Many myths and falsehoods concerning the Egyptian practice of mummification have been promoted to the general public in movies, television shows, and documentaries. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/914/cultural--theological-background-of-mummification/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianBurial #EgyptianCulture

Women in ancient Egypt had more rights than in any other ancient culture and were valued with greater respect. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1040/great-female-rulers-of-ancient-egypt/ #History #CleopatraVII #Egypt #EgyptianCulture

II:35. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/86/herodotus-on-the-egyptians/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #Herodotus

The most important cultural value in ancient Egypt was harmony; known to the Egyptians as ma'at. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/ #History #EgyptianCulture #Ma'at #NewKingdomofEgypt

Join World History Encyclopedia as they sit down with Dr. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2087/tutankhamun-and-the-tomb-that-changed-the-world-wi/ #History #Ankhsenamun #EgyptianCulture #Mummification

A famous story from Greece relates how a young woman named Agnodice wished to become a doctor in Athens but found this forbidden. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/49/female-physicians-in-ancient-egypt/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianMedicine

A famous story from Greece relates how a young woman named Agnodice wished to become a doctor in Athens but found this forbidden. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/49/female-physicians-in-ancient-egypt/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianMedicine

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The Ankh is one of the most recognizable symbols from ancient Egypt, known as "the key of life" or the "cross of life", and dating from the Early Dynastic Period (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ankh/ #History #Ankh #Djed #EgyptianCulture

II:35. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/86/herodotus-on-the-egyptians/ #History #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #Herodotus

Seshat (also given as Sefkhet-Abwy and Seshet) is the Egyptian goddess of the written word. https://www.worldhistory.org/Seshat/ #History #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianHieroglyphs #EgyptianLiterature

Once the largest library in the ancient world, and containing works by the greatest thinkers and writers of antiquity, including Homer, Plato, Socrates and many more, the Library of Alexandria, northern Egypt, is popularly believed to have been destroyed in a huge fire around 2000 years ago and its volumous works lost. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/207/what-happened-to-the-great-library-at-alexandria/ #History #Alexandria #Egypt #EgyptianCulture

The Westcar Papyrus, dated to the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (1782 - c.1570 BCE), but most likely written during the Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE), contains some of the most interesting tales from ancient Egypt.https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1039/stories-from-the-westcar-papyrus/ #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #MiddleKingdomofEgypt #History

The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day, but unlike most people in the modern era, they attributed the experience to supernatural causes.https://www.worldhistory.org/article/51/egyptian-medical-treatments/ #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianMedicine #EgyptianPapyrus #History

In ancient Egypt, the people sustained the government and the government reciprocated. Egypt had no cash economy until the coming of the Persians in 525 BCE. The people worked the land, the government collected the bounty and then distributed it back to the people according to their need and merit. Although there were many more glamorous jobs than farming, farmers were the backbone of the Egypt...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1073/jobs-in-ancient-egypt/ #EgyptianAgriculture #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianPapyrus #History

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In 1851 CE, a woman named Amelia Bloomer in the United States shocked the establishment by announcing in her publication The Lily that she had adopted the "Turkish Dress" for daily wear and, further, provided readers with instructions to make their own. This "Turkish dress" was a pair of light-weight pants worn under a dress which dispensed with the heavy petticoats and undergarments which cons...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1037/fashion--dress-in-ancient-egypt/ #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #MiddleKingdomofEgypt

The society of ancient Egypt was strictly divided into a hierarchy with the king at the top and then his vizier, the members of his court, priests and scribes, regional governors (eventually called 'nomarchs'), the generals of the military (after the period of the New Kingdom, c. 1570- c. 1069 BCE), artists and craftspeople, government overseers of worksites (supervisors), the peasant farmers, ...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1123/social-structure-in-ancient-egypt/ #Egypt #EgyptianCulture #EgyptianGovernment

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Henry Fuseli

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Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Henry Fuseli

#GreekArchitecture #thebundleart #statues #EgyptianCulture #romanhistory #thebundle #HistoryMatters #archeology