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does anyone have that video where lizzie is roasting the life out of mr darcy and turn down for what is playing in the background?

here you go

I’m crying I didn’t know that was the name of it 😂😂😂

Assume I’m dead if I ever stop reblogging this.

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May you find exactly what you want at the thrift shop, in your price range, next time you’re there.

can’t pass up this kinda karma

and in your size

definitely cant pass it up now jeez

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Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

• The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction
  
• The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity
• We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either
• Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender
• The gods didn’t actually have animal heads
• Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)
• The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous
• Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”

• The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit

• ‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”
  
• While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 
• The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved

• The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum
  
• Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose
• Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards
• Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”
• The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)

• While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition
  
• It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that
• Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

• Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies

Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

• Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids
  
• Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
• Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
• Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt
• Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
• Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
• Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
• Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt
• Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)
• McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs
• Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion 

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

Any of you guys confirm some of this? I already knew about Set.

As both the second poster and I are Egyptologists I can confirm that all of the above is true because it’s our job to know this. If you want to confirm it for yourself, do look at the sources I listed.

Can confirm it’s all true. I have a PhD in Egyptology and to everyone reading this comment in the notes: Congrats, you’re just learning that most of what you were taught at school was a load of crap because actual Ancient Egypt is far too complex to explain to 8 year olds. The sources provided above are as legitimate as you’re going to get for this site. They’re peer reviewed, and written by actual Egyptologists.

Please stop harassing Rudjedet calling all this ‘fake’, ‘untrue’, or even ‘asking for sources’ when you’ve got them on the post. We’re not lying to you, we’re not trying to be edgy for the notes, we’re actual Egyptologists, educated in this subject for over a decade, and we’re telling you this is the reality of Ancient Egypt. 

Right. Hatshepshut was not a trans man. She was a woman who had to act as a man during certain ceremonies, because she was king and that was part of her job.

When she was representing the Pharoah, she wore male clothing and presumably used male pronouns, but it was ritual theater. She was acting. She also may have died from complications of diabetes because of an overly-rich diet.

Also, the Pyramids (I believe, if I’m getting the project wrong, correct me), were the site of a strike that at first mystified Egyptologists.

Workers struck because they weren’t getting “cosmetics.”

Eventually somebody found reside in a mortar and reverse engineered it, because archaeologists do cool things like that.

Turned out that what we were translating as “cosmetics” was…sunscreen. Dang important safety gear if you’re doing construction work in the desert!

So, yes. The ancient Egyptians had sunscreen. They had sunscreen pretty much as good as anything we have today, in fact.

The Turin Strike Papyrus you’re referring doesn’t come from the time of the pyramids, no. It’s from Deir el-Medina, during the time of Ramses III. By this time, they had stopped building pyramids and were burying their dead rulers in the Valley of Kings. The village of Deir el-Medina was a workman’s village whose purpose was to cut, decorate and otherwise prepare the rock tombs in the Valley. 

I’ve seen the Tumblr post that claims the whole “cosmetics-turns-out-to-be-sunscreen” and it’s just not accurate. 

The word that post refers to is sqnn, found on recto 2, line 3 of the Turin Strike Papyrus*:

This word is translated as “oil/ointment”. It was used to denote any type of oil or ointment that they weren’t or didn’t want to be too specific about. If you’re curious, you can find all the attestations of the word here. 

So we can’t and shouldn’t translate sqnn as sunscreen. Moreover, I’ve yet to come across a recipe in the medical papyri (my specialisation) that can be interpreted as sunscreen - especially something that’s as good as the stuff we have right now! 

*Translation can be found in The Strikes in Ramses III’s Twenty-Ninth Year, by William F. Edgerton (Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jul., 1951), pp. 137-145 (The University of Chicago Press).)