Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Pharaoh, he was a powerful man / With the ancient world in the palm of his hand

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This is just cool. A little disillusioning, though, to find out she was overweight, diabetic, and probably had liver cancer. Kinda spoils the typical vision of the good looking, fit, take-charge female who did something no other female has ever done... become pharaoh, with all the requisite titles (except, of course, Bull of Ma'at).

But cool and interesting, none the less. When I was about 10, my life ambition was to be an egyptian archeologist... probably why I enjoy my Elizabeth Peters books so much. This tomb (KV 60?) was actually discovered during the time those books were set... I think one of the Amelia Peabody books mentions it, actually... I'd have to look it up.

Labels: amelia_peabody, dreamcoat, egypt, elizabeth_peters, hatshepsut, lyrics

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