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- Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...beknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her (though the latter is not certain to have ru...
4: ...ghout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her h...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ...t it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Tw... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
3: ...300 BC]]. Archeological evidence indicates that a developed Egyptian society has existed for much long...
10: ...span of about three millennia. There is a recommended revision of the chronology of Egypt.
27: ...ociety]] (see [[Nile#History|Nile: History]]). Evidence of [[pastoralism]] and cultivation of [[cereal...
29: ...there must have realized the benefits of a more sedentary life. Scientific analysis of the remains of ...
31: ...stract&list_uids=12495079]; reveals also that ''modern day'' Egyptians "''reflect a mixture of [[Europ... - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
5: ...he major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
20: ...ac.uk/ Digital Egypt for Universities], which was developed by [http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/ The Petri...
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79: *Djedefre 2528-2520
107: ...for which there is also no direct contemporary evidence. - Abu Simbel (4501 bytes)
1: ...mbel_3.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Abu Simbel Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...Lake_Nasser.jpg|thumb|200px|Abu Simbel Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
7: ...morating his alleged victory at the [[Battle of Kadesh]].
11: ...e is 33 meters high, and 38 meters broad, and guarded by four statues of Rameses II, each of which is ...
13: High on the facade, there is a carved row of baboons, smiling at the... - Karnak (2489 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
5: ...he very term '''Karnak''' is nearly universally understood as the temple complex and not the village. ...
9: ...n that basis redefine the term Karnak, as to be understood as the [[Precinct of Amon-Re]] only, as thi...
18: ... main parts, as well as several avenues of ram-headed [[sphinx]]es connecting the [[Precinct of Mut]],...
20: ... in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used. Construction work began in the 1... - Thebes, Egypt (3900 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ... the seat of government moved to the [[Nile Delta|Delta]]. Its archaeological remains offer a striking...
4: ...] being the god whom the Greeks identified with [[Amun]]).
6: ...he name ''Thebes'' is often mistakenly thought to derive from the Greek as there is a city in Greece w...
20: *[[Deir al-Madinah]] (workers' village) - Luxor (8772 bytes)
7: ...touring [[Upper Egypt]], and is a popular holiday destination, both in its own right and as a starting...
11: ...everal of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of [[Hatshepsut]], but who says that the...
13: ... a debate in metaphysics. And yet, on the other side of the river, the supreme masters of [[Kemet]] &m...
16: ...of [[Ay]], the high priest of Amun, since he intended to ascend to the throne of Thebes through such a...
18: ...ny more, but rather the whole city was to be considered as an entire mausoleum and therefore venerated... - Isis (20790 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
3: '''Isis''' is a goddess in the [[Egyptian mythology|Egyptian belief]]. ...
5: .... [[mortal]], and she may simply have represented deified, real, [[Queen regnant|queen]]s.
7: ...f many other goddesses. It eventually spread outside [[Egypt]] throughout the [[Middle East]] and [[Eu...
12: ...uption by English speakers. The Ancient Greeks tended to add a terminal 's' at the end of foreign name... - Ra (2793 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ...st deity of the Egyptian [[pantheon]]. Amon-Ra's identity with [[Zeus]] or [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] w...
4: ...d into a god of the setting sun, Atum became considered an aspect of Ra. [[Khepri]], the less importan...
8: ...r [[Apep]] (representing darkness), who wished to devour Ra. Temporary failure to protect Ra was said ...
10: ...e symbols of Ra are the [[solar symbols]] of a golden disk or the symbol ⊙ (Circle with a point ... - Horus (19927 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
8: ...ed at [[Nekhen]] (city of the hawk), that became identified as Horus very early on.
10: ...said to be the father of these four ''children'', deifications of the jars, known as the [[Four sons o...
12: ...ragoge]]). The form of Djebauti eventually became depicted as an [[heron]], nethertheless continuing t...
17: ...ther side victorious, until eventually the gods sided with Horus. - Bast goddess (3454 bytes)
3: ...s sacred animal and after the New Kingdom she was depicted with a woman with a cat’s head carrying a...
5: ...e later chief male deity, [[Ra]], who was a solar deity also, gaining her the titles ''Lady of Flame''...
7: The goddess Bast was sometimes depicted holding a ceremonial [[sistrum]] in one han...
9: ...ddess rather than a lion, she was changed to a goddess of the [[moon]] by [[Greeks]] occupying Ancient...
