Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: JennysCool
Could be, but either way, people who spend their lives working with mummies are not wrapped too tight.

7 posted on 10/16/2019 8:52:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (That's the one millionth use of that joke!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: SunkenCiv
I heard the Egyptians were forbidden to paint or depict real live people in their hieroglyphics on the walls,

They were limited to use models drawn from the dead.

Well, there was a lot of building going on, and many times the large stones would fall on or roll over the citizens lollygagging around, and when the stones were removed off the dead folk, what they saw was flat people, with one arm in front and one in back, in the act of running for their lives from under the rock as it fell.

Skidadelling, if you will.

These were the models from which they drew inspiration to depict on the walls.

Sometimes there were dogs, and birds, snakes, and such as well.

21 posted on 10/16/2019 11:00:50 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson