egypt

Ancient Egypt: God Ra

Ra traveled across the sky during the day and through the underworld at night. This tomb painting of the 1200s…

5 anni ago

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…

5 anni ago

Abu Simbel

THE TEMPLE Abu Simbel Locality on the Nile south of Assuan, in Southern Egypt, where around 1250 BC the pharaoh Ramesses II…

5 anni ago

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…

5 anni ago

Sphinx

Sphinx in Giza has a human head and the body of a lion. The fusion of the two elements, zoomorfo…

5 anni ago

Visir in ancient Egypt

Visir ptahhotep The title of visir (in Egyptian tjaty) was instituited under Snefru and the first one who used it…

5 anni ago

The scarabs

This coleoptera (scarabeus sacer), quite common in Egypt, had an extraordinary fortune. Truth to tell it’s not exactly know why this…

5 anni ago

Ank

It’s a very ancient Egyptian symbol, Ankh means “life”, both as the existence on earth as the eternal one. On…

6 anni ago

Calendar

With no doubt the Egyptians have been the first to invent a solar and rational calendar. Their year was made…

7 anni ago

Pharaoh Shepseskaf

Pharaoh Shepseskaf, Micerino’s son, last king of the IV Dynasty, was he who completed the whole funeral complex begun by…

7 anni ago