Famous Pharaohs

Amduat

The hieroglyphic
of Amduat

Amduat or Amtuat was a mortuary text depicted on the walls in the tomb of Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) in the Valley of the kings in Thebes, the Amduat, Book of that which is in the Hell, shows the nightly journey of the god Ra, a epitome of the sojourn required of the gone.

1st and 2nd oclock
night in the Amduat

The time is 3,
from tomb (KV34)

The Amduat is divided into 12 segments, doing fields or caverns, and traces the pathway into the earth that parts at the gateway of the west horizon. The text contains numerous adventures and rags but ends in spiritual repurchase and the attainment of heaven.

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·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy

Khuy

Khuy was the father-in-law of King Pepi I (2289-2255 B.C.E.). Khuy was a Nomarch and the father of Ankhnesmery-Re (1) and (2), who become Pepi I's checks and the mothers of the heritors. His son, Djau, answered as counsel and adviser for Pepi I and Pepi II.

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·        Mekhenet

Mekhenet

Mekhenet was the Egyptian address of the solar bark of the God Ra, practiced during his sojourn direct the sky.

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·        Amarna Letters

Amarna Letters

Amarna Letters, a collecting of agreement spanning the reigns of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.), Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.), and into the first year of Tutankhamuns rule (1333-1323 B.C.E.), these were learned in the ruins of Akhenaten's capital of Amarna in 1887, taken from a site described the Place of the Letters of the Pharaohs. Some 382 cuneiform tablets constitute the body of the assembling, written in the old Babylonian accent of the Akkadians, the lingua franca of the territory at the time. This adopted language used altered Egyptian and Syrian terms as well. The letters take diplomatic texts that reflect the switching trade and military exploits of the era. They are actually representations of proportionateness between noted kingdoms, providing insights into commitments, protocol, pacts, vassal status, and the ever-changing lands of competing empires.

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·        Meketre
·        Khusebek

Khusebek

The Stele of Khusebek

Khusebek was a military official of the Twelfth Dynasty. He answered Senwosret III (1878-1841 B.C.E.) as a commander of troops. Khusebek kept company Senwosret III on punitive campaigns in Syria and in Nubia (modern Sudan). His mortuary Stela heralds his career and honors, particularizations the military causes of his time. The stella was discovered at Abydos.

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·        Meketre

Meketre

The hieroglyphic of Meketre

The Ancient Egyptian official Meketre was chancellor and high custodian during the rule of Mentuhotep II, Mentuhotep III and maybe Amenemhat I, in the Middle Kingdom.

Meketre is first genuine in a rock dedication in the Wadi Shatt el-Rigala. Here he bears the simple title sealer. The inscription is dated to year 41 of king Mentuhotep II. On rests from the mortuary temple of the very king in Deir el-Bahari Meketre takes the title of chancellor and was evidently advertised in the meantime, succeeding Kheti. The same title was learned on a statue in Meketre's tomb while on relief fragmentizes in the tomb he held the important title of high custodian. The tomb (TT280) is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, section of the Theban Necropolis, and lies next to a large, incomplete royal tomb which was originally ascribed to king Mentuhotep III and, afterward new researchs, to Amenemhat I. Therefore, Meketre most future died under the latter king.

Chancellor Méketre watch
the counting of his cattle

Meketre's tomb TT280 contained some wooden replicas, representing the daily activities and life in Ancient Egypt, together with statuettes of ships and cattle were, miniature edifices and gardens.

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Neferheteperes (Princess)

Neferheteperes (c. 2566-2558 BC) princess (Queen?) of Fourth Dynasty, Old Kingdom. Neferheteperes was the girl of King Djedefre, the replacement of King Khnum-Khufu. It has been speculated that she was besides a queen, the mother of King Userkaf, the abandon of the Fifth Dynasty, whose mother bore the same name. If this were the face, she would be specially significant in the publicity of the solar religion, which gone markedly more important in the Fifth Dynasty under the influence of the priests of Heliopolis. A story, current in the late Old Kingdom, ascribed the fatherhood of the first pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty to the god Ra by a mortal woman, Radjedet. Part of a statue of Neferheteperes was learned at Abu Roash.

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Amara

Stela at Amara

Amara was a fortified site about Wadi Halfa on the Nile in Nubia, modern Sudan, Amara was launched by Seti I (1306-1290 B.C.E.). There are two settlements involved in Amara, on the eastern and western relies of the river. Amara West was a vast Fortress complex with introducing walls and defences. Amara East dates to the Meroitic Period (c. 300 B.C.E.350 A.D.). The rests of a Ramessid temple, likely erected by Ramesses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.), and a necropolis were discovered here.

