No comments Funeral Practices and Mummification The art of embalming bodies and trasforming them into mummies was believed to be of divine origin and to go back to Horus the son of Osiris and Isis. Mummification in Ancient Egypt The term mummy comes from the Arabic « mumiya » or « mumyai » which according […]
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Pylons | Temple Of Amon At Karnak
No comments Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Pylons We now proceed to a much ruined part of the temple. The fourth pylon {P.4), built by Thutmose I, is followed by a colonnade with a strange and interesting history. Within this enclosed area are clues to family feuds, petty jealousies and religious differences, to say nothing of […]
The Beneficence of Egypt, c. 1000
No comments Trying to Explain Some History, 1913 Rudyard Kipling Here is a country – Egypt – which is not a country but a longish strip of market garden, nominally in the charge of a government which is not a government but the disconnected satrapy of a half-dead empire, controlled pecksniffingly by a Power which […]
Medinet Habu Facts
No comments Medinet Habu For a long time Medinet Habu was nothing more than a very rich quarry from which large squared blocks of stone could be obtained. In the Christian era a village grew up here which the Copts called Djeme and which occupied a large part of the zone where the temple used […]
The Mosques of Cairo, c. 1000
No comments The Mosques of Cairo, c. 1000 al-Muqaddasi This particular mosque is known as al–Sufflani (the Lower). It was founded by ‘Amr bin al-‘As, and within it stands his pulpit. The building is well constructed, with some mosaics set into the walls. It stands on pillars of marble, and is bigger than the mosque […]
Amenhotep III Pharaoh 1386-1349 BC
No comments Amenhotep III (heqawaset) Nubmaatre Dynasty 18 1386-1349 BC Colossal granite head of Amenhotep III, British Museum Amenhotep III Pharaoh Biography 1386-1349 BC Amenhotep Ill’s long reign of almost 40 years was one of the most prosperous and stable in Egyptian history. His great-grandfather, Tuthmosis III, had laid the foundations of the Egyptian empire […]
New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt 1570-1070 BC
No comments The New Kingdom 1570-1070 BC Ancient Egyptian Civilization There can be little doubt that the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, spanning half a millennium of Egyptian history, were indeed god-like beings on earth. Their immense works, temples and fortresses have left their stamp upon the face of Egypt. We can gaze upon many […]
The Boundaries of the Egypt c. 960
No comments The Boundaries of the Country, c. 960 Ebn Haukal One of the boundaries of Egypt begins from the Sea ofRoum, between Iskanderiah and Barkah, at the desert behind Wahh; proceeding to the land of the Nubians, and to the land ofBajeh, and back from Asouon to the Sea ofRoum; and from Bajeh to […]
Snefru Pharaoh Facts
1 comment Snefru Bent pyramid , Snefru Red pyramid , Snefru Medium Pyramid Snefru pharaoh or Senephru or Sneferu Snefru pharaoh the founder of the 4th Dynasty of ancient Egyptian history . Senferu ruled ancient Egypt more 24 years ( 2613 BC – 2589 BC ) ; Snefru meaning in ancient Egyptian language ( Hieroglyphs […]
The Labyrinth? c. 450 B.C. | Walking Through Egypt
No comments The Labyrinth? c. 450 B.C. Herodotus Pyramids Labyrinth I visited this place, and found it to surpass description; for if all the walls and other great works of the Greeks were put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth. Though no one would deny that the […]
Where is the Queen? 1882 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments Where is the Queen? 1882 Samuel Cox Cheops Tomb Let us enter: not without hope! The slippery path inward slopes downward until it meets a great gallery, which runs upward at an angle of forty-five degrees. Then, on a level, it runs to the Queen’s Chamber. Returning on this level, at the same […]
Pyramids of Giza Facts Part 2
No comments Africa and the Arabian peninsula are moving apart as if hinged near the north end of the Red Sea. This suggests a rotation of the pyramids in the wrong sense, but again of a magnitude far too small. Both these movements are shown in Fig. 8B. Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Earthquakes are a possible […]
My Hotel on the banks of the Nile Cairo
No comments After a while, we came out onto the banks of the Nile. I must have made this journey from Cairo Airport to the center of the city over a hundred times, but for some reason I always marvel at how nothing seems to change. “It’s all just as it was,” I thought. On […]
The Origins of Ancient Egyptians
No comments The Origins Egyptians history may have started in the paleolithic era even though that part of its history must consist entirely of hypotheses and suppositions. At that period the valley of the Nile was very different from what it is today. The river must have covered almost the whole region and this fact, […]