{"id":768,"date":"2013-08-30T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birminghamegyptology.co.uk\/?p=768"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:12:40","slug":"egyptianizing-tendencies-not-restricted-to-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/2013\/08\/30\/egyptianizing-tendencies-not-restricted-to-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptianizing tendencies not restricted to architecture!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/08\/Jigsaw-lid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-769\" alt=\"Jigsaw lid\" src=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/08\/Jigsaw-lid-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/08\/Jigsaw-lid-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/08\/Jigsaw-lid-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u00a0Creating the pyramids?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Eleanor Simmance<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone needs a break sometimes, but even then some of us just can&#8217;t get away from Egyptology! I have always liked jigsaw puzzles, like my father (who owns a Rosetta Stone jigsaw) and grandmother, so I was delighted to receive this as a gift at Christmas &#8211; shame on me for only starting it in August! The picture below shows a couple of evenings&#8217; work on this 42&#215;32 cm 1000-piece jigsaw. As you can see I&#8217;ve only managed the edge pieces and the horsemen at the bottom, but next in the pipeline are the pyramids themselves, from that mess of pieces I have laid out. After that the sky and sand should just fall into place (with the help of Nut and Geb, of\u00a0course)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/08\/Jigsaw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-770\" alt=\"Jigsaw\" src=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2013\/08\/Jigsaw-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If it sustains ma\u2018at in your universe&#8230;&#8230;[Ed.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Creating the pyramids? by Eleanor Simmance &nbsp; Everyone needs a break sometimes, but even then some of us just can&#8217;t get away from Egyptology! I have always liked jigsaw puzzles, like my father (who owns a Rosetta Stone jigsaw) and grandmother, so I was delighted to receive this as a gift at Christmas &#8211; shame &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Egyptianizing tendencies not restricted to architecture!\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/2013\/08\/30\/egyptianizing-tendencies-not-restricted-to-architecture\/#more-768\" aria-label=\"More on Egyptianizing tendencies not restricted to architecture!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image-padding"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":"","post-thumbnail":"","chaplin_preview_image_low_resolution":"","chaplin_preview_image_high_resolution":"","chaplin_fullscreen":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>\u00a0Creating the pyramids? by Eleanor Simmance &nbsp; Everyone needs a break sometimes, but even then some of us just can&#8217;t get away from Egyptology! I have always liked jigsaw puzzles, like my father (who owns a Rosetta Stone jigsaw) and grandmother, so I was delighted to receive this as a gift at Christmas &#8211; shame on me for only starting it in August! The picture below shows a couple of evenings&#8217; work on this 42&#215;32 cm 1000-piece jigsaw. As you can see I&#8217;ve only managed the edge pieces and the horsemen at the bottom, but next in the pipeline are&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Edward Mushett Cole","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/author\/mushetej\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Mushett Cole","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/author\/mushetej\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamegyptology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}