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As well as the signs which stand for single sounds, Egyptian uses many signs that stand for two or three sounds   ka     an(k)h     d(e)wa

Just outside Thebes, the sun is rising on a small house near the Nile. Nafrini is already up - with a farmer as a husband, plus three small children, she's got a lot to do. She starts by preparing breakfast of bread and fruit for her family who, judging from the noise, are all now out of bed.  Like most Egyptian women, she's wearing a rough linen dress and has a reed necklace with an amulet to the pregnant goddess Tawaret - believed to help during the danger of childbirth.  Although they aren't wealthy, Nafrini and her husband, Sebi, can still afford a servant, Akana, who helps around the house and with the children. Once her husband has left for work, Nafrini leaves the kids with Akana and goes to the market. She needs to stock up the store cupboard - basics like lentils, chickpeas, lettuce, onion and garlic. She might buy meat for a special occasion, but it's much too expensive to eat every day.  When she gets back, she sprinkl...

The sun rises on yet another bright day in ancient Egypt. A man wakes up, but this isn't any ordinary man: this is the pharaoh.  This is the last time he will be alone for hours. He has many officials, servants and slaves to make sure he is always safe and perfectly presented.  His day begins with cleaning and dressing by servants including the splendidly named "Chief of the Scented Oils and Pastes for Rubbing His Majesty's Body". When he is clean, he is dressed and adorned with a huge amount of jewelry. After all, he's the pharaoh. He owns vast amounts of gold and he needs to look the part

Pharaoh Hound A juvenile male Pharaoh Hound Other names Kelb tal-Fenek (in country of origin) Nicknames Pharaoh Country of origin Malta Patronage Great Britain Traits Classification and standards Dog  ( Canis lupus familiaris ) The  Pharaoh Hound  is a breed of dog and the national hound of the Mediterraneannation of Malta. Its native name is  Kelb tal-Fenek  (plural:  Klieb tal-Fenek ) in Maltese, which means "rabbit hound". The dog is traditionally used by Maltese men for hunting. The breed has no conclusive links with Ancient Egypt and its name in Englishis a 20th century fabrication. It has variously been classified as a member of thesighthound group, yet its fieldwork description clearly determines it as a hound. It is indigenous to the islands and as such remains rare outside of Malta.

David Rohl – Pharaohs, Prophets and Kings Horley Christadelphians The Renaissance of Biblical Archaeology

1)اين هبط ادم عندما اكل من الشجرة التى دله عليها ابليس و اخرجه الله من الجنة الى الارض ؟ 2) هل اغرق الطوفان العالم كله ام لا ؟ 3) هل امن المصري القديم بالله ؟ و بعد ايام و سنين من البحث و التأمل وجدت بعض الاجابات لهذه الاسئلة و هي : بالنسبة للسؤال الاول : تخيلوا معي ان الله قد انزل خليفته الي الارض و للمرة الاولي بعد ان اخرجه من الجنة قرأت الكثير عن هذا الموضوع و مما وجدت ان ادم قد هبط في حدائق الهند و قول اخر يقول انه قد هبط في جزيرة العرب و لكن و للوهلة الاولي يستطيع اي فرد ان يضع ما لا حصر له من الانتقاضات لهذه الاراء منها كيف يكون ادم قد هبط ف الهند و تحدث اول جريمة قتل بين ابنى ادم قابيل و هابيل على جبل دمشق في سوريا .  وهل اذا ارسل الله خليفته الى الارض هل يرسل به الى تلك الصحراء الجرداء التى لا زرع بها ولا ماء و التى ينفر منها سكانها فمن المعروف ان العرب قبل اسماعيل كانوا يسكنون اليمن و العراق و الشام و اذا تفكرنا قليلا سنجد انه من الطبيعي ان الله اذا انزل خليفته الى الارض لابد و ان ينزله في جنة و بعد البحث عن جنة الله في الارض كانت المفاجأة ان جنة الله في...

TUT'S FAMILY TREE: A new study sheds light on the boy king's incestuous royal lineage and his early death. Image: ISTOCKPHOTO/ELSVANDERGUN Despite his brief nine-year reign, Tutankhamen is probably the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Because his tomb had not been robbed at the time of its discovery in 1922, historians have been able to piece together aspects of the boy king's 19-year life. More than 100 walking sticks and "pharmacies" (medicinal seeds, fruits and leaves) found mingled among funeral offerings and other treasures within the tomb suggested that the pharaoh was frail, and two mummified fetuses implied that his offspring might have suffered from lethal genetic defects. But a new study on the Tutankhamen family mummies themselves, published February 16 in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association , has provided biological insight into the king's incestuous royal...

