Funeral masks and their importance for the deceased The ancient Egyptians put in things that help the soul to know the body of its owner in the other world, including the tomb statue, the alternate head, scenes and inscriptions bearing the name of the deceased in addition to funeral masks. The masks were used to […]

The ghost of the priestess the temple of ISIS in Aswan Egypt Philae Island has a very great peculiarity, and we all know the history of the island and the story of the sinking of the back area after the construction of the Aswan reservoir and the high dam, and the preparation of the island […]

Egyptian shawarma How to make the Egyptian chicken shawarma : Ingredients : 1: One kilo Chicken Breasts 2: A half a cup of fresh molten tomato sauce 3: a large cup of fresh yoghurt 4: A medium grate onion very soft 5: 3 Grate very fine garlic cloves 6: one spice spoon paprika 7: a […]

Alexandria of Egypt Alexandria is a port city located on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt founded in 331 BCE by Alexander the Great. It is most famous in antiquity as the site of the Pharos, the great lighthouse, considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, for the Temple of Serapis, the […]

The Great Library of Alexandria Once the largest library in the ancient world and containing works by the greatest thinkers and writers of antiquity, including Homer, Plato, Socrates, and many more, the Library of Alexandria, northern Egypt, is popularly believed to have been destroyed in a huge fire around 2000 years ago and its voluminous […]

Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptian police were the first police in the ancient world because the ancient Egyptians were the first to introduce this system to protect people and their property. The ancient Egyptians used the Nile River to move from one place to another, setting up the Water Police Department […]

Popular stories – fertility well Habu Temple In the courtyard of the Pharaonic Medinet Habu temple, west of Luxor, there is a frightening well that people have known by calling it “the well of al-Khuda”. If you want to see this well, you enter through its door and go down a stairway on both sides […]

The colours used by the ancient Egyptian This topic has been paid special attention from archaeologists as well as art scholars. It is the materials and colours used in the past to colour the ancient Egyptian monuments, and we will also deal with the methods used in colouring. Colours have been used since ancient Egyptian […]

Sham El-Nessim: The story of the oldest popular festival in Egypt Ancient Egypt witnessed religious, social and agricultural feasts, whose festive rituals were mixed with special rituals that distinguished them from the rest of the ancient civilizations of the East, including feasts that ceased to exist for historical and religious reasons and others for which […]

The  beloved Isis and Osiris, the most famous Egyptian legend (the myth of evil) The legend begins that the gods of the earth married the gods of the sky, and they gave birth to four gods, sisters, two sons and two daughters (Isis, Osiris, six, Nephthys). Osiris married Isis, and six married Nephthys. Egypt with […]