At first we should notice that every civilization has it's  creation myths and like other creation myths, Egypt's is complex and offers several versions of how the world unfolded. The ancient Egyptians believed that the basic principles of life, nature and society were determined by the gods at the creation of the world. It all began with the first stirring of the High God in the primeval waters. The creation myth is recounted in the sacred hieroglyphic writings found on pyramids, temples, tombs and sheets of papyrus.  As we mentioned there're several versions of the creations myths in ancient Egypt, but today I'll focus in these article on the Heliopolis creation myth.  The First god    According to the Heliopolitans, the first act of creation occurred when the sun god Atum, "lord of Heliopolis", emerged from the chaotic darkness of Nun the Primeval ocean as a mythical Bennu bird (similar to phoenix). He flew to Heliopolis, an ancient

To ensure adequate water availability for their crops, ancient Egyptians have found the means to deal with the seasonal flood that took about six months; agricultural land becomes completely submerged. This is why farmers have dug irrigation canals and built storage basins, built by building small dams, in order to deliver water to distant and high lands that are not flooded. They also carried the water in the bucket; they hung from a portable yoke on their shoulders. For the same purpose, Shadov invented the era of the modern state. The chadof consists of a long wooden mast that weighs on a pillar or vertical pillar, or attached to a wooden frame. The shadowed can move axially up and down; or side to side. In use, pull the floating agent down to fill the bucket with water: it automatically raises the weight of the bucket to where the worker can empty it in the irrigation channel. This has helped to irrigate the highlands, contributing to an increase in yields. The other is a

Ancient Egyptians enjoyed the games of dexterity and luck, in which pieces were moved on special design plates. Including a game that had been practiced since prehistoric times to the old state, called "misfortune", with six blacks and six sets of balls; and the other, "hunting dogs and jackals." It appeared to be a race between a group of five hunting dogs and one of five jackals; About Palm. Little is known about those games. Senet was one of the most popular games of entertainment; it preceded the game of "The Agony," or "plug", and was played on a board divided into three rows into ten squares. The object of the game is to move the pieces around a serpentine path; to the end. Some of the squares marked with signs marked good or bad luck for the player. The game of dice was preferred in the Roman and Byzantine times; until the reigns of the Muslim rulers. Scenes of tombs and temples, from all periods in ancient Egypt, depict dancers an

The glass appeared, in a potted form, in Neolithic Egypt in the Badari civilization; in the 5th century BC. The knowledge of the glass industry may have come from the Near East; it first appeared in Egypt, around the 18th Dynasty (around 1550-1292 BC). Most of the early glass pieces were beads. The acquisition of glass products in the modern state was a kind of luxury; it was made in the form of flowers, and was decorated with furniture and wall decorations. The melting temperature of silica was higher than that of old industries. But adding alkali, such as soda and potash, lowers the melting temperature. The lime was added; to fix the mixture. For the raw glass industry, the ancient Egyptians grinded the material into a fine powder as high as possible; before heating it. The old glass was colored by adding pigments; such as copper and iron compounds, to raw glass - to obtain a greenish blue; and copper oxides to get red or orange, and cobalt compounds to get dark blue. The mo

On January 3, 1924, after two years of digging into the room  where Tutankhamun was buried in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the greatest burial in the room: A stone coffin containing a coffin of pure gold containing the remains of the boy king. The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun with its golden contents evoked a storm of interest in ancient Egypt in general, and in particular this monarch who was full of death and ruled for a decade 3300 years ago. Let us explore six amazing facts about this young pharaoh and his last shrine. 1. There is no curse of King Tutankhamun . When Carter entered the lost tomb of King Tut in November 1922, he was supported by George Herbert, a wealthy British lord who was interested in Egyptology. Four months later, Herbert died of blood poisoning from an infected mosquitoes. British newspapers then speculated that the man was a victim of the "mummy curse" car

The art of the pottery industry is one of the hallmarks of the civilizations of the nations of the world, reflecting the extent of their development and civilization. The pottery industry, although the simplest forms of art, is in fact one of the most difficult trades. It is the simplest because it has a primitive nature, and because it is common among the public. However, they are the most difficult; they involve a form of abstraction. The pottery industry has been prevalent in Egypt since prehistoric times, and the beginning of the Egyptians' presence in Delta and the Nile Valley. Archaeologists can date the chronology of the more ancient civilizations through pottery; for the methods of its manufacture and its decoration, before the spread of writing. The oldest types of pottery were handmade, made of clay, and then left to dry under the sun. After the fire was discovered, the pottery was burned; it became more solid and firmer, and it lasted longer. The cavalry wheel

Most metals and precious stones used in the manufacture of tools, pots and ornaments were extracted from the Eastern and Western deserts of Egypt. Mining was an exhausting and deadly activity. Because most of the mines were in the desert, workers' living conditions were harsh; mining was therefore practiced seasonally. Mobility to land mines was unavoidable. The slow donkey convoys were out of reach and needed massive troops to protect them from bandits The old mines were small spaces, not expanded, and supported by wooden beams, as in the present. The miners had to lie on their stomachs, beating their shovels all day long. Workers were usually hired with food and drink, and were not allowed to keep a piece of gold or jewelery; however small. In the Roman era, slaves who were prisoners of war or prisoners in crimes were used to work in mines. Poor families, with their children, also worked in mines. The children crawled in the small spaces to take out the rock crusher. Co

 Rostau It is a "subterranean" world, where human lives go after death. The word "Rustau" in ancient Egyptian means "the gate leading to the cross roads", a name that indicates the nature of that world, which is like a "maze". Maton says the coffins that this place is the place of "suffering Ozer", is a place Harboring mysterious beings described as "objects that do not know where they are." Matton also tells the coffins about "the day the secrets were hidden in the depths of Rustao." One of the texts of the coffins came from one of the souls of those who went to the other world: *** I have come to Rustao to know the secret of the "tools" I have seen It's Anubis *** From these texts we know that Restau is part of a lower world / Sub-ground, and that the meteorites (which the ancient Egyptians described as Which flowed from Auser), were buried in what looked like catacombs Secret under

The dead, in the pre-family era, were wrapped in mats or goatskin and placed in a shallow shallow oval sand pit. In the pit, with the deceased, were left pots of food and drink; for the journey in the afterlife. The sand or quantities of rubble, crumbling over the grave to form a small tala. Later, the Safwa tombs consisted of rectangular rectangular subdivisions; single or multiple. These divisions were sometimes lined with brick, to reinforce the sides; they were covered with piles of rubble. Some were furnished with staircases, so that it was easy to get down to the underground rooms. The mastaba, a huge rectangular building above an underground room, became the preferred building of the nobility in the Second Dynasty. The outer walls were flat, but with a light tilt to the inside. The terraces often had sacrificial chambers with carved or embossed engravings with illustrations or texts. Around that time, the ancient Egyptians began to place the dead in stone or wooden coffi