No comments Mayan Pyramids Part Three The Toltecs have been described as brilliant architects, carpenters, mechanics and highly skilled agriculturists. They built their massive pyramids, palaces and houses of stone and mortar and used the temascal, or steam bath. They counted their years and used the sacred almanac of 260 days. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids The […]
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Maat Goddess of Truth and Justice
1 comment Maat Egyptian Goddess Facts Maat was perhaps the least mythological of the Egyptian gods because she was the visual form given to a philosophical concept. Her physical form was a woman carrying the ankh and scepter, and she was most readily identified by the feather she wore on her head. No one knows […]
Isis Goddess of Magic and Healing
No comments Isis Egyptian Goddess of Magic and Love One of the best known of the ancient goddesses, Isis Goddess represents the archetype of wifely love and devoted motherhood. Her life as the wife of Osiris was pleasant until Seth’s jealousy led him to murder his elder brother and to persecute his widow. Isis Goddess […]
Egyptian Pyramids: Today and Tomorrow Part 1
No comments Pyramids: Today And Tomorrow Imagine a gleaming white pyramid 853 feet high, with a spire of 212 feet and slope angle of 5 degrees, set in the financial district of one of the largest cities in the United States. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids “The Pyramid’s tapered shape makes each floor a different size. Thus […]
Snefru Pharaoh (2613 – 2589 BC) Dynasty 4
No comments Snefru King (2613 – 2589 BC) Dynasty 4 After the founding of the 4th Dynasty by Snefru c. 2613 BC, more historical records and portraits of royalty have survived. Snefru married the previous king Huni’s daughter, Hetepheres, who was to find great fame as the mother of Khufu (p. 49). Manetho says (according […]
The Rising of the Water in Egypt 25 B.C.
No comments The Rising of the Water, 25 B.C. Strabo Egyptian Nile River . . . but at the rising of the Nile the whole country is under water and becomes a lake, except the settlements; and these are situated on natural hills or on artificial mounds, and contain cities of considerable size and villages, […]
Khan El Khalile in Cairo Egypt and Interesting Facts
No comments Somewhere to Stay, 1855 Richard Burton The “Wakalah”, as the Caravanserai or Khan is called in Egypt, combines the office of hotel, lodging-house, and store. It is at Cairo, as at Constantinople, a massive pile of buildings surrounding a quadrangular “Hosh” or court-yard. On the ground-floor are rooms like caverns for merchandise, and […]
The Great Pyramid of Khufu Facts at Giza – Ancient Egypt
No comments The Great Pyramid of Khufu Khufu’s greatest achievement was the creation of a monument that was to be recognized as the first of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one now standing: the Great Pyramid on the Giza plateau. Originally 481 ft or 146.6 m high (now only 451 […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Part 1 and Archaeologists
No comments Egyptian Pyramids The Pyramid Age of Egypt began with the Third Dynasty and ended with die Sixth Dynasty. The dating of the thirty-one dynasties of the kings of Egypt in Manetho’s History of Egypt has been generally accepted by Egyptologists. The thirty one dynasties have been grouped into nine main periods as a […]
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs of 5th Dyansty
No comments We will not write about Ancient Egyptian Dynasty 5 except : Sahure : 2491-2477 Neferirkare ( Kakai ) : 2477-2467 Shepseskare : 2467-2460 Neferefre : 2460-2453 Niuserre (Ini) : 2453-2422 Menkauhor (Kaiu) : 2422-2414 Djedkare ( Isesi ) : 2414-2375 Slightly further south lie the pyramid complexes of Neferirkare, Niuserre and Sahure, of […]
The Dynasty Tombs of Ancient Egypt (2345-2181 BC)
No comments Rock Tombs of Kubbet El Hawa (Western Bank) AH were broken into at an early date and are not easy of access to the average tourist. Ancient Egyptian Tomb The Kubbet el Hawa, or Dome of the Wind, takes its name from the tiny tomb of a sheikh that rises in lonely silhouette […]
Who was Tutankhamun Pharaoh?
No comments Who Was Tutankhamun ? Exactly who Tutankhamun was is still a matter of some conjecture. An inscription on one of the great red granite lions from the temple at Soleb refers to Amenhotep III as his ‘father’. Given that Akhenaten reigned for about 16 years, coupled with the fact that Tutankhamun was about […]
Persian Period and Ancient Egyptian History
No comments The Second Persian Period When Egypt fell to the Persians in 343 BC, the reign of Nectanebo II, the last Egyptian pharaoh, came to an end; he was also the last Egyptian to rule Egypt for 2300 years until General Neguib and the 1952 Revolution. The Persian reaction, according to later Greek accounts […]
Plan to save the Temples of Abu Simbel
No comments Plan to save the Temples of Abu Simbel There are two temples at Abu Simbel: the Great Temple of Ramses II and the small temple of Nefertari, his Great Royal Wife. Both were excavated out of the solid rock of a mountain. They could not, therefore, be dismantled, transported and re-erected elsew here, […]