http://www.egyptraveluxe.com/luxor_habu_temle_nobles_tombs.php Ancient Egyptians were very religious people they considered the Pharaoh is a god or descending from gods ,in all the cases he is the living image of god Horus on earth ,so this explain the obedient relationship between the ancient Egyptian people and their Pharaoh whom they used to give him the title of Lord and represented as a shepherd holding the hook & the flail referring to the phrase says " Lord is my shepherd "-later used in the bible . May such relationship explain the great perfect temples built in the name of the lord ,they were slaves for their religious believe ,not for a taken away freedom ,we can say they sold their freedom for the deity to gain the resurrection in the paradise in afterlife . Such religious slavery reflected the great civilization still consider a mystery in architect ,engineering ,paints .medication & perfection . During the reign of Ra-masses III ,The workers ...

EGYPT PROTESTS AND DIRTY FOREIGN POLITICAL AGENDAS EGYPT PROTESTERS AND DIRTY POLITICAL FOREIGN  AGENDAS  Egypt is our sweet beloved home we were complaining from some disadvantages in our government system ,red tape ,corruption ,inflammation ,unemployment ,like any other nation on this mother earth .but we never imagined that our sweet dreams of onward change will convert into night meres . The Story Started as : On Jan 25 young protesters went to the Tahrier Square in the down town Cairo ,this was peaceful ,optimistically promising ,we all were so proud of them and we positively decided to join them ,we supported ,protested ,we demanded ,of our legal rights in free clean honest election ,cut dawn the corruption ,getting red of the rotten members in the government ,every thing was fine and legal ,until Friday 27 after noon ,then things started to decline ,all a matter of sudden our noble protests started to be miss leaded by political powers ,religious currents ,foreign media...

Gebel Silsila is the name given to a rocky gorge between Kom Ombo and Edfu where the River Nile narrows and high sandstone cliffs come right down to the water’s edge. There was probably a series of rapids here in ancient times, dangerous to navigate, which naturally formed a frontier between the regions of Elephantine (Aswan) and Edfu. In Pharaonic times the river here was known as Khennui, the ‘place of rowing’. On the West bank there is a tall column of rock which has been dubbed ‘The Capstan’ because of a local legend which claims there was once a chain ( Silsila in Arabic) which ran from the East to the West Banks. Arthur Weigall in his ‘Antiquities of Egypt’ states that the name Silsileh , is a Roman corruption of the original Egyptian name for the town, Khol-Khol , meaning a barrier or frontier. It is hardly surprising that by Dynasty XVIII, travellers had developed the custom of carving small shrines into the cliffs here, dedicating them to a variety of Nile gods a...

Offering pipes at Dendera: The following pictures are from Dendera and are described as 'offering's'. The importance of these ' offerings ' is evident in their presence, perhaps they were used as a means of communicating with the higher self.. . It is clear from the images that these 'offerings' were being inhaled, which opens a topic of conversation rarely covered in archaeological text books, namely that several Egyptian mummies have been found to contain traces of cocaine. The sanctity and importance of such a place as the temple of Hathor at Denderra suggests that this practice of inhaling such 'offerings' may have been an important part of the priesthood rituals . ...

  Ta-ynt-netert   means 'She of the Divine Pillar', or Tentyra (Greek for Dendera.) It was once the capital of the 6th Nome (Pharaonic province) of Upper Egypt, also named Nikentori or Nitentori, which signifies willow wood or willow earth. Others give the derivation from the sky and fertility goddess Hathor, also associated with the Greek Aphrodite, who was specially worshiped there. The crocodile is recognized as the deity of the city and was also venerated as such in the other Egyptian cities, which caused many quarrels, notably with Ombos  To the right of the temple is the location of the sacred lake, in which trees presently grow.   There is a large cemetery from pharaonic times in the desert behind the temple. Het-Hert's main temple at Dendera included a mud-brick sanatorium with areas for healing and midwifery. Visitors came to be cured of illness with purified water from the sacred lake, or to participate in "healing incu...

it shows the stars and planets in the positions they would have been seen at that date. it is the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky"has been conjectured to represent the basis on which later astronomy systems were based . It is now on display at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The vault of heaven is represented by a disc, held up by four women assisted by falcon-headed spirits. Thirty-six spirits or "decans" around the circumference symbolize the 360 days of the Egyptian year. The constellations shown inside the circle include the signs of the zodiac, most of which are represented almost as they are today. Aries, Taurus, Scorpio, and Capricorn, for example, are easily recognizable, whereas others correspond to a more Egyptian iconography: Aquarius is represented as Hapy, the god of the Nile flood, pouring water from two vases. The constellations of the northern sky, featured in the center, include the Great Bear (Ursa Major) in the form of a bull...