The Battle of Kadesh: The First Peace Treaty
The Battle of Kadesh faced the armies of Ramses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II, king of the Hittite Empire, in 1274 BC, Kadesh, in what is now Syria. 1,200 BC is a time full of events as it marks the end of the Bronze Age, the fall of great empires and civilizations and...Read more
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