Egyptian hieroglyphs have fascinated observers for millennia. This language utilizes pictographs instead of letter characters to convey meaning. King Tut’s sarcophagus lid and a mirror case in his tomb tell their own stories. […]
A king from the 21st dynasty ordered the damaged mummies of his predecessors to be moved to a secret tomb. The mummies lay there undisturbed until the 1870s when the Rassul brothers found the secret tomb. […]
Herodotus is almost our best source to know about the process of mummification since tomb illustrations and papyri such as the Ritual of Embalming Papyrus do not provide the surgical details of the process. […]
The Rhind Bilingual Papyri tell us the details regarding embalming and some rituals around it, though no specifics abut the actual process of mummification itself. […]
The Embalmers’ Archive has a wealth of information about the embalmers in ancient Egypt. It tells us what their responsibilities included. […]
During his reign Horemheb started a campaign against Akhenaten’s heresy. As a result, he erased the names of all the three pharaohs before him from Egypt’s history. […]
Horemheb was Tutankhamen’s deputy and was a military man. Probably, he became the king of Egypt with the help of his army. Later, he introduced changes in the Egyptian army. […]
Following the young pharaoh Tutankhamen was the unlikely elderly successor, Aye. Both had short reigns in which they attempted to reverse Akhenaten’s heresy. […]
There were two approaches to illnesses in ancient Egypt: one clinical, the more practical one that helped cure trauma injuries, the injuries about whom the causes were known. But in instances where the cause was unknown, like a fever or a colicky child, magic and spells always came to the rescue. […]
Th temples in ancient Egypt were only for the priests. These places were secret and special. So it was a big deal if you went to a temple and slept for the night. And, that was the only way to get cured for some. […]
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