ago.

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My trip through Olympus was a daze. I passed some giggling wood nymphs who threw olives at me from their garden. Hawkers in the market offered to sell me ambrosia-on-a-stick, and a new shield, and a genuine glitter-weave replica of the Golden Fleece, as seen on Hephaestus-TV. The nine muses were tuning their instruments for a concert in the park while a small crowd gathered-satyrs and naiads and a bunch of goodlooking teenagers who might’ve been minor gods and goddesses. Nobody seemed worried about an impending civil war. In fact, everybody seemed in a festive mood. Several of them turned to watch me pass, and whispered to themselves.

Well...

Does this look like a colorful Ancient Greek city to you. This is not even Ancient Greek architecture.

It's on screen for exactly 6 seconds before we cut to Zeus' domain, which looks like a boring platform with a number of similar-looking stone-cut thrones. That's it. That's the entire "daze" of the show.

The entire place is empty too. There's no one but Percy. There are no muses, or minor gods, or demigods, or literally anyone there.

They drained the fun out of Mount goddamn Olympus.

P. S. I'm just reminding you that the TLT movie Riordan hates with such burning passion made MO resemble Athenian Parthenon. Like it's still gloomy as hell but it looks Greek:

The scene showing metal workers is part of a wall depicting different professions in the tomb of Rekhmire', vizier of Tuthmosis III and Amenophis II. Above, the fires are kept ablaze with foot-operated bellows; below, the men are casting bronze doors in a large mould. The inscription states that the bronze is brought from Asia, from the land of Retjenu. Atlas of Egyptian art. Page 119

Pylon of Khonsu Temple, Karnak, Egypt

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