Egyptian Amulets
In ancient Egypt, this magical power was often derived from a combination of several aspects, such as the amulet’s shape, decoration, inscription, color, material, and words spoken over the piece or acts performed with it.
Bastet Goddess
Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children.
King Tut
Tutankhamun, ancient Egyptian, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history.
The Amphora
An amphora is a jar with two vertical handles used in classical times for the storage and transportation of foodstuffs such as wine and olive oil.The name from the Greek amphiphoreus meaning ‘carried on both sides’, although the Greeks had adopted the design from the eastern Mediterranean,
The Pharaonic Dendera Calendar
The ancient Egyptian year consisted of three seasons, they were four months-long each, at the end of the year the five additional days were treated as outside of the year which was done in honor of the Egyptian gods.
Geb and Nut the Story Behind the Separation of the Earth and the Sky
Geb was the Egyptian god of the Earth and later a member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. Nut, also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion.
The Four Sons of Horus
All four of these calcite “canopic” jars belonged to the same person, who lived during the Late Period. Their stoppers were made in the likeness of Horus’s four sons, funerary gods whose role was to guard the internal organs.
Building The Pyramids
Egyptian pyramid construction techniques are the controversial subject of many hypotheses. These techniques seem to have developed over time, later pyramids were not constructed in the same way as earlier ones.
The Legendary Queen Nefertiti
The queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshipped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc.
Owls in Ancient Egypt
In ancient Egypt, owls were known as ‘keen-sighted hunters’ but were also associated with mourning and death. Owls, interestingly enough, even played a part in a parody of a scene from the Book of the Dead.
