No comments Another indication that the collapse took place before the pyramid was finished is provided by the fact that the building was abandoned and evidently never used. In the little court of the mortuary temple stand the two stelae which traditionally were to bear the name and titles of the king. However, they remained […]
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A Guide to Alexandria, c.1000
No comments A Guide to Alexandria, c. 1000 al-Muqaddasi Al-Iskandariyya (Alexandria) is a delightful town on the shore of the Romaean Sea. Commanded by an impregnable fortress, it is a distinguished city, with a goodly meed of upright and devout people. The drinking water of the inhabitants is derived from the Nile, which reaches them […]
The Early Dynastic in Ancient Egypt 3150-2686 BC
No comments The First Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt The Early Dynastic Period 3150-2686 BC The emergence of civilization in the Nile Valley at the end of the 4th millennium BC was to affect, in one way or another, not only the following 3000 years of Egyptian history but also many of the subsequent civilizations of […]
The Sphinx Pictures
No comments The Sphinx About 350 metres from Cheops’s pyramid stands the Great Sphinx, known in Arabic as Abu el-Hol which means «father of terror». Seventy three metres long, this colossal statue represents a lion with a human head which some believe to be a likeness of Chep- hren standing guard over his tomb. Originally […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Part 1 | Problems and Solution
1 comment The results of our investigation so far lead to two main conclusions. The first is the destruction of the Meidum pyramid through a building disaster. The second is an explanation of the rhomboid shape of the Bent Pyramid as a direct consequence of this disaster. In the preceding two chapters we have adduced […]
Tel El Amarna (akhet-aten ‘the Horizon of Aten’)
No comments Tel El Amarna (akhet-aten ‘the Horizon of Aten’) Background On the eastern bank of the Nile, across the river from the modern village of Deir Mawas, is a large crescent-shaped plain over four kilometres long and about 800 metres broad. This was the site of Akhet-Aten, ‘The Horizon of Aten’, chosen by the […]
Egyptian Pyramid Construction Part 3
No comments One of these Egyptologists, Olaf Tellefsen, claims that the Egyptians did not use a ramp and sledge to construct the Pyramid, and that it required only about 3,000 construction workers to raise the Pyramid. Engineer Tellefsen bases his argument on his observation of three men moving large stones to the edge of the […]
The Spell of the Pyramids, 1956
No comments Pyramids and Sphinx The man-made mountains that are the Pyramids, and the great crouching figure of the Sphinx even when we come to them with present-day knowledge stun us. From the distance they are immediately familiar; close to, they become far huger than in our imaginations. The writer and broadcaster Leonard Cottrell summed […]
The Land and the Nile River in Ancient Egypt
No comments The Land and the River in Ancient Egypt In ancient Egypt the land and the river were inextricably linked , for without the annual inundation which irrigated and fertilized the soil, neither the prosperous economy nor the rich civilization which it engendered could have existed. Furthermore, the Nile was the main highway of […]
Valley of the Queens
No comments Valley of the Queens This valley was where some of the queens and royal children of the 19th and 20th Dynasties were buried. There are over twenty tombs; many are unfinished and entirely without decoration. The most beautiful, that of Nefertari, beloved wife of Ramses II, is not open to visitors. However, we […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Research Part 1
No comments Pyramid Research Researchers have conclusively demonstrated that objects placed inside pyramid shapes are acted upon by unusual properties. These properties are independent of known physical variables because the physical variables could not, by themselves, reproduce the properties. Therefore, experimenters are faced with a physical phenomenon foreign to accepted concepts of physics and chemistry, […]
Cleopatra Queen of Ancient Egypt
No comments Cleopatra Queen Cleopatra and the last of the Ptolemies Egypt was bequeathed to Ptolemy XIPs daughter, Cleopatra VII, aged 17, with the injunction that she should marry the elder of her two brothers, Ptolemy XIII. He, with the aid of ever-scheming palace courtiers, this time Pothinus and Achillas, attempted to dispose of her, […]
Setnakhte Pharaoh Biography 1185-1182 BC
No comments Setnakhte (mereramunre) Userkhaure Setepenre 1185-1182 BC The 19th Dynasty had ended with a degree of confusion, not least with the presence of Twosret as queen regnant, only the fourth in Egypt’s history to that date. Whether there was a short period of anarchy, perhaps of only a few months, between the end of […]
The Secret Sign is Ancient Egyptian Pyramid
No comments A lot of people asking themselves where is the most place has Pyramids ? The secret word in our story is Egypt. Notice this article need to modify don’t be hesitate to read the master topic : The only 10 Pyramids in Ancient Egypt There are between 110 and 138 ancient Egyptian pyramids […]