Thursday, October 27, 2016

SPACE PHARAOHS. Was the dead Egyptian pharaoh like a star traveller?


Was the burial and launch into the afterlife of a pharaoh the equivalent of a Mars expedition?

With a vast pyramid as a launch pad, the pharaoh's burial must have been like a nationally financed space shot to put the pharaoh among the eternal stars.

Little wonder that ancient Egypt is so intertwined in today's science and science fiction...

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

IMHOTEP, alien in his genius. What secrets would his tomb hold?

"A satellite eye in the sky... a dangerous hidden secret beneath Egypt's sand" *****5 star Amazon US


The Ufologist said. "Some are convinced that Imhotep was the original ancient alien. Don’t you think that there is something a bit alien about the imp-like figures of Imhotep in the world’s museums, showing him as a tiny sage seated on a chair with a scroll across his knee and his elongated skull extruded inside a skullcap? Then there is the curious meaning of his name. Imhotep means ‘The one who comes in peace.’ Isn’t that canonically the message communicated by friendly, and sometimes deceptive, visitors from the stars, in countless science fiction stories and movies… ‘we come in peace’?”

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With his luminous intelligence, thousands of years ahead of his time, Imhotep must have appeared as a being who had dropped out of the sky to early generations… designer and builder of the first great monument in stone, the step pyramid, deified after his death and revered by the later Greeks and Romans. 

All this and Imhotep fathered medicine, was considered a wizard, governed as Vizier and held high sacred office...
It was also said that Imhotep’s father was the creator god Ptah and his mother was the sky goddess Nut... 


Tuesday, October 11, 2016

SCI FI's OBSESSION with Ancient EGYPT.... and SCIENCE'S TOO



Omni article







So true about sci-fi and ancient Egypt.
But it's not just sci-fi that's obsessed.
So is science.
Look at the proliferation of ancient Egyptian names used in the space field. From asteroids to landers. Names like Philae, Osiris-Rex, Rosetta, Apophis...
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Saturday, October 8, 2016

An Egyptian magical false door - impossible text messages from eternity






 Trapped in Egypt's past, he sent her warnings through the archaeological layers of time

Is missing archaeology team member Lucas Burrows trapped in Egypt’s ancient past during an age of terror – and sending warning messages to today through the archaeological layers of time?
‘WARNING! ANCIENT GLOBAL THREAT…’ an impossible graffito message appears in a newly found Egyptian tomb, along with a modern biohazard symbol.
Who sent it?
What mysterious plague has hit the population of Egypt in the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his young co-regent, the sun-struck Akhenaten? Why is it seen as a judgement by the angry sun god Ra?
Lucas, a physician and World Health Organisation expert on pandemics, must find its source and the antidote in time to save the ancient past and the future.
Especially when his lover, the lustrous Italian-born Egyptologist Giulietta, is exposed to the deadly contagion. Can he warn her in time and save her and can they ever hope to be reunited?

‘TEXT MESSAGES FROM ETERNITY’ expands ‘THE RA VIRUS’ with a new additional Book 2 ‘THE ATEN SCOURGE’

“Roy Lester Pond joins my favourite Egypt authors like Christian Jacq.”

“A furious pace keeps the reader engrossed.”- Goodreads

Sunday, October 2, 2016

UPDATE: “THE MUMMY MONSTER GAME” - Goodreads Kindle Favourite For Young Readers

ROY POND fiction on AMAZON KINDLE (AND NOW ALSO IN PAPERBACK, 3 in 1 VALUE )

Before Harry Potter, there was cousin Harry and his scary, magical computer games... 

Now in a complete three book series on Kindle!

Originally published separately as:
Book 1 THE MUMMY's REVENGE... is deadly (Scholastic USA)  (or 'The Mummy Monster Game' in Australia)

4.0 out of 5 stars Totally spooky!!
 Amazon Customer:
“This book is great! This book had me spooked until the very end. I advise against reading it at night unless you're practically fearless.It makes you want to read until the very last word. I don't scare easily, but this book managed to scare me pretty bad. Plus, it's one of those books that you can read and re-read again and again. It's a great, scary book, that pulls you right into the action and doesn't let you out until you finish it. I recommend it to anyone that likes to be scared.”

Book 2 Who knows the secret of... THE MUMMY'S TOMB (USA) (Or 'The Mummy Tomb Hunt' (Australia)

Book 3 'The Mummy Rescue Mission' (Australia)


Little Cousin Harry is really weird, but he is family, so Josh and Amy decide to play along with him. They join Harry in playing a series of totally spooky ancient Egypt computer games.

Trouble is, Harry's games become more and more real and dangers start to leak out of the games into real life and into their lives.
The popular Egypt series - now available in one monster book of three adventures.

“I literally consumed those three books when I read them! I sat and read the books in two days, and even when I wasn't reading them I was thinking about them. Though from memory I distinctly remember The Mummy Monster Game being my favourite, it's safe to say when I read them this time, the last in the series, The Mummy Rescue Mission was my favourite - I could literally feel the desperation Harry, Amy and Harry felt in trying to save Aunt Jillian. I had to keep reading at such a fast pace as though I had to keep up! I like the idea of mixing video games with Egyptology, being that both those things interest me. I'm glad I finally got my hands on these books…. now I can read them as often as I like.”
Carli

Click on this link below...

See what over a dozen young 'Goodreaders' said in GOODREADS:-

Note : My fiction for young readers goes under the name Roy Pond (Roy Lester Pond for adult fiction)

A good article - here is the 'resin copy Tutankhamun mummy' that disturbed the writer

Resin duplicate mummy



Unraveling The Private Lives Of Mummies by Nigel Fletcher-Jones

Who were the mummies? While science is giving us more insight into the personality of ancient individuals, museums are also focusing their displays on the lives…

"However, the ethical dilemma associated with the public display of mummies was brought home to me recently when, at a tourist museum, I saw a complete resin copy of the body of Tutankhamun, and couldn’t decide whether this was better or, in some manner, worse than viewing the real body in such a commercial setting. There was certainly very little, if any, scientific validity in this particular ‘exhibit’."

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Ultimate ancient Egyptian beauty - from the tomb of Menna


Wife of Menna (Tomb of Menna, Luxor)

She (Hennettawy, I believe) is shown in full gala dress - to kill. 
A modern theory suggests that the 'perfumed cone of fat' on her head was merely symbolic and meant to convey the wearer's fragrance. 
Earlier theories suggested that guests enjoyed the sensation of the perfumed cone melting in the heat and running in cool, perfumed trails down their heads.
But would this beauty have risked her gala outfit for the pleasure?
Wigs, for a start, were expensive.
And what would congealed fat have done to her ornamental collar and costly pleated gown?