Death on the Nile

He is young and looks childish that doesn’t have mature enough; he had a long black hair with witty black eyes and wore gold clothes with a gold snake on his headpiece. Suddenly, he saw Emma sleeping on the bank of Nile river. He gradually came to her. He liked her at the first time he saw her face, although her face was dusty. He commanded his servants to be quiet and brought her to his royal palace. Emma woke up. She looked around and wondered where she was right…

From my perception of “The Exodus Decoded,” Simcha Jacobovici’s “facts” and “theories” are very easy to prove wrong, and quite frankly, over-reached. As an example- his theory for the first plague, the Nile turned to blood, in which he explained as gases floating above the waters, creating a chemical effect of a muddy-red hue, but if we are basing these facts off scripture, Exodus 7:20 specifically states that the waters turned to blood rather than to the color of blood. In other words, I find…

agreement that Egyptians were searching for an understanding of the formation and basic laws of the universe. The Egyptian concept of the world centered around their observation of nature, their land and their experience on this land and of course, the Nile River. The depiction of the world on the lid of the sarcophagus of Wereshnefer, shown below, is one of the first known representations of the world as round. The map is framed by the arching body of Nut, goddess of the sky, who is…

There were many gods for all sort of things like life, death, the environment, etc. Some gods had more than one title, such as the goddess Isis who was the goddess of health, marriages and wisdom and the goddess Hathor who was the goddess of sky, love, beauty, joy, 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…

Within civilizations there are many similarities and differences. Case in point, geography, social structure, political and governmental systems, economy, technology and culture. For example, Shang and Zhou China, and the Nile River valley. These two civilizations are filled with these types of differences. The geography of China varies differently of that of Egypt. Which in turn, led these independent civilizations to take different paths in culture and other aspects. China, for instance, has…

a good baby, she hid him for 3 months. When she could no longer hide him, she sent her son down the river Nile in a basket to protect him. His sister watched as to see what would happen to the baby. She saved him by hiding him among the edge of the river to keep from being found. Before Moses was born, The Pharaoh decided that he needed to control the Hebrew population and he ordered death to all of the male children that belonged to the Hebrew women, but let the daughters live. The Pharaoh…

Although no communication amongst different people, establishing civilizations during the ancient world seemed to have many similarities amongst each other. Along with similarities also come many differences. Two of the first recorded ancient civilizations that were developed were the Egyptians and the Sumerians. The Sumerians are often referred to as the “Pioneers of Civilization. Both of these great civilizations had similarities in their religion and location, specific development in their…

THE CONSERVATION STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF NILE CROCODILES IN THE OLIFANTS RIVER: MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA OBSTRUCT The outlook for Nile Crocodiles in the Olifants River does not look optimistic since the increase in capacity of the Loskop and Flag Boshiela Dams, Crocodile population was left with no basking or nesting sites and has and has declined over the past 30 years shortly after the massingire Dam in the Mozambique filled to full capacity an estimated 160 Crocodiles died in the Olifants…

Ancient Egyptian religion was known as polytheism. Egyptians centered their beliefs on many gods, and these gods or deities were believed to have powers which controlled the order of nature. Religion played an important role and had a great influences on the Egyptian’s arts. Greek historian Herodotus said “The Egyptian’s were the most religious people he knew, and their religious faith inspired much of Egypt’s greatest art.” Pharaohs ruled the land of the living. Religious practice centered on…

father's death in 51 BC, the throne superseded to Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII, who was her brother. At the age of only sixteen, she gained the throne, but did not resemble "the sole ruler." The way the palace presented itself, Ptolemy XIII was the main ruler and Cleopatra was just his little collaborator. Sneaky as a mouse, her brother had his own advisors that went against Cleopatra and forced her out of Egypt in 49 BC. Soon after he abandoned her out of Egypt, Ptolemy XIII drowned in the…