THE INGÁ STONE:
Located in Brazil, it is a World archaeological wonder. It is over 6,000 years old and has hundreds of strange symbols. Scientists around the world have tried to figure it out without
success, all you know is that you have
Egyptian,…
The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world's best preserved 17th century ship.
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…