lovely, expensive, and about nineteen

“We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation.”

DISNEY + TRIVIA

When I pass into the next world, then you will be the Morning and Evening Star.

Luke: I’ll have to ask Julie

Caleb: it’s not a cho-

Jason Todd

Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey- when you’re the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry.

a commission of the iconic TLO kiss scene for @beautifulinsanesanity! I channeled my middle school self who knew this part by heart for this one

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs

well, the civilizations that built spherical buildings realized they were a terrible design and only the best architectural design choices survived the…5,000+ years into modern times?

It’s probably why we don’t see more Stonehenge structures. “like well, when we stacked a whole bunch of rocks on top of one another we figured out the best way to stack ‘em like this. It’s why we don’t see more towers also probably.