1/18/2024 0 Comments Papyrus reed boats![]() Magical bricks were inscribed with selections from Spell 151 of the Book of the Dead. They are made from finely sifted Nile clay and left unbaked, rather unlike your typical architectural sun-baked mud brick. On display in the Oriental Institute Museum are two "magical bricks" from an ancient Egyptian tomb. Blocks from his huge tomb at Thebes are shown elsewhere on this Web page. Diesehebsed was also the sister of Mentuemhat the mayor of Thebes. She was the daughter of Nesptah, who was a Priest of Amun and the Scribe of the Offering Table, indicating that both father and daughter worked for the administration of Amun at Thebes. Diesehebsed was from one of the most prominent families of Thebes. Another scene of the two women together is known from the Karnak Temple, suggesting that Diesehebsed was a trusted administrator of the God's Wife, who during this period was the virtual ruler of Thebes. Traces of hieroglyphs in the cartouche before the woman to the right identify her as the God's Wife Amunirdis II. She bore the title Singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun, indicating that she was part of a divine chorus that entertained the god during offering rituals. ![]() ![]() This block came from the now lost tomb or tomb chapel of a woman named Diesehebsed, who is shown to the left. Today, the Oriental Institute Museum’s Egyptian collection is one of the largest and most complete in the United States. Another important group of approximately 8,000 objects, including our colossal statue of King Tutankhamun, came from the Oriental Institute's excavations at Medinet Habu from 1926 to 1933. These donations were made in exchange for the University of Chicago’s financial sponsorship of their work. In the following years, thousands of objects were received from the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society) and the British School of Archaeology in Egypt who conducted excavations throughout Egypt. The first significant group of objects was purchased by Oriental Institute founder James Henry Breasted on his honeymoon in Egypt in 1894. He first found fame in 1981 when he windsurfed 2,000 km from Monte Carlo to Tunisia to demonstrate man's resilience at sea.The Oriental Institute Museum houses nearly 30,000 artifacts from the Nile Valley that were acquired through archaeological excavations or purchase. "You have the blue of the sea, the blue of the sky, the color of the reeds, the smell of the reeds, the food, you sleep for 13 hours a day easily - it's a perfect life," Munoz said with a smile. "From the moment we are in the sea until we arrive in (Latin) America, the crew and I will be on alert as we could face a life-threatening danger at any moment," he said.īut life on board for the crew - including members from the Easter Islands, Japan, Venezuela, Bolivia and Colombia - is not expected to be all hardship. Munoz, an honorary ambassador to UNESCO for his work on the environment and indigenous peoples, admitted there were dangers. Heyerdahl also led a seven-man crew across the Atlantic, from Morocco to Barbados, on a papyrus reed boat in 1970 on his RA expeditions to prove that ancient Egyptian mariners could have crossed the ocean. His exploits follow a long line of expeditions trying to prove the seaworthiness of primitive boats.Īmong the best known was the 1947 Kon-Tiki Expedition of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, who built a replica balsa raft and sailed 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia to demonstrate that aboriginal South Americans could have settled in the Pacific islands. Munoz's Mata Rangi I sank shortly after setting off from Easter Island, while Mata Rangi II sailed 6,250 miles before the crew had to cut the boat in two to get rid of an infestation of sea termites which were eating it. The craft, cheered on its way by a flotilla of 30 modern boats, set sail initially for Morocco, from where it will sail across the Atlantic to the Caribbean on a voyage expected to last up to five months. The boat was built in the Olympic port of Barcelona from reeds specially imported from Lake Titicaca on the Peru-Bolivia border. "Everything that you see here is made from a base of knots, using ancient indigenous techniques." "We have constructed a boat identical to the boats used by ancient navigators, without any modern materials such as plastics," he said. ![]() He made two attempts to cross the Pacific Ocean during the late 1990s, but both ended in disaster. Munoz, 43, and his multinational seven-man crew hope to reach Colombia's Caribbean coast on the 20-m (65-foot) Mata Rangi III. Spanish explorer Kitin Munoz set sail on Sunday from Barcelona in a primitive reed boat to try to prove that ancient seafarers could have crossed the Atlantic Ocean. ![]()
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