Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization along the Lower Nile, reaching from the Nile Delta in the north as far south as Jebel Barkal at the time of its greatest extension (15th century BC). It lasted for three millennia, from circa 3200 BC to 343 BC, ending with the conquest of Alexander the Great. As a civilization based on irrigation it is the quintessential example of a hydraulic empire. Ancient Egypt - Geography. Most of Egypt is in North Africa; though the Sinai Peninsula is in Southwest Asia. The coun ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia II - Ancient Egypt - People and Origins Archaeological findings show that nomadic hunter-gatherers lived along the Nile during the Pleistocene. Traces of these early peoples appear in the form of artifacts and rock carvings along the terraces of the Nile and in the oases. By about 6000 B.C., organized agriculture and large building construction had appeared in the Nile Valley. Many theories have been proposed regarding the origins of these early Egyptians, but the most widely accepted today based on the continuum of scientific evidence is that prehistoric Egyptian society was form ...

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Chronology of the Ancient Near East - Chronology and notes

Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Cleopatra VII Philopator (January 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt, the last member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and hence the last Hellenistic ruler of Egypt. Although many other Egyptian Queens shared the name, she is usually known as simply Cleopatra, and all of her similarly named predecessors have been mostly forgotten. As co-ruler of Egypt with her father (Ptolemy XII Auletes), her brother/husband Ptolemy XIV, and later her son Caesarion, Cleopatra survived a coup engineered by her brother's court ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Controversy over race of Ancient Egyptians

The racial identity of ancient Egyptians is steeped in controversy. The black presence in Ancient Egypt was generally treated by scholars as a footnote, and the commonly purveyed notion of blacks in pharaonic Egypt was that they were Nubian slaves of very European-looking Egyptian masters and mistresses. With the excavation of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt in 1922, a wave of what has been called "Egyptomania" swept the Western world, triggering renderings of ancient Egyptians in consumer goods, dec ...

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Controversy over race of Ancient Egyptians - Ethnographic murals

Controversy over race of Ancient Egyptians - Analysis of mummified remains

Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt

Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. Africanus' often accurate version of Manetho's Epitome states that it was comprised of a total of 9 kings beginning with a Stephinates(ie: Tefnakht II) and ending with Psammetichus III. Africanus also correctly notes that Psammetichus I and Necho I ruled Egypt for 54 Years and 8 Years respectively . The Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-First Dynasties of ...

Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Twentieth dynasty of Egypt

Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twentieth Dynasty. The Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom. The Twentieth Dynasty was founded by Setnakhte, but its only important member was Ramesses III, who modelled his career after Ramesses II the Great. This dynasty is notable for the beginning of the systematic robbing of the Royal Tombs. Many surviving administrative documents from this period are records of investigations and punishment for these ...

Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Weni

Weni the Elder was a court official of the 6th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He served as a general under Pepi I Meryre and as governor of Upper Egypt during the reign of Merenre Nemtyemsaf I. While he was general, he reorganized the military into a format that was still in use in the New Kingdom. Weni rose through the ranks of the military to become Commander in Chief of the army. He was considered by both his contemporaries and many Egyptologists to have been a brilliant tactician and possibly even a genius. His victories ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Amenhotep II

Aakheperure Amenhotep II (d. 1401/1400 BC) was the seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1427 BC to 1401 BC and is thought to have enjoyed a reign of 25 Years and 10 Months as a certain Misphragmouthosis according to Josephus' version of Manetho's Epitome. An inscription containing the king's prenomen was written on a wine jar from Amenhotep II's funerary temple at Thebes. It is dated to this king's highest known date--his Year 26--and names the Pharaoh's Vintner, Panehsy. Amenhotep II - Reig ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Pharaoh

Pharaoh ( Arabic فرعون) is a title used to refer to the kings (of godly status) in ancient Egypt. Pharaoh - Etymology. The term derives ultimately from the Egyptian words Pr-Aa meaning "Great House." Originally a term for the royal palace, this word came into vogue to refer to the king. The earliest certain instance of the term "pharaoh" is in a letter addressed to Thutmose III in the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty (1539-1292 BC). By the Twenty-Second Dynasty (c. 945-c. 720 BC) this usage ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Al Fayyum

Al Fayyum (Arabic: ألفيوم ) is one of the governorates of Egypt located in the centre of the country. Its capital is a city also called Al Fayyum. Having an area of 490 mile² (1,270 km²), Al Fayyum is an oasis and a distinctive region in character between the main Nile Valley and other desert oases: its fields are watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert depression to the west of the Nile Valley. The Bahr Yussef veers west through a narrow neck of land north of Ihnasya, between ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Alan Gardiner

Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879 – 1963) was one of the premier Egyptologists of the early and mid-Twentieth century. Some of his most important publications include a 1959 book on his study of "The Royal Canon of Turin" and his seminal 1961 work "Egypt of the Pharaohs" which covered all aspects of Egyptian chronology and history at the time of publication. Two major contributions to ancient Egyptian philology by Gardiner are his famous Egyptian Grammar (which had three revised editions) and the correlated list of all the hi ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Yuya

Yuya (sometimes transliterated as Iouiya) was a powerful Egyptian courtier of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (circa 1400 BCE). He served as a key adviser for Pharaoh Amenhotep III (father of Akhenaten) and is the only person in Egyptian history to have been granted the title "Beloved Father of Pharaoh". Yuya married Tjuyu, an Egyptian noblewoman descended from Ahmose Nefertari, and was the father of Tiy, who became Amenhotep's principal wife. Some scholars speculate that they also may have been the parents of Ay, an Egy ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia - Sebakh

Sebakh (Arabic, (IPA: /sε'bɔk/, and less commonly transliterated as sebbakh) is an Aramaic word which translates to "dry land" in English. This term is used to described decomposed organic material that can be employed both as an agricultural fertilizer and as a fuel for fires. A common practice in Egypt, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, was for farmers to obtain government permits to remove this material from ancient mounds; a mound ...

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Ancient Egypt - Notes: Encyclopedia II - Chronology of the Ancient Near East - Babylon and Assyria

The Chaldean king Nabonidus (reigned from 556 BC), who was more of an antiquarian than a politician, and spent his time in excavating the older temples of his country and ascertaining the names of their builders, tells us that Naram-Sin, the son of Sargon of Akkad, lived 3200 years before himself, i.e. around 3750 BC. It is generally accepted by the archaeological consensus this date is much too early. As the reign of King Nabonidus ended by the accession of Cyrus in Babylonia around 539 or 538 BC, the "years" may have been given by actual m ...

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