Joomla! CMS, Content Management System for the web and your websites = supposedly easy, easy to add components, like a store, a gallery, a blog, a newsletter, new themes, make your own theme.
Huh! Not easy at all! It’s very time-consuming, little or no user support from extensions or theme providers, and they want you to give them money for the support or the theme or the extensions.
I only started this because it was supposed to be open source. I’ve have had many visitors, but no feedback or comments or ratings from users, seems my components don’t work. Or signup or other requires too much effort from users.
Everything looks so pretty and organized, especially in the demos, but, try and get it to work for you. OyVay! Many of the extensions, such as components for online stores and newsletters, do not deliver the features they promise.
You have to do a lot of time-consuming searching of each components’ forums to find fixes or directions for problems, and many answers are not there or are lost in the forum maze.
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The Amarna Project with Models of this Lost ‘City of the Sun’, many fabulous photos of the fabled Akhetaten, the City of the Horizon of Aten, founded by the notorious Pharaoh Akhenaten, and the city where we first find Prince Tutankhaten in the historical novel: Sun Child, Prince of Egypt.
Some photo excerpts from their site show the approach to Amarna from the Nile. Click on the thumbnails for popup Lightbox.
Along with the project reports are interactive maps, models, and many photos of sites, findings, and ancient artifacts found there. There’s even a guide on how to get there, location about 200 miles south of Cairo, what to expect, and how to tour the sites.
This is a great website to research the actual archaeologists’ reports from the Amarna Project and their explorations of this ancient Lost City.
—>Amarna Project: One of the projects of The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge,
—>The MacDonald Institute provides support for many branches of archaeology and has a several of the project reports online, including two in India and Turkey.
I highly recommend both sites.
René
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Just keep the rations coming, please.
The ancient Egyptians believed early on that to obtain eternal life, the individual must join the gods after death. Since to ancient Egyptians, death was thus merely a continuation on a different plane of existence of the life they had known, shelter and material goods were considered necessary for the deceased’s well-being. A tomb equipped with clothing and everyday utensils as well as food and drink would supply those needs.
The hetep-di-nisu, or “a gift which the king gives”, is the offering formula or prayer asking for offerings to be given to the deceased.
But, surely they really didn’t expect offerings to be continued forever, which is why inscriptions of offerings and the King making them are found in their tombs, a substitute for the actual on walls and in papyrus or coffins..
The hetep-di-nisu, or “a gift which the king gives”, is the offering formula or prayer asking for offerings to be given to the deceased.
Why the King, and not one of the family of the deceased? It had to do with their religious beliefs and practices. The king was the main priest, the only actual priest in Egypt, it was only the king who was ever shown making offerings to the gods in the temples. This practice carried over to the tombs, for the King was the only one who could make the bargain with the gods to ensure a happy afterlife.
On the ‘Bounty of the Gods’, the distribution of offerings:
…offerings went from the temple to the necropolis. Since the Old Kingdom, the practice was that offerings presented to the main god of the temple were carried out of the sanctuary, presented to gods having subsidiary cults in the temple, then to statues of kings and private persons placed in the temple courts, and finally to the necropolis. The offerings were then distributed to the priests and all the staff involved in the rituals as a reward, or salary, for their work.
From Tour Egypt, great resource website—>‘Egypt: Offering Formula and Ritual’, a Tour Egypt Feature Story by Marie Parsons, a student of Egyptology and religion.
Her website on—> PerAset/Isis.
René
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—>Last Photographer Standing
Here’s the Details:
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It looks really great, especially the—>
SmugMug site, though it is a paid for site, the fees are reasonable (Standard account=price of a hamburger/month), it is
totally ad-free (even in the
free trial)and you can have your own URL. There’s also easy tutorials and how-to’s, for professionals and amateurs.
What a great place to store your Photos and never have your photos disappear on your sites!
Well, there is one hang-up: they have to be Your Photos and Your Own Art.
Examples:
René
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Is it Yoga? Or is it just ‘Nut’ and ‘Shu’/'Geb’?
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What do you Think?
Comments Welcome!
From the Digital Gallery of–>New York Public Library for even larger views, with Enlarge and Pan commands.
René
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