No comments Hathor Egyptian Goddess of love | Facts and Secrets Part 1 The archetype of the Earth Mother is common to many mythologies; at different times Isis, Sekhmet, and Nut-among others-have had this role in Egyptian mythology. Hathor Goddess, however, appears to have been the oldest example in Egypt and the prototype on which […]
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Cairo to the Fayoum, 1873 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments The Fayoum Away from the main flow of the Nile, reached today by the desert road from Giza, the Fayoum is an area of verdant cultivation around a wide lake, surrounded by rocky hills and expanses of desert. A thirteenth- century Syrian amir, thinking back to the gardens surrounding his home city of […]
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