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Khunianupu

Eloquent Peasant, the famous sage of the First Intermediate Period. Khunianupu knew in the rule of Khety II (2100 B.C.E.). accepting endured harsh intervention at the hands of an functionaries son, Khunianupu petitioned the Egyptian court system for correct, eventually coming to the attention of Khety II. The Eloquent Peasant, as he was called, was invited to the court and observed as a sage. Khunianupu received a generous judgment and was asked to address his associate Egyptians. His admonitions about honor and justice were discovered in four New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.E.) papyri.

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·        Khons

Khons

Khons was a priestly official of the Nineteenth Dynasty. He processed in the reign of Ramesses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.) as the leading priest of the fad of the deified Tuthmosis III. His tomb was saw at El-Khokha on the western position of Thebes. Within the tomb the rages of Tuthmosis III and Montu are depicted in reliefs and paintings. The cap of the tomb chamber as well has birds, grapes, and textile designs. The reaching of the bark of the god Montu is elaborately portrayed.

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·        Meketaten

Meketaten

The hieroglyphic
name of Meketaten

Meketaten or Meket-Aten was the second girl of six born to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She was credibly born in year 4 of Akhenaten's rule. Although little is famous about her, she is frequently drawn with her sisters incidental her royal raises in the first two thirds of Akhenaten's rule. Meketaten was the second daughter born to Akhenaten and Nefertiti. She had an older sister addressed Meritaten and 4 secondary sisters addressed Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure and Setepenre. Tutankhaten was a half-brother.

Statue of Meketaten

Meketatens round year of birth is in or before year 4 of Akhenaten. Meketaten is first showed on the walls of the Hut-benben temple gave to her mother Nefertiti in Thebes. Meketaten seems behind her older sister Meritaten in some of the later letterings, thought to date to year 4 or later. Further lines to suggest Meketaten was ready in or before year 4 come from the fact that her form was added to one of the boundary stela recording events in year 4 and carved in year 5.

Meketaten gone to the new capital city Akhetaten with her family when she was fixed a small child. She is depicted in several of the tombs of the nobles in Amarna. Meketaten is depicted in the tomb of Ay making a tray of gifts while winding one arm around her mothers neck. Other monuments mentioning Meketaten take a stela from Heliopolis, a statue base from the Fayoum, and the tombs of Panehesy and Parennefer. Meketaten was depicted with her parents and sisters at the reception of foreign tributes a ceremonial dating to year 12 - that can be seen on several scenes in the private tombs in Amarna of high-ranking officials described Huya and High Priest Meryre II.

Meketaten on the
bosom of her mother

Meketaten died in approximately year 14 of Akhenaten. It is very likely that a plague dragged across Egypt between Akhenaten's 12th and 15th regnal years, for legion members of the royal family stop to be mentioned again; among them Queen Mother Tiye, Queen Nefertiti, Akhenaten's incidental wife Kiya, Meketaten and the two youngest princesses, Neferneferure and Setepenre. Meketaten's end could have ensued either from a hassle, or from childbirth. The mien of a royal baby makes many to believe the young princess went in childbirth (in this subject the father Akhenaten himself, is most likely to have been tying his daughter), but it cannot be proven. An alternative reading suggested by van Dijk is that the child depicted in the scenes is the soul (the ka) of Meketaten.

Fragments of Meketatens sarcophagus were found in the royal tomb. Dedications reference her parents Akhenaten and Nefertiti, her sister Ankhesenpaaten besides as her grandparents Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye.

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Neferherenptah (Priest)

Neferherenptah was addressed Fifi, Priest, Fifth / Sixth Dynasties, Old Kingdom, c. 2345 BC. Neferherenptah was a refining priest and prophet of the mortuary cults of the kings Khafre and Menkaure. He was thus of considerable influence in Giza, where he was buried in his own mastaba.

His tomb contained statues, rather simple in role and now in the Cairo Museum, of himself, of his wife, the Royal Acquaintance Sat-Meret; his son Tesen, a butcher in the palace slaughterhouse; and his girl Meretites.

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El-Khokha

Upper view for Khokha

Scene of keeping fish
from tomb (TT39)

El-Khokha is a site between Sheikh Abd El-Qurna and Deir El-Bahri, functioning as a necropolis on the westward side of the Nile at Thebes. Tombs going out to the 6th Dynasty (2323-2150 B.C.E.) were discovered in this necropolis, cut into the rocks. New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.E.) tombs were besides established in El-Khokha. Several of the burial situations are attractively painted and have fine reliefs.

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