Tag: Ancient Egypt

The Ancient Near East is a region that is often referred to as the cradle of civilization. It is a vast area that includes modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and parts of Egypt and Greece. The region is home to some of the earliest known human settlements, and it was th...

In a year already rich with discoveries in Egyptology, archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a previously unknown ancient Egyptian king. This marks the second royal tomb discovery of 2022, following last month's confirmation of the tomb of Thutmose II. However, unlike the tomb of Tutankhamun, th...

The Animal Mummies Project at the Cairo Museum is a pioneering initiative dedicated to the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Housed within the iconic Cairo Museum, this project focuses on unraveling the mysteries surrounding the practice of mummifying animals in ancient Egyp...

Cheops 1 is 42 m long. The hull is flat- or slightly round-bottomed, built "shell first" with cedar-wood planks joined edge to edge by "mortise-and-tenon" fashion and fixed together with rope. It has 10 oars but no mast or sail. The ship is papyriform, imitating a papyrus boat, with the bow and ste...

Scarab Beetles in Ancient Egypt By far the most important amulet in ancient Egypt was the scarab, symbolically as sacred to the Egyptians as the cross is to Christians. Scarab dung beetles lay eggs in a pellet which they roll along and the Egyptians regarded this action as an image of the sun and i...

King Smenkhkare is thought to have ascended to the throne either in the latter years, or after the death of Akhenaten. Very little is known about his reign which appears to have been quite short. A mummy found in tomb KV55 in the valley of the kings is thought to be his, although the evidence is by ...

README Aegyptische Wortliste (GM 140, 1994, S. ...) "Habent sua fata libelli ...". Auch die hier angekuendigte Wortliste hat ihre Geschichte. Urspruenglich war nur beabsichtigt, fuer den Privatgebrauch den aegyptischen Grundwortschatz auf EDV-Basis verfuegbar zu haben. Die Vorteile dabei werden ...

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The Ancient Egyptians held a great reverence for the Jackal headed god Anubis, who oversaw the embalming and mummification process as well as escorting the deceased through the procedures for entering the underworld.When the person arrived for judgment, they would first declare their purity before...

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The Heart Scarab The protective amulet for the heart was in the form of the scarab beetle, the manifestation of the creator and solar deity Khepri. It was a symbol of new life and resurrection. The heart scarab was a large scarab amulet which was wrapped in the bandages of the mummy over the deceas...

Famed throughout the ancient world for her outstanding beauty, Akhenaten's queen Nefertiti remains the one of the most well known of the queens of Egypt. The famous statue of Nefertiti, found in a sculptors workshop in Akhetaten, is one of the most immediately recognisable icons from this period of ...