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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

No comments Today, Memphis is a scattering of low houses, their mud walls punctured with little holes to let the light in, and here and there daubed with Arabic graffiti painted in red or green. Looking at the place as it is now, it is difficult to realize that one of the greatest cities in […]

No comments The Napoleon of ancient Egypt In Year 2 of his independent reign (nominally his Year 23), Tuthmosis III opened up his Near Eastern campaign. A reasonably trustworthy account of the battles was inscribed on the inside walls surrounding the granite sanctuary at Karnak. The author of these so-called Annals was the archivist, royal […]

No comments First of all, we must take a closer look at the technological and economic implications of the construction of large pyramids. A great deal has, in fact, been written about methods of pyramid construction  in particular about the type of ramps and the way in which the blocks were quarried, transported and placed. […]