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,…
God Osiris
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…
Goddess Maat
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…
Medicine in Ancient Egypt
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.…
Pharaoh Narmer
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…
Soul
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…
Pyramids in Giza
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…
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…