No comments ‘Belzoni’s Tomb,’ 1819 John Fuller Belzoni Tomb From Goumu a road leads up a ravine in the mountains to an open space surrounded on all sides by steep rocks, in which are excavated the tombs of the Egyptian kings. All of them that have hitherto been discovered are nearly on the same plan. […]
Tomb of Thutmose III
No comments Tomb of Thutmose III This is the tomb of the pharaoh who won an empire for his country, and who built a great Festival Temple at Karnak in thanksgiving to Amon-Ra for victory. He chose a remote site in the Valley of the Kings for his tomb. It is approached up a steep […]
Arriving from India, 1823 | Egyptian Deserts
No comments Arriving from India, 1823 Moyle Sherer Arriving from India Kosseir is a very poor-looking place, but its market is well and plentifully supplied. You drink the sweet water of the Nile, and eat of vegetables from the valley through which it flows. The costume of the inhabitants is dull; they all wear the […]
Hathor Egyptian Goddess of love Facts Part 1/2
No comments Hathor Egyptian Goddess of love | Facts and Secrets Part 1 The archetype of the Earth Mother is common to many mythologies; at different times Isis, Sekhmet, and Nut-among others-have had this role in Egyptian mythology. Hathor Goddess, however, appears to have been the oldest example in Egypt and the prototype on which […]
Cairo to the Fayoum, 1873 | Walking Through Egypt
No comments The Fayoum Away from the main flow of the Nile, reached today by the desert road from Giza, the Fayoum is an area of verdant cultivation around a wide lake, surrounded by rocky hills and expanses of desert. A thirteenth- century Syrian amir, thinking back to the gardens surrounding his home city of […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Facts for kids
4 comments The Genuine Masonry Pyramids Ancient Egyptian Pyramids – Egyptian Pyramids – Pyramids of Egypt Egyptian Pyramids There are only 10 Pyramids in Egypt and you will say : You mentioned ten Pyramids and I thought that there were many more . There are numerous structure which have / had the shape pyramids […]
A Clue at Meidum Pyramid Part 6
No comments Another conclusion derived from our evidence answers a much wider question of pyramid construction which has been much debated in the past. It concerns the problem of that stage in building operation when the outer casing was laid on and when it was dressed. Although, as we now know, the mantle of E3 […]
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Facts for kids
4 comments The Genuine Masonry Pyramids Ancient Egyptian Pyramids – Egyptian Pyramids – Pyramids of Egypt Egyptian Pyramids There are only 10 Pyramids in Egypt and you will say : You mentioned ten Pyramids and I thought that there were many more . There are numerous structure which have / had the shape pyramids […]
Sekhemkhet Unfinished Pyramid Saqqara
1 comment Sekhemkhet Pyramid – Sekhemkhet Pyramid Egypt – Sekhemkhet Pyramid Saqqara – Sekhemkhet Pyramid size – Sekhemkhet unfinished Pyramid Sekhemkhet’s Pyramid Westward of the Unas Structure , we come to the Pyramid Complex of Sekhemkhet in ancient Egypt . In front of the ruins of this Pyramid Complex ( Sekhemkhet unfinished pyramid ), we […]
The Egyptian Climate
No comments The Egyptian Climate Egypt could be described as a large oasis between two deserts. Although nature has divided it into two parts only, it theoretically can be divided into three parts: The Egyptian Climate Upper, Middle and Lower Egypt. On the other hand there are only two seasons: the hot season which runs […]
Ancient Assyria and Egyptian 25th Dynasty
No comments The Threat from Assyria The history of the period is very much tied in with the rise and expansion of that other great Near Eastern power, Assyria. Whilst Shabaka had kept the Assyrian king Sargon II at bay, thanks largely to that ruler’s problems in other areas such as Urartu (Armenia), Shebitku took […]
Egyptian Pyramid Power Facts Part 2
No comments Eleanor Merry, author of The Flaming Door, seems to agree with Hall that, “the interior of the Great Pyramid was a ‘house of death’, where the spiritual rebirth of initiation could take place and whence man could go out from the physical body in the death trance of initiation and return, in a […]
Ancient Egyptian Timeline
God Kings of Egyptian Nile River God Kings of Ancient Egyptian Nile River Egyptian Nile River and God Kings of Ancient Egyptian Egyptian Chronology Manetho and the History of Egypt Egyptian Chronology and the Evidence from Inscriptions Fixing true dates by the stars The First Pharaohs The Early Dynastic Period 3150-2686 BC The Early Dynastic […]
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 […]
