Apart from a few sacred animals, there was nothing to stop people from growing and gathering good food. In ancient Egypt no one went hungry. Food was roasted, boiled, cooked, dried and mixed. Thanks to the Nile, they had enough fresh...
Ancient civilisation was based on Egyptian agriculture, which was far more important than symbolic achievements such as building huge pyramids. One reason for the success of the ancient Egyptian civilisation was that they were able to cultivate the fertile lands around...
The afterlife in ancient Egypt was the eternal solace the Egyptians sought. They believed that the dead were brought back to life in the underworld and could live there free of disease. They prepared the dead for successful entry into the...
The ancient Egyptians considered the king and his office as the pinnacle of society and the principle of order. The main task of the king was to maintain order in the society, also known as the “country”. This included maintaining peace...
The Egyptians invented many things, and it might be easier to list those they did not invent, such as the wheel, which was not surprising in a country where everyone travelled on water. Most scholars believe that isolated civilisations arose independently...
Hieroglyphic writing, a system that uses characters in the form of images. These individual characters, called hieroglyphs, can be read as pictures, symbols of objects or symbols of sounds. The name hieroglyph (from the Greek word for “sacred engraving”) first appears...
Ancient Egyptian art has survived for more than 5,000 years and continues to fascinate people all over the world. The ancient starting point has become a modern reality: art is the path to eternal memory. In ancient Egypt, art was the...
The powerful women who ruled ancient Egypt in a male-dominated world were unusual and extraordinary wonders for their time. Cleopatra VII Filapator, Twosret, Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Sobekneferu and MerNeith were some of the few ancient women who ruled during Egypt’s long history....
Animals played an important role in ancient Egypt, both in royal and ancient Egyptian life, whether they were deities, pets, symbols of fertility or objects of fear, protection and luck. Animals often possessed charming qualities that ancient Egyptians may have admired...
The ancient Egyptian written language is called hieroglyphics (“sacred carvings”) and developed sometime before the Early Dynastic period. According to some scholars, the concept of the written word first developed in Mesopotamia and came to Egypt through trade. Although there was...