Ancient Egyptian scribal education
Through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, Egyptian education underwent a growth that both drove [...]
View ArticleAbydos ware
First found in an Egyptian royal tomb in Abydos, Abydos Ware has since been found [...]
View ArticleEgyptian king Shishak
[25] In the fifth years of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. [26] [...]
View ArticleFirst Intermediate Period of Egypt
During the first intermediate era (2200 - 2040 BC), Herakleopolitan rulers (continued from Memphis) and [...]
View ArticleSecond Intermediate Period of Egypt
Egypt's central government weakened, allowing Asiatic kings based in the eastern Delta to seize power [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom2700-2200 BC2575-2125 BCThe Old Kingdom was a stable and prosperous period that followed Egypt's [...]
View ArticleKadesh Treaty
The Kadesh Treaty was established ~1269 BC between Hittite king Hattusilis III and Egyptian pharaoh [...]
View ArticleMiddle Kingdom of Egypt
Middle Kingdom2040-1785 BCBegan 2050 BCThe Middle Kingdom began ~2050 BC when a family of Theban [...]
View ArticleEgyptian king Taharqa
Granite ram of Amun with King Taharqa. Dynasty 25, 690-664 BC. From Kawa in Nubia. [...]
View ArticleEgyptian king Djoser
Entrance ColonnadeThis was the first use of columns, with engaged columns on either side of [...]
View ArticleEgyptian king Snefru
Meidum PyramidBuilt at Meidum, this was the first pyramid of Snefru. Began as a seven-step [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian artwork
Early Dynastic period Dynasty I artwork Tomb of Den Abydos The most elaborate Dynasty I [...]
View ArticleAncient Egypt
Predynastic era Predynastic Period4500-3100 BC Badarian4500-3800 BC Naqada I3850-3650 BC Characterized by Cross-Lined Ware (found [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian royal burials
Early Dynastic era The First and Second Dynasties were characterized by funerary Enclosures (mainly Abydos) [...]
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Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practice: Soul House
Ancient Egypt elites provisioned their tombs with models of servants preparing food and other necessities. These servants magically provided sustenance to the deceased. Poorer burials had a soul...
View ArticleAncient Egyptian mummification
The aim of preservation was to transform the corpse into a sah, an eternal and perfect image of the deceased, a new body endowed with magical attributes. The various stages of embalming had...
View ArticleAncient Egyptian symbols
The dead and living gained supernatural power and/or protected themselves by using amulets. Amulets gained their potency via shape, color, material, rituals, incantations and even position on the...
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Mummy portrait
Mummy portraits tend be so lifelike that they make the viewer take pause, staring into the eyes of someone from millennia ago -- and finding that the eyes stare back. Mummy portrait Encaustic (melted...
View ArticleEgyptian king Amunhotep III
Artists working for King Amunhotep III (circa 1390 – 1352 BC) were simultaneously conservative and innovative. They looked to the past for ideas, but also broke new ground and developed fresh...
View ArticleAncient Egyptian technology
Ancient Egyptians tended to adopt and refine imported technologies rather than invent new ones themselves. This conservatism grew, in part, from the way the Egyptians worked. Laboring in teams rather...
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