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Ancient Egypt

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All history of ancient egypt ( pharaohs , pyramids , monuments , temples , and more) are available in this blog.

• Added on: Nov 29th, 2008
• Country: Egypt
• Language: English

• Author: salah mahmoud
• Listed in: History Cultural
• Tags: travel egypt monuments ancient pyramids pharaohs

Recent Posts

• #1 Ancient Egypt,Site of Thebes

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 20:43 in # (e) the rise of thebes and their kings

  Hitherto Egypt had been ruled from a site at the junction of the narrow Nile valley with the broad plain of the Delta—a site sufficiently represented by the modern Cairo. But now there was a shift of the seat of power. There is reason to believe th...

• 2.Origin of the name of Thebes

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 20:40

  In this position there had existed, probably from the very beginnings of Egypt, a provincial city of some repute, called by its inhabitants Apé or Apiu, and, with the feminine article prefixed, Tapé, or Tapiu, which some interpret "The city of thro...

• 3.Earliest known Theban king, Antef I.

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 20:33

  The first known Theban monarch is a certain Antef or Enantef, whose coffin was discovered in the year 1827 by some Arabs near Qurnah, to the west of Thebes. The mummy bore the royal diadem, and the epigraph on the lid of the coffin declared the body...

• 5.His successors, Mentu-hotep I. and "Antef the Great,"

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 20:26

  Antef I. is thought to have been succeeded by Mentu-hotep I., a monarch even more shadowy, known to us only from the "Table of Karnak." This prince, however, is followed by one who possesses a greater amount of substance—Antef-aa, or "Antef the Gre...

• 8.Reign of Amenemhat I.

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 20:23

  The founder of the "twelfth dynasty," Amenemhat I., deserves a few words of description. He found Thebes in a state of anarchy; civil war raged on every side; all the traditions of the past were forgotten; noble fought against noble; the poor were o...

• 9.Amenemhat I.'s wars and hunting expeditions

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 20:16

  The wars of Amenemhat I. make it evident that by his time Thebes had advanced from the position of a petty kingdom situated in a remote part of Egypt, and held in check by two or more rival kingdoms in the lower Nile valley and the Delta, to that of ...

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Melisende

Wonderful site - I have always had a love of Egypt and its amazing history!

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