No comments Tombs of the Nobles Hundreds of tombs of the nobles were constructed in the foothills of the mountains at the edge of the western desert. The most famous are those at Sheikh Abd el Kurna, west of the Ramesseum. The majority of tombs were designed in two parts: a wide court leading to […]
God Kings of Ancient Egyptian Nile River | Facts and Secrets
No comments God Kings of Ancient Egyptian Nile River Egyptian civilization was one of the greatest in the ancient world, and certainly the most long lived, lasting for more than 3000 years. In the popular mind the immediate images are those of the pyramids, the great Sphinx at Giza, the enormous temples and the fabulous […]
Amenemhet’s Pyramid – Facts and Secrets
No comments Amenemhet’s Pyramid An unusual feature of Amenemhet’s reign, not seen since the Old Kingdom under Snefru, was that he built two pyramids for himself. One at Dahshur was 342 ft (104 m) square; the other at Hawara was 334 ft (102 m) square. The first must have been abandoned since the king was […]
Horus Egyptian God of War Part 2/2
No comments Horus Egyptian God Story part 2 Of all Egyptian mythological symbols the most enduring is the eye actually there were two eyes in the early myths-one associated with Ra and another with Horus God . We have seen the myth in which Ra himself had two eyes, the sun and the moon. Since […]
Sacred City of Akhetaten and The Amarna Letters
No comments The Sacred City of Akhetaten Akhetaten (or el-Amarna as it is now known) is an important site because it was occupied neither before nor after its short life as capital under Akhenaten. It is ringed by a natural amphitheatre of cliffs on both sides of the Nile and delineated by a series of […]
Menkaure Pharaoh Biography 2532-2504 BC 4th Dynasty
No comments Menkaure (Mycerinus) Dynasty 4 2532 – 2504 BC Menkaure with, in both statues, Hathor on his right, and nome figures on his left Menkaure (also known as Mycerinus) succeeded his father in about 2532 BC. According to legend, Menkaure’s benevolent rule was an affront to the gods. They had decreed that Egypt would […]
The Khamsin, 1849 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments The Khamsin, 1849 Florence Nightingale About three, the khamsin increased; it was a wind like this which destroyed six years ago a caravan of 300 camels belonging to Mehemet Ali. The air became filled with sand. The river seemed turned upside down, and flowing bottom upwards, the whirlwind of sand from the desert […]
Lifted to the Summit | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Lifted to the Summit, c. 1865 Mrs. M. Carey Great Pyramid Of Giza Three Bedouins accompanied me Abraham and two companions one as hearty as himself, the other rather too old for the work, as was soon proved by his remaining behind before we reached the top, as soon as he thought that […]
Aswan: Outdated traditions and rural continuum
No comments Outdated traditions and rural continuum The age-old tradition of prosperity or adversity being dependent on the Nile flood and the fervour with which the Nile festivals were celebrated, has finally run its course. It was started thousands of years ago by the earliest settlers of the Nile valley who thought that rites, spells, […]
Tinnis City in Egypt
No comments Tinnis, a City, c. 1000 al-Muqaddasi Tinnis City in Egypt Tinnis, situated between the Roman Sea and the Nile, is a small island in a lake, the whole of which has been built as a city and what a city! It is Baghdad in Departure from Old Cairo miniature! A mountain of gold! […]
The Royal Ship of Khufu Facts
No comments The Royal Ship of Khufu During clearance work close to the south side of the Great Pyramid in May 1954, Kamal el–Mallakh found a series of 41 large blocking stones, with an average weight of 18 tons each, which had hermetically sealed a 101 -ft (30.8-m) long rock-cut pit. Within it were the […]
Noise Pollution in Cairo Egypt
No comments The concept of noise pollution, or the idea of blasting horns being an infringement of the public’s right to quiet, is nonexistent in Cairo. If anything, the opposite is true. There is a feeling that each individual has to make his or her own contribution to the general noise, as though the number […]
Sennefer’s Tomb Pictures
No comments Sennefer’s Tomb This tomb is reached via a stair with 43 steps which goes down into the rock. Sennefer was the Prince of the Southern City during the reign of Amon-Ofis II. The tomb is famous for the beautiful bower of grapes painted on the ceiling of the vestibule. Sennefer’s Tomb Sennefer’s Tomb […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Research Part 2
No comments Shrinking and/or shriveling of experimental specimens depends on the ratio of moisture to fiber content. The higher the moisture content, the more shrunken and misshapen the specimen, as in the case of daffodils, which have a high moisture/low fiber content ratio. Roses, on the other hand, have a low moisture/high fiber content ratio […]