The ancient Egyptian culture was influenced by its vibrant mythology, which attempted to explain such important questions are where the world came from and what happens to us when we die. Their myths were populated by thousands of gods, with each god placed in charge of an element in nature ...
, the ancient Egyptian god of music, played a minor role in Egyptian mythology. Mentioned only a few times in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead, Ihy represented childhood, music and joy. In the form of a child god, Ihy completed the view of gods being connected as a family....
She was adopted into the family tree of the Egyptian gods as the daughter of Shu, the god of the air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture. She became the sky, while her brother Geb became the god of earth. In the creation story, Egyptians viewed Nut and Geb as passionate lovers. ...
This is a very interesting blog and I hope the author will one day read Zechariah Sitchin’s 12th Planet where it becomes clear that the Anunakki are the ones the Egyptian’s emulated as they seem to have come first and we know this from the Sumerian’s who have written about them thor...
of the disease, researchers say. Here, the skeleton (called Skeleton Sk244-8) in its original burial position in a tomb in northern Sudan in northeastern Africa, with a blue-glazed amulet (inset) found buried alongside him; the amulet shows the Egyptian god Bes depicted on the reverse side...
Experimental DNA decay rates in papyri have also been used to question the validity and general reliability of reported ancient Egyptian DNA results9. The recent genetic analysis of King Tutankhamun's family10 is one of the latest controversial studies that gave rise to this extensive scholarly ...
This lesson we will learn a little bit about the life of the Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun. We will explore his complex family tree, and the theories surrounding his death. Related to this QuestionWhat Egyptian dynasty is Tutankhamun from? Who was the pharaoh after Tutankhamun? Who was the pha...
The archaeological site Abusir el-Meleq was inhabited from at least 3250BCE until about 700CE and was of great religious significance because of its active cult to Osiris, the god of the dead, which made it an attractive burial site for centuries2. Written sources indicate that by the third...
Very strict conventions were followed while crafting statues: male statues were darker than the female ones; in seated statues, hands were required to be placed on knees and specific rules governed appearance of every Egyptian god. For example, the sky god (Horus) was essentially to be represent...
mud, and closing its nostrils with its tail, attacks and kills the dragon. The ichneumon was also considered by some to be the enemy of thecrocodileand theasp, and attack them in the same way. The name was used for the "pharaoh's rat",mongoose, orEgyptian mongoose, which attacks ...