Sunday, October 25, 2009
Rituals of daily life of the Pharaohs
Away from the attention of many Egyptologists the conduct of kings and conquests France senior researcher sheds lights on some of the details of daily life and social traditions of hospitality and dining rituals of death, where women appear during the full ornaments and decorations
Francois always says in his book "Life in Ancient Egypt" that the ancient Egyptians were dressed in their normal clothes different from those worn on certain occasions such as rites of burial, where the child was wearing a skin during the funeral of his father.
And describes the men and women of the upper class in the good in the modern state, "Towards 1567 - 1320 BC" .
they were referring to women wearing in the photos are cemeteries full ornaments and decorations "In Dresses Baltniat facility and decorated and made of fine fabrics and transparent in an exciting and brilliantly wig stylist Costume and luxury stacked in a striking and is worn so many normally good in the streets of central dust storms in this country dry, "which is located south of Cairo, about 690 kilometers and was the capital of the country. The book was published, translated into Arabic, Mohammed Awad raised by the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo and is located in 129 pages deals with large blocks further details as life in the countryside, agriculture and livestock breeding, fishing and ornamental types of food, games, military and religious and popular festivals
The author said fashion the lower classes were less developed Vseaarp whose work requires diving into the water "did not wear anything" In the Middle Kingdom, "Towards 2050 - 1786 BC," he was wearing the apron in the semi to the Egyptians and especially the fishermen and workers
He adds that as of the Eleventh Dynasty, "Towards 2133 - 1991 BC," the women "who wear the most beautiful overnight with the offerings went to give birth to a small network of Ordihn pearl green, red and blue to be the bottom of the footnote of colors
The women Amoosrat so be wearing what looks like a bra and pass on the shoulders and cover the breasts. In some rural Sylphs Ictvin network so be short on strength and Pearl Erbtun Vsatenhen thin white strips of cloth passing between breast and left shoulder on the back of the complexity of
Saturday, June 27, 2009
King Ekhnaton
Ekhanaton, or Amenhotep IV, was the son of Amenhotep III. In the fourth year of his rule, chose the place of the new capital, and proceeded to build in the following year and was renamed, the roar of a sister, or into the horizon, now Tel el-Amarna.
Then changed the name of Amenhotep, who was meant to satisfy Amon, to Ekhenaton, which meant for the benefit of the roar.
This means that the rebellion on the cult of Amon, for the Lord into the sun as well. Has not been the work of any statues of the god, and was photographed in the form of the sun, published Ocath ending human hands, to give life to the royal family.
Has played the King and his wife, the beautiful Nefertiti, the role of mediator between God and the roar of the people. On the other hand. The art of Amarna art was unique of its kind, where he was inclined to be realistic, with some exaggeration, and succeeded in filming the intimate relationship between members of the royal family.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Karnak
Karnak the largest and most important temples located in the Luxor, the temple is devoted to the god Amon, who started the first pharaoh Citty I and Ramses II completed and, in addition to the temples, which have built up to the first century BC Temple of Karnak is the so-called fortified village in the northern part of the city Tiba (Luxor), due to the famous Karnak, in fact, a group of temples built by the beginning of the eleven`s family in 2134 BC, when it was a good center of Egyptian religion .This temples are surrounded by walls are linked to each other through the corridors of the monolithic statues guarded by two rows of the Sphinx. |
Amon temple covers an area of 140 square meters, a huge hall with a roof on a mobile column of 122, up more than 21 meters, lined up in the ranks of 9 rows, this is not the inscriptions on the salient poles and giant portals, and Obelisks Places of worship is the greatest in history, and how it does not work when the building andconstruction was continuing for a period in 1500 years, and called this name after the Islamic conquest .. Karnak, where the place means fortress or stronghold, and the entrance to the temple is full of statues by the animal was a symbol of the strength of the pharaohs. |
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Barak Obama`s Visit to Egypt
President
Barack Obama an enjoyable tour in the ancient pyramids in Giza, one of the most prominent monuments in the Egyptian and the global liberalization.
he wore white jeans and blue T.Shert and sports shoes, sun black glasses
U.S. President Barack
Obama has arrived to the Giza Pyramids
on Thursday afternoon and began to tour under the hot sun and in temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius.
Obama began the formal suit, which was replaced by a light dress, a tour of the pyramids with the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass.
The happiness was clear and the features of the U.S. president
during his keenness on the photo to a region of the pyramids and the Sphinx, which won the admiration of Obama and stop significantly more time to explore Oboualhol(Sphinx) from all directions.
And heard the U.S. president during the tour to explain to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the round "on foot" in the pyramids, which included the Pyramids of Queens and ideological pyramid, which
was
discovered recently and the excavations and composite sun.
The keenness of President Obama - who was walking in his hand a bottle of water - to capture images with Dr. Zahi Hawass and a single photo with the other visitors to the region.