12: ...d the identification of the fierce lioness war goddess [[Sekhmet]], as his mother in the [[Upper Egypt... - Hathor (11883 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
4: ...athor was an ancient goddess, worshipped as a cow-deity from at least [[2700 BC]], during the 2nd dyna...
6: ...the fate of the newborn, and [[midwife|midwives]] delivering them.
8: ...aid she arose from from Ra's tears, and thus was identified as the ''[[Eye of Ra]]''.
10: ...n [[hippopotamus]], which the Egyptians also considered quite motherly creatures, and sometimes as an ... - Sobek (2106 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
7: ...egarded as a manifestation of the universal god [[Amun]].
9: In art, he was depicted as a man with the head of a crocodile, a [[...
11: The [[Book of the Dead]] relates that Sobek assisted in the birth of [...
12: ...]] to protect the deceased, and had a role in the destruction of [[Set (god)|Set]]. Other mythologica... - Mut (3472 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ...n, was replaced with a more substantial mother-goddess, namely Mut.
4: ...gyptians believed were very maternal creatures. Indeed, since Egyptian vultures have no significant di...
6: ...proved popular, but, because the sacred lake outside Mut's temple, at Thebes, was the shape of a cresc...
8: ...assimilated [[Menhit]], who was also a lioness goddess, and her adopted son's wife, becoming ''Mut-Sek... - Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
1: ...rly three thousand years, and beliefs varied considerably over time.
9: ...[[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]], where the chief god was Amun
14: ...] initially absorbing the details of the other goddesses, but ultimately being absorbed into [[Isis]]....
16: ...t centre - [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] for Osiris, [[Dendara]] for Isis, and [[Edfu]] for Horus. Even by ...
18: ==Death== - Min (god) (6198 bytes)
1: ...age:Ancient_eygpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
2: ... (a reference to the shape of Orion), and usually depicted as such.
4: ...his mother''. As ''Amun-Min'', he was often found depicted on the walls of [[Karnak]].
6: ... Egyptian predynastic times up to Roman times - a deity whose temples were built and rebuilt through E...
8: ...nd brought to the fields in the ''festival of the departure of Min'', when they blessed the harvest, a... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
2: ...Asiatic people who appeared in the eastern [[Nile Delta]] during the [[Second Intermediate Period]]. T...
4: ...nach]] refers to them as [[Canaanites]], and decendents of [[Ham, son of Noah]]. The Hyksos had names ...
9: ...in Egyptian texts like the [[Turin King List]] to describe the rulers of neighboring lands. This expr...
11: ...if any supporters, and the Hyksos are widely regarded as Semitic.
13: ...he fifth name of an Egyptian pharaoh; it was preceded by the royal title ''sa Ra'', or Son of (the sun... - Nefertari (2646 bytes)
1: ....jpg|thumb||170px|left|Ancient Egypt Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
3: ...deeply loved by her husband, the most powerful evidence of which is her [[tomb]], [[QV66]], arguably t...
5: ...s Merytamon although none of these children succeeded the throne, Ramesses heir was Prince [[Merneptah...
7: ...chment. Also poetry written by Ramesses about his dead wife is featured on some of the walls of her bu...
11: ...ize to Ramesses, a rarity because most wives were depicted as being somewhere in the region of the hei... - Bast (goddess) (4923 bytes)
1: ...ently of the chief god, [[Ra]], who was a [[solar deity]], gaining her the titles ''Lady of flame'', a...
3: ...Anubis]] became the god of embalming, Bast, as goddess of ointment, became thought of as his mother, a...
6: ...[kitten]]s, the number of which indicated her own desired amount of children.
8: ...s, and thus it was in the temple at Per-Bast that dead (and [[mummification|mummified]]) cats were bro...
10: ...ralleled the identification of the fierce lion goddess [[Sekhmet]], as his mother in the Upper Kingdom... - Ramesses II (3861 bytes)
1: ...gpt-1.jpg|thumb||170px|Ancient Egypt Clipart provided by <br> [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom C...
5: ...d dying in his 90th year. (Note: there is some evidence that places his reign during the 10th Century ...
7: ...Sethnakhte), the Pharaoh [[Merneptah]] (who succeeded him), and prince [[Kha'emweset]].
9: ...t year of his reign ([[1269 BC]]), Ramesses concluded an agreement with [[Hattusilis III]], the earlie...
11: ...sses indeed provided the artisans who lived in [[Deir el Medina]] with plenty of work.
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