Battle of Kadesh
Ramesses’s most impressive undertaking was the battle in Kadesh against the Ittiti. Returning from the military campaign, the pharaoh ordered to engrave the scenes on the walls of the Ramesseo…
Horus
God Horus identifies, both in Egypt and Nubia, with various local divinities: as a solar divinity he is Haroeris, Harakhthe, Harmakis, Horo of Behedet. As Isis’s son he is Arpocrate…
God Apis
Since the I dynasty the cult for an Apis Bull (Hop in the local language) is alive in Ancient Egypt, as a rural divinity simbol of the generation and fecundating…
Cosmetic in ancient Egypt
The body care was very important for ancient Egyptians. They used creams, ointments and perfumes to soften and perfume the skin. The women lightened their skin with a creamy mixture…
GOD APOPHIS
ANCIENT EGYPT GODS (Apophis, Apop, Apep) Maybe it was the python that in the prehistoric epoch was present in the muddy areas of the Delta that gave the Egyptians the…
Medicine in Ancient Epypt
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.…
BASTET
ANCIENT EGYPT Bastet was a divinity represented by a woman with the head of a cat. Probably she was originally a lioness. Goddess of the city Bubastis that was named…
Khufu (Cheope)
Names: Cheope, Khufu (or Khufwey, according to Gardiner), Suphis, Horo Medjdo Dynasty: IV ( 2630-2510 BC) Years of reign: 63 (Manetone); 23 (Canon in Torino) Historical placement: Ancient Reign 2700-2200…
The Astronomy
The Egyptian astronomy remained clung, on the whole, on rudimentary notions. Anyway the arrangement of the calendar involved the use of an appreciable observatory. Astronomy was a religious science, so…
Nefertiti
NEFERTITI (XVIII dynasty). According to the last interpretations, Nefertiti is considered Ay’s daughter, who was Teie’s brother, nephew of Yuia and Tuia, that is Amenhotep’s IV cousin. Nefertiti and her…