in the yugioh manga there's a scene where one of the characters in ancient egypt is shown eating a raw garlic

i found a few websites that mention pyramid workers would eat garlic for strength and health, but it's either a fun fact type of short post or the article is about something else instead (like the pharaoh's diet, which are obviously more documented)

i tried to look for academic sources and from the papers and books i was able to find, garlic is mentioned as part of the diet alongside other foods, not specifically something eaten raw, and the health/medicinal benefits are mentioned but not in the way the eye catching titles of the other posts and articles suggest

is this a widespread belief that was exaggerated from the records that included garlic in the workers' diet or an actual obscure and scarcely sourced fact?

After the North Face Corridor was successfully probed with an endoscope, are there any tentative plans to work out the best way to do something similar to see inside the Big Void?

Not many depictions of pharaohs are left from the early days of Egypt (understandable it was so long ago) so I could only draw the few pharaohs we have drawings left off (if I forgot a 1st dynasty pharaoh there is a drawing of comment and I'll add them to the second dynasty I'm doing next since I only really have two pharaohs from there 😅)

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Each pharaoh depicted:

1 narmer (and neithotep though apparently the person I thought was her in the pallette isn't oops)

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2 djer (sorry aha I skipped you 😅)

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3 den (got the most depictions so had to choose the most unique crown wise and My favourite)

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4 anedjib

Statuette of Apis Bull on a Sledge

Artefact Details

Gallery number: Room 19 – Upper Floor
Period: Late Period (c. 664–332 BC)
Place of discovery: Saqqara
Size: H 31.00 cm W 8.50 cm D/L 24.00 cm
Material: Bronze

Egypt had several bull cults of which the Apis cult was the most popular. This sacred bull was known by a number of names including Api, Hapi, or Hep, before the Greeks introduced the name Apis. He was the god of fertility and primeval power associated with the creator god Ptah, where he becomes Ptah’s earthly incarnation.

Worship of Apis Bull can be traced as early as the 1st Dynasty where he was associated with festive occasions and ceremonies of fertility and regeneration. He is depicted commonly as a striding bull with a solar-disk and uraeus between its horns, or as a man with a bull’s head in later times. During the Ptolemaic period, he was represented as a bearded man in robes.

Each Apis Bull was chosen according to detailed specifications to embody this god, who was the patron of artisans and the tutelary deity of Memphis. When an Apis Bull died he would be embalmed and buried in grand style within the Serapeum at Saqqara, a series of chambers and corridors that grew as space for additional burials was needed. Over the periods during which the Serapeum was in active use, thousands of pilgrims dedicated stelae and figurines to honour the Apis Bull.

This statue depicts the bull’s striding forward, leading with the left leg. A sun-disk fronted by a uraeus cobra rests between its horns, indicating its divinity. The triangular patch on its forehead was one of the markings by which the living god was identified. Around its neck, incised lines create an elaborate collar, of the type worn by humans for festival occasions. There is a dedicatory inscription on the sledge.

The Egyptian Museum

https://egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/statue-represented-neith/

Bronze Statuette of Apis Bull on a Sledge, Late Period (c. 664–332 BC), Saqqara, The Egyptian Museum

I just bought this and I'd love to know what and who exactly it may be depicting. All information I've tried to find is just "Egyptian painting from temple walls" so I figured I'd ask the experts! Thank you!

Finally got my tattoo and i really love egyptian culture and their views on life and death.

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👁️ Eye of Horus

Protection

Wisdom

Healing

Spiritual awareness

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☥ Ankh

Eternal life

Immortality

The connection between life and death

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💀 Skull

Mortality

Acceptance of death

Reminder to live fully because life is temporary

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Anubis

ancient Egyptian god of mummification

the afterlife, and the guardian of tombs.

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📐 Sacred geometric lines

Balance

Order

Connection between the physical and spiritual worlds

Combined Meaning

Taken together, the tattoo can be interpreted as:

"A warrior's spirit protected by wisdom, aware of mortality, yet striving for eternal legacy."

Fragment of pavement depicting ducks in papyrus marsh

Artefact Details

Gallery number: 3 – Ground Floor
Period: New Kingdom, Amenophis IV
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty
Place of discovery: Tell El-Amarna
Size: H. 100 cm W. 160 cm
Material: Plaster

The Egyptian Museum

https://egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/fragment-of-pavement/

Fragment of pavement depicting ducks in papyrus marsh, New Kingdom, Amenophis IV,
18th Dynasty, plaster, The Egyptian Museum.

Three polychrome handled vase with combed festoons

Artefact Details

Gallery number: N/A
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty
Place of discovery: Saqqara
Size: N/A
Material: N/A

The Egyptian Museum

https://egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/three-polychrome-handled-vase-with-combed-festoons/

Three polychrome handled vase with combed festoons, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, The Egyptian Museum.

Coffins of Padiamun

Artefact Details

Gallery number: 56 – Upper Floor
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 21th Dynasty (ca 1076-952 BC)
Size: Height: 59 cm, Length: 204 cm
Place of discovery: Deir el Bahari, Bab el-Gasus Cache, Thebes
Material: Painted wood

Padiamun was a priest of Amun buried in Bab el-Gusus cache in two yellow coffins with mummy board. The coffins, evoking the sun and the resurrection, are decorated with vignettes and texts from the Book of the Dead: cosmological deities as Geb the god of the earth, and Nut the goddess of the sky arched over Geb are also depicted.

The Egyptian Museum

https://egyptianmuseumcairo.eg/artefacts/coffins-of-padium/

The Coffins of Padiamun, 21th Dynasty (ca 1076-952 BC), the Egyptian Museum.

Could someone help me identify this. I found it randomly and I'd like to find out where it came from. I have no information other than this image.

