Pharaonic Tales (6)
The Adventures of
Sanehat (The Finali)
AS mentioned last week, the tale of Sanehat (or Senohy) took place at the time of King Amenemhat I, the founder of the 12th dynasty, Middle Kingdom.
After the King's death, Sanehat was (...)
AS we mentioned last week, the tale of Sanehat (or Senohy) took place at the time of king Amenemhat I, the founder of the 12th dynasty, middle kingdom. After the king's death, Sanehat flew to Syria but was always longing to return back to Egypt.
The (...)
SINCE the dawn of history, the sky had been a mystery to human beings. It was directly related to the unknown, and consequently man related his different myths to different constellations of the sky.
Last week we showed how the Ancient Egyptians (...)
SINCE the dawn of history, the sky had been a mystery to human beings. It was directly related to the unknown, and consequently man related his different myths to the different constellations of the sky.
The most evident examples are found in the (...)
WE mentioned in the previous two articles how we formed an Egyptian chapter for the French "Vielles Maisons Francaises ��" VMF" ��" an organisation that is in charge of preserving the French architectural heritage around the world.
The Egyptian (...)
IN the previous article, we talked about the formation of an Egyptian chapter to the French Organisation ‘‘Vieilles Maisons Francaises ��"VMF'' which is in charge of the preservation of architectural cultural heritage in France.
The Egyptian chapter (...)
VMF stands for "Vieilles Maisons Francaises", which is the French organisation in charge of the preservation of the architectural cultural heritage in France. It is equivalent to the well known "British Heritage", which plays the same role in (...)
LAST week, we discussed how humanity is expressing its own myths in the modern time through the science fiction works. Example is the movie "Avatar", and its similarity to the old myth recorded on the wall of Edfu temple titled "The Legend of the (...)
IT seems that part of what we call "science fiction" is nothing but imagination of the myth of the past. We can imagine, in science fiction, that we can use some technological machines to "transform" ourselves from certain state to another or from a (...)
As we can identify a single cell in a human body, we can identify a single human being as a unit in the body of humanity and this we can call a "cellular being".
Talking first about a single cell in a human body, this cell might ignore that it is a (...)
THE architectural heritage and landmarks do not only include buildings, but also landscapes, clubs and main squares; such areas that might enclose historical buildings and historical events. One of these buildings that is attracting the attention of (...)
MOST historians think that the creation and staging of drama was performed for the first time by the Greeks; yet studying carefully the scenes and the texts on the walls of the Ancient Egyptian temples proves that different dramas were performed at (...)
AS mentioned last week, Egypt has two institutes that have a special collection of maps. These are the National Library of Egypt "Dar el-Kotob" and the Egyptian Geographic Society.
Last week, the collection of Dar el-Kotob was highlighted. This week (...)
TALKINGabout the heritage of maps might not be familiar to most of us. But in fact, old and historic maps have a certain charm; not only do they illustrate the formation of a country, region and continent – especially before modern forms of (...)