Assassin's Creed Origins - Tomb of Djoser Walkthrough & Location (Pyramid of Djoser Tomb)
Walkthrough & Location of the Tomb of Djoser in Assassin's Creed Origins (Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara Nome region).
Finding all tomb locations and completing them is needed for the Old Habits trophy / achievement (completed all locations).
There are 19 Tomb Locations in Assassin's Creed Origins (ACO). The easiest way to reveal all of them is by buying the time saver Tombs Map in the online market (open inventory and press D-Pad Right). You automatically get 200 online currency for free after the first few main missions. That's enough to unlock the tombs map from the store.
The tombs are puzzle labyrinths. You need to light your torch to see anything (hold D-Pad right to pull out the torch). Then you must find the tomb's Ancient Tablet. This counts as completing the tomb. Tombs also contain Silica, which is the material required for the secret Isu armor (you need 50 Silica for it). The Silica are yellow glowing rocks found inside the tombs. In this video series I also pick up whatever Silica I find along the way. I ended up finding 80 Silica total, more than enough to get the Isu Armor.
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Phoenix Ancient Art at Spring Masters New York 2015
Phoenix Ancient Art is exhibiting at Spring Masters New York and the Park Avenue Armory for the second time.
Among a stunning marble head of Aphrodite, Phoenix featured a wall of Egyptian vessels representing each Dynasty of Egypt. One vessel in particular was once in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston back in 1903.
DIORITE BOWL
Egyptian, Early Dynastic, 2nd Dynasty, ca. 2900-2649 B.C
Chephren diorite
H: 10.2 cm – D: 13.7 cm
Egyptians were skillful stone makers; perfect shapes and high technical execution mark their products already in the Predynastic and throughout the Old Kingdom periods. Later the harder varieties of stone were no longer used as they were substituted by soft calcite (Egyptian alabaster). This bowl with flattened foot, flaring walls and inward-curving rim is made of diorite, extremely hard rock. It was valued for its hardness and the shining effect obtained by the high polish in the sculpture pieces or vases. The title “Chephren” derives from the name of the stone quarry in Lower Nubia, which is in its turn depends of the name of the pharaoh Chephren, whose magnificent statue (Egyptian Museum, Cairo) was carved from the same blue-grey metamorphic rock.
In Ancient Egypt the stone vases were considered as first rate luxury objects: they appear only in the royal tombs as well as in the graves of the elite. The art of vessel carving had already reached its peak as far back as the Old Kingdom: for example, the artisans working under the pharaoh Djoser can be credited with tens of thousands of vessels that were placed in the magazines of the step pyramid of Saqqara – we are referring to 30 - 40,000 vases of various shapes and materials, the majority of which were found broken. The creation of these objects is a frequent subject on Old Kingdom painted murals, but very few ancient workshops with the equipment have been discovered. Archaeological evidence and special studies on the technique of carving and the employed tools indicate that the carving commenced with the sculpted exterior using dolerite pounders and copper chisels, before piercing the interior with the help of the copper tubular drills and hard stone borer, a stick would forked at one end to hold an abrasive stone. To assure even and centered drilling with the most stability, the rotation was achieved by alternating the drill, from one direction to the other. These different steps were accomplished by placing the vase in a hole in the ground or on a worktable. The final polishing involved rubbing the surface with a hard stone, sand or emery.
These stone vessels were used as containers of cosmetic oils and ointments in daily life; their thick walls helped to keep the substances cool. They also played a prominent role in the religious ceremonies (as offerings in the temples for frequent anointment of statues and other cult objects) and the funerary rituals (for the preparation of the mummies). Therefore, it is not surprising that a significant number of stone vessels were regularly deposited in sanctuaries and funerary settings. Stone vessels served as customary gifts of pharaoh to members of the ruling family, outstanding officials, and other favorites. The pharaoh received such gifts from appropriate persons, it is known that special rituals related to the pharaoh’s celebration and rejuvenation included anointing and special pigment application. On some occasions stone vases were sent abroad as diplomatic gifts. Archaeological finds confirm that the Egyptian stone vases were desirable trade products in the Levant and Crete, where they have been imitated in the local workshops. The imported stone vessels remained high esteem and prestige goods for a considerable period of time, as this is clearly shown by the finds of the Egyptian vases manufactured around the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C. among the contexts of the Royal Tombs of Qatna (ancient Syria), dated to the 15th – 14th century B.C., and the treasury rooms of the palace at Zakros on Grete of the 15th century B.C.
PROVENANCE
Ex- property of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; said to be from Sheikh Ali (Abadiya), acquired for the MFA in 1903 in Qena, Egypt from Ghirgas by Albert M. Lythgoe. It was acquired along with several other Old Kingdom stone vases with funds from the Emily Esther Sears Fund.
Albert M. Lythgoe, 1868-1934, was founder of the departments of Egyptian art for both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1905, while excavating for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Egypt, he met William M. Laffan, the collector and friend of the financier and collector J. P. Morgan. Morgan, chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's board of directors, was interested in forming an Egyptian Department similar to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Laffan's approval of Lythgoe convinced Morgan to hire him away from Boston. In 1906 Lythgoe resigned from both his Harvard lectureship and the Boston Museum.
Memories of the Kings and Queens of Kush: Archaeology and Heritage at El Kurru
Geoff Emberling, Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
Ancient Nubia was one of Africa’s earliest centers of political authority, wealth, and military power. After the Nubian kings and queens of Kush rose to power around 800 BCE, they controlled a vast empire along the Middle Nile (now Northern Sudan) and conquered Egypt to rule as its Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The kingdom’s political center, known as El Kurru, was first excavated by George Reisner in 1918–1919 on behalf of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. Geoff Emberling will look at recent discoveries at the site and show how they inform local and international ideas about history and heritage.
Free and open to the public.
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Safaga - Quads in the desert
During the Orca Rebreather Event 2014 in Safaga we also managed to organize an adventurous trip into the Egyptian desert on quads, a.o. to a now deserted ghost town that used to house 60000 people.