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No comments Craft techniques  in ancient Egypt The techniques of sculpting were not very different. The outline of a statue was marked on an appropriate piece of stone with red ochre. The piece was then roughly blocked out and the features modeled. In the case of soft stones such as limestone, chisels could be used […]

No comments Giza’s Pyramids Of all the Seven Wonders of the World, only the Great Pyramid at Giza remains today. Like the other pyramids of Egypt (discussed in the previous chapter), the Great Pyramid continues to confound Egyptologists, who are at a loss to explain the method and purpose of its construction. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids […]

No comments Visiting the Monastery of Baramous, 1833 Robert Curzon This monastery consisted of a high stone wall, surrounding a square enclosure, of about an acre in extent. A large square tower commanded the narrow entrance, which was closed by a low and narrow iron door. Within there was a good- sized church in tolerable […]

2 comments The Great Sphinx The Sphinx is an integral part of the funerary complex of Khafre and was apparently carved from an outcrop of local limestone rock left after the quarrying of blocks for the nearby Great Pyramid of Khufu. It is a crouching, human-headed lion that represents Re-Harakhte, the sun god at his […]

No comments Philae ‘s Early History In his journey , about 450 B.C., the Greek historian Herodotus stopped at Elephantine Island , four and a half miles below Philae , but he did not mention Philae. There was nothing remarkable about the region a that time. However , Strabo, the Roman geographer and historian (BC. […]

No comments Tracking, 1873 Amelia Edwards The good wind continued to blow all that night; but fell at sunrise, precisely when we were about to start. The river now stretched away before us, smooth as glass, and there was nothing for it, said Reis Hassan, but tracking. We had heard of tracking often enough since […]

No comments Khafre King  (Chephren) 2558 – 2532 BC Dynasty 4 Khafre King – Khafre Statue It was another of Khufu’s sons, Khafre (Chephren) – builder of the Second Pyramid and Great Sphinx at Giza – who succeeded Djedefre in about 2558 BC. Manetho identifies Khafre as Suphis II and credits him with a reign […]

No comments Amun : ‘King of the Gods’ Other Names: Amen, Amun, Ammon, Amoun Amun-Ra Symbol : Goose , Ram and Bull Appearance : Human Body with with a ram head , wearing tall feather crown and ostrich plumed hat Mythology of Amun God : Amun was the important in ancient Egypt – Who in […]

No comments Two Literary Masterpieces It is during the early 12th Dynasty that two of the greatest texts of Egyptian literature were composed. In The Instructions of Amenemhet’ (known from seven papyri copies of later date), the ghost of Amenemhet reveals himself in a dream to his son and successor Senusret I, giving him good […]

No comments The Love of Abydos, 1908 Douglas Sladen It was clear that our dragoman loved Abydos better than any other place he took us to. He bubbled over with information and high spirits. This is the sort of dialogue to which he treated us. He clapped his hands and began: “This way, this way, […]

No comments Pyramids might also be particularly well-suited for use as . study booths in high schools and institutions of higher education. If, as claimed, the pyramid is capable of both relaxing and energizing individuals, many students might find their mental acuity vastly improved by doing their research or homework inside such structures. Ancient Egyptian […]

No comments Tomb of Sirenput I Sirenput was a prince of Elephantine in the reign of Senusert I, at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom. It was he who was encouraged by his sovereign to erect the sanctuary of Hekaib, and the royal artists he entrusted with the work on the sanctuary also decorated his […]

No comments The Egyptian Museum The French Egyptologist, Mariette Pasha, insisted on the construction of a big museum to house the Pharaonic works of art. Twenty years later, the French architect Marcel Dourgnon presented the plan of the Egyptian Museum building situated in the centre of Cairo. The museum was opened in 1902 and Gasto […]

No comments The pharaoh was gradually becoming closely connected with Re and, after death, was going to accompany the sun god on his daily journey across the sky. After Khufu the name adopted by the pharaoh contained the syllable ‘re’, and the tutelage of Heliopolis, which was to come into full force in the Fifth […]