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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…