WOMAN’S CONDITION
ANCIENT EGYPT The Egyptian woman was considered “the lady of the house”, if she was a woman of the people, she took care of the grinding of the cereals and…
THE BOOK OF ADORATION OF RA IN THE WEST
ANCIENT EGYPT The book of adoration of Ra in west, is a religious text dating back to the beginning of the 18th dynasty and describing the divine mystery of sun…
THE CROWN AND THE SCEPTER
ANCIENT EGYPT The Egyptian crowns worn by the kings defined the pharaoh’s status in a certain moment of time. The role could vary from the political one (head of the…
WASET
With this name the Egyptians called Thebes ANCIENT EGYPT Waset, it was so-called by the Egyptians. the famous capital of the pharaohs of the Middle and of the New Reign,…
SED FESTIVAL
ANCIENT EGYPT At the end of the thirtieth year of reign, the pharaohs celebrated the “Sed Festival” or royal jubilee.The ceremony demonstrated the pharaoh’s vigour, a necessary condition for the…
DUAT
ANCIENT EGYPT The divinity shapes her body into a circle.Its feet touch its head from behind.With the hands it bears the goddess Nut, who stands holding the solar disc on…
GODDESS HATHOR
ISIS’S ANCIENT EGYPT The goddess Hathor, in time, absorbed in herself the many characteristics of the local divinities. This is why she is represented in the most different ways, in…
SCRIBE
ANCIENT EGYPT The figure of the scribe was born with the necessity to make precise inventory of the great mounds of food stuffs that went in and cut of the…
THE CONSECRATION
PHARAOHS The ceremony for the Pharaoh’s consecration, long and laborious in the New Reign, forsaw a ceremonial phase in which the pharaoh seized a staff that in the lower part,…
PHARAOH MENES
ISIS’S ANCIENT EGYPT All the sources of Egyptian history declare unanimously that Menes was the first Pharaoh. A virtual confirmation is given by the famous “Palermo Stone”. The superior register…