9 HeGuyManMaleBoyHim ⚠ This was helpful for my college report, although citing the information was kind of hard because this doesent give the author or the publisher names. This piece however was very intriguing, and knowledgable. I am an Egyptian-American and it was cool seeing some thi...
Latin and Hebrew names are known to have lived at the site and several coffins found at the cemetery used Greek portrait image and adapted Greek statue types to suit ‘Egyptian’ burial practices2,45. The site’s first excavator, Otto Rubensohn, also found a Greek grave inscription in stone...
Although clearly derived from "Urarṭu," Ararat has many other names, and it is not clear how the original name made its way to the mountain in the Middle Ages, when it is first clearly attested. This is just one of the mysteries association with the area, not the least of which is...
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both materials being used for sculptural as well as for architectural purposes. Close to the first cataract one can still see the quarries of red granite used not only for obelisks, but also for huge statues, sphinxes, and sarcophagi. Alabaster was quarried at the ancient town of Alabastron...
s original eye, another one grew. When the first eye successfully returned with the children, the eye was used as a weapon by other gods. The sun god Ra does his routine of sailing his boat across the sky during the day and then goes to the underworld at night when he was weak and...
Wepawet- (a.k.a. Wepwawet) A war deity in the form of a wolf. He was first known as a scout, then as one who opened the way to victory, then to the afterlife. Wosyet- (a.k.a. Waset, Wosret, Wasret, Wosret) A guardian goddess of Thebes whose name means "The Powerful"...
The tablet, known in the Museum’s catalogue as object no. 4906, is at first easily missed due to its small size, measuring only ten centimetres in length and just short of eight centimetres in width. However, a closer look at the object reveals some intrigues: on its surface a message...
Other numerical ordering schemas included the Ogdoad (group of eight gods) of Hermopolis, which embodied the inchoate world before creation and consisted of four pairs of male and female deities with abstract names such as Darkness, Absence, and Endlessness. Here too the number was significant in...
During the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom, the rectangular wooden coffins of nobles were often painted with elaborate care, turning them into real houses for the spirits of the dead. Their exteriors bore inscriptions giving the names and titles of their owners, and invoking the...