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Amulet Cat

Lapis lazuli amulet cat from the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 B.C.), New Kingdom.

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·        Korosko

Korosko is a site in Nubia, modern Sudan, set between the 1st and 2nd cataracts of the Nile. An lettering there from the 29th year of Amenemhet I (1991-1962 B.C.E.) of the 12th Dynasty names how the people of Wawat, the name for that field of the Nile, were overcome by the pharaohs army.

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·        Instructions of Amenemhet
·        Konosso
·        Menet Khufu
·        Neferneferuaten
·        Koptos
·        Koptos Decree
·        Amenemhet (Prince of 19th Dynasty)

Amenemhet (Prince of 19th Dynasty)

Amenemhet was a prince of 19th Dynasty. King Amenemhet's mummy was learned straight upright, shored up against the wall of the tomb of Tuthmosis IV (1401-1391 B.C.E.). He was the boy of King Tuthmosis IV, but not an heritor. Limestone canopic jars (containers for the vital organs) were found nearby, accepting his name. He plain predeceased his father and was entombed in a secondary chamber of King Tuthmosis IV's tomb in the valley of the kings on the western shore of the Nile at Thebes.

This tomb was plucked soon after the last of Tuthmosis IV and then regenerated in the prevail of Horemhab (1319-1307 B.C.E.). Tuthmosis IV's body was removed by priests of a later era and based in the tomb of Amenhotep II. The mummy of prince Amenemhet was plausibly recovered and prepared for a similar relocation but in some way overlooked in the mold. Well preserved, Amenemhet stood bolt against the wall through the centuries prior to his breakthrough.

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·        Instructions of Amenemhet
·        Konosso
·        Menet Khufu
·        Neferneferuaten
·        Koptos
·        Koptos Decree

Koptos Decree

Koptos Decrees

Koptos Decree was a document from the Sixth Dynasty, in the reign of King Pepi I (2289-2255 B.C.E.). Found in the temple of Min at Koptos, the Decree grants immunity from taxes for all residents of the mortuary chapel for Pepi I's royal mother, Queen Iput. This chapel was engaged to Min's temple. The personnel of Queen Iputs II cult were likewise freed from the obligation of paying for the travel of officials and the call of any royal suites. Such tax-exemption decrees were popular in many periods, particularly for complexes concerned with mortuary cults.

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·        Kom al-Ahmar
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·        Instructions of Amenemhet
·        Konosso
·        Menet Khufu
·        Neferneferuaten
·        Koptos

Koptos

Koptos Location

Koptos or Kabet was a situation south of Qena, addressed Gebtu or Kabet by the Egyptians and Koptos by the Greeks, overhaul as the capital of the fifth nome of Upper Egypt and as a center for trade dispatches to the Red Sea. Koptos was likewise the cult center of the god Min. Min broken a temple with the goddess Isis. Three pylons and a processional way that led to a gate set up by Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) were part of the temple design. Horus was likewise rewarded in this temple, spanning Egypt history. Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 B.C.E.) added to the temple, as did Ptolemy IV Philopator (221-205 B.C.E.). An direct temple on the internet site

Limestone slab showing the Nile
flood god Hapy, from the temple
of Thutmose III, Koptos

had been erected and adorned by Amenemhet I (1991-1962 B.C.E.) and Senwosret I (1971-1926 B.C.E.). A chapel of the god Osiris dates to the prevail of Amasis (570-526 B.C.E.). A middle temple has pluses made by Osorkon II (883-855 B.C.E.). A temple that was discovered in the southern country of Koptos was refurbished by Nectanebo II (360-343 B.C.E.). Cleopatra VII (51-30 B.C.E.) and Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44-30 B.C.E.) as well reconstructed a small chapel on the site. This chapel was used as an vaticinator. Koptos likewise had gold augur and quarries, being placed near the Wadi Hammamat.

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·        Neferneferuaten

Neferneferuaten

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Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten

Neferneferuaten was a queen, or, princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom, c. 1350-1336 BC. The principal wife of Amenhotep IV-Akhenaten, Nefertiti was likewise noted by the name Neferneferuaten. On her last or occult in the latter part of the kings prevail the name appears to have been transferred to his last if brief successor, King Smenkhkare. A daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti was also named Neferneferuaten-ta-sherit.

