Egyptians

Memphis,One of the most important cities in the ancient world. Around 3000 years before christ, Egyptian divided the area around Nile river into two kingdoms, the upper and lower Egypt. The king Menes was the first king who united the two kingdoms. Then, Memphis was founded to become the center of the kingdom. Memphis is greek words means “The White Wall”. The king of Egypt was called pharaoh and Egyptian believed that the pharaoh was the son of Re, god of Egypt. Memphis was located in the…

donations to the gods. All Egyptians (including Pharaoh's) gave donations to the gods. Then that leaves Priests. Their importance in the pyramid was to please the gods. Though they aren’t like priest today. According to www.touregypt.net this is how they show appreciation to the gods, “Egyptian priests did have a vital role in the religious ritual of daily and festival life. Whereas today a god may be worshipped who is believed to bestow his grace upon his followers, the Egyptian priest…

“Until the conversion of Christianity, Egyptian polytheistic religion centered on the afterlife. Akhenaton (Amen phis IV or Amenhotep IV) reigned from about 1379 to 1362 BC) attempted to suppress the ancient religion of Egypt and to institute a monotheistic worship of the Sun God.” “Another ruler…

The Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun Ever heard the phrase Kings never die, well neither do Pharaohs. For year’s archeologist have been discovering tombs of pharaohs and their families trying to get an understanding of who they were. Many tombs of the pharaohs were ravaged through and amazing art was taken by tomb robbers but still they were able to find beautiful works of art and even funeral masks. Arguably the most famous mask to date is King Tutankhamun. Along with the mask there were many…

Ancient Egyptians were far more advanced than the rest of the world, even the Greeks, at the time. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the body consisted of 46 channels, in which the heart was in the center of them. This was somewhat true, but they never discovered that each channel had a different function. However, they had some vague ideas about the functions of the brain and liver. Any health issue would result from the evil spirit Wehedu and angry gods that blocked channels. Ancient…

A nation’s capability to adapt to its terrain and to utilize its natural resources is often critical in determining the ability people to survive in its land. This was evident in numerous successful ancient civilizations like the Egyptian civilization, organized around the Nile River, which ruled from 3200-1640 BCE. To the south, and a few millennia later, the Aksum Empire adapted to its mountainous terrain and long seacoast to dominate trade and agriculture from 100-750 CE. Just before the…

Alexandria, Arabic Al-Iskandariyyah, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Mursī, Mosque of [Credit: Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images] major city and urban muḥāfaẓah (governorate) in Egypt. Once among the greatest cities of the Mediterranean world and a centre of Hellenic scholarship and science, Alexandria was the capital of Egypt from its founding by Alexander the Great in 332 bce until its surrender to the Arab forces led by ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ in 642 ce. One of Egypt’s largest cities, Alexandria is also its principal…

matriarchal society since women were running the city. In Hellenistic Egypt, Greek philosophies was spread throughout the Egypt and the Egyptian culture was greatly impacted. However, Egypt continued to remain a patriarchal society. Sparta shows more practice of feminism and modern values regarding women…

of a Kingdom centered on a gold trade. Agriculture moved south of the Nile Valley and across regions just south of the Sahara Dessert to West Africa which then moved southward. The Ancient Egyptians mainly controlled the south territory and Nile River, ships were not allowed to travelled freely. The Egyptians called the people living in the south Nubians, and they controlled them during the aggressive foreign policy era of the new kingdom. As a new kingdom started to break apart, the Nubians set…

with other people. The picture of a cow was represented by the cow’s head. The picture of an eye represented the word “eye.” Fully formed hieroglyphics was usually written inside the walls of caves or on the walls of temples. The second reason is Egyptians became used to the languages of their rulers. Hieroglyphs was forgotten. Lot’s of inscriptions and lot’s and lot’s of papyrus roll and for centuries no one even knew what the writing meant. In 1799, there was a piece of stone with writing in a…