Cadillac Cts 2005 S Button Do

The book of the tortured, the disappeared and dead Egyptian

"The gates of heaven are have opened for me the doors of the earth have started [...] He who kept me my hairline [ ...] I again use my heart, [...] the use of my arms, the use of my legs, use my mouth, the use of my limbs and I can enjoy the water, enjoy the breeze from the river, freeing myself from those who acted against me in the realm of the dead, orders issued against me on earth [...] I raised on my left side and I put on my right side, I raised on my right side and I put myself on my left side. I sit, I get up, I shake my dust. My tongue and my mouth are skilled guides. He who knows this book, he can go out the day and walk on earth among the living ... "

J ' I chose this quote from the Book of the Dead - roll of papyrus that the living deposited in Egyptian tombs there are over 4000 years - and the paintings on wood dating from the beginning of our era to honor the hundreds and hundreds who were killed by gunfire in recent days in the streets and prisons Egypt. To evoke the numerous arbitrary detentions, often accompanied by torture and the plight of missing persons sought by their families. At the bend of jubilation: the sacrifice.

portrait of two lovers found Antinoe (about 130 ad),

city that the Emperor Hadrian had built in honor of his favorite Adonis,

Antinous, drowned in the Nile.

P reserved through the dry desert, the tables found in the tombs in the Fayum region and Antinoe offer us the earliest portraits of antiquity. A reflection of society first three centuries AD when the Romans, Greeks, Bithynians, Syrians and Libyans were mixed with the urban middle class Egyptian. Painted in tempera or encaustic (wood of sycamore, lime, fig, oak or beech) portraits were placed in sarcophagi. Emerged from their long sleep, we watch the faces in the eye. They say they have lived like we on this earth and that life was precious then, as it is today.

Andre