Isis was the great Egyptian goddess, wife of Osiris, mother of Horus, sister of Osiris, Set, and Nephthys, and daughter of Geb and Nut, who was worshiped all over Egypt and elsewhere. She searched for her husband's body, retrieved and reassembled Osiris, taking on the role of goddess o...
Ferris. Originally published to coincide with an exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum, this lavish volume boasts full-color photos of masks from all ages, countries and disciplines--from a 13th-century B.C. Egyptian mummy head, to a Congolese initiation helmet, to the face of Darth Vader...
首段中thus turning out students who cannot cater to the needs of society.其中cater to the needs of society意为“满足社会的需求”。The picture sets me reflecting on our present school education,本句中,set sb.doing sth.使某人处于某种状况;reflect on认真思考。faced with fierce competition,为过去...
she was not the first woman in Egyptian history to take the role of pharaoh, but she is among the most famous, thanks to her extremely long and relatively prosperous reign. For Egyptologists, Hatshepsut was the cause of much confusion and mystery for an extended period of time, due to...
Some of the patterns on this print are from drawings taken from paintings on Mummy cases in the Louvre, Paris. 4. Egyptian No. 8 These plates are based on the Tombs at Thebes and Mummy cases and robe fragments in the Louvre, which are the most colourful Egyptian ornament plates. Assyrian...
When British archaeologist Howard Carter opened a sarcophagus in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings for the first time on February 16, 1923, he stoked intrigue and mystery over an ancient Egyptian boy king. Who was King Tutankhamun, the occupant of the burial chamber who ruled 3,300 years ago, ...
her death, and evidence suggests that she probably died of an infection which started with the tooth abscess. The mummy had other medical problems, including bone cancer, and she may have been fortunate to die relatively rapidly from an infection, rather than from the prolonged misery of cancer...
The plot (if that's not too grand a word) of The Mummy Returns depends on a main character having flashbacks to a past life 3,000 years before, when she was an Egyptian princess and did fancy-schmancy combat with knives. Now, you want to know what's strange? Fifteen minutes into ...