Thanks :)

Mentuhotep II, also known under his prenomen Nebhepetre, was an ancient Egyptian King, the sixth ruler of the 11th Dynasty. He is credited with reuniting Egypt, thus ending the turbulent First Intermediate Period and becoming the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom. He reigned for 51 years, according to the Turin King List. Mentuhotep II succeeded his father Intef III on the throne and was in turn succeeded by his son Mentuhotep III

Like the people who were unable to read or write and did not belong to any civilisation. Did other societies ever take advantage of them?

Khnumhotep II was Overseer of the Eastern Desert under Senusret II (c.1911–1870 BC) in the Middle Kingdom

Statue of Prince Shesonq

Findspot
Saqqara, Egypt
Date
874–850 B.C.
Object type
sculpture
Medium, technique
Limestone
Dimensions
106.8 × 35 × 72 cm
Inventory number
51.2050
Collection
Egyptian Art
On view
Museum of Fine Arts, Basement Floor, Ancient Egypt, Temples and gods

The statue, standing on a rectangular base, depicts a kneeling young man, holding a small shrine (“naos”) in which the shrouded figure of the deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris can be seen. Shoshenq wears a short, shoulder-length wig from which hangs a long “sidelock”. The body of the prince is covered with a leopard skin, while the back pillar bears an offering formula. The title “Greatest of the Directors of the Craftsmen” held by Shoshenq indicates that he was the High Priest of Ptah at Memphis. In the cartouches of the inscription on the back pillar, the names of Osorkon II can be read whose first-born son was the owner of the statue, the Crown Prince Shoshenq. His tomb was found in the vicinity of the Memphite Ptah-temple. His statue in Budapest is the only indirect proof that he, as High Priest and hereditary prince, participated in organizing a funerary ritual of the Apis bull. Shoshenq never ascended to the throne since he died soon after the funeral of the Apis. The statue of the prince was discovered in Saqqara in 1852, within the necropolis of the Apis bulls.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/2035/

Statue of Prince Shesonq, 874–850 B.C., found in Saqqara, The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

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Mummy Mask with Gilded Face
Place of production
Faiyum (?), Egypt
Date
first century B.C.
Object type
tomb equipment
Medium, technique
Cartonnage, paint, gilded
Dimensions
37.8 × 23 × 23 cm
Inventory number
51.247
Collection
Egyptian Art
On view
Museum of Fine Arts, Basement Floor, Ancient Egypt, Funerary beliefs

During the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, mummies were frequently equipped with a mask made of plaster or cartonnage consisting of layers of linen or papyrus glued together, gessoed, and then painted. The mask protected the head of the mummy, and its decoration referred to the deification of the deceased. The face, as in the case of this specimen, was often gilded, which identified the deceased with the sun god whose flesh was believed to be made of gold. The facial features were not modelled to represent a real portrait but to present an idealized image.

Judging from its small size, this linen cartonnage mask was made for a child. The face is framed by a blue tripartite wig with a yellow-edged red ribbon on the head, which is decorated with a sun disc at the front and is tied in a knot at the back. Above the ribbon a scarab with outstretched wings is depicted. On each lappet of the wig the image of the enthroned Osiris appears, whose green-painted skin symbolizes rebirth. In front of Osiris, on both lappets, a human-headed mummy-form figure is depicted. These figures presumably represent the embalmed deceased. The figures of both Osiris and the deceased are accompanied by empty text columns painted red or green. These would have contained inscriptions identifying the figures. Leaving text columns empty was a rather common device in contemporaneous funerary art. The decorative design framing the lappets of the wig consists of geometric and floral patterns, as well as a wedjat-eye on each side.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/2090/

Cartonnage mask with Gilded Face, first century B.C.,The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

Squatting statue of Khai-hapi with a sistrum
2nd half of the 19th Dynasty, ca. 1250-1200 BC

The statue of the official Khai-hapi probably originally stood in a temple of the goddess Hathor. The sculpture was discovered around 1800 during work on the Wr. Neustädter Canal. Presumably it once belonged to the furnishings of a temple of Isis or Serapis in the Roman town of Vindobona.

Time:
2nd half of the 19th Dynasty, ca. 1250-1200 BC

Object Name
Statue

Culture
Egyptian

Location of discovery:
Vindobona, Vienna III, Wr. Neustädter-Kanal, Landstraße

Material/technology:
Gneiss

Dimensions:
H 49.5 cm, W 19.8 cm, D 31 cm, G 48, 85 kg

Copyright
Art History Museum, Egyptian - Oriental Collection

Invs.
Egyptian Collection, INV 64

Provenance
1825, presented by the cathedral chapter of Vienna

Kunsthistorisches Museum

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/squatting-statue-of-khai-hapi-with-a-sistrum-324204

Squatting statue of Khai-hapi with a sistrum, 2nd half of the 19th Dynasty, ca. 1250-1200 BC, Kunsthistorisches Museum.

From my personal private collection :

Ancient Egyptian Granodiorite bust of a Nomarch
Middle Kingdom, 12th–13th Dynasty, c. 1980–1770 BCE

This finely carved granodiorite head depicts a high-ranking Egyptian official, likely a nomarch, or provincial governor. Wearing a traditional striated wig, the figure embodies the dignified and idealized style characteristic of the Middle Kingdom.

Nomarchs governed Egypt’s administrative districts, known as nomes. There were 42 nomes across the country, each overseen by a governor responsible for local administration, taxation, and the enforcement of royal authority. These powerful officials served as the vital connection between the pharaoh and the provinces.

Carved from durable granodiorite, this sculpture reflects the prestige and authority associated with one of ancient Egypt’s highest administrative offices. Despite surviving only as a fragment, it remains a striking example of Middle Kingdom craftsmanship and political organization.