PHARAOH
The Pharaoh was the supreme authority in the Egyptian social pyramid, the word “Pharaoh” means “great house”. The Pharaoh was portrayed with a beard, curved or attached to the chin…
PYRAMID
The pyramid is the characteristic architectural structure of the royal tombs of the Ancient and of the Middle Reign. Inside the sovereign’s life was guaranteed after death, in afterlife; nearby…
CATS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
ANCIENT EGYPT One of the most popular cults in Egypt, in the Late Period, was the one to the cat-goddess Bastet. In this period thousands of cats have been mummified…
THEBES
Ancient city and, for many centuries, capital of Upper Egypt, built on the banks of the Nile, at about 725 Km south of Cairo of today. In ancient Egyptian it…
Animals and Gods
In Ancient Egypt the bond between man and environment is really strong in every day life, in religion and in art. Since the prehistory the Egyptian were devoted to the…
Ancient Egypt: God Ra
Ra, deification of the visible sun, he was worshipped in various places in Egypt before the theology in Eliopolis took possession of him. The first aspect of the myth, is…
Text of the pyramids
The text of the pyramids consist of 800 invocations written in coloums inside the pyramids of the Late ancient reign and of the first middle period (2375 – 2055 BC).…
Abu Simbel
THE TEMPLE Abu Simbel Locality on the Nile south of Assuan, in Southern Egypt, where around 1250 BC the pharaoh Ramesses II ordered to build various temples, among which two…
Concepts of Akh, Ba and Ka
The concepts of ka, ba and akh was formulated for the first time in the Pyramid Texts. Ka: “the vital strength of man”. Spiritual concept of nourishment, ka, kau in…
Dreams in the ancient Egyptians
The importance given to dreams in this historical period is expressed in the dialogus between goddess Isis and Horus: “Horus, my son, tell me what you’ve seen so your suffering…