No comments Pyramid meditators suggest that the best results are achieved by sitting upright with the upper chakras (the forecenters of energy within) located at approximately one-third up from the pyramid base, directly under the apex. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Another of the pyramid’s mysterious energies is that of preservation. In La Pyramide de Chiops a-t-elle […]
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Pachomian monasteries in Ancient Egypt
No comments Pachomian monasteries In Upper Egypt, near Akhmim, there was a hermitage where Palomen was spiritual leader. Under him, St Pachom, one of the great pillars of the Coptic Church (f.AD 290-346), received initiation. St Pachom saw the advantages of linking together the different communities and founding monasteries. He introduced the ‘cenobitic’ way of […]
Wonders of the World, c. 1000 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Extravagance, c. 50 Pliny the Elder Great Pyramid Of Giza We will mention also cursorily the Pyramids, which are in the same country of Egypt, that idle and foolish exhibition of royal wealth. For the cause by most assigned for their construction is an intention on the part of those kings to exhaust […]
Tutankhamun Pharaoh 1334-1325 BC
No comments Tutankhamun (heqaiunushema) Nebkheperure Dynasty 18 1334-1325 BC Before the spectacular discovery of his almost intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV 62) in November 1922, Tutankhamun was a shadowy and little known figure of the late 18th Dynasty. To a certain extent he still is, despite the prominence he has acquired […]
The Sciences in Ancient Egypt
No comments The Sciences According to the teachings of the priest man acquired his ideas on science from Thot, the lunar god also called Hermes Trismegistus, a Greek name meaning « three times very great ». The social institutions of Ancient Egypt were attributed to another Hermes. Considered to be the inventor of writing he […]
Karnak at Last, 1799 | Luxor – Walking Through Egypt
No comments Karnak at Last, 1799 Vivant Denon Karnak Unable, by myself, to take the plan of Karnac temple, or make large views of this mass of ruins, which, at first sight resembles the saw-yard of a quarry, or rather piled mountains, my design was to employ the two hours there in making draughts of […]
The Ever-changing Streets, 1865
No comments The Ever-changing Streets, 1865 Lady Herbert The streets are a never-ending source of amusement and interest to the party not only from their intrinsic beauty, but from the indescribable variety and novelty of the bazaars and of the costumes of the people. Ladies of whom nothing is visible but the eyes, the rest […]
Egyptian Luxor Overview Part Two
No comments During the long pre-dynastic years while these two capitals flourished independently, sometimes peacefully, sometimes clashing in armed strife, ancient Thebes slumbered. When the southern kingdom overcame the northern and the two were united into a single state, the people of ancient Thebes continued to live as did their fathers and their fathers’ fathers […]
Khafre Pharaoh | Statue and his Pyramid
No comments King Khafre Khafra was ancient Egyptian Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty . He was 3rd or 4th king in ancient egypt history . Khafra ruled Egypt more 24 years ( 2559 BC- 2535 BC ) . He was built the second famous Pyramid in ancient Egyptian Pyramids . Khafre Pharaoh Statue Khafre’s Family […]
Pylon of Ramses II | The Temple Of Luxor
No comments Pylon of Ramses II The main entrance to the temple of Luxor is by the great Pylon of Ramses II (Plan 2 P.i). In front of it are six enormous statues of Ramses II, two seated and four standing. Were these statues not carved from solid granite one might imagine them to have […]
Collecting Dewdrops, 1813 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Collecting Dewdrops, 1813 James Silk Buckingham As night approached the captain insisted on mooring the boat, though, as the sky was clear, the moonlight bright, and no serious impediments existed to the navigation of the stream, we might have proceeded with safety; but in the East nothing is done in a hurry; time […]
Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddess Names List
No comments Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddess Herodotus said ” The ancient Egyptian people was so near to their gods and they believed all of good or bad things in their life came from the Gods ) , When Ramses ii was faced his enemies and all soldiers around him dead suddenly Amon God receive […]
Roman Egypt Facts (30 BC-AD 395)
No comments Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 395) The Roman occupation of Egypt, while ostensibly a continuation of the Greek, differed markedly from it. While a common recollection of hostility towards the Persians and a long history of commercial relations bound Egyptians and Greeks together, no such affinity existed between Egyptians and Romans. Alexander the Great […]
Cario and Egypt Tourism
No comments A Changing City, 1970 Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Along the river the changes are even more dramatic. Standing on the steps of the Museum of Antiquities, it is difficult to imagine that the view across Liberation Square to the river did not exist twenty years ago, that this central section of modern Cairo was […]