No comments A City of the Earth, 1913 Rudyard Kipling But I bought nothing. The city thrust more treasure upon me than I could carry away. It came out of dark alleyways on tawny camels loaded with pots; on pattering asses half buried under nets of cut clover; in the exquisitely modelled hands of little […]
Ancient Egyptian Gods of the Inundation
No comments The Gods of the Inundation To the ancient Egyptians a tradition survived from their remote past, that the cataract region was the edge of the world. It was said that here the life-giving waters (the annual inundation) rose from the primaeval ocean Nun to render the land fertile. Welcoming the chocolate-brown flood was […]
Coming out of the Desert | Egyptian Deserts
No comments Coming out of the Desert, 1823 Moyle Sherer Egyptian Eastern Desert It was soon after daybreak, on the morrow, just as the sun was beginning to give his rich colouring of golden yellow to the white pale sand; that as I was walking alone at some distance far ahead of my companions, my […]
Mentuhotep II Pharaoh Biography 2010 -1998 BC
No comments Mentuhotep II Sankhkare 2010 -1998 BC Mentuhotep II The long reign of Mentuhotep I was used to good advantage, allowing the king to bequeath to his son, Sankhkare Mentuhotep II, the throne of a flourishing country. It also meant that Mentuhotep II was relatively elderly when he came to power in 2010 BC, […]
Tombs Of The Nobles
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 […]
Streets, Houses and Palaces of Cairo Egypt
No comments Streets, Houses, and Palaces of Cairo, c. 1612 George Sandys Some of those streets I have found two miles in length, some not a quarter so long; every one of them is locked up in the night, with a door at each end, and guarded by a musketeer, whereby fire, robberies, tumults, and […]
Tomb of Seti I Facts and Pictures
No comments Tomb of Seti I By the complexity of its construction the tomb of Seti I is one of the most noteworthy in the Theban necropolis. It contains numerous flights of stairs and galleries leading to rooms supported by pillars. In one of these Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the pharaoh’s sarcophagus which is carved […]
Ancient Egypt Nile River map | valley, facts, importance and pictures
1 comment River Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching north to about 4000 kilometers from east Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Studies have shown that the Nile river (Iteru, that is, simply, River, as it is called the Egyptians) carefully changed its area and size over millions of years. The Nile River […]
Sheshonq triumphs in Palestine | Ancient Egypt
No comments Sheshonq triumphs in Palestine Following the death of Solomon in 930 BC, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel under Rehoboam (Solomon‘s son) and Jeroboam I, respectively, Sarcophagus of king Harsiese A Throne name Hedj–kheper–re Setep–en–amun (‘Bright is the Manifestation of Re, Chosen of Re’) were at loggerheads and ripe for strong Egyptian military […]
Ancient Egypt Maps for Kids and Students
7 comments You will Find in Ancient Egypt Maps for kids : Ancient Egypt Map for Kids Ancient Egypt Map Ancient Egypt Maps You can download more 30 Ancient Egypt Maps in the end of this topic Ancient Egypt Map for Kids Map of Ancient Egypt for Kids Ancient Egypt Map for Students Ancient Egypt […]
Taharqa the Nubian King 690 – 664 BC
1 comment Taharqa the Nubian king – Taharqa pyramid – Taharqa in the bible Taharqa was the 5th Pharaoh in ancient egypt 25th dynasty ; Taharqa was king of Kush Kingdom (Taharqa The Nubian King ) , Kush located in southern Egypt or Northern Sudan. Taharqa the Nubian King Statue Taharwa’s father (Piye) was the […]
The Dahabiya, 1873 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments The Dahabiya, 1873 Amelia Edwards A dahabeeyah, at the first glance, is more like a civic or an Oxford University barge than anything in the shape of a boat with which we in England are familiar. It is shallow and flat-bottomed, and is adapted for either sail or rowing. It carries two masts: […]
Love poem From Geb to Nut
2 comments The Pyramid Texts contained a long poem spoken by Geb to his wife: Geb and Nut family Tree Nut! You became a spirit You waxed mighty in the belly of your mother, Tefnut, before you were born. How mighty is your heart! You stirred in the belly of your mother in the name […]
Making a Mummy and Egyptian Mummy Facts
No comments Making a Mummy, c. 450 B.C. Herodotus Mummification is a distinct profession. The embalmers, when a body is brought to them, produce specimen models in wood, painted to resemble nature, and graded in quality; the best and most expensive kind is supposed to represent a being whose name I shrink from mentioning in […]