Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt

Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by xref on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:50AM (#26767764)

Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt)

Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and implementing monotheism around the Aten figure. After he died his monuments were destroyed and successors omitted his name from lists of kings as polytheism was restored, including by Akhenaten’s son, Amenhotep III’s grandson, Tutankhamun.

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by dr_dshiv on Sunday April 11, 2021 @03:39AM (#26768331)

Check out the Shabaka stone. While almost 600 years after Akhenaten, it was erected by a black Nubian pharaoh who was trying to return Egypt to its original religion. The stone claims to reproduce text from the first dynasty of Egypt! It focuses on the god Ptah, who is the god of design, craft and creativity — and the creator of the universe. It has some pretty esoteric sections and perhaps even foreshadows the rise of Hermetic philosophy in late antiquity Egypt.

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by gnatman on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:54AM (#26770010)

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the el Daoud

https://youtu.be/RzuyR6GeXRg

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by dr_dshiv on Sunday April 11, 2021 @03:21PM (#26772714)

THANK YOU SIR... been trying to find my way into post bop, just happened :)

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by NamTaf on Sunday April 11, 2021 @11:27AM (#26770935)

Thanks for the rec! I'm working my way through Revolutions, with History of Rome next, but this sounds like I'll really enjoy it when I get to it sometime in the mid-to-late 2020s!

When I studied Ancient History at school, the period of Akhenaten was the most interesting for me.

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by andrepd on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:28PM (#26771499)

> He has been described as "enigmatic", "mysterious", "revolutionary", "the greatest idealist of the world", and "the first individual in history"

I don't get it, why? "The first individual in history"?

Anyone has suggestions of where can I read more about him? :p

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt by marcelnita on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:53PM (#26772120)

Hey, what podcast is that?

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