Ancient Edfu History

The Nile was the source of everything in Ancient Egypt. Early people built their lives around a river, eventually developing into Ancient Egypt. The Nile did not shape Ancient Egypt literally, but culturally. The Nile grew Egypt’s crops, created its traditions, making jobs, giving life to and protecting all.

Two civilizations started out at the same time and evolved into empires of great similarities, yet compelling differences lie between them.

Amenhotep III’s reign is often referred to the “Golden Age”, a time of political stability and economic prosperity for Egypt. With an abundance of tribute, booty, and access/exploitation of natural resources in conquered areas of Nubia, and its sphere of influence in Syria-Palestine; Egypt’s affluence only flourished. This enabled Amenhotep’s expanse/magnificent building programs, also resulting to advances in art and religion. Furthermore, changes in the importance and role of the queen progressed in this period; to the extent of Tiye’s deification, as evident in the temple at Sedeinga, built in dedication to her worship. Despite Amenhotep III’s reputation as a great diplomat, the effectiveness of his

Why did Christianity take hold in the ancient world? Around the time of CE, a lot of people were against being christian, until people spread the word and other people realized how devoted they were. So, why did Christianity take hold in the ancient world?

Have you ever wondered what Ancient Egypt would be like without the Nile river? The Nile river was really important to Ancient Egypt. So, how did the Nile shape Ancient Egypt? The Nile helped shaped Ancient Egypt by supplying them with settlements, agriculture, and religion.

His shrouded human form and tight-fitting cap make him quite recognizable. The high quality of workmanship indicates that the sculpture was produced in a royal workshop as a gift from the pharaoh to the god in his great temple in Memphis. It could also have been dedicated to a shrine outside the capital city, as the cult of Ptah became more widespread in the late New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1190–664 B.C.). As one of ancient Egypt’s oldest gods, possessed of creative power, Ptah was a potent deity. By the Early Dynastic period, Egypt’s kings were revered as gods in human form. He had been alongside other Egyptian gods at the entrance of the Temple of Ramses II which was in fact dedicated to him as well as Ramses, Amun, and Ra-Horakhty. Over the course of ancient Egyptian history, Amun (chief god of Thebes, represented as blue and wearing a plumed crown), Ra (of Heliopolis), and Ptah (of Memphis) became the primary national gods. (Stokstad & Cothren, 51) In order to please the gods and ensure their continuing good-will toward the state, kings built splendid temples and provided priests to maintain them. The priests saw to it that statues of the gods, placed deep in the innermost rooms of the temples were always

one of the five rooms. This room was hall, kitchen, and shrine in one. It was the

(2)The prayer room had a reflective door for the gods to use as a portal.

During the Archaic Era the climate became warmer and drier and many animals that lived through the Ice Age became extinct. During this time people who lived throughout North America had to adapt to new conditions. Archaic people hunted deer, elk, bighorn sheep and rabbits. The plants they ate were yucca, pinyon, ricegrass, amaranta, and goosefoot. To build their houses they had to lean poles around a shallow depression that they had dug into the ground, then covered them with brush and mud. Many of the artifacts archeologists found were atlatl, manos and metates, and alcoves. Atlatl is a spear thrower and manos and metates were used to grind grains, seeds, and

Akhenaten’s biggest negative influence on Egypt came as a result of revolutionising Egypt’s religion. He completely neglected the traditional values of Egypt and forced the worship of the sun god, the Aten. In years 3-4 of his reign, he modified the symbol of Egypt’s major god to a falcon headed man. There were strong rays illuminating from a large sun disk and an upright cobra (an ureaus). The rays finished in hands which were a symbol of life to the king. Akhenaten built temples in honour of the Aten. He then went on to build a new capital city devoted entirely to

When alexander did his first arrive to Egypt he got really admired and named as a demi-god by an Oracle of Siwa. He also had in mind of making a capital city state at this location in Egypt. He had to go to make a march in Tyre and Phoenicia for some months, so it was left a commander to Cleomenes to build his wanted city and also to defend

The “Sisterhood Sanctuary” is an auditorium that holds approximately 250 people. The sanctuary is emphasized with different plants in large containers, and glass doors that make up the entrance of the sanctuary. Wright created the “Sister Sanctuary” in order to achieve the mood and presence of harmony and peace while people are in meditation and in prayer. On the east side of the sanctuary a magnificent Ark of the Torah is placed in wood with light shadowing the top of the Ark. Robed extravagantly in many color mantels, the Ark holds seven Torahs which represent seven days of the week. The seven Torahs represent the seven days of the week crowning in the holy Sabbath. One of the most important features of the Synagogue is this ark that holds a very important message for the congregation and well as the heart of Judaism. One of the prominent features that takes over the synagogue is the massive Monolith that suggests the shape of the Ten Commandments or the tablets of Law. This is important for many reason, the most important being it represents the teachings, morals and values of

The expansion of the political and economical power during the New kingdom, led to the devotion of resources to the religious architecture; numerous new temples were constructed while the pre-existing temples were renovated. Individual Pharaohs endeavored to out do their ancestors, not only in the construction of their own mortuary temples, but also in the establishment of worship temples of their deities. Kings of this period abandoned the pyramid complexity of the earlier ages and constructed their tombs in the Valley of the Kings well away from their mortuary temples due to the increase of robbers; therefore a standardized plan became default for both the worship and mortuary temples. Because of this movement, I believe that the divine

The Erechtheion was built to house the wooden statue of Athena Polis. It is an unusual and irregular temple situated on the north side of the acropolis. The temple was named after an early Athenian king named Erecthonios. During Erethonios reign a statue of Athena Polis fell to earth and this statue was placed into the Erechtheion. The exterior of the temple is designed so that there are four sets of columnar supports, three structural units with individual roofs and four different levels. There is no way to fully understand what the Erechtheion looked like on the inside as it was destroyed but we know that the main central building is spilt into parts, the eastern and the western cellars along with smaller porches on the north and south. The

It is very, very wrong on how the villagers and the woman’s family in this story treated the pregnant women, even if she did get pregnant from a man that wasn’t her husband. The worst possible thing to happen to someone in the Chinese society is to be neglected by your family after your death. It would be awful if your only defining moment in the eyes of your family was an adulterous act that brought embarrassment to your family. The village people tearing her house apart, killing her livestock, and stealing her stuff was awful but what was worse was the punishment she suffered was the neglect of her family. The ancient Chinese culture was very harsh on its women; I do not like how a culture in any period in history could treat women that way, as servants or as second