No comments The Camel, 1834 Hon. W.E. Fitzmaurice Egyptian Camels There is something in the aspect of a camel that instantly puts all European ideas to flight: their patient mild endurance of fatigue and privation; the docility which they show in the most trivial matters, even if girted in the smallest degree too tight for […]
The Nilometer, c. 1000
No comments The Nilometer, c. 1000 al-Muqaddasi Nilometer The Nilometer: a pond in the middle of which is a tall column whereon are the marks in cubits and fingers; in charge of itvis a superintendent, and around it are doors that fit together tightly. A report is presented to the Ruler every day of the […]
On Pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, 383 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments On Pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, 383 Egeria Jerusalem for Palestinians Only From Jerusalem to the holy Mount Sinai is twenty-two staging-posts. . . . Before you reach the holy Mount Sinai you come to the fort of Clysma (probably a village near Suez) on the Red Sea, the place where the children […]
Egyptian Pyramid Power Facts Part 3
1 comment The Papyrus of Ani, now in the British Museum, provides the original concept of the death and rebirth theme (the rejuvenation of the human soul) in connection with the Great Pyramid. Better known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, this manuscript is thought to have been written around 1500 B.C. The translators […]
Ra Egyptian God of the Sun
9 comments Ra God The Sun God Now we will speak about the most famous God in ancient Egypt ( Ra God ) the God of the Sun our article will consist of some points Ra ancient Egyptian God Ra God was a version of the sun god , and Egyptian art often represented him […]
The Sultan’s Banquet, c. 1050
No comments The Sultan’s Banquet, c. 1050 Naser-e Khosraw It is customary for the Sultan to have a banquet twice a year, on the two great holidays, and to hold court for both the elite and the common people: the elite in his presence and the commoners in other halls and places. Having heard a […]
Tomb of Sabni in Egypt
No comments Tomb of Sabni Sabni’s text relates how he travelled to Wawat and duly punished the tribe responsible for his father’s death. Then he recovered the body and started his journey home. Tomb of Sabni Meanwhile, his sovereign, Pepi II, had despatched a whole convoy of royal embalmers and mortuary priests along with the […]
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs in 6th Dynasty 2345-2181 BC
No comments Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs Dynasty 6 Pepi I (Meryre) : 2332 – 2283 BC Merenre (Nemtyemsaf) 2283 – 2278 BC Pepi II (Neferkare) 2278 – 2184 BC Pepi I Pharaoh Teti’s son Pepi I probably acceded to the throne very young, for he appears to have had a long reign of about 50 years. […]
Bent Pyramid Facts
1 comment Bent Pyramid facts – Bent Pyramid built – Bent Pyramid photo and images – Bent Pyramid Number 5 : Snefru’s Bent Pyramid | All Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Information Snefru’s Bent Pyramid Bent Pyramid of Snefru Size : Base : 602′(184m) square Height : 344′(105m) Mass : 3.6 million tones Inclination :5 3 ْ […]
500 Miles up the Nile River – Denderah | Aswan
No comments Nearly Five Hundred Miles up the Nile, 1843 Countess Hahn-Hahn We arrived here yesterday afternoon, having left Fostat on 19th December, and spent 24 hours at Denderah. This is no inconsiderable time for a distance of 480 miles. Such dilatoriness would drive one to despair in Europe but here the journey is considered […]
Khufu Pharaoh Facts 2589 BC – 2566 BC
3 comments Khufu Pyramid – Khufu ship – Khufu mummy Khufu pharaoh the owner of the largest Pyramid in the Ancient Egyptian history . Khufu’s Pyramid on of the seven wonders of the world . Khufu pharaoh Statue He was the second pharaoh in the 4th dynasty after Snefru pharaoh (The Fourth Dynasty Founder ) […]
Visiting the Dead, 1326 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Visiting the Dead, 1326 Ibn Battuta Egyptian Cemetery At Cairo too is the great cemetery of al-Qarafa, which is a place of peculiar sanctity, and contains the graves of innumerable scholars and pious believers. In the Qarafa the people build beautiful pavilions surrounded by walls, so that they look like houses. They also […]
Egyptian Animals 1845 | Luxor – Walking Through Egypt
No comments Timseach! Timseach! 1845 Eliot Warburton The first time that a man fires at a crocodile is an epoch in his life. We had only now arrived in the waters where they abound, for it is a curious fact that none are ever seen below Mineyeh, though Herodotus speaks of them as fighting with […]
Walking through the Valley of the Cataract, 1836
No comments Walking through the Valley of the Cataract, 1836 Lord Lindsay In this black chain of mountains is an extraordinary ravine, called Wady Shellal, or the Valley of the Cataract. Hussein took us through it, while the caravan went °n by the usual route; the valley is not a stone’s jerk wide, but the […]