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No comments Introduction This is a book about a scientific discovery. Having spent my life as a professional scientist, I have written it up just as I would have recorded any other discovery. The training of a scientist sets limitations by which the average story writer is usually not bound. Above all, the scientist has […]

No comments As set out above, our estimate represents an average figure for a labour force of constant strength employed with maximal efficiency and at a steady rate for the span of a hundred years. This certainly must be regarded as a gross simplification but it should be remembered that it is a minimum figure, […]

No comments An Engineer at the Cataract, 1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunei Philae Temple Philae, February 13, 1859 I now write to you from a charming place; but Asowan, which 1 left to come here, is also beautiful, and I will speak of that first. It is strange that so little is said in the guide […]

No comments A City of the Earth, 1913  Rudyard Kipling But I bought nothing. The city thrust more treasure upon me than I could carry away. It came out of dark alleyways on tawny camels loaded with pots; on pattering asses half buried under nets of cut clover; in the exquisitely modelled hands of little […]

No comments The Gods of the Inundation To the ancient Egyptians a tradition survived from their remote past, that the cataract region was the edge of the world. It was said that here the life-giving waters (the annual inundation) rose from the primaeval ocean Nun to render the land fertile. Welcoming the chocolate-brown flood was […]

No comments Coming out of the Desert, 1823  Moyle Sherer Egyptian Eastern Desert It was soon after daybreak, on the morrow, just as the sun was beginning to give his rich colouring of golden yellow to the white pale sand; that as I was walking alone at some distance far ahead of my companions, my […]

No comments Mentuhotep II Sankhkare 2010 -1998 BC Mentuhotep II The long reign of Mentuhotep I was used to good advantage, allowing the king to bequeath to his son, Sankhkare Mentuhotep II, the throne of a flourishing country. It also meant that Mentuhotep II was relatively elderly when he came to power in 2010 BC, […]

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 […]