December 2025

No comments Tombs Of The Nobles Hundreds of tombs of the nobles were constructed in the foothills of the mountains at the edge of the western desert. The most famous are those at Sheikh Abd el Kurna, west of the Ramesseum. The majority of tombs were designed in two parts: a wide court leading to […]

No comments Streets, Houses, and Palaces of Cairo, c. 1612 George Sandys Some of those streets I have found two miles in length, some not a quarter so long; every one of them is locked up in the night, with a door at each end, and guarded by a musketeer, whereby fire, robberies, tumults, and […]

No comments Tomb of Seti I By the complexity of its construction the tomb of Seti I is one of the most noteworthy in the Theban necropolis. It contains numerous flights of stairs and galleries leading to rooms supported by pillars. In one of these Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the pharaoh’s sarcophagus which is carved […]

1 comment River Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching north to about 4000 kilometers from east Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Studies have shown that the Nile river (Iteru, that is, simply, River, as it is called the Egyptians) carefully changed its area and size over millions of years. The Nile River […]

No comments Sheshonq triumphs in Palestine Following the death of Solomon in 930 BC, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel under Rehoboam (Solomon‘s son) and Jeroboam I, respectively, Sarcophagus of king Harsiese A Throne name Hedj–kheper–re Setep–en–amun (‘Bright is the Manifestation of Re, Chosen of Re’) were at loggerheads and ripe for strong Egyptian military […]

7 comments You will Find in Ancient Egypt Maps for kids : Ancient Egypt Map for Kids Ancient Egypt Map Ancient Egypt Maps You can download  more 30 Ancient Egypt Maps in the end of this topic Ancient Egypt Map for Kids Map of Ancient Egypt for Kids Ancient Egypt Map for Students Ancient Egypt […]

1 comment Taharqa the Nubian king – Taharqa pyramid – Taharqa in the bible Taharqa was the 5th Pharaoh in ancient egypt 25th dynasty ; Taharqa was king of Kush Kingdom (Taharqa The Nubian King ) , Kush located in southern Egypt or Northern Sudan. Taharqa the Nubian King Statue Taharwa’s father (Piye) was the […]

No comments The Dahabiya, 1873 Amelia Edwards A dahabeeyah, at the first glance, is more like a civic or an Oxford University barge than anything in the shape of a boat with which we in England are familiar. It is shallow and flat-bottomed, and is adapted for either sail or rowing. It carries two masts: […]

2 comments The Pyramid Texts contained a long poem spoken by Geb to his wife: Geb and Nut family Tree Nut! You became a spirit You waxed mighty in the belly of your mother, Tefnut, before you were born. How mighty is your heart! You stirred in the belly of your mother in the name […]

No comments Making a Mummy, c. 450 B.C. Herodotus Mummification is a distinct profession. The embalmers, when a body is brought to them, produce specimen models in wood, painted to resemble nature, and graded in quality; the best and most expensive kind is supposed to represent a being whose name I shrink from mentioning in […]

No comments Funeral Practices and Mummification The art of embalming bodies and trasforming them into mummies was believed to be of divine origin and to go back to Horus the son of Osiris and Isis. Mummification in Ancient Egypt The term mummy comes from the Arabic « mumiya » or « mumyai » which according […]

No comments Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Pylons We now proceed to a much ruined part of the temple. The fourth pylon {P.4), built by Thutmose I, is followed by a colonnade with a strange and interesting history. Within this enclosed area are clues to family feuds, petty jealousies and religious differences, to say nothing of […]

No comments Trying to Explain Some History, 1913 Rudyard Kipling Here is a country – Egypt – which is not a country but a longish strip of market garden, nominally in the charge of a government which is not a government but the disconnected satrapy of a half-dead empire, controlled pecksniffingly by a Power which […]

No comments Medinet Habu For a long time Medinet Habu was nothing more than a very rich quarry from which large squared blocks of stone could be obtained. In the Christian era a village grew up here which the Copts called Djeme and which occupied a large part of the zone where the temple used […]