تاريخ مصر هو تاريخ الحضارة الإنسانية حيث أبدع الإنسان المصرى وقدم حضارة عريقة سبقت حضارات شعوب العالم •• حضارة رائدة فى ابتكاراتها وعمائرها وفنونها حيث أذهلت العالم والعلماء بفكرها وعلمها فهي حضارة متصلة الحلقات تفاعل معها الإنسان المصرى وتركت فى عقله ووجدانه بصماتها• لقد كانت مصر أول دولة فى العالم القديم عرفت مبادئ الكتابة وابتدعت الحروف والعلامات الهيروغليفية ولعل قول الله تعالى (كَانَ النَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ النَّبِيِّينَ مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنْذِرِينَ وَأَنْزَلَ مَعَهُمُ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ فِيمَا اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ وَمَا اخْتَلَفَ فِيهِ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ أُوتُوهُ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ بَغْياً بَيْنَهُمْ فَهَدَى اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَا اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ مِنَ الْحَقِّ بِإِذْنِهِ وَاللَّهُ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ) (البقرة:213) لعل هذه اشارة في القرآن الكريم الى ان الأمه الن=معنية هي ام الدنيا مصر (والله أعلم) 

ينتشر بين الكثير من أوساط الناس وجود كميات كبيرة من الكنوز القديمة المدفونة تحت الأرض وأنها محروسة من الجن وقد شاع بينهم أيضاً قدرة الدجالين والمشعوذين على استخدام الجن في استخراج هذه الكنوز . وقد ارتبطت هذه الاعتقادات بـ " الزئبق الأحمر " الذي تختلف التكهنات بحقيقة وجوده ويلكن ؤكد البعض قدرته الهائلة على تسخير الجان لاستخراج هذه الكنوز وسرقة الأموال من خزائن البنوك ، وظهر تبعاً لذلك ما سمي بـ " التنزيل " وهو ما يمارسه الدجالون والمشعوذون من تنزيل الأموال المسروقة للزبون عن طريق استخدام الجن .

كان المصريون القدماء مثل كافة الأمم القديمة يؤمنون بالسحر، و وجود القوى الخفية التي كانت تتحكم فيهم ، لذا فقد مارسوا السحر وأجادوه . وقد كان السحر بأشكاله المختلفة يدخل في كثير من موضوعات الأدب المصري القديم .

برج النيل مواليد 1-7 يناير ، 19-28يونيو ،1-7سبتمبر،18-26نوفمبر) انت منفتح تحمي احباءك، مستشار جيد ، حذر ، شجاع ولا تتعب ،تحب الاماكن الجميلة والدافئة ن تحرص على تجنب الصراعات والمشاحنات ولكن تعرف كيف تتجاوز كل ما يقف في طريقك اذا تطلبت الضروف ذلك ، تسمح للاخرين بلاستفادة منك لكنك لاتتحمل ابدا الخيانة . البرج الاكثر انسجاما معك "برج امون -ري".............. برج امون-ريك مواليد 8-21 يناير ،1-11 فبراير ) انت تواجه صعوبات الحياة وتعرف كيف تجد الحلول لكل المشاكل ، تعتبر الوقت حليفك وهو كذلك ، فانت تعرف الاستفادة منه لاتخاذ القرارات المناسبة وقياس المخاطر ، منطقي ، عقلك منظم ، تنظر بحكمة وصفاء الى الحياة والعالم حولك كما انك حذر ولا تحب البوح باسرارك لاي كان او اتخاذ قرارات متسرعة ، الامر الذي يجنبك المفاجات غير السارة ،. البرج الذي ينسجم معك وتتاثر به هو "برج هوروس" برج مووت مواليد 22-31يناير ،8-22 سبتمبر ) انت مرهف الاحساس للغاية لكنك تعرف كيف تحمي نفسك ، الظلم يشعل الثورة في قلبك لكن اهم القيم في حياتك هي الحب والشرف والصدق ، تجاه الا...

كلنا يذكر احتفالات الألفية و ما رافقها من توقعات حول نهاية العالم و لكن لحسن حظ البشرية مر الحدث بدون ان يصدمنا كوكب او تنفجر شمسنا , و اليوم تجتاح العالم هستيريا جديدة حول نهاية العالم و قد حددت هذه المرة في عام 2012 , تعال معي عزيزي القارئ لنتعرف على هذه النهاية الجديدة و ما علاقتها بتقويم شعب المايا و ما قصة النقش الغريب في احد الالواح السومرية , و ارجوا ان لا تجزع لما ستقرأه من حقائق ،،،موج البابلي

After Life   The Egyptians thought of their afterlives as more of a continuation of life on earth (albeit a better life). This being the case, the Egyptians believed in sex life after death!  Egyptian men had false penises attached to their mummies while Egyptian women had artificial nipples attached. Both would become fully functional in the afterlife, where they were free to engage in sexual intercourse, if they so desired.  There were even fertility dolls in many graves - women with wide, child-bearing hips that were often carrying children in their arms. Other fertility dolls, known as paddle dolls, don't have any legs, and their bodies end in very wide pubic area, with tiny heads and arms.  These dolls show that the Egyptians believed that fertility and sex were interlinked, though the ancient Egyptians quite clearly enjoyed sex in its own right! 

