HOOPOE BY HOWARD CARTER
The Egypt Explo...
HOOPOE BY HOWARD CARTER
The Egypt Exploration Society
"The hoopoe shown here, was painted by Carter, and comes from the bush on the other side of the net, in the scene of Khnumhotep catching birds. The difference in the respective styles, and indeed intentions of the Survey’s artists is evident ...More Details..
Mortality
and Burial Data
Much of ou...
Mortality
and Burial Data
Much of our information about ancient Egypt comes from funerary contexts. Throughout his/her life, an individual is exposed to differential life-threatening risks. When an individual succumbs to these risks, his/her age of death is preserved in the archaeological record...More Details..
WOMEN SUPREMACY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Women ...
WOMEN SUPREMACY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Women in Ancient Egypt had more legal rights than women from other civilized nations such as Rome or Greece. Women in Ancient Egypt had inheritance rights, could represent themselves in courts, determine who they wanted to marry and obtain a divorce if necessary. Th...More Details..
Ancient Egypt Woman
The woman in anci...
Ancient Egypt Woman
The woman in ancient Egypt was acknowledged to be one of the strangest phenomena in a land of exotic and unusual customs, where the king lived as a god, the gods took the forms of animals and the entire population appeared obsessed with death.
The distinctive exotic beauty ...More Details..
Ancient Egyptian Clothes
The ancient ...
Ancient Egyptian Clothes
The ancient Egyptians made their own clothes from what their environment and nature gave them. Egypt has mostly a hot climate thus the use of clothes reflect material that is lightweight to suit this type of climate. The ancient Egyptians thus used clothes made of linen. ...More Details..
The Kittens of Egypt
Cat mummies at t...
The Kittens of Egypt
Cat mummies at the British Museum in LondonMummies come in all shapes and sizes--and species. The ancient Egyptians mummified reptiles and animals such as dogs, apes, bulls, rams, and even an occasional hippopotamus. However, one of the most common animal mummies in Egypt was...More Details..
THE EGYPTIAN SUN BOATS
According to Egy...
THE EGYPTIAN SUN BOATS
According to Egyptian beliefs, the soul of the dead accompanied the sun on its eternal journey in the Upper Waters (the heavens) around the world. A boat or at least a model of a boat was therefore included in every tomb.
The mast was bipod. A lookout was placed in the...More Details..
Some of our Pyramids are Missing
As t...
Some of our Pyramids are Missing
As the visitor to the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza stands in awe, squinting up at the sunlit top, the idea of losing a pyramid seems preposterous. The pyramids were tombs for eternity for the great kings of Egypt. Even the desert sand can surely not be so voraci...More Details..
Nut, Sky Goddess, Mother of the Gods...
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Nut, Sky Goddess, Mother of the Gods...
Nut Arching Above Geb, Seperated by Shu Who is Seated in a Boat To the ancient Egyptians Nut (Nuit) was the personification of the sky (originally she was a goddess of just the sky at day, where the clouds formed) and the heavens. She was believed to be...More Details..
SCENES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD,BELONGS...
SCENES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD,BELONGS TO A HIGH RANKING OFFICIAL NAMED NEFER-INI (Berlin museum) ....More Details..
AUGUST MARIETTE
Mariette Pacha. Anyone ...
AUGUST MARIETTE
Mariette Pacha. Anyone familiar with egyptology will know the name. He is the father of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and discoverer of quantity of tombs and sites across all of Egypt. He was a sort of visionary pre-Indiana Jones type, a passionate, fearless egyptologist in the early...More Details..
AN IMAGINARY PORTRAYING OF QUEEN HATCHIB...
AN IMAGINARY PORTRAYING OF QUEEN HATCHIBSUT ....More Details..
Khnum
Khnum was depicted as a ram.
...
Khnum
Khnum was depicted as a ram.
He was the Egyptian water god and the potter god of creation.
It was believed that he created the first children on his potter's wheel with clay from the banks of the Nile.
Khnum also protected the sun (in the form of the god Ra) on its daily journey th...More Details..
CT scan yields secrets of Vassar College...
CT scan yields secrets of Vassar College's mummy
April 09, 2008
FISHKILL — It was, at first blush, a situation worthy of Mel Brooks: a 2,200-year-old man was getting a CT scan at a local radiology lab.
What, hadn't he heard of cling peaches?
The guy's name was Shep. He's a ...More Details..
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