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No comments Amenhotep II (heqainu) Akheperure  Dynasty 18 1453-1419 BC Amenhotep II Pharaoh Biography Amenhotep II seems to have been an athletic youngster. Several representations of the king show him engaged in successful sporting pursuits, and he was keen to establish an equally good reputation in the military field. An opportunity to do just this […]

No comments A Land Created, c. 1000 al-Muqaddasi Fayoum The Nile used not to reach to al-Fayyum, so the people complained to Joseph peace be on him about it. He built a dam in the river, and at the bottom of it he installed valves, inducts of glass. The dam retained the water, so that […]

No comments Sekhemkhet  ( 2649-2643 BC) Relief in the Wadi Maghara with three representations of Sekhemkhet proceeding to the right. Two of them wear the tall White Crown and have their names in a serekh before their faces,- the middle king wears the Red Crown. According to Manetho, the remaining six kings of the 3rd […]

No comments The Invisible Ramps AND Khufu Pyramid Building How about these temporary ramps , which the Egyptians used to build the Pyramids ? This is a total invention , but it i has been repeated so many times that it became a fact , in most peoples’ mind . Herodotus never such ramps . […]

No comments The Semiramis is an old-style hotel. According to one of the guidebooks published by the Tourist Development Association of Egypt, it opened in 1934. The guidebook contains photographs of members of the royal houses and nobility of Europe who stayed there. Recently it has become the haunt of writers. At one time Mahmud […]

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No comments Seeing, Narrating, Feeling Egypt, 1977 William Golding Egyptian Deserts I ask myself how the traveller sees when he examines an Egyptian wall painting in a tomb rather than in a museum. The first thing to remember is that he does not see it in a tomb as the word is ordinarily used, at […]

No comments The Tomb of Mekhu This tomb, built by Sabni for his father, comprises a single chamber, crude in both construction and decoration. There are eighteen roughly hewn columns, in three rows. A stone table or shrine with three legs is situated between the two columns facing the entrance. The Tomb of Mekhu Representations […]

No comments Tomb of Amon-Hir-Khopshef This son of Ramses III died too young to pass into the divine presence of the gods of the underworld unaccompanied. The scenes show Ramses III leading the nine-year-old youth and introducing him to the various deities. The boy wears a side-lock of hair, indicating youth, and carries the feather […]

No comments Mortuary Temple of Seti I (Kurna) This temple was built by Seti I in reverent memory of his father, Ramses I, w ho ruled for little more than a year, and, of course, for his own cult. It was completed by his son, Ramses II. Only the rear part of the temple survives, […]

No comments Alexandria  Witness to Greatness The invasion of Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C., arrested the decline of the Pharaoh’s power, providing a new leader for the government and even hope for the people. Alexander’s subjugation of Egypt was swift. After a short pause at the foot of the Sphinx at Giza, […]

No comments Luxor Background Perhaps no city in the world has bequeathed to us more numerous nor mightier monuments than Thebes. The ancient city stood on both sides of the Nile, and few spots in Egypt are so ideally suited to such a purpose. The range of hills to the east and west curve away […]

No comments Egypt under the Romans In the first century AD, Egypt was under Roman domination. Alexandria, the harbour capital, had acquired a new source of wealth as a commercial station between India, Arabia and Rome. But an immense burden was placed on the Egyptian people in the form of taxes. The most pressing of […]

No comments The Nile River : ( The Egyptian Nile River ) – The longest river in the world ancient Egypt Nile river The Egyptian line is the longest river in the world . It’s – 4130 Miles – 6650 km , The Egyptian Nile Runs through 10 Countries from middle to south Africa   ( […]