Amun

1. Introduction This case study mainly aims to demonstrate an analysis on the relationships between Egypt and other countries based on the Annals of Thutmose III. The discussion will focus on three different regions, which are Syria-Palestine, Nubia and Punt respectively. Apart from the analysis, the origin, genre and content of the annals will be covered briefly in the report. Potential issues and debates of secondary literature will also be presented in that it is important…

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…

all the traditional forms were bathed in the glare of a new light which the traditional Egyptians came to find intolerable. Beginning with the change in the king's birth name, from which the name of the (state god) Amun was removed, there was a step-by-step process of elimination. Amun was replaced by Aten, mythical statement by rational statement, many-valued logic by…

motherhood, foreign lands, mining, music and fertility. There were also important gods like Amun, Shu and Tefnut who took part in creation; the god Hapi was the god of the Nile, he brought the yearly floods; Isis was once queen of Egypt, Hathor, the god Horus was the god of the sky and once king of Egypt and the god Amun-Ra was the most important of all, Amun-Ra who was the god Amun and Ra combined, Amun-Ra was known as the god of Ancient Egypt and the King of Gods. There were also gods and…

capital from Thebes to another site dedicated to Aten. Tutankhamen is thought to switch these disagreeable religious changes, restoring the god Amun to his previous magnificence and moving the capital back to Thebes. He deserted his unique name, Tutankhaten which signifies "living picture of Aten", for Tutankhamen, which signifies "living picture of Amun". Soon after he married his sister, Ankhesenamun. They attempted to have children together yet they turned out as still-conceived. Howard…

that the she wanted to assure that her story was chronicled with great detail for future generations. Historians also believe that Hatshepsut might have also had personal and political motivations to build Deir-el Bahri. The temple was dedicated to Amun-Re, which thus reinforced his importance as a primary Theban god and also reaffirmed Hatshepsut's story that claimed she personally ascended from the god to eventually achieve her divine destiny as the pharaoh of Egypt (Roth 147). Hatshepsut may…

really close relationship with Amun (The King of Gods). He was about 12 years old when he succeeded his father, Thutmose IV(Bunson) He came to the seat of Pharaoh at a young age of and…

Akhenaten, the son of Amenhotep III, was an Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty who brought many cultural reforms to Egypt during his reign. It is generally thought that Akhenaten acted through his reign without any precedent or foreshadowing. However, it has also been speculated that he may have drawn his ideas from the rule of his father. Akhenaten, with his revolutionary focus on Aten and being the first Egyptian king to truly embrace monotheism coupled with henotheism, revealed the importance…

It is true to a significant extent that the reign of Egyptian leader, Amenhotep III was one of the most significant tenured of all New Kingdom pharaohs. Although individual aspects of Amenhotep III’s rule vary in their own importance, it is undeniable that his reign was extremely significant, presiding over an almost unbroken 40 year period of relative stability and prosperity from. Of most significance in Amenhotep III’s reign was his peaceful and diplomatic foreign policy. In stark contrast from…

The color blue (irtiu and khesbedj) in ancient Egypt represented the color of royalty. Egyptian jewelry and regalia was usually blue and gold. Synthetic pigments were used to produce dyes and pigments. Blue is associated with the sky, water, prime-evil waters and the heavens. It signified the Nile River and all of it’s associated offerings, fertility, and crops. The inundation of the Nile which was an annual reminder or re-enactment of the watery origins of the world. The annual flood of the…