No comments The Dahabiya, 1873 Amelia Edwards A dahabeeyah, at the first glance, is more like a civic or an Oxford University barge than anything in the shape of a boat with which we in England are familiar. It is shallow and flat-bottomed, and is adapted for either sail or rowing. It carries two masts: […]
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Love poem From Geb to Nut
2 comments The Pyramid Texts contained a long poem spoken by Geb to his wife: Geb and Nut family Tree Nut! You became a spirit You waxed mighty in the belly of your mother, Tefnut, before you were born. How mighty is your heart! You stirred in the belly of your mother in the name […]
Making a Mummy and Egyptian Mummy Facts
No comments Making a Mummy, c. 450 B.C. Herodotus Mummification is a distinct profession. The embalmers, when a body is brought to them, produce specimen models in wood, painted to resemble nature, and graded in quality; the best and most expensive kind is supposed to represent a being whose name I shrink from mentioning in […]
Funeral Practices and Mummification in Ancient Egypt
No comments Funeral Practices and Mummification The art of embalming bodies and trasforming them into mummies was believed to be of divine origin and to go back to Horus the son of Osiris and Isis. Mummification in Ancient Egypt The term mummy comes from the Arabic « mumiya » or « mumyai » which according […]
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Pylons | Temple Of Amon At Karnak
No comments Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Pylons We now proceed to a much ruined part of the temple. The fourth pylon {P.4), built by Thutmose I, is followed by a colonnade with a strange and interesting history. Within this enclosed area are clues to family feuds, petty jealousies and religious differences, to say nothing of […]
The Beneficence of Egypt, c. 1000
No comments Trying to Explain Some History, 1913 Rudyard Kipling Here is a country – Egypt – which is not a country but a longish strip of market garden, nominally in the charge of a government which is not a government but the disconnected satrapy of a half-dead empire, controlled pecksniffingly by a Power which […]
Medinet Habu Facts
No comments Medinet Habu For a long time Medinet Habu was nothing more than a very rich quarry from which large squared blocks of stone could be obtained. In the Christian era a village grew up here which the Copts called Djeme and which occupied a large part of the zone where the temple used […]
The Mosques of Cairo, c. 1000
No comments The Mosques of Cairo, c. 1000 al-Muqaddasi This particular mosque is known as al–Sufflani (the Lower). It was founded by ‘Amr bin al-‘As, and within it stands his pulpit. The building is well constructed, with some mosaics set into the walls. It stands on pillars of marble, and is bigger than the mosque […]
Amenhotep III Pharaoh 1386-1349 BC
No comments Amenhotep III (heqawaset) Nubmaatre Dynasty 18 1386-1349 BC Colossal granite head of Amenhotep III, British Museum Amenhotep III Pharaoh Biography 1386-1349 BC Amenhotep Ill’s long reign of almost 40 years was one of the most prosperous and stable in Egyptian history. His great-grandfather, Tuthmosis III, had laid the foundations of the Egyptian empire […]
New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt 1570-1070 BC
No comments The New Kingdom 1570-1070 BC Ancient Egyptian Civilization There can be little doubt that the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, spanning half a millennium of Egyptian history, were indeed god-like beings on earth. Their immense works, temples and fortresses have left their stamp upon the face of Egypt. We can gaze upon many […]
The Boundaries of the Egypt c. 960
No comments The Boundaries of the Country, c. 960 Ebn Haukal One of the boundaries of Egypt begins from the Sea ofRoum, between Iskanderiah and Barkah, at the desert behind Wahh; proceeding to the land of the Nubians, and to the land ofBajeh, and back from Asouon to the Sea ofRoum; and from Bajeh to […]
Snefru Pharaoh Facts
1 comment Snefru Bent pyramid , Snefru Red pyramid , Snefru Medium Pyramid Snefru pharaoh or Senephru or Sneferu Snefru pharaoh the founder of the 4th Dynasty of ancient Egyptian history . Senferu ruled ancient Egypt more 24 years ( 2613 BC – 2589 BC ) ; Snefru meaning in ancient Egyptian language ( Hieroglyphs […]
The Labyrinth? c. 450 B.C. | Walking Through Egypt
No comments The Labyrinth? c. 450 B.C. Herodotus Pyramids Labyrinth I visited this place, and found it to surpass description; for if all the walls and other great works of the Greeks were put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth. Though no one would deny that the […]
Where is the Queen? 1882 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Where is the Queen? 1882 Samuel Cox Cheops Tomb Let us enter: not without hope! The slippery path inward slopes downward until it meets a great gallery, which runs upward at an angle of forty-five degrees. Then, on a level, it runs to the Queen’s Chamber. Returning on this level, at the same […]