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 […]
Egyption Valley of the Kings
No comments Valley of the Kings Deep in the limestone hills to the north-west of Deir el Bahri is a remote valley. Here the pharaohs of the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties chose their eternal resting place. Thutmose I was the first pharaoh to excavate a tomb in the barren valley, and to construct his […]
So Much to See in Luxor,1848 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Communications with the People, 1814 Henry Light Egyptian pepole In some villages I was able to assist the sick by medicines and advice; in others, I added to the catalogue of charms by writing Arabic sentences in praise of God and the Prophet at the request of the villagers. These placed in the […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids at Dahshur Part 5
No comments The Menkaure pyramid, too, was built with large, well-squared blocks. Vyse and Perring said that ‘The bulk of the pyramid has been more carefully built than the two larger and the stones have been better finished, and are of greater size’. Moreover, the hole cut into its eastern face by the Caliph Malek […]
The further campaigns of Ramses III
No comments The further campaigns of Ramses III For three years Egypt was quiet. Then came trouble on the western borders, again with the Libyans, allied with the Meshwesh and five other tribes. There had been a slight infiltration by immigrants into the area west of the Canopic arm of the Nile for some years, […]
Tomb Of Amenhotep II Facts
No comments Tomb Of Amenhotep II The walls are painted terracotta and the mortuary texts are so drawn that they give the impression of papyrus texts pinned to the walls. There is not too much detail or use of colour and the effect is austere and dignified. Amenhotep II Mummy On each side of the […]
Esprit du Nil, 1873 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Nile-boat Prayers, 1842 Sophia Poole Nile River Boats A custom which is always observed by the Arab boat-men at the commencement of a voyage much pleased me. As soon as the wind had filled our large sail, the Reis [captain] exclaimed: “El-Fat-Hah.” This is the tide of the opening chapter of the Koran […]
My Memories with The Sphinx of Giza | Travel To Egypt Story 3
No comments The Sphinx is the main actor in the nightly Son et Lumiere performance at the Great Pyramids. Each evening the drama of thousands of years of history is reenacted with the aid of multicolored lights, accompanied by stately music and balanced, poetic narration. Although I have seen Son et Lumiere performances at the […]
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Age Facts P3
No comments The central feature of the pyramid complex, the mastaba, underwent no less than five alterations, each extending the original plan, and culminating eventually in the pyramid of six steps as we o Isometric section of Zoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara. It shows the three building stages of the original mastaba (1,2,3), The shafts […]
Pyramids of Giza Facts Part 3
No comments Archaeologists consider the corridors and chambers of the Great Pyramid in relationship with its structural development. The entrance to the core of the Pyramid is in the north face, at a vertically measured height of 55 feet above ground level, and it is situated almost exactly midway across the face. From the entrance, […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Energy Part 5
No comments Ostrander and Schroeder further deal with the Pyramid’s energies of dehydration in their chapter titled Pyramid Power and the Riddle of the Razor Blade, in which they reproduce a table showing dehydration rates of various objects. This table was compiled by a Jean Martial, and gives somewhat scientific credence to pyramid experimentation. However, […]
Pyramid Archaeologist Part 1
No comments Introduction Pyramids! The word evokes an image of immense structures soaring upward from a vast ocean of sand three massive triangular faced monuments and a huge half-human, half-animal statue arbitrarily grouped together, parched by a searing sun and eroded by relentless winds. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids These are the pyramids of Egypt tangible enigmas, […]