Showing posts with label Great pharaos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great pharaos. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2011

The eldest Pharaoh Pepi the Second


Pepy Neferkare or Pepy II
He was the last pharaoh of the dynasty six of the Old Kingdom  of the 23 century beforeChrist, some historians say that Pepi second has begun to reign  from the age of six  years, it is said that this pharaoh was who lived more of all the Pharaohs and the longest running monarch remained on the throne of all history..During the long reign of the pharaoh, the central government was deteriorating but the power of local governors and nobles was growing up, what caused very strong fall of the monarch within the firstyears of the reign of Pepi second, there have been few expeditions to Nubia for  commercial exchange with the  inhabitants of Nubia. We kept  a papyro that describes the interest of our king asking, still a child, about the pygmies who were brought from the south to be used as buffoons.

     
THE SECOND PYRAMID OF PEPI
At the end of the king's life, his health has deteriorated and had a powerfull local governors of provinces for whom Egypt was divided between them and  they started fighting  each to other, since the first union was lost for centuries which had  been made by the first pharao Menes or Narmer, and each of them gets  independente. . the  heavy fall began after the death of the king, rose two pharaohs weak they could not control the situación.in this time . in Egypt  an wise man criticized this decline in a text describing a chaotic state of affairs and displays nostalgia for the past, talking about the lack of respect for elders, the looting of the tombs of a blatant way, and ordinary women  got mirrors but the ladies were looking in the water because they had no mirrors
The pyramid of Pepy II and his mortuary complex at Saqqara there
The conclusion: we must recognize that the pharaonic tourism is the great tourism 

The egyptian tourism is the super tourism


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The Pharaoh Ay of the valley of monkeys

The tomb of the pharaoh Ay

  This pharaonic tomb is located on the west side of the valley of the kings, it is assumed that the pharaoh had to be occupying the penultimate king of the dynasty eighteen (for some is considered the last)

The mummy of the Pharaoh  was not found until today and his sarcophagus was destroyed, perhaps by orders of Hormoheb ,the next successor, so  some students say about the Pharaonic  that he had no right to the throne after  death of Tut Ankh Amon but had made a trap to convince the egyptian people that he was a legitimate pharaoh when he made the rite of opening  mouth to disseminate the mummy of Pharaoh Tut, for that reason he was the heir to the throne according to the tradition of the egyptian people .Tha first grave was made in that zone  was the tomb of the great pharaoh Amenhotep the third and the tomb of Ay is one of the few located there, perhaps to mislead thieves, and after him so well disposed Akhenaten before moving to Tell el-Amarna and that is logical that this place was located in the footsteps of his father, the tomb has a straight shaft and no burial pit. The tomb itself is very small, very schematic and simple in every way

The tomb with the entrance and two runners on with a stair ramp down more between them. Then we found a hall or chamber "well" and finally the burial chamber or crypt. This in turn consists of a camera attached 

It is much like the decorative work of the tomb of King Ay with King Tutankhamen, concluding that the painters of both burials were the same, separated by a short space of time. There are some scenes that actually become equal, and the art style of Tell El Amarna is copied in both places. This led to thinking that maybe this tomb was originally intended for Tutankhamun, and Ay when  he usurped the throne. The burial of the young king was sent back to the Valley of the Kings, in a simple grave for a pharaoh.

The conservation status of the frescoes is not perfect. The only area that came to be painted was the burial chamber, and in her many paintings have been lost, we have a few hours of the book of the dead, are particularly famous colorful footage of baboons which were the common name for the entire necropolis (Valley of Monkeys). And most of the monkeys is a hunting scene Oh so pretty with his wife Tey in the swamps, hunting ducks and harpooning hippos.

The tomb of King Ay was discovered in 1816 by Belzoni ITALIAN almost by accident, while working for Henry Salt. The main object was brought to light was the sarcophagus of stone, broken into several pieces, and now again in the grave, behind a deep restoration.

It is thought by some students is to discover a third hiding today and destroyed, or that it could be yet to discover. The main reasons for the theory of a third cache is based on the discovery of remains of funerary objects with the name of Ay in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. thought that perhaps there was or is a third cache of mummies and more relatives of the woman Ay Tut Ankh Amon

The conclusion: we must recognize tha Pharaonic
tourism is the greatourism 

The egyptian tourism is the super tourism

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