Pepi II was a pharaoh from the 6th Dynasty, during the Old Kingdom, and his rule was Egypt’s longest, 94 years. The first half of his reign seems to have been prosperous with trade existing with various places. During the later part of his reign, local officials grew in power and ...
Pepi II was the most famous of this dynasty’s kings. He was six when he inherited and heruled for 94 years, the longest reign in Egypt’s history. During the second half of Pepi II’s reign, he was unable to rule well because the state collapsed. The people expected the pharaoh to...
The Great Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel was cut entirely into the cliff with four colossal statues of the pharaoh at the entrance and two huge halls decreasing in size, with statues set against the pillars. Decorative and applied art achieved a high level in Egypt (vessels and dishes ...
A Palaeographic Study of Early Writing in Egypt by I. Regulski (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta: Peeters) In trying to reconstruct the early phases of our culture, we rely mostly on sources from the ancient Near East. This is perhaps more true of the history of writing than of any other...
Mexico several millennia later, as may be deduced from the burial practices of the later rulers of the expanding state of Kerma.From the time of the late Old Kingdom in Egypt (c. 2300 BC) there was evidence of a powerful kingdom to the south of Egypt, known at that time as Yam. ...
two kinds of temples in ancient Egypt. One was a cult temple built solely in the dedication of a specific god or goddess-like, the Temple of Horus at Edfu. The second was a mortuary temple dedicated to a pharoah, worshiped as a god after death, like the Temple of Rameses II at The...
Early Dynastic 2950 BC – 2575 BC 1 Menes Imhotep Dzoser Memphis capital of Egypt First writing on papyrus First pyramid built –step pyramid at Sakkara (Saqqara) 2 3 Old Kingdom 2575 BC – 2150 BC 4 Sneferu Khufu (Cheops) Sahure Pepi I Pepi II Great pyramids and sphinx at Giza buil...
Narmer– For the pharaoh who unified Upper and Lower Egypt Nefertiti– The influential queen and wife of Akhenaten Pepi– For Pepi II, who had the longest reign in Egypt’s history Piye– Nubian pharaoh Piye, who conquered Egypt and founded the 25th dynasty ...
The influence of the physical conquest of many by one was immense politically and socially, as in the case of Rome, which subdued Greece and, together with Greece, all that Alexander had conquered in Asia and Egypt. With the ruin of Carthage, Rome destroyed the ancient thought of Phœnici...
translation of the pyramid texts (Ounas, Teti, Pepi I, Mirinrî I, Pepi II): URL -- Hieroglyphic text (Unas, Teti, Pepi I, Merenre, Neferkare Pepi II) in: Kurt Sethe, Die altägyptischen Pyramidentexte, nach den Papierabdrücken und ...