medicine
Ancient Egyptian medicine
Medicine was a branch of advanced scribal learning. Egyptian doctors were of the highest social status and had a reputation throughout the ancient world. A knowledge of medicine was identifi…
women
Women and Ancient Egyptian religion
In the Old Kingdom, the First Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, many elite women became priestesses of the goddess Hathor, although few women served in the cults of other…
medicine
Examples of Medical Papyri in ancient Egypt
The Ebers Papyrus In 1873 Georg Ebers, a German Egyptologist, acquired in Thebes a papyrus which had been discovered in a tomb in about 1860. Originally it was a roll 20.72 metres long but divi…
temples
Temple Foundation Ceremonies
Stages in the rituals of foundation/or an Egyptian temple. The king 'stretches the cord' to lay out the new temple site with the help 0/ the goddess of writing and measurement, scatt…
mummy
Burial customs: Mummification
During the Predynastic Period burials were very simple and Bodies were placed in shallow graves in contracted position Mummification is a method of preserving artificially the bodies of deceas…
army. weapons
Army in ancient Egypt
One of the advantages Egypt derived from her unique geographical position was relative safety. Nomadic tribes in the deserts on either side of the Nile valley soon ceased to pose a…
other
The Transportation and Erection of Cleopatra's Needle
This is a group of articles published in the British newspapers in 1877-78 to cover the transportation of an obelisk known as Cleopatra's needle from Egypt to England and its erection at the …
palaces
The Palaces of Ancient Egypt
Reconstruction of the columned hall in the temple palace at Medinet Habu The palaces of ancient Egypt had multiple functions. They were the living quarters for the pharaoh and his family. Th…
News
Learning About Ancient Egypt Through Board Games
NJ TODAY RAHWAY — As a culminating project for their unit on Ancient Egypt, sixth graders at Roosevelt School in Rahway created their own board games. Students created 30 multiple cho…
News
News Feed 7-3-2013
7-3-2013 News Feed Even wealthy ancient Egyptians in poor health NBCNews.com Even the best-off ancient Egyptians suffered from malnutrition and preventable disease, a new analysis of mu…
modern Egypt
His Highness Said Pasha, The Viceroy of Egypt and Koenig Bey, Private Secretary
Illustrated London News, June 28, 1862 Out of the eighty-three children of Mohainmed Ali, four only survived their father, and Said is incontestably the most remarkable of them. Brought up und…
Lower Egypt
MEMPHIS
map of Memphis and its cemetery The city of Memphis, which has now disappeared almost completely, was the administrative and religious center of the 1st Lower Egyptian nome. It was the royal re…
temples
Karnak Temple
Plan of Karnak Karnak is the modern name for an ancient religious complex erected at Thebes in Upper Egypt. Called Nesut-Tawi, “the Throne of the Two Lands,” or Ipet-Iset, “The Finest of Seats,…
middle egypt
Middle Egypt: Kom Madinet Ghurab to El-Lisht
Head of a queen, probably Tye from Kon Medinet Ghurab Kom Medinet Ghurab At the south side of the entrance to the Faiyum, on the edge of the desert some 3 km southwest of el-Lahun, there are…
shoes
Ancient shoes get new attention
These apparently basic stitched sandals, created from palm leaf, grass and papyrus, were the most essential items. They were only utilized by those officials who were honored by the king and court…
