No comments On the eastern bank of the River Nile, nearly seven hundred kilometres south of Cairo, there once stood an unpretentious village called Waset. It was no different from hundreds of others and as yet had no inkling of its destined growth into the pivot of a stupendous civilization. This was the site of […]
Ahmose I Pharaoh 1570-1546 BC
No comments Ahmose I Nebpehtyre Dynasty 18 1570 – 1546 BC Ahmose I Pharaoh Biography With the expulsion of the Hyksos, the princes of Thebes now reigned supreme. The war against the Hyksos had not been without cost: Ahmose lost his father Seqenenre II and his brother Kahmose within about three years of each other, […]
Tomb of Ramses IX
No comments Tomb of Ramses IX This is a traditional tomb comprising three chambers, one following the other in a straight line. It is approached via an inclined plane with steps on either side. Flanking the doorway are representations of the deceased: he burns incense and makes an offering of a vase to Harmachis-Amon-Ra and […]
Ptolemaic Dynasty in Ancient Egypt Part 1/3
No comments Ptolemaic Dynasty 305-30 BC Meryamun Setepenre : 305-282 BC Ptolemy II (Philadelphia) Userkaenre Meryamun : 285-246 BC Ptolemy III (Euergetes I) Iwaennetjerwysenwy Sekhemankhre Setepamun : 246-222 BC waennetjerwy- menkhwy Setepptah Userkare Sekhemankhamun :222-205 BCIwaennetjerwy- merwyitu Setepptah Userkare Sekhem-ankhamun : 205-180 BC Iwaennetjerwyper Setepenptahkhepri Irmaatenamunre : 180-164, 163-145 BC Bust of Ptolemy I in […]
Medinet Habu
No comments Medinet Habu Medinet Habu is the name given to a large group of buildings that were started in the 18th Dynasty, but on which construction continued through to Roman times. The main feature of the complex is the mortuary temple of Ramses III. It is approached by passing through an unusual entrance structure […]
Djedefre Pharaoh ( 2566 – 2558 BC ) Dynasty 4 – Ancient Egypt
No comments Djedefre King 2566 – 2558 BC Dynasty 4 Djedefre Pharaoh Statue Khufu’s successor was his short-lived son Djedefre, of whom little is known. It was presumably he who completed his father’s burial at Giza and was especially responsible for the provision of his funerary boats (pp. 48-49). Djedefre’s main significance is that he […]
Southern Tombs: Tomb of Mahu
No comments Southern Tombs Tomb of Mahu This is the tomb of a police officer, which is entered by a narrow flight of steps. In the main chamber Mahu is represented on all four walls carrying out his official duties. As we move anti-clockwise, we see him supervising the delivery of produce and lending an […]
The Mortuary Temple of Ramses III
No comments The Mortuary Temple Of Ramses III Ramses III ruled Egypt for some thirty years during the 20th Dynasty, when central power was weakening, foreign influence was declining and internal security was poor. In fact, he was the last Ramses of any consequence. After his death the state priesthood of Amon acquired increasing power […]
Snefru’s Meidum Pyramid
No comments Huni and / or Snefru’s Meidum Pyramid As we get closer to Meidum , we see the outline of a strange structure . What is this structure ? This is the remains of Snefru’s Pyramid . It does not like a pyramid at all . True . It looks more like kind of […]
The Early and Opulent Years | Amenhotep III Pharaoh
No comments The Early Years Amenhotep’s reign falls essentially into two unequal parts. The first decade reflected a young and vigorous king, promoting the sportsman Amenhotep‘s reign falls essentially into two unequal parts. The first decade reflected a young and vigorous king, promoting the sportsman One of the few surviving three-dimensional representations of Amenhotep I […]
Ramesside Period 1293-1069BC
No comments Ramesside Period or Ramessa Dynasty Ramesside Period king ( Ramous ) Reason of This name (Ramesside period) because the eleven Egyptian’s pharaohs ( Kings ) that took the name of Ramesses. Ramesside Period between nineteenth Dynasties and twentieth Dynasties who ruled Egypt for 215 ears (1292- 1077 BC) Ramesside Village discovered 2011 Ramesside […]
Egyptian Bent Pyramid
No comments The Bent Pyramid, also known as False, Rhomboidal and Blunted, lies to the south of the second of the group, and has definitely been ascribed to Seneferu. This pyramid appears to have been originally planned as a geometrically true pyramid but, for some unknown reason, was so hurriedly completed that the builders, in […]
Water, Flora and Fragments, 1871 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Water, Flora and Fragments, 1871 Samuel Manning Prospects of Sinai The route southward from Ayun Mousa [the well of Moses near the Red Sea] leads along the shore over gravely plains many miles broad, which slope upward from the sea to the mountains of the Tih. After heavy rains the tenacious marl is […]
Mortuary Temple of Ramses II (The Ramesseum)
No comments Mortuary Temple of Ramses II (The Ramesseum) Ramses II left a greater mark in history than many other accomplished and successful pharaohs, such as Ahmose (who won the war of liberation against the Hyksos) and Thutmose III (who won a great empire). The reason is that Ramses II had one of the longest […]