In the footsteps of the Holy Family…
Event Report In the footsteps of the Holy Family… In August 2007 the curators at the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo organized a workshop for children and teenagers on the topic “The Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt”. For five weeks a group of 24 children and teenagers, at the age of 11 to […]
Jobs In Ancient Egypt
As with other contemporary civilizations, ancient Egypt’s economy was dependent on a mix of both unskilled and skilled labour. How ancient Egypt organized its labour force was one of the contributing factors to its enduring survival. There were many different careers available in ancient Egypt, ranging from working the fields to brewing, to scribing documents, through […]
Immortality in Ancient Egypt
The tombs and remains unearthed by archaeologists in ancient Egypt reveal a complex society with many distinct rituals carried out by both commoners and kings. Egyptologists concur that immortality was an important aspect of the ancient Egyptian belief system, and expectation of an afterlife permeated many of their day-to-day affairs and rituals. Ancient Egyptians used […]
5 Things Flight Travelers Want
“A land won by the Egyptians and given them by the Nile.” -Greek historian Herodotus (circa 500 B.C.) The story of the Nile River begins not in the lush coastal lagoons of its Mediterranean mouth, nor at its headwaters high in the cloud forests of Rwanda, but in the Western Desert of Egypt. Here, there is no […]
What are Hieroglyphs?
What are Hieroglyphs? ©Aleksandar Cocek – Hieroglyphs at Karnak Scholars have discovered that there are three different classes of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Some signs belong to more than one class. Phonograms are signs that represent a specific sound. Some correspond with the sounds of two or more letters. Ideograms represent ideas instead of sounds. Examples of ideograms are the hieroglyphs that […]
Outline of a Program for Future Research
2. Outline of a Program for Future Research Nevertheless, despite the progress that I have just outlined rapidly, the field of Islamic science as an academic discipline seems to get winded on the institutional level and suffers from a real isolation in the academic world and among the general public. Besides general reasons linked to […]
Other Events
Other Events Early in Xerxes I’s reign, Egypt rebelled against Persian rule. He took an army to Egypt to subdueit and left one of his brothers to rule Egypt. Xerxes I’s required all his territories to provide goods or troops for his invasion of Greece. Egypt had to give the navy ropes and provided 200 triremesunder the command of […]
Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2125 B.C)
Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2125 B.C) The division between the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom is artificial. Its first kings were descended from pharaoh Khasekhemwy. Egypt was almost self-sufficient with few outside enemies. The familial relations between some pharaohs are unclear due to insufficient information. 3rd Dynasty © Vincent Brown – Djoser’s Ka Chamber Djoser was […]
