Scribd Feed for category: HistoryThis is a feed for documents in the category HistoryQueen Nefertiti- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c The Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten Nefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten), and mother-inlaw of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Her name roughly translates to "the beautiful one is come". She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead that she was often portrayed as wearing, known...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033558/Queen-Nefertiti Valley of the Golden Mummies- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c Valley of the Golden Mummies The Tombs and Mummies of Bahariya Oasis The Valley of the Golden Mummies is a huge burial site at Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, discovered in 1996. Dr. Zahi Hawass, with his Egyptian team, have found around 250 mummies dating to several different periods in history. The site dates to Greco-Roman...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033640/Valley-of-the-Golden-Mummies The Book of the Dead- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c The Book of the Dead Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming or Going Forth By Day. The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842. The Books were text initially carved on the exterior of the...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033565/The-Book-of-the-Dead The Book of the Secret Chamber- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c The Book of the Secret Chamber The oldest of the royal funerary books is the Amduat. Amduat literally means "That Which Is In the Afterworld" - is an important Ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom. Like many funerary texts, it was written on the inside of the tomb for reference by the deceased. Unlike other funerary texts, however, it.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033576/The-Book-of-the-Secret-Chamber Turin King List - Turin Royal Canon- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c Turin King List - Turin Royal Canon The Turin King List also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a unique papyrus, written in hieratic, currently in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) at Turin, to which it owes its modern name. The text dates to Ramesses II and mentions the names of all Egyptian rulers preceded by the register of gods that, as it...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033588/Turin-King-List-Turin-Royal-Canon The Coffin Text - The Book of Two Ways- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c The Coffin Text - The Book of Two Ways The Coffin Text, which basically superseded the Pyramid Text as magical funerary spells at the end of the Old Kingdom, are principally a Middle Kingdom phenomenon, though we may begin to find examples as early as the late Old Kingdom. In effect, they democratized the afterlife, eliminating the royal...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033581/The-Coffin-Text-The-Book-of-Two-Ways The Armana Tablets- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c The Armana Tablets The Amarna tablets are named after the site Tell el-Amarna (in middle Egypt) where they were discovered. The first Amarna tablets were found by local inhabitants in 1887. They form the majority of the corpus. Subsequent excavations at the site have yielded less than 50 out of the 382 itemized tablets and fragments which form the.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033560/The-Armana-Tablets The Book of the Heavenly (Celestial) Cow- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c The Book of the Heavenly (Celestial) Cow The first rendering of the Book of the Heavenly Cow was produced on the outermost of the four gilded shrines of Tutankhamun discovered in his tomb, though it was incomplete. However, we do find fairly complete versions of the book in the tombs of Seti I (KV17), Ramesses II (KV7) and Ramesses III (KV11). In..http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033571/The-Book-of-the-Heavenly-Celestial-Cow Pyramid Texts- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c Pyramid Texts The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the time of the Old Kingdom, mostly inscriptions on the walls of tombs in pyramids. They depict the Egyptain view of the afterlife, and the ascent into the sky of the divine Pharaoh after death. They were written upwards of five thousand years ago; thus, they.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033514/Pyramid-Texts Pharaoh Akhenaten- August 25, 2008 PD F-XCHANGE PD F-XCHANGE ! W N O y bu to k C lic m C lic k to bu y N O .c W w ! .d o w o .d o c u-tra c k c u-tra c k .c Pharaoh Akhenaten Akhenaten (often alt: Akhnaten, or rarely Ikhnaton) meaning 'Effective spirit of Aten', first known as Amenhotep IV (sometimes read as Amenophis IV and meaning 'Amun is Satisfied') before his first year (died 1336 BC or 1334 BC), was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He is especially noted for attempting to compel the.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5033448/Pharaoh-Akhenaten |