The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa: the hidden history of ancient Egypt
The catacombs of Alexandria, also known as Kom el-Shoqafa or “mound of splinters” in Arabic, are one of…
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Tag: Egypt
Power of Queen Tiy
In Amenhotep III we can see the lazy and speculative Oriental, too improbable and too vain to…
The Mysterious God Serapis
The Romans thought that the Christians were only one of the many sects of Galilee, subversive, but…
The religion of light
Pharaoh Amenhotep IV changed the name to Akhenaten in honor of the god Aten. After his death his…
Moses the Egyptian
The idea of monotheism is linked to Moses. But the one who embodied this idea and affirmed it…
The Golden Throne of King Tutankhamun
King Tutankhamun’s Golden Throne is a masterpiece of art, not only in Ancient Egyptian times, but also in…
The Ceremony “Opening of the Mouth
There’s probably no another ritual of the Ancient Egyptian civilization best known and widespread than that of the…
The texts of the ostraka
The informal texts written on the ostraka are usually documents that give us more information about daily life…
The Stone of Shabaka, the Creation of Ptah
One of the most important cosmogonies preserved today is the one developed by the Priests of Memphis. According…
THE EGYPTIAN HOLY BOOKS
In the last era of ancient Egypt religious writings were largely translated into Greek, at a time when…