Monday, November 30, 2020

Fortress Party 2014 Retrospective, Part 5: Nefer-titi Bar and King Tut's Last Science Fair

 


The Nefer-Titi Bar was a self-service drink station deep in the age of the Pharaohs. 



We still had these giant wooden boxes leftover from a Penny Seats show, and they were too big to get out of the basement without taking the doors off their hinges. In 2013, they had been painted to look like Super Mario Brother blocks. This year, we stood them upright and covered them with hieroglyphics.



The ancient Egyptians didn't understand perspective very well, but they had a nice hieroglyph for Fortress Party.




A mummy with all of it's organs in jars, labeled lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines. 



This convenient chart helped savvy worshippers pick the ancient Egyptian deity that was the best fit for their lifestyle. It also becomes clear that that monotheism allows you to get all of your needs in one place. You know, like bundling your insurance policies. 



The Egyptian theme continued into the next room, King Tut's Last Science Fair. The judges were Cleopatra, Imhotep, Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak, Horace (god of vengeance, sky, and kingship), and Ramses II. 



Everyone knows the Ancient Egyptians were scientifically advanced for their era, and these 4000 year old middle school science fair posters prove it. 



Can the Hom-Dai Curse discourage looters? This was a qualitative study that showed that tomb robbers felt discouraged by the curse, especially when subjected to locusts streaming from mouth, being mummified with flesh-eating scarab beetles, or being swallowed by a great beast made of shifting sands. 


Using crowd-sourcing to pick the best style of nose for the Sphinx.



This precocious young author invented a new Egyptian card game.
 


This study compared the efficacy of sloped versus step-shaped pyramids for attracting UFOs.















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