Medicine in Ancient Epypt
In the Egyptian medicine there were two different tendencies: the magical-religious one, which included very primitive elements, and the empirical-rational one, based on experience and observation, with no mystic elements.…
BASTET
ANCIENT EGYPT Bastet was a divinity represented by a woman with the head of a cat. Probably she was originally a lioness. Goddess of the city Bubastis that was named…
Khufu (Cheope)
Names: Cheope, Khufu (or Khufwey, according to Gardiner), Suphis, Horo Medjdo Dynasty: IV ( 2630-2510 BC) Years of reign: 63 (Manetone); 23 (Canon in Torino) Historical placement: Ancient Reign 2700-2200…
The Astronomy
The Egyptian astronomy remained clung, on the whole, on rudimentary notions. Anyway the arrangement of the calendar involved the use of an appreciable observatory. Astronomy was a religious science, so…
Nefertiti
NEFERTITI (XVIII dynasty). According to the last interpretations, Nefertiti is considered Ay’s daughter, who was Teie’s brother, nephew of Yuia and Tuia, that is Amenhotep’s IV cousin. Nefertiti and her…
Rites for resurrection
Greetings to you Osiris, Lord of Eternity, King of the many Names, Of the sacred transformation Of the secret forms in the temples. Death as an end doesn’t exist in…
Mummification
Because the world had been created by the vital power of the universe, the eternal spirit, had to return, when his course on earth was over, to order and harmony.…
Goddess Anuket
Anuket is a Goddess of the island Sehel, in Assuan, she was part of a local divine threefold with the ram god Khnum and Satis, goddess of Elefantina island. She…
Isis and the mysterious cult
Isis’s cult was mysterious, as it was celebrated by believers initiated to its mysteries, secretly. This cult had a great success, because it fulfilled the spiritual needs that the official…
The house and the furnishings
What has remained of the civilian Egyptian building, let the archaeologists make interesting observations. Outside the valley of the Nile, many settlements have been discovered, while along the Nile the…