Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Administrative bureaucracy To Agriculture, introduction of (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Administrative bureaucracy A fully developed administrative bureaucracy is one of the most characteristic features of ancient Egyptian civilization. Whereas the king was the religious and political embodiment of the state, the administration represented the state in practical terms for its citizens. Legislation was a royal prerogative. There is no clear evidence that the king ever […]

Akhmim To Alexandria (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Akhmim Akhmim, the ancient Ipu or Khent-Min, called "Khemmis" by the Greeks and "Khemin" by the Copts, is an ancient town on the Nile’s east bank, opposite Sohag (26°34′ N, 31°45′ E). The chief deity of Akhmim is the fertility god Min who, possessing powers of regeneration, is an important national god venerated throughout ancient […]

Amarna Letters To Antinoopolis (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Amarna Letters The Amarna Letters, inscribed on clay tablets in the cuneiform writing of Babylonia, were discovered in 1887 at the site of Tell el-Amarna by a group of peasants. The circumstances of discovery led to the loss of perhaps 150-200 tablets; the surviving tablets (circa 360) were sold to different individuals and institutions, and […]

Apis To el-Ashmunein (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Apis Apis, now the modern village of Zawiet Umm el-Rakham (31°34′ N, 25°09′ E), was known in pharaonic times as Hut-Ka (House of the Bull). It was a minor coastal settlement situated at the northeastern fringe of the Marmaric region, some 25km west of Marsa Matruh (ancient Paraitonion). Despite inadequate anchorage beneath the lee of […]

Assyrians To Aswan (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Assyrians Assyria was a Bronze Age and Iron Age state located in what is today northern Iraq. The earliest evidence of a relationship between Egypt and Assyria is in the early New Kingdom, in years 24, 33 and 40 of the reign of Tuthmose III (18th Dynasty). These accounts attest to attempts by Assyria to […]

Asyut To Behbeit el-Hagara (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Asyut Asyut, the capital of Nome XIII of Upper Egypt, lies on the west bank of the Nile (27°11′ N, 31° 10′ E) approximately halfway between Minya and Qena, at the beginning of a caravan route leading to Kharga Oasis, and from there on to Darfur in western Sudan. The modern toponym "Asyut" derives from […]

Belzoni, Giovanni Baptista To Bir Umm Fawakhir (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Belzoni, Giovanni Baptista Trained in hydraulic engineering, Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1823) left his native Italy in 1803 to escape political unrest. He immigrated to England and supported himself for a while as a strongman in the Sadlers Wells theater, where he was billed as the "Paduan Giant," due to his immense size (6’7", 200cm) and strength. […]

Breasted, James Henry To Buto (Tell el-Fara’in) (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Breasted, James Henry James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist, Orientalist and historian, was born in Rockford, Illinois on 27 August 1865, the second child and elder son of Charles and Harriet Garrison Breasted. In the summer of 1873, the Breasted family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois, where James grew up and attended a small rural school. […]

C-Group culture To Caton Thompson, Gertrude (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

C-Group culture Archaeological evidence of the C-Group culture, a people of uncertain origin who inhabited Lower Nubia from circa 2200 BC to circa 1500 BC, was initially encountered south of Aswan in 1907. Archaeologists have established that the C-Group occupation began around the time of the 6th Dynasty (in Egypt) and continued up to the […]

Champollion, Jean-Frangois To Climatic history (Archaeology of Ancient Egypt)

Champollion, Jean-Frangois The decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Jean-Frangois Champollion (1790-1832) was probably one of the most brilliant scholars of all time. A child prodigy, Champollion was educated at Figeac, his birthplace in southeast France, and later at nearby Grenoble. While still a child, he learned about the Rosetta Stone from a meeting with the […]

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