Mines in Ancient Egypt
The mines that the ancient Egyptians exploited, were all in the desert. There were deposits of copper, of malachite and of turquoise in Synai and east of Koptos and in…
Ancient and modern cities in Egypt
Ancient and modern cities in Egypt: ABU SIMBEL ABU SIMBEL: THE TEMPLE BUBASTIS CAIRO DEIR EL MEDINA GIZA HELIOPOLIS KARNAK THE PHARAOHS: ARCHITECTS IN KARNAK KHAUM KINGS’ VALLEY MEDINET HABU…
Confession
When the dead person appeared before Osiris’s tribunal, he exculpated himself before the judges with a confession called “denial” because it was performed denying the fact of having committed injustices…
Armament in Ancient Egypt
The armament, during the Ancient and the Middle Reign was rather poor: it had only stone clubs, arches, arrows and javelins with a flint or bronze point, daggers and bronze…
Jewels in Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian goldsmith’s craft reached a remarkable skill. The goldsmiths were specialized in the various techniques to working of the gold ( filigree, gold leaf, inlaid), but the Egyptian jewels…
Isiac table
In bronze. 75 cm high- I century AC A buy by Savoia from the Gonzaga collection (around half ‘600) the Isiac Table is an altar table, an Egyptian product made…
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,…