Nut and Geb   Nut, the goddess of the night sky, and her brother Geb, the god of the earth, were originally thought to be in a constant state of love making. Ra grew angry with his grandchildren, and commanded their father Shu to separate the two lovers. The god of the air took his place, and trampled on the ithyphallic Geb, and lifted Nut high into the air. Nut was found to be pregnant, and was then cursed by Ra - she would never be able to bear her children on any month of the 360 day year. Thoth managed to win a game against Khonsu, god of the moon, and used some of the light of the moon to create five extra days (making the year 365 days). During those days Nut gave birth to her five children - Isis, Osiris, Nephthys, Set and Horus the Elder (not to be confused with Horus, the child of Isis and Osiris).

From the close family relationships in Egyptian mythology and the fact that Egyptians seemed to have no taboo against incest, many have concluded that incest was rife in ancient Egypt. There were probably some brother and sister marriages, but more likely than not, the siblings in question would have been half-brothers and half-sisters. The problem arises from the limited Egyptian terms of kinship, which are very confusing. A 'father' could refer to the actual father, the grandfather or male ancestors, while 'mother' could be the same, but for the females of the family. 'Sister' could mean a lover, a wife, a mistress or concubine, niece or aunt! The royal family, on the other hand, did have more incestuous marriages. The royal blood ran through the females, not the males. To become pharaoh, a man had to marry a royal princess... which would be his sister or half-sister. The prevalence of brother-sister marriages within the New Kingd...

The Egyptians had their own ways and means of getting around the fact that sex produced children. They had both contraceptives and abortions, mostly these were prescriptions that were filled with unpleasant ingredients such as crocodile dung. Here is one of the nicer ones: Prescription to make a woman cease to become pregnant for one, two or three years: Grind together finely a measure of acacia dates with some honey. Moisten seed-wool with the mixture and insert it in the vagina. -- Ebers Medical Papyrus

The Egyptian sacred 'prostitute' (who was probably a highly regarded as a member of Egyptian society because of her association with different gods or goddesses (such as Bes and Hathor), rather than the street walker that the modern mind imagines) advertised herself through her clothing and make up. Some of these women wore blue faience beaded fish-net dresses. They painted their lips red, and tattooed themselves on the breasts or thighs and even went around totally nude. There is no evidence that these women were paid for these fertility-related acts, so some believe that word 'prostitute' is probably an incorrect term for these women. Photo taken with kind permission of the Petrie Museum, London Another idea, pointed out to me by Daniel Kolos, an Egyptologist academically trained at the University of Toronto, is that this premarital sexual activity might be a prerequisite for marriage. One of the theories that disassociates these women fr...

To the ancient Egyptians , the most attractive women tended to be the fertile ones. A women who had children was seen to be more fortunate than ones without. Taking after Isis , the mother goddess of Horus, Egyptian women strove to be intelligent, wise, mystical and mothers. Where her twin sister Neophytes was barren, Isis was fertile.  In the Egyptian community, men had to prove their masculinity by fathering children, while the women had to be able to bear these sons and daughters. Being a mother meant being able to keep her marriage secure and to gain a better position in society.  But an Egyptian family was not just a status symbol - the Egyptians loved their children and were not afraid to show it. But there were some advice to parents, written by scribes: Do not prefer one of your children above the others; after all, you never know which one of them will be kind to you.  Adultery in Egypt was wrong. Women got the worst punishm...

Revel in pleasure while your life endures And deck your head with myrrh. Be richly clad In white and perfumed linen; like the gods Anointed be; and never weary grow  In eager quest of what your heard desires - Do as it prompts you...   -- Lay of the Harpist   Sexuality in ancient Egypt was open, untainted by guilt. Sex was an important part of life - from birth to death and rebirth. Singles and married couples made love. The gods themselves were earthy enough to copulate. The Egyptians even believed in sex in the afterlife. Sex was not taboo... Even the Egyptian religion was filled with tales of adultery, incest, homosexuality and masturbation... with hints of necrophilia! Masculinity and femininity itself were strongly linked with the ability to conceive and bear children...

Statuette of a queen, Middle Kingdom, late Dynasty 12–Early Dynasty 13 (ca. 1825–1750 b.c.) Egyptian Schist H. 6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm) Rogers Fund, 1965 (65.59.1) This small but intriguing work depicts a royal woman wearing an archaic, globular wig with horizontal striations and a bald area above the forehead. The aureus cobra at the brow marks the woman's royal status. Uniquely, a pair of vultures with outstretched wings forms a protective band on top of the head. Most striking, however, is the thick cloak with its stiff collar. It is pulled tight over the figure's crossed arms, leaving the top of the chest and the shoulders bare; only the left hand emerges from the garment. The combination of this garment and the unusual hairstyle is known from a few early Old Kingdom reliefs depicting royal women, two of them mothers. The preserved part of this woman's face, with its hooded eyes, places the work, however, securely in the late Middle Kingdom.