All About Ancient Egypt

Interesting Facts about Ancient Egypt
Look around you and you'll witness examples of ancient Egyptian inventions. Many of today's household objects were invented or used by the ancient Egyptians, including...

Ancient Egypt Utensils
Common ancient Egypt utensils were made from basic raw materials. Clay was used to create pots, spoons, ladles and other kitchen utensils. Palm leaves could be used to make baskets. Knives and hatches were made of...

Pyramids - the Apex of Ancient Egypt man made Structures
How these incredible man made structures were built so early in history? What kind of social structure or system Egyptians had to make them capable of building them? These two questions deeply overwhelmed me the first...

Egyptian Art - Did they really walk like that?
Egyptian art is unique in its approach to visual representation. It follows a set of canons or strict rules that cover a span of 3500 years. Ancient Egyptians knew nothing about mathematical perspective, but then again, no one else did. Perspective in art is a...

Pharaohs - Sons of the Sun
The names of great Ancient Egypt pharaohs are still mentioned these days, fulfilling their quest for immortality. Early in your Egypt tour you rapidly get acquainted with...

Tutankhamen - a Biography
To write a King Tut biography is rather peculiar, since his claim to fame is due more to his death and discovery of the treasures in his tomb than the...

Living in Maat - the Natural Order
Ancient Egyptians observed early on that natural phenomena repeated itself in cycles. Maat was the name given to this concept of natural immutable laws, similar to the Greek concept of Cosmos. The annual flooding of the Nile was a recurrent event critical for...

Hatshepsut - The First Great Woman in History
During the Eighteen Dynasty, something really unusual and extraordinary happened - a female took the title of King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and became the first great...

Female Rights in Ancient Egypt
There appears to be no distinction between male and female rights in Ancient Egypt. Women had a unique position in comparison to other ancient societies. They could buy, sell and inherit land, the most valuable...

Ramses the Great
Ramses the Second, also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses is the greatest pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty, and one of the...

Thutmose III - the Greatest Pharaoh
This pharaoh is regarded by egyptologists and other experts in ancient Egypt history as the greatest of Egypt's kings, despite the fame of...

Nefertari - Beloved of Mut
Ramses the Great had a total of eight Royal Wives, but no doubt Nefertari was her most beloved. Nefer means beautiful in ancient egyptian, and she is thus portrayed in all statues and painted reliefs. Crowned by Isis and Hathor, an equal in the company of the great deities of Egypt, she is presented to us as...

Sphinx Facts
Here are some interesting Sphinx facts to know before your tour of the Giza necropolis. They will help you appreciate even more...

Life After Death in Egypt - Eternal Bliss
Life after death in Egypt was not the compulsive obsession that many people ascribe to ancient egyptian civilization. This widespread misconception is perhaps explained by the fact that most Egypt tourists and travelers visit tombs and see...

Social Structures of Ancient Egypt
The pyramid has been used as a visual metaphor to describe the social structures of ancient Egypt. The position of an individual in the social pyramid was determined by birth circumstances such...

Egyptian Writing - Decoding the Past
Egyptian writing is among the oldest forms of writing. It was employed everywhere, from religious texts to medicine, business and literature. Most of what we know about Ancient Egypt is thanks to those scholars who were able to decipher the ancient inscriptions, principally Champollion. Otherwise, Egyptian writing would mean to us merely a delightful ornament to temples and...

From Gold to Dust - Egypt History
Egypt history is as fascinating as it is long. The official name of modern Egypt is the Arab Republic of Egypt. But before becoming an independent state in 1953, Egyptians had to endure centuries of invasions and occupations, including Arabs and Turks from the Near East and Europeans too. Egypt was once the largest and richest world empire, but that happened...

Egyptomania - Egypt in the Popular Western Culture
To the western imagination, ancient Egypt is often seen as an out of this world civilization. For centuries, the notion that religion, science, arts, agriculture and architecture developed in Africa long before Europe, has conjured up ideas of alien travelers from outer space...

Ancient Egypt Mummies - Wrap it up, I'll take it
Ancient Egypt mummies are the earliest examples of the science of embalming, perfected and practiced by ancient Egypt priests since the first dynasties. Ancient egyptians were keen observers of all natural processes. The dry climate and other geographical conditions in ancient Egypt provide an environment...

The Amazing Discovery of the Bust of Nefertiti
Ever since the amazing discovery of the bust of Nefertiti, this beautiful limestone portrait has been regarded as one of the greatest art masterpieces...

Amenhotep III
The name of Amenhotep can be interpreted as "Amen is pleased" or "Amen is in Peace". In Greek, his name was called Amenophis or Amenofis. With his Chief Queen Tiye, the pharaoh...

Ancient Animals from Egypt
To the ancient Egyptians, animals were created by the gods and given rights equal to that of mankind. They saw animals not as their subjects, but rather as independent beings, and treated them with respect. The Nile served...

Family Structure in Ancient Egypt
It is important to assert that much of the archaeological reference to family structure in Ancient Egypt reflects the life of well-to-do families. It it is fair, however, to assume that many of...

Ancient Egypt and Government
From its prehistoric origin as a society of hunter-gatherers in the Nile delta valley, Ancient Egypt and government organization developed in a span of over 3,500 years, to create a hierarchy of power capable of...

Ancient Egypt Music
The most concrete source of information about the nature of ancient Egypt music lies in the actual musical instruments and paintings of musicians found in tombs. These include reed instruments, flutes, stringed instruments like harps, lyres and lutes, horns and a variety of percussion...

Perfume in Ancient Egypt
Perfume was at the centre of aesthetics and therapeutics for both men and women in Ancient Egypt. Although the techniques used are mostly unrecorded, historians look to the literature of Greek and Roman writers and relief paintings and artefacts to determine the production, fashions and...

Akhenaten - Heretic Pharaoh or Visionary?
Akhenaten is an odd ball among Egyptian pharaohs. In a culture where adherence to tradition was a widely respected virtue, he skewed Egyptian belief right and left. As pharaoh, Akhenaten became...