Third Intermediate Period of Egypt

This period is characterised by the country's fracturing kingship. Even in Rameses's day, his dynasty (the Twentieth) was losing its grip on power in the city of Thebes, whose priests were becoming increasingly powerful. After his death, his successor Smendes I ruled from the city of Tanis. In fact this division is less significant than it seems since both priests and pharaohs came from the same family. The country was firmly reunited by the Twenty-Second Dynasty founded by Shoshenq I in 945 BC (or 943 BC), whom many, especially those ...

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Jürgen von Beckerath (born 19 February 1920) is a prominent German Egyptologist. He is a prolific writer who has published countless articles in journals such as Orientalia, Göttinger Miszellen (GM), Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE), Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO) and Studien Zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK) among others. Together with Kenneth Kitchen, he is viewed as one of the foremost scholars on ...

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Egyptian mythology or Egyptian religion is the succession of tentative beliefs held by the people of Egypt for over three thousand years, prior to major exposure to Christianity and Islam. Egyptian mythology - Gods. Early beliefs can be split into 5 distinct localized groups, the Ennead of Heliopolis, whose chief god was Atum the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, where the chief god was Ra the Chnum-Satet-Anuket triad of Elephantine, where the chief god was Chnum th ...

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Early beliefs can be split into 5 distinct localized groups, the Ennead of Heliopolis, whose chief god was Atum the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, where the chief god was Ra the Chnum-Satet-Anuket triad of Elephantine, where the chief god was Chnum the Amun-Mut-Chons triad of Thebes, where the chief god was Amun the Ptah-Sekhmet-Nefertem triad of Memphis, unusual in that the gods were unconnected before the triad was form ...

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Egypt exchanged ideas with Libya during its early unsettled period. Egypt was also influenced by the Greek Ptolemaic dynasties, which ruled Egypt for 300 years. Cleopatra was the only Ptolemaic queen to rule on her own. Egypt was incorporated into the Roman Empire, and was ruled first from Rome and then from Constantinople (until the Arab conquest). Libyan period Main article: Third Int ...

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A short interval of monotheism (Atenism) occurred under the reign of Akhenaten, focused on the Egyptian sun deity Aten. Akhenaten outlawed the worship of any other god and built a new capital (Amarna) with temples for Aten. The religious change survived only until the death of Akhenaten, and the old religion was quickly restored during the reign of Tutankhamun, most likely Akhenaten's son by a minor wife. Interestingly, Tutankhamun and several other post-restoration pharaohs were excluded from futur ...

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Egypt was possibly the first civilization to have any belief in an afterlife, and probably the first to have a positive outlook on it. Beliefs about the soul and afterlife focused heavily on preservation of the body, or ba (The soul was known as the ka). This meant that embalming and mummification were practiced, in order to preserve the individual's identity in the afterlife. Originally the dead were buried in reed caskets in the searing hot sand, which caused the remains to dry quickly, preventing decomposition, and were subsequently burie ...

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Many temples are still standing today. Others are in ruins from wear and tear, while others have been lost entirely. Pharaoh Ramses II was a particularly prolific builder of temples. Some known temples include: Abu Simbel – Complex of two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the western bank of the Nile. Abydos (Great Temple of Abydos) – Adoration of the early kings, whose cemetery, to which it forms a great funerary chapel, lies behind it. Ain el-Muftella (Bahariya Oasis) [2] – Could have ser ...

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