Ta zdumiewająco dobrana para, misternie zdobionych brązowych nagolenników gladiatorów pochodzi z Pompejów. Gdy nagolennik przesuwa się w kierunku kolana, rozszerza się dramatycznie na zewnątrz (w porównaniu z wersjami żołnierzy) i było to dostosowane dla…
The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty in the name of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The upper and middle texts are in ancient Egyptian, using…
A detail of a limestone relief of Merit-Ptah (Ramose's Wife) represented in a festive gathering next to her husband, in the tomb of the vizier Ramose at Waset (Thebes), New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, approx. 1400 - 1362 BCE.
Ramose was vizier under pharaoh…
THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME 'EGYPT'.
Did you know that Egypt is named after the Memphite creator god, Ptaḥ?
Egypt as a word is derived from Latin: Aegyptus ← Greek: Αἴγυπτος (Aiguptos) ← Egyptian: ‹ ḥwt kꜣ ptḥ › "House of the kꜣ of Ptah" a reference to the…