THE WORLD OF ANCIENT EGYPT Before the Dynastic Periods, before the invention of writing, the mighty Nile coursed its path through the ancient world.  Peoples and places existed in various spots around the globe. The climate differed from that which we know.  When we think of Ancient Egypt, mighty pharaohs and magnificent monuments immediately enter our thoughts.  But how did this great civilization come to be?  To fully answer this question, we must travel back in time farther than one is accustomed to when contemplating this great civilization.  You are invited to take this journey with me, as we explore this forgotten world of Ancient Egypt. We need to begin in Prehistoric Egypt to understand what made Egypt become the great ancient civilization we love.  And no, by prehistoric, I do NOT mean the time of dinosaurs, the most frequent image that comes to mind when this word is used.  Prehistory simply refers to times before the advent of w...

She was the wife of "Sakhnin Ra Ta'o" (II), one of the heroes of "Thebes" in the "Hixus" war, and the mother of King Ahmose I, the editor of Egypt of the invaders, The importance of this queen and her fame as one of the great queens in this family was due to her prominent role in the struggle for Egypt against the Hyksos. This was evidenced by the text of a stone plaque found in front of the eighth edifice of the temples of Karnak and began with the titles of King Ahmose and his works, This was a passage for his mother, the queen, "Ihah-hatt", in which everyone was commanded to glorify her. He said: "Praise the Lady of the Earth, the Lady of the Mediterranean Islands (Hao Nebo), famous in every foreign country, who sets plans for the people, the husband of the king, the sister of the king, , Which sponsored the affairs of Egypt, which took care of the order of its army, and put it under its care, were the ones who brou...

Ancient Egyptians planted three types of wheat, namely: Incoran Wallace. Unicorn is a kind of primitive, single grain grain. It is gerst to extracts with two rigid red entrees kept after lesson. Sniper, it contains two red light color. Wheat and barley used in making bread and beer. Ancient Egyptians, in small gardens or local secondary species, a lot of vegetables, including onions, garlic, leeks, lettuce, Egypt (municipal council) gray cab, potash, paregos, lentils, peas, beans and lots of spices. She also planned sesame, linen and ricin. Extraction of vegetable oils. The planned business in Carmot is separate as well as gardens. They also planted palm trees, figs, migrants, melons and melons. The ancient Egyptians had allocated land for flax cultivation, which was the main raw material in the textile industry. Papyrus, which grows in swamps along the river, makes the same paper as mats and sandals. Other new crops were introduced after Arab demand, such as rice and sugar cane:...

Today i will talk about one of the most famous queens of ancient Egypt Queen Hatshepsut !! why she got all this fame why she is  One of the most famous and great queens in history ? Queen Hatshepsut  Hatshepsut's original name is  Ghanamat Amun Hatshepsut means: the beloved princess of Amun or the princess of Amun, the princess of Durrat .. who was she ? Queen Maat Ka Ra Hatshepsut (1482 BC) One of the most famous queens in history, the fifth Pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty, ruled from 1503 BC. Until 1482 BC. The eldest daughter of Pharaoh Egypt was King Thutmose I and her mother Queen Ahmose. Her father, the king, had an illegitimate son, Thutmose  I I  , and she accepted to marry him on the custom of royal dynasties to share the rule of the state after his death. This queen has left many mysteries and secrets. Perhaps the most exciting of these mysteries is the character of Senmut, the architect who built he...

king tut tomb (KV 62) There is no doubt that all of us  heard About king tut and his tomb why is it so that special and did we know all about its secrets ?  Tomb of Tutankhamun or Cemetery 62 according to scientific coding and is universally known as KV 62. It is the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, on the bank of the western Nile opposite the city of Luxor today. This tomb has gained worldwide fame but why that what we will try to show you in this article . king tut tomb At first we must know who was King Tutankhamun and why he got all this fame ? King Tutankhamun  ruled at the end of the 18th Dynasty in a period known as the  New Kingdom  from 1334 to 1325 BC. Although this king was not important for the short period of his reign which did not exceed 10 years due to his death at the age of 17 years . But now this king is the most famous king in ancient Egypt because h...

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 ...

Egypt under the reign of King Mena  The struggle of the Egyptians in order to achieve political unity and the impact of the Union of Egypt in the establishment of civilization and wear the double crown. The community went through several steps that had the greatest impact on civilization in the land of Egypt. These steps are the emergence of villages and cities, the emergence of autonomous regions, and the first unit in 4242 BC. And finally the national unity in 3200 BC. M. The first step: the emergence of villages and cities After the Egyptians went to the Nile Valley and worked in agriculture, each group settled in a village that cooperated together in the cultivation of the lands, and the villages were the beginning of human civilization that led to the emergence of cities. And people took to organize their lives in these villages and cities and appeared different idolatry around which the people of each city or village, and these go...

The third family era passed after the death of Senefro Vasses Khufu, the fourth family who ruled Egypt for about a century and a half (2900 - 2750 BC). In the era of this famous family, which is considered by many as the strongest and greatest Egyptian families, where Egypt reached the peak of glory and civilization and based on the amount of power from the effects left by the pyramids and the best witness to the greatness of kings so that the pyramid of Khufu the largest, but Giza is one of the seven wonders of the world if not The most famous of them was the construction of the pyramids, which was to find a fortified place for the king's body not to be touched by the hands. Khufu died behind him the second pyramid  in the smaller Giza, and in his day the power of the king began to weaken a little as the strength of the priests of En (Ain Shams), who entered the country's politics. It was said that the statue of the Sphinx, which does not know its maker, worked in th...

The priests of En or the priests of Re'e Ain Shams took over the order of the country early and remained in this situation for about 120 years until they managed to overthrow the fourth family and establish the fifth family, which ruled 150 years and was the seat of the city of Memphis. But the rulers of the provinces took this weakness as an excuse to make their positions hereditary. However, they maintained loyalty to their king and helped him to preserve the civilization and heritage of Egypt. Even the first kings of this family extended their influence to the first funeral Of the Nile, and that King Sahera, who succeeded him, sent a naval expedition to the Phoenician coasts and to Puntland and the shores of the southern Gulf of Aden. He also sent a land campaign to the Sinai Peninsula. King Assis sent another expedition to Puntland and opened the quarries of Wadi Hammamet On the Red Sea), Wan King Onas, the last king of this family, established the pillars of his authori...

The reign of the two families was 420 years, and their property was the city of Tina, after King Narmer Mina unified the Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, namely the Delta and the Upper and the meaning of the word Meena, the founder or the immortal, and reminds us of some historical sources that he himself may be King Scorpio. which indicate the presence of the king and established the unity of Egypt is a board slate, which was found in the area Harakounboles "old southern capital." If we look at this painting, we see the name of King Narmer in the front of the royal palace. If we look at the sides of the arduous plank above, we see two hieroglyphs representing Hathor, the goddess of love and beauty of the ancient Egyptians, and their presence in the painting represents the religious protection of the king. In the form of the white crown "Hadjat", which represents the south in Upper Egypt and other times wearing the red crown "Darsher", which represents ...