Although her name is of Greek origin, there are records of indigenous Egyptians assuming Greek names during the Greco-Roman periods, so I believe it is possible that she was of Egyptian (or other African) descent rather than strictly Greek as commonly shown in artistic portrayals.---Brought ...
With all the permutations, one God can have an enormous number of names. Amon, Amen, Ammon-Ra, Amen-Re, Amun, Amon-Re... You get the idea. If you want to get ahead or give yourself a headache then Egypt is the place to be. Egyptian Gods go in for cumbersome and elaborate ...
This is the same spirit which informed the medieval taste for encyclopedias and for libri monstruorum, a genre which reappears from the Renaissance onwards under the “scientific” guise of the medical studies of Ambroise Paré, the naturalist works of Ulisse Aldrovandi, the collection of monsters...
Papa taught me to count in the Roman ways and told us to always speak Latin, in or out of the home, though it was Momma who gave us our Egyptian names. True, day to day, it’s Roman things that get you by. Measures of weight, distance, money. Numbers of things possessed or want...
British scientist Thomas Young, who began studying the stone in 1814, first deduced that some of the symbols were phonetic spellings of royal names. Then, between 1822 and 1824, French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion was able to show that hieroglyphics were a combination of phonetic and ideogr...
In time I drew more pictures of him, and a little cat appeared as his companion. (Mummific told me the cat's name is Ta-Miu, and I have strong suspicion she was the beloved cat of prince Tuthmosis, the brother of Akhenaten... At least the names match, and the kitty in question ...
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The Grand Egyptian Museum is a monumental showcase for all 5,000 of King Tut’s treasures—and a symbol of a nation that has reclaimed its past.
Thutmose III eradicated almost all of the evidence of Hatshepsut’s rule. He demolished images of her as a king on temples and monuments and destroyed or replaced her name on cartouches with the names of Thutmose I, II, and III, thereby re-establishing the dynasty’s lineage of male success...
We meet with the flattering names of Soter, Philadelphus, Euergetes, and the rest, on the coins of Syria, Parthia, Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Pon-tus, Bactria, and Bithynia; while that of Euergetes, the benefactor, was at last used as another name for a tyrant....