“Life to the good god User-maat-re-mery-amun (lit. Re is powerful in truth, beloved of Amun).”© Scott B. Noegel. Egyptians deemed their Pharaoh as the supreme earthly power on earth. Even his royal titulary promoted him as the “son of Re,” and thus divine (Fig. 1)....
Why were elaborate tombs so important to pharaohs? Why were Egyptian pharaohs unusually powerful rulers? Why was Queen Hatshepsut different than most pharaohs? Why was Ramses II important? Why did Horemheb kill King Tut? Why was Thebes important to Ancient Egypt?
Egyptians, Romans used propolis for healing, skin beautification, and embalming (think pharaohs). Most of us are aware that propolis is linked to bees. But what are the main features and benefits of this ingredient that is surrounded with so much buzz?
(欺骗). This explains why at that time the priests(神父) even built magic devices into their temples. These devices made it possible for doors to open by themselves and wine to flow magically out of statues' mouths. This was done mainly to convince people that the priests were powerful....
Built sometime between the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., as the days of the Egyptian Pharaohs were coming to an end, the cities flourished as gateways to Egypt. Herakleion was a port of entry to Egypt and grew wealthy by collecting taxes on goods being shipped upriver. Frozen in ...
Cats were at their highest position of domesticated life in ancient Egypt. There were more cats living in Egypt during the time of the pharaohs than in any other place in the world since that time. This high number of cats was probably due to the laws protecting them. Cats were associated...
Why was the king so powerful in Mesopotamia? Why did Judah and Benjamin form the Kingdom of Judah? Why are pharaohs important? Why were pharaohs considered gods? Why were Egyptian pharaohs unusually powerful rulers? Why is King David important to understanding ancient history? Why was it signifi...
The earliest reports suggest that a socio-religious shift in thinking occurred in Egypt at the same time as the major constructions of Giza were completed, an idea which correlates with the change in the pharaohs title (It was around this time that the pharaohs began to use the prefix/suffix...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: The problem with capitalism is that we didn’t own these networks, so they started extracting more value than they were giving us. So do you think the main problem was capitalism taking over the net or were we not really ready culturally — or did we not have the ...
Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on cattle trucks, but the expats complained this was unsightly, so now they are shunted on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat. They sweat like sponges being slowly wrung out. Sonapur is a rubble-...