He was previously involved in the colorization of old photographs and his work attracted the attention of National Geographic and others. Matt Loughrey who lives in Ireland has been fascinated by technology all his life. This project has just reconstructed the face of one of the greatest of all the pharaohs, Seti I, who played an important part in the story of Moses. A new initiative, ‘My Colorful Past’ is using facial recognition technology to reconstruct the faces of people from history. It is also transforming how we understand and relate to our past and heritage. Taken by Roland Unger (Wikimedia Commons.Technology is changing almost every aspect of our lives. Image: The façade of the Temple of Seti at Abydos. Its date of construction and purpose are still under investigation. This King List is one of only ten found in Egypt.Ĭonnected to Seti’s Temple is the Osirion, an enigmatic underground chamber connected to the Nile, fashioned from enormous blocks of stone. The list therefore records over 1,600 years of history, although with some omissions. Seti ruled during the New Kingdom until his death in 1279 BCE. Menes was the founder of the First Dynasty and ruled until his death sometime around 3000 BCE. The list starts with Menes (probably the same person as Narmer) and ends with Seti. The list is a very important reference for historians. It omits the names of many earlier pharaohs who were apparently considered illegitimate by Seti, such as Hatshepsut, Akhnaton, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun, and Ay. There are a total of 76 pharaohs on the list. This list names the most important pharaohs, according to Seti. In a hallway in the temple there is an inscription on the wall known as the Abydos King List. A few notable images in the temple are Seti before Osiris as he pours libations to the deities and the image of Ramses and Seti roping a bull. It is said that Seti’s stone reliefs are some of the finest and most detailed in any Egyptian temple found. For example, the Horus shrine had a falcon carrying the eternal symbol, the shen, painted on the walls. Each chapel was decorated with prayers to each specific deity. These chapels were dedicated to Seti I, Osiris, Isis, Ptah-Sokar, Nefertem, Ra-Horakhty, Amun, and Horus. The temple is made of white limestone and each chapel is roofed with flat corbelling slabs decorated with royal cartouches and stars. The “L” shaped Temple of Seti had a terrace, multiple courts and chambers, two pylons, as well as seven chapels. Nearby there was also a predynastic cemetery with hundreds of graves. The sacred city of Abydos was the site of many ancient temples and was the burial place for the first kings of a unified Egypt. It is largely believed Seti built the temple itself, while Ramses completed the decorations, the surrounding courtyards, and other works. Ramses II was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty and had the second longest reign in Egypt, ruling from 1279-1213 BCE. Seti not only opened mines and rebuilt damaged temples, he also continued the construction on the hypostyle hall of Karnak. Seti was a pharaoh of Egypt in the Nineteenth Dynasty, ruling from 1290-1279 BCE. The Temple of Seti in Abydos (300 miles south of Cairo) was constructed by Seti I and his son, Rameses II.
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