October 2025

No comments On Pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, 383  Egeria Jerusalem for Palestinians Only From Jerusalem to the holy Mount Sinai is twenty-two staging-posts. . . . Before you reach the holy Mount Sinai you come to the fort of Clysma (probably a village near Suez) on the Red Sea, the place where the children […]

1 comment The Papyrus of Ani, now in the British Museum, provides the original concept of the death and rebirth theme (the rejuvenation of the human soul) in connection with the Great Pyramid. Better known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, this manuscript is thought to have been written around 1500 B.C. The translators […]

9 comments Ra God The Sun God Now we will speak about the most famous God in ancient Egypt ( Ra God ) the God of the Sun our article will consist of some points Ra ancient Egyptian God Ra God was a version of the sun god , and Egyptian art often represented him […]

No comments The Sultan’s Banquet, c. 1050 Naser-e Khosraw It is customary for the Sultan to have a banquet twice a year, on the two great holidays, and to hold court for both the elite and the common people: the elite in his presence and the commoners in other halls and places. Having heard a […]

No comments Tomb of Sabni Sabni’s text relates how he travelled to Wawat and duly punished the tribe responsible for his father’s death. Then he recovered the body and started his journey home. Tomb of Sabni Meanwhile, his sovereign, Pepi II, had despatched a whole convoy of royal embalmers and mortuary priests along with the […]

No comments Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs Dynasty 6 Pepi I (Meryre) : 2332 – 2283 BC Merenre (Nemtyemsaf) 2283 – 2278 BC Pepi II (Neferkare) 2278 – 2184 BC Pepi I Pharaoh Teti’s son Pepi I probably acceded to the throne very young, for he appears to have had a long reign of about 50 years. […]

1 comment Bent Pyramid facts – Bent Pyramid built – Bent Pyramid photo and images – Bent Pyramid Number 5 : Snefru’s Bent Pyramid | All Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Information Snefru’s Bent Pyramid Bent Pyramid of Snefru Size : Base : 602′(184m) square Height : 344′(105m) Mass : 3.6 million tones Inclination :5 3 ْ […]

No comments Nearly Five Hundred Miles up the Nile, 1843  Countess Hahn-Hahn We arrived here yesterday afternoon, having left Fostat on 19th December, and spent 24 hours at Denderah. This is no inconsiderable time for a distance of 480 miles. Such dilatoriness would drive one to despair in Europe but here the journey is considered […]

3 comments Khufu Pyramid – Khufu ship – Khufu mummy Khufu pharaoh the owner of the largest Pyramid in the Ancient Egyptian history . Khufu’s Pyramid on of the seven wonders of the world . Khufu pharaoh Statue He was the second pharaoh  in the 4th dynasty after Snefru pharaoh (The Fourth Dynasty Founder ) […]

No comments Visiting the Dead, 1326 Ibn Battuta Egyptian Cemetery At Cairo too is the great cemetery of al-Qarafa, which is a place of peculiar sanctity, and contains the graves of innumerable scholars and pious believers. In the Qarafa the people build beautiful pavilions surrounded by walls, so that they look like houses. They also […]

No comments Timseach! Timseach! 1845 Eliot Warburton The first time that a man fires at a crocodile is an epoch in his life. We had only now arrived in the waters where they abound, for it is a curious fact that none are ever seen below Mineyeh, though Herodotus speaks of them as fighting with […]

No comments Walking through the Valley of the Cataract, 1836 Lord Lindsay In this black chain of mountains is an extraordinary ravine, called Wady Shellal, or the Valley of the Cataract. Hussein took us through it, while the caravan went °n by the usual route; the valley is not a stone’s jerk wide, but the […]

No comments The Temple Of Luxor Amenhotep III, the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh and great-grandson of the military genius Thutmose III, built the temple of Luxor close to the banks of the Nile just south of the city. Though by this time Egyptian military power was past its peak, economic conditions within the capital were sound. […]

No comments According to Plutarch, Osiris was born on the 361st day of the year. Like Christ, he traveled a great deal. He became King of Egypt and “tamed [his subjects] by music and gentleness, not by force of arms.” Plutarch recounts that he was betrayed by the powers of darkness and slain and dismembered. […]