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24/09/2024

The Egyptian Museum is the oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East, and houses the largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities in the world. It houses over 120,000 items.The museum displays an extensive collection spanning from the Predynastic Period to the Greco-Roman Era.

22/09/2024

One of Ali's groups at Abu simbel temple. The Abu Simbel temple was constructed as a place for people to worship Pharaoh Ramses II as a god following his death, as well as to be a show of power toward the recently conquered territory of Nubia. The most notable feature of the Abu Simbel temple are the four colossal statues of Ramses II on the outside.

19/09/2024

Osiris, god of the deceased, was the son and oldest child of Geb, the Earth deity and Nut, the sky goddess. His wife and sister was Isis, goddess of motherhood, magic, fertility, death, healing, and rebirth. It was said that Osiris and Isis were deeply in love with each other, even in the tomb. In the New Kingdom, Osiris was considered the master of the underground world, the next world – the Afterlife.

18/09/2024

One of Ali's groups at edfu temple.
Edfu Temple is one of the most striking and complete of ancient Egyptian temples and is dedicated to the worship of the god Horus. Situated on the western bank of the Nile, its construction began during the reign of Ptolemy III (246–221 BC) in 237 BC, but was completed in the reign of Ptolemy XII (80–51 BC) in 57 BC, 180 years later

17/09/2024

The root origins of the Egyptian goddess Isis have been traced by historians all the way back to the Osiris myth of the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt, which was one of their most important, foundational stories.According to the myth, Osiris and his wife Isis were the first rulers of the world. Together, they taught the wayward men and women of the world how to live a civilized and productive life. Unfortunately, Osiris’ jealous brother Set destroyed the life they had built together, by murdering Osiris, and casting his body into pieces across Egypt. Isis searched high and low, gathering all the fragments together and piecing him into a living man again.

16/09/2024

Isis is most closely associated with being a mourner, protector, and a mother. Symbols used to represent Isis include the moon disk, cow horns, wings, the kite hawk, and sycamore trees.

14/09/2024

Isis was the most powerful goddess of the Ancient Egyptian religion. The name "Isis" is Greek for the Egyptian word Aset, or Eset, which roughly translates into "throne" or "queen of the throne". She was the queen of Egypt and ruled with her husband and brother Osiris.

13/09/2024

The mummy of Hatshepsut was found in 1903 by Howard Carter in (KV60), in the Valley of the Kings. Carter had discovered two mummies in the tomb. One was in a coffin, the second was stretched out on the floor. Since the tomb had been ransacked in antiquity, Carter thought it of marginal interest and resealed it.
While assembling all unidentified mummies with their right arms placed across their chests as a royal posture for the Egyptian Mummy Project, some were studied with a CT-scan machine. At the same time a canopic box from the Deir el-Bahari Cachette (DB320) that was inscribed for Hatshepsut and contained her liver was also scanned.There was also a tooth inside, a molar with a root; and when examined it was found that it fitted exactly into the mouth of one of the royal women.
After analysis of Hatshepsut’s mummy, it was concluded that she had died at about the age of fifty, that she had been obese, and that she had diabetes and cancer. The box that contained the tooth is also on display near the mummy.

13/09/2024

The celebrated temple of Hatshepsut (c.1473–1458 BC), the queen who became pharaoh, is located here, in Deir al-Bahari, on the west bank of Luxor. Composed of three man-made terraces that gradually rise up toward the sheer cliff face, this structure is truly a sight to behold.

The site of Deir al-Bahari was sacred to Hathor, the goddess who nursed and reared every king, including their mythological ancestor, the god Horus.

12/09/2024

When Hatshepsut ascended to the throne, she was only the third woman to become pharaoh in 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, and the first to attain the full power of the position. One of the most famous Egyptian leaders, Cleopatra, also exercised such power, although not until 14 centuries later.

12/09/2024

Hatshepsut, daughter of King Thutmose I, became queen of Egypt when she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, around the age of 12. Upon his death, she began acting as regent for her stepson, the infant Thutmose III, but later took on the full powers of a pharaoh, becoming co-ruler of Egypt around 1473 B.C. As pharaoh—the sixth of the 18th dynasty

02/08/2023

Located at the foot of the Siwa mountain, these salt lakes are called Al-Tibtah. The hundreds of salt lakes or, salt pools are part of the Zeitoun Lake. The lakes are over 95% salt solely because of a nearby salt mine. They're approximately 4 metres deep and have hot and cold water options

01/08/2023

The White Desert in Egypt has mushroom-shaped formations made of white limestone

01/08/2023

The park is the site of large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wind and sand. It is also the site of cliffs

01/08/2023

White Desert National Park covers an area of 300 km2 (120 sq mi). The highest point in the park is at El Qess Abu Said at 353 m (1,158 ft) above sea level, and the lowest is at Wadi Hennis at 32 m (105 ft).