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·        Menet Khufu

Menet Khufu

Menet Khufu was the principal town of a region in the Oryx nome of Upper Egypt, related with Khufu (2551-2528 B.C.E.), modern Beni Hasan is located nearby and is known for its tombs. In ancient periods Menet Khufu was addressed the Horizon of Horus.

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Konosso

Konosso was a high-water island, going out to the Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1307 B.C.E.), it was a staging point for trade and outings to Nubia (modern Sudan). An dedication of Tuthmosis IV (1401-1391 B.C.E.) at Konosso returns an account of the sites purpose.

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·        Kom el-Haten
·        Kom Medinet Ghurob
·        Instructions of Amenemhet

Instructions of Amenemhet

Amenemhet's Instructions

Amenemhet's Commands, a classic text that is reportedly from the prevail of Amenemhet I (1991-1962 B.C.E.) service as a last will for his son and successor, Senwosret I (1971-1926 B.C.E.), the actual text was credibly written by a scribe named Aktoy, who answered Senwosret I. The Instructions warn against trusting anyone while taking royal powers. Senwosret I was coregent when Amenemhet I was executed by a harem revolt. Amenemhet I was speaking posthumously, in this text, describing his ordeal and list his accomplishments. There are some 70 copies of the Instructions of Amenemhet surviving, particularly in the Milligen Papyrus and the Papyrus Sallier II.

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·        Kom el-Haten
·        Kom Medinet Ghurob

Kom Medinet Ghurob

The location of Kom Medinet Ghurob

Kom Medinet Ghurob was a site on the south end of the Faiyum, as well named Mi-Wer in ancient records. Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) of the Eighteenth Dynasty given the site as a royal harem retreat and retreat villa. Two temples were erected on the site, now in ruins, as well as the royal harem residency. Kom Medinet Ghurob was used until the prevail of Ramses V (1156-1151 B.C.E.). A central making with an enclosing wall, covering the area of three modern city blocks, framed this complex. Targets from the reign of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.) were found on the site. A head of Queen Tiye (1), fashioned out of wood, glass, and gesso, was discovered there. This head provides a remarkably individualistic portrait.

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·        Kom el-Haten

Kom el-Haten

Kom el-Haten (the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III)

Kom el-Haten is a situation on the western shore of Thebes, noted for the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.) and the sitting names of that pharaoh, called the colossi of memnon, the region went part of the vast necropolis overhaul Thebes, Egypt's New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.E.) capital. The temple no longer bases, accepting been used as a quarry for later dynasties and looted by the locals.

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·        Mendes
·        Nefermaat
·        Kom al-Ahmar

Kom al-Ahmar

Discover mummy at Kom al-Ahmar

Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis is a necropolis in the south country of Nekhen, Egypt. Its discovery, by a joint US Egyptian team, was announced on April 21, 2005. The complex engagements to the Amratian culture some 3600 BC.

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·        Mendes
·        Nefermaat

Nefermaat

The hieroglyphic
name of Nefermaat

Nefermaat was a prince of Fourth Dynasty, Old Kingdom, c. 2613-2589 BC. The Egyptian genius for innovation and technical experimentation is well established by the tomb of Prince Nefermaat, a very extended personage of the early Fourth Dynasty who was Vizier to King Sneferu; he bore the title Great Son of the King. In his mastaba tomb at Meidum lively settings of life on his estates are described in a technique of coloured pastes inflamed into hollowed-out bas-reliefs, which is said to have been broken by the prince himself. Unluckily the exceptionally dry climate of Egypt intended that the inlays became preserved and crumpled; the original effect, however, must have been taking.

The Mastaba of Nefermaat

From the tomb of Nefermaat

Nefermaat likewise had at his disposition the finest painters of his day. His tomb, and that of his wife Atet, are famous for the wonderful paintings which decorated them. These include the famous geese (from Atets tomb), episodes of birdtrapping, and an antelope being taken by a handler. There are also winning settings of the sons of Nefermaat and Atet taking on with their household pets, monkeys, geese and dogs.

Nefermaat was a enthusiast of Prince Khafre and was one of those senior members of the royal family who learned his last sequence to the kingship. One of his boys was Hemionu, the Vizier, who is attributable with the direction of the expression of King Khnum-Khufu's Great Pyramid.

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·        Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
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·        Terenuthis
·        Amenemhet (Temple official)
·        Kom Dara
·        Mendes