CALENDAR
ISIS’ANCIENT EGYPT With no doubt the Egyptians have been the first to invent a solar and rational calendar. Their year was made of 365 days and divided in 12 months…
RELIGION IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Originally only the ocean existed, but Ra, the sun, maybe born from an egg which appeared in the waters, generated four children. Two of them, Geb and Nut, generated two…
BUBASTIS
ISIS’S ANCIENT EGYPT Bubastis (in the region of the delta, near Zagazig of today) was the capital of the XVIII nomos of the delta. Its Egyptian name “Per Bast” means…
GOD ATUM
ENGLISH VERSION He was a solar divinity, the primitive patron of Heliopolis. He was represented by the figure of a man, with the pharaoh’s crown and he was associated with…
ISIS AND OSIRIS
ANCIENT EGYPT Isis was the bride and sister of Osiris To her goes the institution of the family and the teaching to the women of the weaving and of the…
PHARAOH
The Pharaoh was the supreme authority in the Egyptian social pyramid, the word “Pharaoh” means “great house”. The Pharaoh was portrayed with a beard, curved or attached to the chin…
PYRAMID
The pyramid is the characteristic architectural structure of the royal tombs of the Ancient and of the Middle Reign. Inside the sovereign’s life was guaranteed after death, in afterlife; nearby…
CATS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
ANCIENT EGYPT One of the most popular cults in Egypt, in the Late Period, was the one to the cat-goddess Bastet. In this period thousands of cats have been mummified…
THEBES
Ancient city and, for many centuries, capital of Upper Egypt, built on the banks of the Nile, at about 725 Km south of Cairo of today. In ancient Egyptian it…
Animals and Gods
In Ancient Egypt the bond between man and environment is really strong in every day life, in religion and in art. Since the prehistory the Egyptian were devoted to the…