Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

It was represented in the tomb in the portrait of a crested ibis. The spirit also used the SHABTI,the statue used to respond to ...

architecture, cultic ceremonies, ranks, and government agencies. When A’ata came to the throne of Kermeh, he decided to test the ...

He also urged the Egyptian pharaoh to take steps to safeguard the region because of growing unrest and migrations from the north ...

that an earthquake in the region damaged the temples shortly after they were opened, and SETAU, the viceroy of Nubia, conducted ...

day upon which the phenomenon occurs could not be duplicated. The sun enters the temple two days short of the original. Beyond t ...

west wall. False vaults cover the chapels, and all have reliefs. The chapels honored six gods and the deified Seti I. AKING LIST ...

Blackwell, 1995; Shaw, Ian. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. Abydos Fleet An arm ...

decisive battle for control of Egypt and the Roman empire took place in 31 B.C.E. Octavian, the future AUGUSTUS, met Marc ANTONY ...

Agatharchides(fl. second century B.C.E.) Chronicler and trade expert He served PTOLEMY VIII EUERGETES II (r. 170–163, 145–116 B. ...

waters of the Nile could be introduced inland for fertil- ization of lands. Early farmers dug trenches from the Nile shore to th ...

employed. The harvest was carried on the backs of don- keys or asses, and at the storage areas the crops were ground by oxen. Th ...

assembly line of diggers, basket carriers, and mound builders worked ceaselessly until the new reservoir was completed and fille ...

Aha (Hor-Aha, Menes)(d. c. 2900 B.C.E.) First ruler of the First Dynasty (r. 2920–2575 B.C.E.) AThinite, who could trace his lin ...

lands of southern Egypt, maintaining an uneasy peace with the Hyksos. When ’Ahmose began his spectacular campaign against the As ...

pyramid with scenes of his expulsion of the Hyksos. ’Ahmose’s funerary complex cult continued for a long time after his death. H ...

’Ahmose-Nefertari played a unique role in founding the Eighteenth Dynasty and the New Kingdom historical period with her husband ...

share in the victory of the Egyptians under ’Ahmose. ’Ahmose, son of Ebana, was the grandfather of PAHERI. ’Ahmose Tumerisy(fl. ...

cials and the weakening of established distribution pro- cesses started early in his reign. Inhis eighth year, Akhenaten welcome ...

Akhetaten See ’AMARNA,EL-. Akhethotep(fl. 24th century B.C.E.)Official of the Fifth Dynasty and the son of the vizier Ptah-hotep ...

looked upon him as just another foreign tyrant, Alexan- der courted them by using their own religious mecha- nisms. He went to t ...