Ancient Egyptian religion
Although both are arid and riverine, Mesopotamia (a region now called Iraq) both challenges and [...]
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Beliefs on the afterlife evolved over time, with each major notion first articulated for the [...]
View ArticleExecration texts
With origins in the Middle Kingdom (~1,900-1,700 BC; early 2nd millennium), execration texts were Egyptian [...]
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Old KingdomMiddle KingdomNew Kingdom Food✔ Magic bricks✔ (Dyn 19) Coffins From a practical perspective, ancient [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian personhood
Ka The most important non-physical aspect of a man was his ka, the entity through [...]
View ArticleOsiris
The god Osiris, ruler of the underworld, became famous as the central figure in a [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian sun god
The sun god was essential for rebirth. The endless cycle of sunrise and sunset was [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian Funerary Practice: Soul House
Ancient Egypt elites provisioned their tombs with models of servants preparing food and other necessities. [...]
View ArticleAncient Egyptian mummification
The aim of preservation was to transform the corpse into a sah, an eternal and [...]
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The dead and living gained supernatural power and/or protected themselves by using amulets. Amulets gained [...]
View ArticleMummy portrait
Mummy portraits tend be so lifelike that they make the viewer take pause, staring into […]
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