Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

of Egypt until 2061 B.C.E. when MONTUHOTEP IIunited the two kingdoms again. Khety I gained considerable land after the fall of t ...

Khnumhotep (3)(fl. 20th century B.C.E.)Nomarch and royal servant He was the son of KHNUMHOTEP(2) and succeeded him as ruler of t ...

The raising of the Great Pyramid, which used CORVÉE labor, not slaves, was an almost overwhelming task. The Greeks related that ...

list begins with the dynasties of the gods and continues to Ramesses II. It is considered the most reliable of the king lists, b ...

site. A head of Queen TIYE(1), fashioned out of wood, glass, and gesso, was discovered there. This head pro- vides a remarkably ...

“the Lord of the Two Lands,” were honored as well at Kom Ombo. A double entrance is in the southwest, leading to a courtyard. Tw ...

L 208 Lab’ayu(fl. 14th century B.C.E.) Prince of Canaan dur- ing the Amarna Period The prince’s correspondence with AMENHOTEP II ...

Yusef. In certain times of the year, corresponding to the modern month of January, the sluices were closed to drain the area and ...

hieroglyphic writing, used on monuments and on the famed ROSETTA STONE. The Late Egyptian writings included the classic hierogly ...

the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Since that time, the study of Egypt’s language has continued and evolved, enabling scholars ...

were also to be safeguarded in their rights. The “Eloquent Peasant” was popular because he dared to admonish the judges again an ...

the largest in the world, and by the academic standards set by the institution. The Ptolemaic pharaohs maintained a policy of en ...

wasteland with pack animals. The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities has undertaken a mission to the region to determine the ...

dead. It was probably prompted by the custom of the commoners or the poor who gave used linens to the embalmers for the ritual p ...

Litany of the Sun This was a religious document dis- played in the tomb of SETI I(r. 1306–1290 B.C.E.) and attributed to the cul ...

SINUHE THE SAILOR,based on the death of AMENEMHET I(r. 1991–1962 B.C.E.), provides insight into the court intrigues and to the c ...

death but only transformed into forms that will accom- modate the environment of eternity. The Liturgy of the Funerary Offerings ...

0 50 Meters 0 150 Feet N Later structures (mostly Roman), brick Dynastic temple, stone alley of human-headed sphinxes to Karnak ...

necropolis sites on the western shore of the Nile opposite Thebes. This same form of the deity was also worshiped in cultic rite ...

M 221 Ma’adi This is a site located south of Cairo dating to the Predynastic Period (c. 3100 B.C.E.). Paleolithic settle- ments ...