Did ancient Egyptians visit Australia in the distant past leaving messages carved in rock? If so, how did they get there? If we are to believe Ancient Alien Theory they flew between both lands in ships. Maybe … Ancient artifacts, glyphs, and rock art depict ancient civilizations were curious people who visited parts of the world. So what do we have that combines ancient voyagers with ancient...
The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east. It stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert. The term is...
When you study the mythologies of ancient civilizations, you realize they are all designed by the same geometric blueprint that follows into humanity’s current timeline. In the physical we find duality on all levels, especially in the pantheons of creational forces linked to one another. We further find the pattern of creation and destruction … repeating in the cycles of time … embracing...
In 1992, German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink, explored the shafts in the Queen’s Chamber in the Great using Greate Pyramid crawler robot he designed, called Upuaut II. He discovered that one of the shafts was blocked by what appeared to be a limestone door due to its two eroded copper handles. Upuaut II was unable to navigate around earlier explorers’ rods that were jammed in the...
History of Ancient Egypt The origins of the unified Egyptian state are unclear, and there are no contemporary sources, and later sources are unclear and contradictory. Around 3100 BC a king unified the whole of the Nile Valley between the Delta and the First Cataract at Aswan, with the center of power in Memphis. Traditionally (according to Manetho), this king was known as Menes. This king may be...
As in all civilizations, the poor people lived in cramped quarters often as small as one room were an entire family lived out their lives. The wealthier the family the better the living conditions, not unlike today’s world. Villagers, tomb builders, and farmers lived in cramped villages with narrow streets near the tombs sites or farmlands. The houses they occupied were made of bricks and...
The literature that make up the Ancient Egyptian Funerary Texts are a collection of religious documents that were used in Ancient Egypt, usually to help the spirit of the concerned person to be preserved in the afterlife. They evolved over time, beginning with the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom, which were the concern only of royal burials, through the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom, the...
The Flooding of the Nile refers to an annual flooding cycle in Egypt that dates back to ancient times. Today it is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil. It is also celebrated in the Coptic Church by ceremonially throwing a martyr’s relic into the river, hence the name, Esba’ al-shaid (‘The Martyr’s...
Ancient Egyptians believed in the power of dreams to bring messages from their many gods. Their methods of dream scrying go back over 5000 years and were recorded in their ancient texts and on hieroglyphic writings. Some of their techniques were later used by other ancient civilizations, as in ancient Greece thousands of years ago. Ritual Dream Scrying Techniques On the day you scry – find...
Education in Egypt was largely vocational an apprenticeship served within the family trade or craft usually under the boy’s father. We know something of the system from the craftsman’s community of Dier el-Medina. Boys were taught skills by their father in the hope of at least on son winning a place in the official corps of tomb-builders. Those youths who were most likely to be...