Blue Galaxies are small, distant galaxies, billions of light years away. We are therefore seeing them as they were when both they and the universe were quite young. You might think that, because the galaxies are so far away, their light would be so strongly red in appearance. Blue galaxies long ago were forming new stars, therefore most of their light was emitted in the blue and ultraviolet...
The winged scarab symbolized self-creation or rebirth. This potent symbolism appears in tomb paintings, manuscripts, hieroglyphic inscriptions on buildings and carvings. In addition to its use as an amulet for the living and the dead, scarabs adorned jewelry including necklaces, bracelets, wrist cuffs and wide decorative collars. A bracelet from the tomb of Tutankhamun featured a bright blue...
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter literally meaning “milky”, a reference to the Milky Way. Galaxies range in size from dwarfs with just a few billion stars to giants with one hundred trillion stars each orbiting its galaxy’s center of mass. Galaxies are categorized according to their visual morphology...
The Rosetta Stone is 3 feet 9 inches long and 2 feet 41/2 inches wide – (114x72x28cm). It is dark grey-pinkish granite stone (originally thought to be basalt in composition) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs. History The...
Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society. It centered on the Egyptians’ interaction with a multitude of deities who were believed to be present in, and in control of, the forces and elements of nature. The myths about these gods were meant to explain the origins and behavior of the forces they...
Saqqara Pyramid Step Pyramid, Pharaoh Djoser – 1st Pyramid Builder – 3rd Dynasty Pyramid of Userkaf – 5th Dynasty Pyramid of Unas – 5th Dynasty – The Pyramid Texts Pyramid of Teti – 6th Dynasty Pyramid of Pepi I Pyramid of Pepi I’s Queens and Family Pyramid of Pepi II Pyramid of Pepi II’s Queens and Family Pyramid of Djedkare – Isesi –...
The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth’s shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period (early centuries AD), and China until the 17th century. The idea of a spherical Earth...
Those who spoke to the Gods and Goddesses were the Priests and Priestesses supposedly a carry-over from the time of Atlantis. They were the souls who carried the sacred knowledge about creation and the nature of our reality. There were initiates who studied the knowledge of both the sacred mystery teachings and the religious philosophies of the times. This sacred knowledge would be passed down in...
King Lists Funerary Texts Predynastic Egypt Early Dynastic Period First Dynasty Second Dynasty Old Kingdom Third Dynasty Fourth Dynasty Fifth Dynasty Sixth Dynasty First Intermediate Period Seventh Dynasty Eighth Dynasty Ninth Dynasty Tenth Dynasty Middle Kingdom Eleventh Dynasty Twelfth Dynasty Thirteenth Dynasty Fourteenth Dynasty Second Intermediate Period Fifteenth Dynasty Sixteenth Dynasty...
Phaistos – also Phaestos and Phaestus – was an ancient city on the island of Crete. Map of Minoan CretePhaistos was located in the south-central portion of the island, about 3 1/2 miles from the sea. It was inhabited from about 4000 BC. A palace, dating from the Middle Bronze Age, was destroyed by an earthquake during the Late Bronze Age. Knossos and other Minoan sites were also...