The waters of the Nile came from annual rains in the tropics to the south of Egypt. The Nile rose in early July, and in October it receded, leaving little water and a layer of black, fertile soil — inspiring people there to call the area the Black Land.
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Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple Deir El Bahri
By the banks of the Nile, across the river from Thebes, a three-tiered temple was found beneath hundreds of tons of sand tens of centuries after its construction. The temple is a reflection of the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II, and was constructed alongside that eleventh-dynasty structure. However, the temple of Hatshepsut is far larger… Continue reading Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple Deir El Bahri
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut was born in the 18th Dynasty. This Dynasty is also referred too as the New Kingdom.
The Story of Queen Hatshepsut
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From Abraham to David – Yahweh
The word Hebrew has been associated with the word Hiberu and Apiru, described in Wikipedia as ” the name given by various Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Ugaritic sources (dated, roughly, from before 2000 BC to around 1200 BC) to a group of people living as nomadic invaders in areas of the Fertile Crescent… Continue reading From Abraham to David – Yahweh
Women in Ancient Egypt
by Caroline Seawright February 10, 2001 Women in Ancient Egypt In the ancient world, Egypt stood out as a land where women were treated differently.