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Posted on 03/19/2026 2:46:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The modified picture was found in a copy of the Book of the Dead made for a royal scribe named Ramose, whose tomb was discovered by William Flinders Petrie in 1922. The image shows Ramose placing his hands on the body of a jackal, identified as Wepwawet, a god of war and hunting. Bold, white lines had been applied to either side of the jackal's body and the upper halves of its back legs. "It's as if someone saw the original the way the jackal was painted and said, 'it's too fat; make it thinner,'" said Fitzwilliam Museum curator Helen Strudwick. When examined with infrared photography and a 3D digital microscope, Strudwick and her colleagues confirmed that the white lines, a mixture of calcite and huntite, had been painted over the black of the jackal's figure. Flecks of yellow had been added to the white mixture, presumably to help the correction blend with the color of the papyrus, which would have been much paler 3,300 years ago than it is today.
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This papyrus from a copy of the Book of the Dead depicts the royal scribe Ramose placing his hands on the body of a jackal-headed god. The image on the left shows the papyrus before correction, and the one on the right shows the jackal as it would have appeared after correction, when the white lines blended with the original natural color of the papyrus to make the body appear slimmer.The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
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Who knew that “Wite Out” is ancient history.
Years ago I worked with a guy whose typewriter (remember those?) was covered in white out.......LOL!
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🙈🙉🙊 Mike Nesmith’s mom, don’t make me laugh. 😆 Oh, ha ha ha.
The hieroglyphs on the tomb walls were written out by the apprentices, then carefully proofread by the master, who made corrections where needed, then the final painted version went over the red version (hmm, probably ochre).
😊 Since it’s only the human images that are screwed up, it was probably some Islamic nitwit defacement. The surfaces in KV5 began rough (keying for plaster, as Kent Weeks said in a documentary) and the plaster was troweled in smooth, making the tomb decoration a sort of fresco approach. Deep in KV5 corridors and chambers which were roughed out but never used show the approach.
Probably for "status".
Typewriters... definitely ancient history!
Maybe the guy thought it made more sense to white out the letters on the keys to change 'em to what he actually typed. 🙃 🤓
Amazing ancient civilizations. BUMP!
When I read “correction fluid” I thought it meant coffee - the fluid to correct beer goggles.
Here’s another dumb question: Did the Egyptians domesticate jackals? (That one in question appears to be wearing a collar)
Yes, Egyptians often made hieroglyphical errors or, as they called them, “heiros.” When the fluid was invented, they marketed it with the jingle “Write like an Egyptian.”
It’s speculated that they tried to domesticate the jackal, good eye.
Domestication is something that is something done ages ago and it’s not known how it got done, suggesting that whatever the practices were antedate writing by a long time, and were passed down as an oral tradition.
After writing came around, it didn’t get written down because it didn’t need to be, and/or, everything that could be domesticated (because of inherent characteristics) had been.
That would explain the key order...
Or maybe they were more active and ate more sensibly than we do. 🏃➡️🏃♀️➡️🏃♂️➡️🦈🫛🥕🥒🏃🏃♂️🏃♀️
The pharaoh’s chief wife had an Egyptian ring that sparkled before she spoke.
“Write like an Egyptian”
Brilliant!
No wonder it became a ‘signature’ song.
But the upper class guys.... eh. They look nice in the painting and carvings but their mummies tell on their less active, more food lifestyle.
Not "My 3000 Deben Life" (I hope I did the math right on that) but definitely some chubby wubbys.
Of course there is also that the upper class tended to live longer then the peasants and as we get older we tend to spread.
Gravity. It hates us it does.
That song led to hieromania!
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