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No comments Visiting the Dead, 1326 Ibn Battuta Egyptian Cemetery At Cairo too is the great cemetery of al-Qarafa, which is a place of peculiar sanctity, and contains the graves of innumerable scholars and pious believers. In the Qarafa the people build beautiful pavilions surrounded by walls, so that they look like houses. They also […]

No comments Timseach! Timseach! 1845 Eliot Warburton The first time that a man fires at a crocodile is an epoch in his life. We had only now arrived in the waters where they abound, for it is a curious fact that none are ever seen below Mineyeh, though Herodotus speaks of them as fighting with […]

No comments Walking through the Valley of the Cataract, 1836 Lord Lindsay In this black chain of mountains is an extraordinary ravine, called Wady Shellal, or the Valley of the Cataract. Hussein took us through it, while the caravan went °n by the usual route; the valley is not a stone’s jerk wide, but the […]

No comments The Temple Of Luxor Amenhotep III, the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh and great-grandson of the military genius Thutmose III, built the temple of Luxor close to the banks of the Nile just south of the city. Though by this time Egyptian military power was past its peak, economic conditions within the capital were sound. […]

No comments According to Plutarch, Osiris was born on the 361st day of the year. Like Christ, he traveled a great deal. He became King of Egypt and “tamed [his subjects] by music and gentleness, not by force of arms.” Plutarch recounts that he was betrayed by the powers of darkness and slain and dismembered. […]

5 comments Djoser King owner of the Saqqara Pyramid , Djoseris most famous Kind in the 3rd dynasty of the ancient Egyptian’s history ; He delegate Imhotep to build the first pyramid in the ancient Egyptian history to be his tomb that is mean Saqqara pyramid is Djose’s Tomb . Djoser pharaoh Djoser king ruled […]

No comments Peruvian Pyramids Part Two The people of the Moche civilization erected many massive and impressive temples, the most famous of which are the gigantic twin pyramids at Moche, close by the modem city of Trujillo. These twin pyramids are known today as “La Huaca del Sol” (The Temple of the Sun) and “La […]

No comments The ancient Egyptians were a people who knew how to enjoy themselves, as the great number and variety of pastimes recorded in tomb scenes so vividly illustrates. Indeed, it was to a large extent the intense pleasure which they found in life that encouraged them to seek to continue it after death. Recreation […]

No comments Into the Desert to the Oasis and Beyond, 1834 Mohammed Ibn Umar Oasis and Beyond When the camels were at length laden, we struck into the desert, and on the evening of the fifth day reached Khaijeh, the Theban oasis. This place is planted with date-trees that surround it as the anklets surround […]

No comments St Paul The first of the great persecutions started in the reign of Trajan Decius (249-251). The number of Egyptians who escaped to the deserts increased. Among them was St Paul, the Theban, a native Egyptian who spoke Greek only with the greatest difficulty (as distinct from the Hellenized Egyptians in Alexandria). He […]

No comments Celebrating on High, 1843 Dr. Richard Lepsius Great Pyramids Yesterday, the 15th October, was our king’s birthday, and I had selected this day for the first visit to the Great Pyramids. We would there, with a few friends, commemorate our King and our Fatherland in a joyous festival. . . . The morning […]

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No comments The king as builder Much of the wealth acquired in the Nubian campaigns was directed towards the temples in Egypt and their renewal. An inscription from Abydos of the official Ikhernofret tells of the king’s commission that he refurbish Osiris’s barge, shrine and chapels with gold, electrum, lapis lazuli, malachite and other costly […]

1 comment The Step Pyramid Of Djoser ( Zoser ) How did the idea of pyramid come to Imhotep ? ( Imhotep was the architect of Djoser’s Step Pyramid ) Step Pyramid Of Djoser (Zoser) The idea of a step pyramid was not his original intention . The original objective was ti build a mastaba-type […]