December 2025

No comments Death and Burial In Year 67 (1212 BC) Ramses II, perhaps 92 years of age, was called to the west to join the gods. His tomb had long been prepared in the Valley of the Kings (KV 7), and was as large, if not larger in area, than that of his father Seti […]

No comments Night in the Western Desert, 1923 Ahmad Hassanein Egyptian Western Desert Then, the day’s work is at an end. Camp is pitched. No tents are erected, for the men are too exhausted, too careless to mind what happens to their bodies. And night falls. It may be a starlit night, or there may […]

No comments Herodotus gives a quite fantastic description of the interior of Khufu’s pyramid, referring to a subterranean lake under the building with an island in it on which the pharaoh was buried. This indicates that the pyramid, which certainly had been entered during the First Intermediate Period, had been closed up again. Moreover, the […]

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No comments Mosque of Sultan Hassan This is one of the most beautiful and monumental mosques in Cairo. The builder of this mosque and school was Sultan El Nasser Hassan. He was the 19th of the Turkish Sultans to have reigned in Egypt and the seventh son of the Sultan El Nasser Mohamed Ibn Kalaoun. […]

No comments Horemheb (meryamun) Djeserkheperure Setepenre  Dynasty 18 1321-1293 BC Horemheb Pharaoh Biography 1321-1293 BC Horemheb‘s background is virtually unknown except that he came from Herakleopolis near the entrance to the Faiyum and was obviously a career officer whose capabilities were early recognized. First serving under Amenhotep III, he became Great Commander of the Army […]

No comments Facts and Secrets about Ancient Egyptian Musical Instruments Dance was also very popular in ancient Egypt, again in both religious and secular spheres. Rhythmic Accompaniment was provided by clapping, clapping, cymbals, tambourines or chanting. Again, dancing was mainly a group activity, Representations vary from slow, postured movement to lyrical, fluid or gymnastic performances. […]

No comments Introduction This is a book about a scientific discovery. Having spent my life as a professional scientist, I have written it up just as I would have recorded any other discovery. The training of a scientist sets limitations by which the average story writer is usually not bound. Above all, the scientist has […]

No comments As set out above, our estimate represents an average figure for a labour force of constant strength employed with maximal efficiency and at a steady rate for the span of a hundred years. This certainly must be regarded as a gross simplification but it should be remembered that it is a minimum figure, […]

No comments An Engineer at the Cataract, 1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunei Philae Temple Philae, February 13, 1859 I now write to you from a charming place; but Asowan, which 1 left to come here, is also beautiful, and I will speak of that first. It is strange that so little is said in the guide […]

No comments A City of the Earth, 1913  Rudyard Kipling But I bought nothing. The city thrust more treasure upon me than I could carry away. It came out of dark alleyways on tawny camels loaded with pots; on pattering asses half buried under nets of cut clover; in the exquisitely modelled hands of little […]

No comments The Gods of the Inundation To the ancient Egyptians a tradition survived from their remote past, that the cataract region was the edge of the world. It was said that here the life-giving waters (the annual inundation) rose from the primaeval ocean Nun to render the land fertile. Welcoming the chocolate-brown flood was […]

No comments Coming out of the Desert, 1823  Moyle Sherer Egyptian Eastern Desert It was soon after daybreak, on the morrow, just as the sun was beginning to give his rich colouring of golden yellow to the white pale sand; that as I was walking alone at some distance far ahead of my companions, my […]

No comments Mentuhotep II Sankhkare 2010 -1998 BC Mentuhotep II The long reign of Mentuhotep I was used to good advantage, allowing the king to bequeath to his son, Sankhkare Mentuhotep II, the throne of a flourishing country. It also meant that Mentuhotep II was relatively elderly when he came to power in 2010 BC, […]