Text of sarcophagus
Inside the sarcophaguses of the XI and XII dynasty (2055 – 1795) more than 1000 “magic formulas” have been found, many of which derived from the previous texts of the…
The Priest in Ancient Egypt
The political face of the god-king Among the great in the bureaucratic organization there were also those belonging to the high clergy who had the pharaoh’s delegation to celebrate the…
God Khonsu
Lunar God, considered Bastet’s son, his presence was known already in the Ancient Reign. The most ancient representation comes from Pepi’s II funeral temple. In the Middle Reign a temple…
Hieroglyphic writing
It’s the most ancient kind of Egyptian writing. The classic language in the Ancient and middle Egypt. At the beginning we find it in the temples and in the tombs,…
God Osiris
Osiris appeared for the first time in Busiris, where he took the place of the shepherd-god Andjeti, assimilating all his qualities. The most ancient version of Osiris’s undertakings is on…
Goddess Maat
The goddess Maat was represented by a woman with her head decorated by a feather that represents the symbol of her name in the hieroglyphics. Maat is the incarnation of…
Medicine in Ancient Egypt
In the Egyptian medicine there were two different tendencies: the magical-religious one, which included very primitive elements, and the empirical-rational one, based on experience and observation, with no mystic elements.…
Pharaoh Narmer
The first pharaoh: around 3200 BC was Narmer, who would later take up the name Menes, once he became a monarch. He was king of the southern part of Egypt…
Soul
There are three different principles in the Egyptian man’s life: the Ankh, a spiritual and supernatural force. It is represented by the Feathered Ibis, the same hieroglyphic mark forms the…
Pyramids in Giza
At the left of the Nile, 11 km at south-west of the capital, from the Libyan Desert there is the complex of the three pyramids that go back to the…