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 […]
Modern Scholarship and Muslim Social Sciences:
2. Modern Scholarship and Muslim Social Sciences: There are many branches of Muslim subjects and their specialists. It takes a long experience to be able to dissect this and come out with the who deals with what, and who truly provides the readership in these days of time scarcity with the best information, at the […]
Middle Kingdom Period (c. 2055–1650 BC)
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (a.k.a. “The Period of Reunification”) follows a period of political division known as the First Intermediate Period. The Middle Kingdom lasted from around 2050 BC to around 1710 BC, stretching from the reunification of Egypt under the reign of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty. The Eleventh Dynasty ruled from Thebes and the Twelfth Dynasty […]
Mistress of happiness
Mistress of happiness Women in ancient Egypt were ahead of their time. They could not only rule the country, but also had many of the same basic human rights as men. One of the first women to hold the rank of pharaoh was Hatshepsut, who began her rule in about 1,500 B.C.E. Hatshepsut took care […]
Metallurgy
Metallurgy was carried on with an elaborate technique and a business organization not unworthy of the modern world, while the systematic exploitation of mines was an important industry employing many thousands of workers. Even as early as 3400 B.C., at the beginning of the historical period, the Egyptians had an intimate knowledge of copper ores […]
Marriage In The Afterlife
Ancient Egyptians believed marriages were eternal and extended into the afterlife. The life expectancy for most men was their thirties while women frequently as young as sixteen died in childbirth or otherwise only lived slightly longer than their husbands. Thus ancient Egyptians emphasised the importance of choosing a congenial partner in life and death. The […]
