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Cheops boat

Cheops boat  1- The discovery of the Cheops boat considers as one of the most important archaeological finds in Egypt, in the world and this is the most ancient vessel found in perfect condition anywhere in the world. 2- The boat was not only a means of transportation or an...

The Great Sphinx

9- The last secret cermony was that of placing the statue of the pharaoh in the serdab , the small bricked cell at the heart of the mortuary temple . For which the image of the king would see the ceremonies and offerings made in his honour for the rest...

The Great Sphinx part 2

Dream stela  1- A granite stela weighing 15 tones and 3.5 m tall . 2- located between the front paws of the Sphinx. 3- erected by Thutmose IV , 18th dynasty and dated to the first year of his reign.  4- This commemorates his accession to the Throne and tells...

The pyramid of Khafre ( chefren)

Some mistakenly believe that Napoleons’s soldiers destroyed it . Many Egyptologists give credence the story written by the Arab historian El Makrizi that a Sufi named Saem-el-Dahr who lived in the 9th century A.D damaged it to show the people that the Sphinx was just a stone statue not the...

The function of the pyramid part 7

The function of the pyramid    1- when the pharaoh died , lengthy ritual of embalming and burial began at the temple dwelling of the pharaoh. 2- Once the body had arrived with the procession of sacred boats , the purification ceremonies began at the valley temple and the preparation...

Giza plateau part 6

How were the pyramids built? 1- This question is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of ancient Egypt.2- Most certainly, the stone was quarried , cut into blocks loaded onto sleds , runners or rollers and dragged to the pyramid construction site .3- once there , however , there arose the...
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