I made a short movie showing how beautiful is Egypt...check it out !
Monday, April 16, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The statue of liberty and its egyptian origin !
It all started when Khedive Ismail, who was involved in the building of the Suez channel - made the decision that the Suez Channel had to have a large statue at its north entrance. He took contact with a French sculptor named Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, and the artist started the work on the statue, which should represent an Egyptian Farmer woman holding a torch in her hand to guide the seafarers safely to the gate of the channel.Frederic Auguste Bartholdi finished the model in time (not as Verdi who was a year late to the opening of the Suez Channel with his Opera Aida). Problem was that Khedive Ismail was mildly speaking a "big spender" - as Alan Moorehead states quite clearly in his book "The White Nile":"It was not only honest men like Baker and Gordon who were attracted to his service; a plague of speculators descended upon Egypt as well and the easily contrived to get rid of Ismail's money even faster than he borrowed it. In round figures the Egyptian national debt was £3,000,000 at Ismail's accession, and before long he managed to convert his into a deficit of £100,000,000 - and this at a time when the pound was worth two or three times what it is today."Add to above facts that Khedive Ismail also 
had political conflicts with France and England and did not get another loan to build the statue. The correspondence between Egypt and the artist show that when the Suez Channel was opened in 1869 the sculpture was still a model in the artist studio.When Bartholdi later was asked to design a sculpture to celebrate the American Declaration of Independence, to be ready in the year 1876 - funds was again a problem. So the statue made for Khedive Ismail was used, the torch changed hand and some other small alterations where made.The result is that it's an Egyptian farmer women who stand in New York as the symbol of Liberty. Another example of Egyptian reflections in US.
had political conflicts with France and England and did not get another loan to build the statue. The correspondence between Egypt and the artist show that when the Suez Channel was opened in 1869 the sculpture was still a model in the artist studio.When Bartholdi later was asked to design a sculpture to celebrate the American Declaration of Independence, to be ready in the year 1876 - funds was again a problem. So the statue made for Khedive Ismail was used, the torch changed hand and some other small alterations where made.The result is that it's an Egyptian farmer women who stand in New York as the symbol of Liberty. Another example of Egyptian reflections in US.Tuesday, April 3, 2007
wanna write your name in Hyroglyphs ??!
here is the link to it...via the fantastic national geographic magazine !
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/egypt/translator.html
have fun ! ;)
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/egypt/translator.html
have fun ! ;)
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Nice Photoshop stuff !
How I quit smoking in just one step
How the cell phone stick on us… more and more
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Pyramids lined up with the stars !
Ancient Egyptian astronomers aligned the pyramids due north by using two stars that circle the celestial polar point.
Nearly 4,500 years ago, each star was about 10 degrees from the celestial pole which lay directly between them. When one star was exactly above the other in the sky, astronomers could find a line that pointed due north.
But the alignment was only true for a few years around 2,500 BC. Before and after that time, the stars deviated from the north-south line and anyone using the stars to plot a direction would have made errors.
And it is these mistakes that a British Egyptologist now believes can be used to estimate very accurately when the pyramids were built. Her theory suggests that the Great Pyramid at Giza was constructed within 10 years of 2,480 BC.
Nearly 4,500 years ago, each star was about 10 degrees from the celestial pole which lay directly between them. When one star was exactly above the other in the sky, astronomers could find a line that pointed due north.
But the alignment was only true for a few years around 2,500 BC. Before and after that time, the stars deviated from the north-south line and anyone using the stars to plot a direction would have made errors.
And it is these mistakes that a British Egyptologist now believes can be used to estimate very accurately when the pyramids were built. Her theory suggests that the Great Pyramid at Giza was constructed within 10 years of 2,480 BC.
"We know that the ancient Egyptians were extremely interested in the night sky, particularly the circumpolar stars," she told the BBC.
"These circle around the North Pole, and as you can always see them, the Egyptians always referred to them as 'The Indestructibles'.
"As a result, they became closely associated with eternity and the king's afterlife. So that after death, the king would hope to join the circumpolar stars - and that's why the pyramids were laid out towards them."
"These circle around the North Pole, and as you can always see them, the Egyptians always referred to them as 'The Indestructibles'.
"As a result, they became closely associated with eternity and the king's afterlife. So that after death, the king would hope to join the circumpolar stars - and that's why the pyramids were laid out towards them."
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