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Akhetaton, meaning the horizon of the sun disk.It is an ancient city called Tel el-Amarna in Minya, Egypt.It is located east of the NileBuilt in 1365 BCKing Akhenaten to be the capital and seat of the Aten monotheistic beliefAfter his death, its palaces were demolished and plundered Tutankhamun transferred his successor the capital again toContinue reading “Cities_Old Egypt_5-Till_amarna_”

Cities_Old_Egypt_3 _Atrib 14-4-2021Province of Al-GalubeiahCoordinates30 ° 28′00 ″ N 31 ° 11′00 ″ EAribe is a small part within the city of BenhaWhich no one knows aboutWhich had a high status in the distant and near past as it was a city of no less importance than the city of Thebes in the era ofContinue reading “Cities_Old_Egypt_3_Atrib”

Pharaoh Menes and the Unification of Egypt Pharaoh Menes was the first or second pharaoh of the 1st dynasty of Ancient Egypt. There are many theories and conjectures about the personality of Menesbut he can be perceived as the son of the pharaoh Narmer or Narmer himself – this fact is not exactly established. TheContinue reading “Pharaoh Menes and the Unification of Egypt”

The Lost SarcophagusThe sarcophagus of the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Menkaura is one of history’s vanished treasures, lost in 1838 when the ship transporting it to the British Museum sank, probably in a storm.After one hundred and sixty-eight years, questions are still being asked about the loss and where exactly the ship sank.It was the autumnContinue reading “The Lost Sarcophagus – التابوت المفقود”

Egyptian men wore primitive eyeliner.The ancient Egyptians fascinate us. Our modern culture devotes museums, books and movies to the study and celebration of Egyptian society and traditions. From King Tut mania to Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra, we’re obsessed. This is likely because they left behind so many well-preserved artifacts and we have so much to siftContinue reading “5 Ancient Egyptian Cosmetics”

Ancient Egypt conjures up ima­ges of bearded ­pharaohs,mighty pyramids and gold-laden tombs. Centuries ago, before archaeology became a legitimate field of science, explorers raided Egyptian ruins, seizing priceless artifacts. Collectors knew that t­hese items were valuable, but they had no way of understanding just how much they were worth. Because the civilization’s historical records andContinue reading “How the Rosetta Stone Works”

When famed British archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed the treasures of what is now known as dig KV62 in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in November 1922, his discovery was almost instantly recognized as a cultural, historical, scientific and — (as it turned out) — very literal gold mine. Now, almost a century later, the frenzyContinue reading “How King Tut Became a Pharaonic Rock Star Only After Death”

AnubisAnubis was the ancient Egyptian guardian of graves and supervisor of the mummification process. The jackal-headed deity was responsible for weighing the hearts of people who had passed on and were seeking judgment. This is a detail from a wooden sarcophagus, Egypt, around 400 B.C.E.ANDRE/FLICKR (CC BY-SA 2.0)Death isn’t exactly a comfortable topic of conversationContinue reading “Anubis Was Ancient Egypt’s Jackal-headed Guard Dog of the Dead”

CAIRO – 10 March 2021:In line with the efforts made by Egypt’s diplomatic missions and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to repatriate Egyptian antiquities smuggled abroad, Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zaid, the Egyptian ambassador to Canada, received a bronze artifact of the Goddess Bastet belonging to the ancient Egyptian civilization, in a ceremony of aContinue reading “Egypt successfully repatriates smuggled artifact of goddess Bastet from Canada”

Tanta was mostly written and pronounced as Tantah until the first half of the 20th century and particularly in French. The Egyptian town is the capital of Gharbia Governorate. The website started on 28 August 2016 and explores Tantah in the Belle Époque of modern Egypt (mid-1800s to mid-1900s), a long forgotten history of aContinue reading “Tantah”