Unraveling the Magnificence of Ancient Egypt’s Beautiful Festival of the Valley
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley was one of the most popular and significant festivals in ancient Egypt. It was celebrated annually in Thebes from the time it was initiated by Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom until Roman times. It was a...Read more
The Temple of Kom Ombo, the two faces of divinity
Approximately forty kilometers north of Aswan and a few meters from the bank of the Nile, on the east bank, stands the temple of Kom Ombo, highlighted on a small mound of stone and sand. Not only its supreme Ptolemaic architecture is outstanding, also the myths that...Read more
The wonderful treasure of princess Sit-Hathor Yunet
In 1914, the assistant of the famous Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie, Guy Brunton, discovered in the Egyptian necropolis of El-Lahun one of the most magnificent sets of gold jewelry ever found in Egypt and that belonged to one of the daughters of Pharaoh Senusret...Read more
The curious relationship between the Rosetta stone, the tomb of Tutankhamun and 2022
Egypt will inaugurate the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2022, one hundred years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and two hundred after the decipherment of the texts of the Rosetta stone. Years ending in 22 are special in Egypt. This is not an old legend from...Read more
Nilometers: Ancient Egypt’s ingenious invention used until modern times
What was a nilometer for? In addition to the designs of the gods and pharaohs, the Egyptians lived pending another factor that conditioned their existence: the annual floods of the Nile. To control them to their advantage, they chose to create a system that measured,...Read more
Why did the ancient Egyptians mummify their cats?
As part of the cult of the goddess Bastet, the ancient Egyptians followed the tradition of mummifying their domestic cats as offerings to the goddess. The burial that the ancient Egyptians had corresponded to their economic possibilities. However, it was widely...Read more
Ancient Egypt: A tomb with 18 doors
A team of archaeologists found on the Dra Abu el Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt, a large tomb that belonged to a pharaonic nobleman. This grand 18-door treasure is over 3,500 years old and measures 450 square meters. Archaeologists discovered that this tomb was built as a...Read more
Ay and Horemheb
The mysterious death of Tutankhamun All the events surrounding the death of Tutankhamun are the subject of controversy and debate, as they are still not very clear, and over the last decades many theories have emerged, without any of them having been 100% proven. I...Read more