Obama left Egypt after his visit to the Pyramids of Giza.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Nefertiti
One of the best known figures in the women's time of the pharaohs in Egypt.
The beautiful Queen Nefertiti, the wife of King Akhenaton and Nefertiti had supported her husband in his religious and social reforms, and then moved with him to Okhittatun or Tel el-Amarna, which was chosen by the ancient Egyptian capital of the state in religious and political revolution by calling for the worship of one God and get rid of the influence and corruption of the priests in good shape.
And appeared with him during the ceremonies and rituals, and family scenes, landscapes, even in traditional military campaigns, which it is portrayed by the elimination of enemies.
Then one of their daughters died of a Mikit - Atun, has pictures of grief in some wall drawings. After the death of their daughter, who disappeared from the royal court Nefertiti and replaced by her daughter into Merit and received the title of Great Royal wife.
Nefertiti had died in the fourth year of the rule of Akhnaton, and it is possible to have been buried in graves Mqbernha property, in the Tel el-Amarna, but could not be found on her body.
There are many famous statues of Queen Nefertiti, which reflect the characteristic of the beauty of the high.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Agriculture in ancient Egypt
Egypt the gift of the Nile, the Nile water comes Veidah each year in the timing of known, Afeemr beaches and valleys that do not subside soon and have hung potbellied fat, which is what is known as one of the most fertile in the world of clay. Known to the ancient Egyptian agriculture stood on the banks of the Nile, where the conditions imposed by virtue of the valley, which beset the Egyptian desert to the hard life and the struggle to protect the land, drawn from the aggression of the Sahara and the protection of villages and agricultural land to establish the dams of the flood water and irrigation channels to extend the high land to them.
Flood season and the separation of the separation of sowing and harvesting. If the flood waters have receded and the land has emerged, and holds together Tinha, farmers began to cultivate it. The Egyptians were cultivating grain of wheat, barley, lentils, beans, chickpeas, peas and the arena is to summarize the vegetables, onions, garlic, balls, and Agaythae castor, flax was the division of fields into ponds and Breha Bahadov as well as work on the cultivation of many kinds of fruit trees and wood and under. Also known as the cultivation of fruits of all kinds of famous Sycamore, figs, grapes, olives, pomegranate, and the transfer to Egypt of different types of trees from Asia and Africa.
If the solution to the harvest season and the maturity of the planting of the farmers to harvest and reap the harvest of His Excellency to the sound of flute and singing. It had been accounted for and amounts of crops to manage the national economy and the provision of food for the Egyptian people throughout the year to cope with the decline in the Nile.
Has been used in ancient Egyptian agriculture many of the most important agricultural machinery and hand-hoe and a plow and the settlement of land and irrigation and the use of the tractor Ahadov channels and the construction of canals and dams established.
When the harvest and Use Alhurcrp too.
We have had a life of farming in the same Egyptian reverence to the gods of different Fbd "favor" the head of the Nile "and" AJ "head and green fruits and the gods goddess of the fields and the gods" Rnnot "Raboh grain silos and" Soccer "and" Min "for the production and abundance .
It was the sowing and harvesting seasons, seasons and holidays, a great king and participates in it.
Agriculture also had a role in the formation of ethics for the Egyptians, and the breach of these ethics is one of the major sins, which were foreign to the day of reckoning, when it is accompanied by the gods that it did not reduce the area of agricultural land was reserved for the water derived from agricultural land or the rights of neighbors of farmers.
Often, pictures of kings and they are themselves symbols of agriculture refers to the construction of canals or channels is the largest agricultural canal King "Snosart" era of the family III of the Second Central Ashrbaldolp linking the Nile to the Red Sea and the agricultural lands in addition to its aspects.
Not only work in the field only to men but women also participated side by side their husbands and members of the family as well as boys and girls special days of harvest. Agriculture was at the heart of the ancient Egyptian beliefs motivated by his belief in the Baath, and life once again in the same view as one of the elements of the universe, the sun and the moon and plant the Nile, as is their life cycles and life and death, it also Voiguen post-mortem will salute once again, but we find in his vision of the Commission in the World the other must be the god of planting fields Uzeir employer other world, which was confined to the righteous from the Egyptians, where they planted the fields, "Yarrow".
Of this, we find that agriculture in Egypt has played a key role in the formation of the Egyptian civilization, which is built on the stability in the Nile Valley and Egyptian linked to their land and the establishment of a great civilization based agriculture, which grew a spirit of association and affiliation with,
Fdaf by the presentation and defense of the honor, was retained for the length of time the main form of the continuous Egyptian civilization through the long period of time there has been only a few marginal changes and kept the spirit of Egyptian civilization has been an important occupation, there was a continuity of this civilization in all its forms Pharaonic Greek Romanian Islamic to date this.
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