Ancient Alexandria
Situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Lake of Maryut with easy access to the Canopic branch of the Nile and possessing a double...
The 2,000 year-old mummified head of an Egyptian woman has been...
Using CT scanning and 3D printing technology, team of researchers and forensic scientists, led by the University of Melbourne, has produced a reconstruction of...
Short facts about Egyptian Book of the Dead
Book of Coming Forth by Day, or what we call The Egyptian Book of the Dead , is a set of spells, incantations, and...
Periodization of the prehistory in the Egyptian area
Half a million years ago Nile was much wider. Interglacial period in Europe corresponds to the period of rain in North Africa, due to...
Egyptology
Egyptology as a science was born in 1822. It happened when a Frenchman Jean-François Champollion managed to penetrate into the system of ancient Egypt...
Geographical and political conditions for the development of ancient Egypt
Geographical conditions
The area where Egyptian kingdom was made is characterized by two crucial components; on one side hot deserts, on the other side a...
Art and architecture of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
After simple structures in archaic era, in the Old Kingdom Egyptians started to buried pharaos in the pyramids, while other dignitaries (and less ambitious...
Age of uniting north and south Egypt and Archaic (Thinis) period...
Pre-dynasty cultures were organized into two groups - Upper and Lower Egypt. Union into one state happened in the 31st century BC; at the...
Kingdom of Kush and their relations with the Egyptians
Kingdom of Kush was the second African civilization after Egypt built by an Egypt people who lived between the Nile River's first and third...
The Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt (2.686 – 2.181 BC)
This is a period when Egypt became stronger in all aspects of civilization and transformed into an organized state. The ruler's power is based...
Facts about famous Egyptian pyramids
Ancient Egyptians believed that a man is composed of different elements some of which were immortal. Egyptians saw death as termination of life, as...
First Intermediate period of Egypt (2.181 – 2.055 B.C)
Exact reasons for the end of the Old Kingdom are not familiar. It is assumed that the crisis in the country could be caused...
