Turin King List
The Turin King List is a papyrus with texts in hieratic script, kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, to which it owes its name. The text is dated to the time of Ramses II (although it may have been written later) and mentions the names of the pharaohs who reigned in...Read more
The Statue of Djoser
By happy coincidence, the earliest surviving example of a life-size royal sculpture is of the first great pharaoh of the Old Kingdom. The statue of Djoser, with his stone face and immortal aura, is one of the most majestic in ancient Egyptian art. Djoser was the first...Read more
The fascinating story of the Papyrus of Ani, one of the most spectacular scrolls of the Book of the Dead
The Papyrus of Ani is one of the best-known versions of the Book of the Dead. It is believed that it was written about the nineteenth dynasty. Among other things, its importance is because it contemplates the largest number of chapters among all the texts that have...Read more
The ships of the pharaohs
Papyrus boats, rowing and transport ships, sacred boats… during the Pharaonic era, various boats sailed the Nile and even the high seas. Without the Nile, the holy river, Egypt would only be a vast desert. In ancient times, the annual rise of its waters guaranteed the...Read more