Science and Education
Ancient Egyptian women had the right to education. From the age of four, they were trained in instructive establishments, where they were taught science, geometry, and the essentials of hieroglyphic and conversational hieratic. Eventually, they would gain a certificate, the title of ink put holder, and would be authorized for full practice in any of […]
Egyptian Women in Ancient Times
In Ancient Egypt, social dignity was not based on gender, but rather on social status (Jeyawordena, 1986; Robins, 1993; Piccione, 2003; Nardo, 2004; Hunt, 2009; Cooney, 2014). This means that women held many important and influential positions in Ancient Egypt and typically enjoyed many of the legal and economic rights given to the men within […]
Calligraphy
Egyptian writing remained a remarkably conservative system, and the preserve of a tiny literate minority, while the spoken language underwent considerable change. Egyptian stelas are decorated with finely carved hieroglyphs. The use of hieroglyphic writing arose from proto-literate symbol systems in the Early Bronze Age, around the 32nd century BC (Naqada III), with the first decipherable sentence written in the Egyptian language dating to […]
Ancient Egypt Discovered Variable Stars A Thousand Years Before European Astronomers
Ancient Egyptian astronomers may have discovered variable stars, and calculated the period of a well-known one called Algol, thousands of years before Europeans. But they buried those observations in a calendar designed to predict lucky and unlucky days, wrapped in religious narratives, so it’s taken some work for modern scholars to tease out the hidden […]
Art of Dynastic Egypt
The Naqada III period, from about 3200 to 3000 BC,[8] is generally taken to be identical with the Protodynastic period, during which Egypt was unified. Naqada III is notable for being the first era with hieroglyphs (though this is disputed by some), the first regular use of serekhs, the first irrigation, and the first appearance of royal cemeteries.[19] The art of the Naqada III […]
Art of Pre-Dynastic Egypt (6000–3000 BC)
Pre-Dynastic Egypt, corresponding to the Neolithic period of the prehistory of Egypt, spanned from c. 6000 BC to the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, around 3100 BC. Continued expansion of the desert forced the early ancestors of the Egyptians to settle around the Nile and adopt a more sedentary lifestyle during the Neolithic. The period from 9000 to 6000 BC has left very little archaeological evidence, but around 6000 BC, […]
Egypt culture facts, Astronomy and libraries as private properties
We are going to discuss some interesting Egypt culture facts. Do you know that the Astronomy in Egypt existed since ancient times till now? And also the libraries existed as a sign of Education and culture. Egypt culture: facts about Astronomy The Egyptians were fond of astronomy in order to predict the future and the mainly […]
Ancient knowledge transfer: Egyptian astronomy,
Adapted from an article by Exzellenzcluster Topoi. Egyptian astronomers computed the position of the planet Mercury using methods originating from Babylonia, finds a study of two Egyptian instructional texts from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. The study was carried out by Mathieu Ossendrijver, a historian of ancient science at Humboldt University Berlin and Exzellenzcluster Topoi, and Andreas Winkler, an Egyptologist at Oxford University’s Faculty of […]
HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS
Keeping an eye on the heavens helps to keep track of time and events on the Earth. All the calendars and astronomical instruments rely on the sun and the moon, the two most important astronomical bodies for us on planet earth.. Astronomy also plays an essential role in the organization of societies in general. Understanding the cycles […]
Astronomy in Ancient Egypt
Abstract ‘Egypt has no place in a work on the history of mathematical astronomy.’ So declared Otto Neugebauer in his magisterial survey of the subject (1975, II: 559). And it is true that we have no surviving records of mathematical models and the precise predictive tables such as those found in the contemporaneous Babylonian civilization. […]
