The luck of being a scribe in ancient Egypt: The Satire of the Trades
In ancient Egypt, several texts emerged, such as the one that concerns us here, which are part of a type of literature known as “wisdom”, in which a parent or guardian offers his or her pupil certain advice to behave and succeed in life. Egypt, Middle...Read more
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
The funerary temple of Hatshepsut, known as “Holy of Holies” is located in the complex of Deir el Bahari, on the western fringe of the River Nile, near the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt. This funerary temple was built in honor of Amun-Ra, the God of the...Read more
Famine Stela: The Seven Years’ Famine
In 1889 the journalist and Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour, who for about ten years had spent every winter in Egypt aboard a dahabiya (a typical Nile passenger boat with two sails) that he had converted into his home and library, visited Aswan and its surroundings....Read more
The mummy with the golden tongue
16 Egyptian tombs from the Ptolemaic and Roman times have been discovered in Alexandria (Egypt). The mummies are in poor condition, but among them one stands out whose false tongue is made of gold. An archaeological mission of the University of Santo Domingo has...Read more