weekend amusement

in weekends we (my sister and I) try to do something useful, so this week we went to Alexandria Museum

the place is a big white palace once belonged to a rich Alexandrian and later the USA embassy

you can easily notice the beauty of the old palace and the marvelous architecture techniques used to build it

the museum is divided into 3 sections:
Pharonic periods
Greek and Romain periods
Coptic, Islamic and modern periods
each occupy a whole floor of the palace

the amazing thing about the museum is the tomb:
they used the underground flour for the pharonic periods and under (the underground) there's a space used to be a wine basement, they turned to a pharanoic tomb

it's sooooo creepy, honestly: soft lighting, dark wall painting, mummy, anobees
my sister was scared to death
(LOOOOOOOL, and this of course was amusement to me )

some pieces are catching: السنكسار the book of saints in the coptic part, face made by mosaic in the greek/ romain part
Ekhnaton head, Hatshebsot head, warrior shield from the islamic part, a lady handbag made of gold (ENTIRELY) from the modern era was owned by the royal family


something funny happened and i have to share it:
in the Coptic part, were some pieced (شواهد قبور)
where a man or a woman stands praying between 2 pahraonic gods (horas & anobees) i guess
so seeing this was too provoking for me:
"this is absurd, is horus and anaboees part of the christian believes to put these pieces here!! they must found no place to put these pieces so they just put it any where thinking that no one will care, but this is misrepresent the believe, this is unacceptable, .......... so on"
my sister was "kabary dema3'k"
but i didn't

there was a tour guide, Egyptian walking with a group of tourists, after finished she sat down on the stairs giving them sometime to take pictures, i went to her and said: excuse me, i was wondering about some pieces in the coptic section, the man praying with anobees and horus, why?

she is very intelligent woman and immediately understand what i was getting at so she said: ahh you mean (شواهد القبور), you are right it's not Christianity to have anobees and horus, but some people when the converted to Christianity they kept their old traditions with them for a while, although they didn't believe in horus and anobees any more they were costumed to put their pictures in the tomb with them, keeping the old tradition faded by time of course and later we can't find similar pieces

this was a great answer, she respected my believe, explained the matter in a very scientific and acceptable manner. i said thank you very much smiled and walked away

my sister was "can you calm now and stop making a fuss from everything"
i'm glad to ask the question else i would walk away feeling bad about the whole situation, but i'm not glad of myself because i assumed things that aren't real in a fast stupid way