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Pyramids Are Just Really Elaborate Jenga

@thatlittleegyptologist / thatlittleegyptologist.tumblr.com

| UK | Egyptologist (PhD) | She/Her | 30s | Please check out my FAQ before asking an Ancient Egypt or Egyptology related question! (FAQ linked in pinned post)| Icon by @23-tinywishes! | This is a Trans supportive space. TERFs using my words about Hatshepsut to harm Trans people will be blocked on sight. | Blogs with no content will be blocked
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thatlittleegyptologist

Hi, welcome to this blog! Here’s a few things you should know:

  • I’m from the UK, and have only experienced the UK education/University system. I can’t help you with getting into College/University in the US or any other country. 
  • I’m over 18 (in my 30s), so if that makes you uncomfortable then don’t follow. In fact, I'd strongly advise you didn't if you're under 18
  • Yes I am aware of and have watched/played: The Mummy/The Mummy Returns/Stargate/Stargate SG-1/Night at the Museum/Assassin's Creed Origins. No, I don't really want to give you my opinion on them.
  • I don't follow Kemeticism, and thus know nothing about Kemetic religious practices. Please direct your asks to someone better suited to help you with those, as I'd rather you got advice from the right people. There are plenty of lovely Kemetics out there willing to help though!
  • I block blogs that have no title/default avatar or pfp/no content/no likes/no explanation for why the blog is blank like 'this is my main but I use my secondary blog mostly'. This site has too much of a problem with Pr0n bots for me to allow random no content blogs to follow that later use my content as a way to legitimise themselves.
  • My knowledge base is pretty secure up until the end of the New Kingdom and some of the Late Period. Don't ask about anything after 500BCE because there's a higher chance of me being wrong.
  • That being said: Don't use the answers you find here as answers to essays or arguments with teachers/professors. Not only could I very well be wrong (so potential for you to look silly), but I'm also not a legitimate academic source. This is a tumblr blog not an academic journal. If you want to use the academic sources provided to then write your own essay, go ahead. Source analysis is key, and this blog is not a good source.
  • No, the search function isn't broken I just don't have that function turned on for my blog.
  • This is a personal blog, not a pure Egyptology blog. I will just reblog whatever amuses me, and it won’t always be about Ancient Egypt. 
  • I don’t work in Egyptology currently...or maybe I do? You'll never know! That's the beauty of me not telling you. I do have a working background in the field, but this gives me no power or influence. I won't tell you what I do for work, regardless of what it is I actually do, because I value my privacy. So if you want to think of me as working in Egyptology, cool. If you want to think of me as having an office job, also cool.
  • I will get things wrong because I don’t know everything. If you've got some helpful information please share! If me being wrong somehow upsets you, just block and move on.
  • If you’re here due to the Animal Headed Gods post here’s a link to an ask explaining it. Hint: they’re not furries. That post was originally made in 2017, and I deleted the original to save myself from the notes.
  • If you’re here because of the Pub Quiz post. Please know that it took place in 2016 and I am very much done talking about it. I don’t care if you believe it happened or not, and I’m aware it was posted to multiple ‘Tumblr Lies’ instagram/reddit accounts. Save your breath because I got enough ‘and the whole bus clapped’ comments and anon hate at the time simply for drunk posting what happened to me. Please know that I thought I was relaying a story of something that happened to me, to the friends and the 200ish people who followed me at the time, and never anticipated it was going to go viral. I’d also appreciate people not posting it off this site as I get a lot of grief for it.
  • Yes I am aware my posts are on reddit/instagram/facebook etc etc. No I don't want to be made aware of where they are.

As for the FAQ,

In the interests of preserving my sanity, and now providing a response to ‘I can’t get your FAQ on mobile’ you absolutely can here’s a nice big ol’ link to my FAQ that’s now a pinned post at the top of my blog (iOS users only- Android users see below).

HERE IS A LINK TO THE FAQ

For Android users, you might want to copy the following url

 thatlittleegyptologist.tumblr.com/FAQ 

and paste it into your Chrome browser and then select ‘request desktop site’ from the meatball menu (the three dots) as the above link only works for those on iOS and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s a tumblr issue, not a me issue. If you don’t know how to ‘request desktop site’ in Android, here’s a link to a tutorial.

Finally!

This blog is trans-supportive. Trans women are women and trans men are men. If you are straight trans you are as valid as queer trans folks, and you don’t need to be dysphoric to be trans. It’s likely that I may still make honest mistakes when talking about these things I am always open to be corrected politely. TERFs caught co-opting any of our explanations about Hatshepsut in order to invalidate the trans experience will be blocked and reported. I do not and will not tolerate hatred towards trans people, or the wider LGBTQIA+ community, in any shape or form.

thatlittleegyptologist

Me: yeah this 8k word chapter is fine I’ll just add the little scene I’ve written in the notes since I was so into it

Word count: ok so that’s now 14k words

Me: ohhh ok fuck

thatlittleegyptologist

Happy Pride Month, kids!

I don't go here, so I'll be sat on the sidelines cheering, but if you need a weird auntie who's into Ancient Egypt instead of a terrible one you might have, or y'know need me to shiv a -phobe bitch, just yell.

I know many bisexuals with knives and they can kit a girl out real nicely.

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Trying to use a playlist of string quartet covers as writing motivation, but instead of writing I'm now just daydreaming scenarios that are nothing to do with the writing.

Thanks brain

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digital-magus asked:

Is there any academic validity to the "theory" the Sphinx's head used to be something different, like a jackal or something, then got carved down later, or is that just another bit of ancient alien crackpot nonsense?

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Uhh, it's hard to say. It's not an entirely crackpot theory, in the sense that yeah the head is wildly out of proportion to the body and therefore theoretically could have been something else at some point. However, we've got no evidence one way or the other, so unless we get some texts or find evidence on it that tells us why it's out of proportion (and the Ancient Egyptians were perfectly capable of fucking up. No one should believe they 'they did everything perfectly' nonsense) we'll likely never know.

One fun thing I always enjoy about the jackal head theory though is that they never take into account that the sphinx had a beard, which we have in several parts. Like you draw this:

and you're like 'hmm no I'm not going to draw it with the jackal over it as it would have been when it wasn't a crumbling ruin, I'm just going to do it with the bits missing and hope no one notices'

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rudjedet
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shatar-aethelwynn

I love the children here with their "my cultural experience is the only universal one so I can speak for all cultures everywhere", "my misunderstanding of this word is the only correct one, no I won't look it up in a dictionary", and "I believe segregation policies are the best way to unite the world". Your third eyes are wide open babes.

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23-tiny-wishes
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grapehyasynth

I really feel tremendous grief for friendships that kind of petered away in the face of life's currents. There are people with whom I formed deep, unique, vibrant, life-changing connections, and then we had to go our separate ways and it was too hard to maintain long-distance. There wasn't a fight, it just sort of faded. And I feel like I have more friendships like this than friendships that have endured, so maybe I just have to get used to it. But if grief is all the love we have left over - well, I never did get to finish loving them. I love them, and I miss them, and I probably always will.

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eiriee
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bidoof

this is my grasp of how football works: two teams of men want the ball very badly but are incapable of sharing it. one team attempts to deliver the ball to their holy ground while the other attempts to prevent this. occasionally an evil man will appear and speak curses to the men, causing them grief and dishonor

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somecunttookmyurl
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froody

he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

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froody

he looks like he lets out a pathetic sad little sigh sometimes for no reason