{"id":396337,"date":"2010-03-06T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-7747978198686404649"},"modified":"2010-03-06T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T11:40:07","slug":"hieroglyphs-from-the-tomb-of-queen-behenu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396337","title":{"rendered":"Hieroglyphs from the tomb of Queen Behenu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/archaeology\/egyptian-queen-offered-bread-jug-of-beer-at-funeral.html\">Discovery News<\/a> (Rossella Lorenzi)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that&#8217;s what Egypt&#8217;s Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone found in her 4,000-year-old burial chamber this week.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8220;Pyramid Texts,&#8221; these hieroglyphics represent the oldest body of Egyptian religious writings and were widely in use in royal tombs during the 5th and 6th Dynasties of the Old Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery News asked one of the top scholars of the Pyramid Texts, James P. Allen, a Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chair of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University, to translate part of the newly discovered hieroglyphs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-7747978198686404649?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that&#8217;s what Egypt&#8217;s Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone found in her 4,000-year-old burial chamber this week. Known as the &#8220;Pyramid Texts,&#8221; these hieroglyphics represent the oldest body of Egyptian religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}