Medinet Habu Essays

Interior of a temple As you enter into a temple each room is more sacred than the one before it. Ordinary ancient Egyptians may have been allowed to enter the courtyard on special festival days, but could go no further into the temple. A row of columns surrounds the courtyard.The columns in the next room have pating to look like plants. The ones in the center where the light shines, are open as though they are blooming in the sun. The columns in the dark corners of the room are closed as though

Cosmogony is concerned with the origin of the universe. Eschatology is concerned with death, judgement and the afterlife. There exists a plurality of diverse cosmogonies and eschatology’s within the different religions of the world. The variations in myth, symbol and ritual contained in these religions often reflect differences in the environment, the social order, and the economy of the different civilizations to which they belong. This essay seeks to explore the different cosmogonies and eschatology’s

Destructors of Empires: The Sea People of the Bronze Age Mam sirah Sallah Who were the mysterious land invaders and raiders who troubled various lands during the bronze age? This is a question most scholars ponder upon, it is still a mystery today, who these people were and where they came from. The term “Sea People” is a modern name given to group of sea warriors who invaded the Mediterranean. These individuals did not appear until the final period of the bronze age. There have been many attempts

Oxen [3] of a horned African breed were fattened to immense proportions and, adorned with ostrich feathers, displayed in processions before slaughter, as shown in depictions at Abydos and Medinet Habu. They also had a smaller breed, generally hornless, and wild longhorned cattle which resisted fattening. Zebu were introduced from the Levant during the New Kingdom [15] and spread subsequently throughout much of eastern Africa. The Egyptians

also constructed four enormous obelisks to Amon which was mentioned in Thuity’s (Hatshepsut’s official) tomb depicted in plate 8, the Red Chapel which depicted many of the events and accomplishments of her reign, the temple at Buhen, the temple at Medinet Habu and the fortress of Western Thebes which is evident in an inscription highlighted in plate 9. Through her building programs, she impressed the public and publicised her administration through inscriptions (plate7). However, Thutmose III erased