Culture
Postcard: between the symbols of Kemet and the faces of today
Ancient Egyptian imagery and modern Egypt, in a single frame.
Kemet, the name the ancient Egyptians gave their own country, is still the shorthand many Egyptians use for the civilisation of the pharaohs. It means the Black Land, after the dark, fertile soil left by the Nile flood.
The illustration sets a modern face against the old iconography, a reminder that the culture did not end with the temples but kept changing, generation after generation.
