Blue eyed pharaohs

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The eyes of Egyptian statues are a rather intriguing mystery. Most are interested in the secret of making them from small fragments of rock crystal. These lenses were usually placed in the eye sockets of statues made of wood or limestone. The craftsmanship of these lenses is amazing, it is simply amazing, which gives reason to some researchers to talk about creating them using machining and specialized lathes.

Here is the most striking representative - a statue of Pharaoh Horus, made of wood. Eyes are inserted into it, which are frighteningly similar to the eyes of a living person. They change color, from blue to smoky gray, depending on the angle from which you look at them. They also mimic the real architecture of the retina quite accurately.

The studies carried out by Professor Jay Enoch, who represents the University of Berkeley, have indicated an amazing similarity of these glass dummies to the shape and optical properties of the human eye.

These lenses were inserted not only into the eyes of the Pharaohs, but also into the eye sockets of animals. An excellent example is the cat-shaped cosmetic vessel with crystal eyes bordered with copper. This find is dated by official science around 1991-1783 BC.

But the point is not in technology, but in the fact that the genetics of Egypt's ruling elite was very different from the genetics of the indigenous population.

Here are some of the evidence that Egyptologists have accumulated on this topic.

Creators

According to one of the ancient Egyptian legends, the state of Egypt was created by nine White Gods.

Horus is blue-eyed, Seth is red-haired

In one place in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the eyes of the god Horus are described as "shining" or "sparkling," and in another, Horus is described as "blue-eyed." In the same place, in chapter 140, an amulet is also described, the so-called "eye of Horus", which must always be made of lapis lazuli, a blue semi-precious stone.

The Greek Plutarch in chapter 22 of his book "About Isis and Osiris" argued that the Egyptians believed that the god Horus was fair-skinned, and Set was pink-cheeked and red-haired. Other sources claim that all the red-haired people of ancient Egypt venerated him devoutly. The texts on the walls of the ancient pyramids state that the gods had blue or green eyes, and Diodorus of Siculus claimed that the Egyptian goddess of the hunt and war, Neith, was blue-eyed.

Blondes from the Egyptian nobility

Mummy of an Egyptian courtier 1400 BC named Yuya. He was the father of Tiye, who was the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Next to him lay his blond wife Thuya, the great-grandmother of Tutankhamen. When the English archaeologist Howard Carter excavated the tomb of King Tut in 1922, he discovered, among other things, a miniature sarcophagus containing the golden brown hair of his grandmother, Queen Tiye. Tia's mummy was discovered in 1905. She had long, light brown hair.

The mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (18th dynasty) was portrayed as blue-eyed blonde with a ruddy face.

Princess Ranofrey, daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III (Dynasty 18), was also portrayed as blonde. In 1929, archaeologists discovered the mummy of 50-year-old Queen Meryet-Amun, another daughter of Thutmose III, with wavy, light brown hair. American Egyptologist Donald P. Ryan in 1989 opened one of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, where a mummy with reddish hair, presumably Queen Hatshepsut (18th dynasty), rested.

Manetho, a Greek-Egyptian priest who lived in the 3rd century BC, wrote in his History of Egypt that the last ruler of the 6th dynasty was Queen Nitokris. pink-cheeked blonde … According to the testimony of the Greco-Roman authors Pliny the Elder, Strabo and Diodorus of Siculus, the third pyramid was built by Queen Rodopis, whose name in ancient Greek means "Rosy-cheeked".

Psalm 20 from chapter 141 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is dedicated to the “beloved Goddess with red hair,” and in the tomb of Pharaoh Merenptah (Dynasty 19, 1213-1204 BC) redheaded goddesses … Scientists are also well aware that the most famous pharaoh Ramses II (1292-1225 BC) was red-haired.

The Egyptian nobility of a lower rank, as well as the Egyptian intelligentsia, for example, the scribes - people who received a very good education and upbringing at that time, from whom emerged business executives, builders and managers, who were "cooler" only by the priests - were depicted with some signs of the white race whether it be light eyes or hair. This can be seen on a stele from Abydos, which dates from the Middle Kingdom (circa 2040-1640 BC) and on the tomb of a noble man named Khui, who is dated to the 12th Dynasty (1976-1947 BC).).

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