No comments Good Morning, Luxor ! 1873 Amelia Edwards Luxor in Morning Coming on deck the third morning after leaving Denderah, we found the dahabeeyah decorated with palm-branches, our sailors in their holiday turbans, and Reis Hassan en grande tenue; that is to say in shoes and stockings, which he only wore on very great […]
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Ancient Egyptian Nile River
No comments The Nile The Nile winds its way 6,500 kilometres from its origins in the Great African lakes to the Mediterranean. Ancient Egyptian Nile River Its sources were unknown until the 19th century. Today thay have been identified in the Nyawarongo river, a tributary of another river which enters Lake Victoria. Ancient Egyptian Nile […]
Ramadan in Lataifa, 1992 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Ramadan in Lataifa, 1992 Amitav Ghosh From the very first days of the lunar month the normal routines of the village had undergone a complete change: it was as though a segment of time had been picked from the calendar and turned inside out. Early in the morning, a good while before sunrise, […]
Sources of Egyptian Pyramids Stones
No comments The Source of the Stones Are you saying that the Ancient Egyptians manufactured hard stones from mineral ores ? Yes . Their Knowledge in manufacturing stones was also utilized in manufacture the stones for the sonry pyramids . Ancient Egyptian Pyramids What is your evidence to support the idea of man made stone […]
The Society of Ancient Egypt: The Pharaoh
No comments The Society of Ancient Egypt The Pharaoh Egypt was always an absolute monarchy, the king or Pharaoh was belived to be a god living on earth who, after his apparent death, would return to join the other deities. He bore the title « Child of the Sun » and represented religious, political and […]
Akhenaten Pharaoh Facts
No comments Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) Neferkheperure Dynasty 18 1350-1334 BC Amenhotep IV – better known as Akhenaten, the new name he took early on in his reign – ushered in a revolutionary period in Egyptian history. The Amarna Interlude, as it is often called, saw the removal of the seat of government to a short-lived […]
Buildings of Cairo Egypt
No comments The Buildings of Cairo, c. 1200 Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi One notices in the buildings of the Egyptians a marvellous art and a very wise disposition of the parts; it is very rare to leave any place unused which has no purpose. Their palaces are vast: usually they make their abode in the upper […]
South by Train, 1873 | Arrangements for Traveling up the Nile
No comments South by Train, 1873 Gabriel Charmes Still I did not follow the Nile in order to go to Syout; I took the railway. The journey lasts twelve hours across a country singularly spoilt by the manufactories of Ismail Pacha and his sugar-cane plantations. On leaving Cairo at about eight in the morning, you […]
Ptah God of Creation and Craftsmen
1 comment Ptah Egyptian God of Creation and Craftsmen Facts In his usual depiction, Ptah God was one of the most distinctive of all the gods. He was shown as a bald-headed man, wearing a beard and a tight-fitting garment reminiscent of a mummy’s wrappings; from the back of the neck hung a flower-shaped menat, […]
Granite Quarries of Ancient Egypt
No comments Granite Quarries The old granite quarries about two kilometres from the city stretch along the Nile for about six kilometres. From the grooves which have been cut in a regular manner into the syenite walls we can get some idea of how the blocks of granite were removed. Wedges of wood were inserted […]
Cairo in Festive Mood, 1863
No comments Cairo in Festive Mood, 1863 G.A. Hoskins Cairo in Festive Mood The festivals of Cairo are very interesting, but travellers, spending almost all their time on the Nile, have seldom an opportunity of seeing them. The Mooled el Hassaneyn is a grand festival to celebrate the birth of El Hassaneyn, whose head is […]
The Gardens of Cairo and Memorials of Jesus, 1839
No comments The Gardens of Cairo and Memorials of Jesus, 1839 P.D. Holthaus Gardens of Cairo [Returning from the Pyramids] . . . we again reached the Nile, opposite to Old Cairo. We sailed for the Nile island, Roda, and saw the ancient building in which the Pharaohs once resided. On this island are very […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Energy Part 6
No comments Some physicists believe that the Pyramid is not only an accumulator of energies, but also a modifier of these same energies. It is known that any object within which energy vibrates is capable of acting as a resonating cavity. It is also known that the energy is focused at a certain point within […]
Looking down from a Desert Monastery | Egyptian Deserts
No comments Looking down from a Desert Monastery, 1833 Robert Curzon Egyptian Deserts To those who are not familiar with the aspect of such a region as this, it may be well to explain that a desert such as that which now surrounded me resembles more than anything else a dusty turnpike-road in England on […]