Ancient Egyptian medicine: Egyptian boys being circumcised, from the tomb of the Vizier Ankhmahor and his wife Mereruka Sixth Dynasty (Old Kingdom, ca. 2300 BC) Best doctors in the Western [...]
Ancient Egyptian science: Nilometer on Elephantine Island (Nile Valley Tours) Scientists in ancient Egypt Egypt was the richest part of Africa. So Egyptians could afford to educate a lot of [...]
Anubis weighing the souls of the dead The Egyptians were among the first people to believe that if you were good during your life, you would have a good time [...]
The Egyptian god Thoth (Old Kingdom tomb) What was Thoth the god of? Thoth was the Egyptian god of the mind - of intelligence, thinking, reason, and logic. He was [...]
The Egyptian god Set (Oriental Institute Museum) New Kingdom, ca. 1500 BC) The Egyptian god Set was the brother of Isis and Osiris, and like them he was the son [...]
The sun god Ra on his solar boat, traveling across the sky from east to west. From the New Kingdom tomb of Rameses III in the Valley of the Kings. [...]
Bringing offerings to Osiris(New Kingdom, ca. 1300 BC) Osiris was an ancient Egyptian god of growing things, like the Hindu god Indra or the Greek goddess Demeter. That's why sometimes [...]
The lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, one way of showing the Egyptian goddess Mut (Vatican Museum, Rome) Mut means "mother" in Egyptian, and in Ancient Egypt people worshipped Mut as a mother [...]
Egyptian mummies were buried in coffins. This mummy is from the New Kingdom (Vatican Museum, Rome). Natural mummies in Egypt Because Egypt is a very dry place, where it hardly [...]
Isis and her baby Horus (Middle Kingdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Isis, Osiris, and Set The god Isis, in Egyptian mythology, was married to her [...]
