Great Hymn to the Aten - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Nick Barstad on Instagram: "Crocodile skin was a new carving challenge offered by this custom project. I love the creativity of the request a way to reference Sobek from ancient Egyptian mythology. The texture and the idea contrast beautifully with an excerpt from the Hymn of Aten on the back which translates: “You place a Nile in the sky, in its place, for every foreign land. You make their fields flourish in their towns.” - Great Hymn to the Aten, Tomb of Ay (TA 25), Amarna. Composite translat

Good Music on Instagram: "The words hadn’t been spoken for thousands of years, but through her voice, they came back to life. Egyptian soprano Amira Selim has been working with linguists and archaeologists to perform songs in reconstructed Ancient Egyptian, a language that disappeared over 2,000 years ago. In 2021, she gained international attention after performing the Hymn to Aten, a text from around 1350 BCE during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. By studying hieroglyphs, Coptic language trace

Explaining Vocals on Instagram: "The words had not been spoken for thousands of years, yet through her voice, they were brought back to life. Egyptian soprano Amira Selim has worked closely with linguists and archaeologists to perform songs in reconstructed Ancient Egyptian, a language that vanished more than two millennia ago. Her work is not about reinvention or modern interpretation, but about honoring history by letting these ancient sounds exist again in a form people can emotionally connec