No comments Statue of Ramses II The statue was found in Memphis, and then taken to Cairo in 1954, to be exhibited in the station square. It is 10 meters high and the double crown represents the unity between the North and the South. On the back of the statue there is a stanchion bearing […]
Theban Decline
No comments Theban Decline During the reigns of Ramses IV-XI, the country fell more and more under the control of the priests of Amon-Ra. As their power grew, they demanded blind conformity to a system that gave them control and their temples wealth. The demand for gold and workers to mine it, the need for […]
The Tomb of Rekhmire
No comments The Tomb of Rekhmire He was the vizier under Thutmose III and his son, Amenhotep II. It is a traditional 18th Dynasty nobleman’s tomb, comprising a narrow, oblong first chamber and a long corridor opposite the entrace. This corridor rapidly gains in height to the rear of the tomb and runs into the […]
Amenhotep III Pharaoh and The Royal Wives
No comments The royal wives Amenhotep III had a large – and ever-increasing – number of ladies in his harem; several of them were foreign princesses, the result of diplomatic marriages, but his chief wife was a woman of non-royal rank whom he had married before he came to the throne. This was Tiy, the […]
Horus and Seth Battle Part 3/3
No comments Horus and Seth Battle Episode 3/3 Isis, plotting to join the others on the island, disguised herself as an old woman with a bent back. Carrying a jar of barley and wearing a gold ring, she approached Anty and asked for a ride: “I have come for you to ferry me to Middle […]
The Necropolis in Luxur
No comments The Necropolis The necropolis lies on the western bank of the Nile at Luxor. Its monuments include a series of mortuary temples built by the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, and hundreds of tombs of noblemen that extend from […]
Temples and Trading in Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom
No comments Temples and Trading Temples In Egypt The cult of Amun had gradually gained in importance during the Middle Kingdom under the patronage of the princes of Thebes. Now the more powerful New Kingdom kings associated the deity with their own fortunes. Hatshepsut had built her mortuary temple for Amun on the west bank, […]
Karnak in Silence, 1873 | Luxor – Walking Through Egypt
No comments Karnak in Silence, 1873 Amelia Edwards Karnak An immense perspective of pillars and pylons leading up to a very distant obelisk opened out before us. We went in, the great walls towering up like cliffs above Kamak, retrospective view of the Grand Hall our heads, and entered the First Court. Here, in the […]
Ancient Egyptian Houses Part 3/3
No comments Ancient Egyptian Houses Turing the remains of Medinet Habu, we find the plan of the ancient Egyptian houses basically similar to those at Amarna : Square of almost square with an antechamber leading into the main living room with columns and dais . Although it is perhaps dangerous to generalize from so few […]
Nefertiti Lived Here, 1930 | Luxor – Walking Through Egypt
No comments Nefertiti Lived Here, 1930 Mary Chubb Nefertiti The sand had been cleared down to ground level. Right across the outside of the doorway lay a great oblong of limestone, quite seven feet long by three feet wide. It was far too big and rough to be a doorstep, and in any case, this […]
Ancient Egyptian 24th Dynasty
No comments The 24th Dynasty The Nubian influence had indeed been growing in southern Egypt, extending as far north as Thebes. Tefnakht, the king of Sais in the Delta, recognized this and attempted to stem the invasion by organizing a coalition of northern kings that included Osorkon IV (Tanis), Peftjauabastet (Herakleopolis), Nimlot (Hermopolis) and Iuput […]
Ra God as Royal Father
No comments Ra Egyptian God as Royal Father In Cult of the Sun, her fine book on the sun god, Rosalie David has recorded a story of Ra’s fathering of heirs to the earthly throne. The lengths to which kings of the Fifth Dynasty went to associate themselves with Ra God, which included taking his […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Part 5 | Problems and Solution
No comments Imhotep set out to build at the desert edge above Memphis a magnificent monument for the living god, the Horus Neterkhet Zoser. We shall never know whether his foremost aim was the grandeur of the construction or the idea of employing troublesome villagers during the inundations. One thing, however, is certain : the […]
Only on the River, 1836 | Arrangements for Traveling up the Nile
No comments Only on the River, 1836 John Lloyd Stephens I have heard all manner of opinion expressed in regard to a voyage on the Nile; and may be allowed, perhaps, to give my own. Mrs. S. used frequently to say that, although she had traveled in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Sicily, she had […]