November 2025

No comments Who Was Tutankhamun ? Exactly who Tutankhamun was is still a matter of some conjecture. An inscription on one of the great red granite lions from the temple at Soleb refers to Amenhotep III as his ‘father’. Given that Akhenaten reigned for about 16 years, coupled with the fact that Tutankhamun was about […]

No comments The Second Persian Period When Egypt fell to the Persians in 343 BC, the reign of Nectanebo II, the last Egyptian pharaoh, came to an end; he was also the last Egyptian to rule Egypt for 2300 years until General Neguib and the 1952 Revolution. The Persian reaction, according to later Greek accounts […]

No comments Plan to save the Temples of Abu Simbel There are two temples at Abu Simbel: the Great Temple of Ramses II and the small temple of Nefertari, his Great Royal Wife. Both were excavated out of the solid rock of a mountain. They could not, therefore, be dismantled, transported and re-erected elsew here, […]

No comments Luxor  “Thebes” Perhaps no city in the world has bequeathed to us more numerous nor mightier monuments than Thebes. The ancient city stood on both sides of the Nile, and few spots in Egypt are so ideally suited to such a purpose. The range of hills to the east and west curve away […]

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No comments Evidence of the Past, 1908  Elbert Farman The sites of the ancient cities of the Delta are marked by mounds of earth which rise above the surrounding country, sometimes to the height of thirty to forty feet, and which are filled with potsherds of the successive generations that have inhabited these places. Two […]

No comments After Snofru two even larger pyramids were to come and another 14 million tons of stone were to be piled up on the desert plateau. One cannot help feeling that the Egyptians gloried as much in this stupendous achievement, towering over their living world, as over having sent off their pharaohs to accompany […]

No comments The Sailing Boats of the Nile, 1819 John Fuller Boats of the Nile Three different kinds of boats navigate the Nile. The largest are called Germs, and are used exclusively for the conveyance of com and merchandise. The Cangia is used for passengers only, and almost every person of consideration possesses one of […]

No comments The second pyramid at Giza is that of King Chephren (known to the Egyptians as Khaef-Re). Chephren’s pyramid actually appears taller than the Great Pyramid, simply because it is situated on slightly higher ground. Its measurements at the time of construction were nearly 708 feet square and 471 feet high; now it is […]

No comments The fire was said to have been caused by a short circuit, but there has been some speculation as to why the fire was not discovered immediately and why it got out of control when there was a fire station so nearby. One of my journalist friends suggested it might have been because […]

No comments Hieroglyphic Writing Right from the beginning the deciphering of the mysterious Egyptian writing fascinated everybody. In 1799 a certain Captain Bouchard of the Franch Army was supervising work on the fortifications of Fort St. Julian, situated a little more than four kilometres outside the town of Rosetta when his workmen discovered a stone […]

No comments The Luxor Museum Although of recent institution the Luxor Museum contains many interesting exhibits. The most curious item is the reconstruction of a wall, 18 metres long, from the temple that Akhen-Aton built in Thebes. The two hundred and eighty three blocks of which it is made up were found in the filling […]

No comments Edfu Seen with Clarity, 1927 Constance Sitwell The massive outer walls of the Temple of Edfu are still whole at Edfu; one can look right down the open passages that run all the length of the building; one can walk unseen along those mighty corridors between calm golden walls incised with histories of […]

No comments Mines and Ancient Greeks in the Eastern Desert, 1818 Frederic Cailliaud . we mounted our dromedaries, the master-miner, my interpreter, and myself, to make some researches in the vicinity. We proceeded in a direction to the south, to about seven leagues from Mount Zabarah. In this track we came to some mountains with […]