22/07/2023

December 1922, Tutankhamun's Tomb | The rectangular white box (Carter no. 50), in front of the lion couch (Carter no. 35) in the Antechamber, contained, amongst other items, linen garments (shirts, shawls and loin cloths), 18 sticks, 69 arrows and a trumpet.

22/07/2023

Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter on November 26, 1922. At the time of Carter's discovery, Tutankhamun's tomb was still largely intact. He found a “strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects” inside.

19/07/2023

Tutankhamun’s original name, Tutankhaten, can still be seen on some of his burial goods such as on the arm of this throne now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo

19/07/2023

Tutankhamun was born and raised at the city of Akhetaten.It was here that his father, the king Akhenaten, founded a new royal city dedicated to the god Aten. but the identity of his mother remains unknown. At least one archaeologist believes that Tut’s mother was actually Queen Nefertiti—Akhenaten's cousin, and one of his wives.
King Tut was married to a woman named Ankhesenamun, who was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. That made her Tutankhamun’s half-sister—or his full sister, if the theory about Nefertiti being his mother is true.
When Tutankhamun ascended to the throne, at the age of just 8 or 9 years old, he changed his name to Tutankhamun, or ‘Living Image of Amun’, and reverted to the old pantheon of deities, restoring their temples, and relocating the royal court back to Thebes.
King Tut fathered two daughters with his wife, but unfortunately, both children were stillborn. Their bodies were mummified and eventually interred in King Tut’s tomb with him. Ankhesenamun outlived Tutankhamun and possibly got married to the pharaoh Ay

18/07/2023

Amarna art is characterized by a sense of movement and activity in images, with figures having raised heads, many figures overlapping and many scenes busy and crowded.

18/07/2023

Amarna art is characterized by a sense of movement and activity in images, with figures having raised heads, many figures overlapping and many scenes busy and crowded. The human body is portrayed differently; figures, always shown in profile on reliefs, are slender, swaying, with exaggerated extremities. In particular, depictions of Akhenaten give him distinctly feminine qualities such as large hips, prominent breasts, and a larger stomach and thighs.

18/07/2023

A colossal statue of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye in the Cairo Museum, with Princess Henuttaneb, Cairo

17/07/2023

Tiye was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of pharaoh Akhenaten and grandmother of pharaoh Tutankhamun; her parents were Yuya and Thuya.Egyptologists have hypothesized that Tiye’s father, Yuya, was not Egyptian in origin.
Some contend that the queen’s strong political and unusual religious beliefs may not only have been a result of her strong character but also may have been a result of her foreign ancestry.where her husband built a temple just for her.
In his Year 12 he also had an artificial lake colossi statue for her. She is equally tall as her husband on the enormous statue that is currently on display in the Egyptian Museum
Queen Tiye and King Amenhotep III the first Egyptians are said to have been interred in Thebes’ Valley of the Kings. They are believed to have been interred in the “Secret Room,” a royal tomb constructed for them by Akhenaten. Queen Tiye thought to interred with gold, jewelry, and possibly a sphinx of herself or King Thutmose III made of dark stone. Secret Room was discovered during an excavation under Khalil Bahnat’s

17/07/2023

Queen Nefertiti was the wife of the sun-disk worshipping Pharaoh Akhenaten and stepmother to King Tutankhamun.

Nefertiti was an ancient Egyptian queen consort who was likely King Tut's stepmother and may have ruled as a pharaoh in her own right. She lived during the 18th dynasty during the 14th century B.C.She was the wife of Amenhotep IV (who later changed his name to Akhenaten), Ii pharaoh who unleashed a revolution that saw Egypt's religion become focused around the worship of the Aten, the sun disk. He built a new capital city called Akhetaten
the type of helmet-like crown Nefertiti is wearing in the bust was typically reserved for pharaohs or the goddesses Tefnut or Hathor,
One idea is that after Akhenaten's death, Nefertiti's power was so great that she was able to rule as a pharaoh in her own right. In ancient Egypt, after becoming a pharaoh, a ruler would sometimes take a new name.

17/07/2023

Wooden standing statue of Akhenaten. Currently in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin

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