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The Meidum pyramid lies close to the entrance to Al-Fayoum, about 50km south of Dashur on the western edge of the cultivated area where it becomes desert. The monument was originally ascribed to the...

Searching For Identity In A Foreign Land: For thousands of years, Foreigners including Europeans have tried to hold on to an African civilization “A Black African Civilization” the Greatest Civilization ever which Europe nor...

Is Nefertari and Nefertiti the same person? Queen Nefertari—not to be confused with Nefertiti, the powerful queen who ruled alongside her husband, King Akhenaten, in the mid-14th century B.C.—was the first and favored wife...

A detail of the lid of the coffin of Maatkare, Divine Votaress and God’s Wife. She was a priestess of the god Amun, sworn to celibacy and devoted exclusively to his service. The coffin is...

Thutmose IIIPolychrome relief depicting the warrior king Thutmose III (r. ca. 1479-1425 BC) wearing the Atef crown and false beard. Fragment from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes. Now in the...

Nectanebo II …Ruled in 360—342 BC.He was the 3rd and last pharaoh of the 30th dynasty.Under Nectanebo II, Egypt prospered. During his reign, the Egyptian artists delivered a specific style that left a distinctive mark...

God Amun protecting Hatshepsut as pharaoh.18th dynasty.Great temple of Amun at Karnak.

This relief fragment I find fascinating because it depicts 5 offering bearers with 4 having names based on Khnum. This is discussed in Egyptian Studies III: Varia Nova. Fischer, Henry George (1996).p.8The color image...