No comments The Ever-changing Streets, 1865 Lady Herbert The streets are a never-ending source of amusement and interest to the party not only from their intrinsic beauty, but from the indescribable variety and novelty of the bazaars and of the costumes of the people. Ladies of whom nothing is visible but the eyes, the rest […]
Egyptian Luxor Overview Part Two
No comments During the long pre-dynastic years while these two capitals flourished independently, sometimes peacefully, sometimes clashing in armed strife, ancient Thebes slumbered. When the southern kingdom overcame the northern and the two were united into a single state, the people of ancient Thebes continued to live as did their fathers and their fathers’ fathers […]
Khafre Pharaoh | Statue and his Pyramid
No comments King Khafre Khafra was ancient Egyptian Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty . He was 3rd or 4th king in ancient egypt history . Khafra ruled Egypt more 24 years ( 2559 BC- 2535 BC ) . He was built the second famous Pyramid in ancient Egyptian Pyramids . Khafre Pharaoh Statue Khafre’s Family […]
Pylon of Ramses II | The Temple Of Luxor
No comments Pylon of Ramses II The main entrance to the temple of Luxor is by the great Pylon of Ramses II (Plan 2 P.i). In front of it are six enormous statues of Ramses II, two seated and four standing. Were these statues not carved from solid granite one might imagine them to have […]
Collecting Dewdrops, 1813 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Collecting Dewdrops, 1813 James Silk Buckingham As night approached the captain insisted on mooring the boat, though, as the sky was clear, the moonlight bright, and no serious impediments existed to the navigation of the stream, we might have proceeded with safety; but in the East nothing is done in a hurry; time […]
Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddess Names List
No comments Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddess Herodotus said ” The ancient Egyptian people was so near to their gods and they believed all of good or bad things in their life came from the Gods ) , When Ramses ii was faced his enemies and all soldiers around him dead suddenly Amon God receive […]
Roman Egypt Facts (30 BC-AD 395)
No comments Roman Egypt (30 BC-AD 395) The Roman occupation of Egypt, while ostensibly a continuation of the Greek, differed markedly from it. While a common recollection of hostility towards the Persians and a long history of commercial relations bound Egyptians and Greeks together, no such affinity existed between Egyptians and Romans. Alexander the Great […]
Cario and Egypt Tourism
No comments A Changing City, 1970 Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Along the river the changes are even more dramatic. Standing on the steps of the Museum of Antiquities, it is difficult to imagine that the view across Liberation Square to the river did not exist twenty years ago, that this central section of modern Cairo was […]
Memphis Egypt is a scattering of low Houses
No comments Today, Memphis is a scattering of low houses, their mud walls punctured with little holes to let the light in, and here and there daubed with Arabic graffiti painted in red or green. Looking at the place as it is now, it is difficult to realize that one of the greatest cities in […]
Napoleon of Ancient Egypt
No comments The Napoleon of ancient Egypt In Year 2 of his independent reign (nominally his Year 23), Tuthmosis III opened up his Near Eastern campaign. A reasonably trustworthy account of the battles was inscribed on the inside walls surrounding the granite sanctuary at Karnak. The author of these so-called Annals was the archivist, royal […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Part 2 | Problems and Solution
No comments First of all, we must take a closer look at the technological and economic implications of the construction of large pyramids. A great deal has, in fact, been written about methods of pyramid construction in particular about the type of ramps and the way in which the blocks were quarried, transported and placed. […]
How a Pyramid is Built and Unbuilt, 1825
No comments How a Pyramid is Built and Unbuilt, 1825 Edward Lane Egyptian Pyramids Built During the afternoon of the 19th [March], a favourable wind enabled us to continue the voyage. . . . For several miles . . . we had a view of the Pyramid of Meydoo’n; a grand object being little inferior […]
The Tomb of Menna
No comments The Tomb of Menna This fine tomb belongs to the Scribe of the Fields under Thutmose IV. It is in a good state of preservation, apart from the face of Menna which has been deliberately destroyed. Tomb of Menna On the left-hand entrance wall (a) Menna can be seen before a table of […]
Geb Egyptian God of Earth
No comments Geb Egyptian God of Earth Perhaps the best known activity of Shu and Tefnut was to give birth to two children, Geb and Nut; Shu was then responsible for separating the two and creating fro them the earth and sky. Geb was the god of the earth. The coffin Texts told of Ra‘s […]