Kom Aushim

Kom Aushim (Karanis)

Kom Aushim, or Karanis is a place in the Faiyum country of the Nile, dating to the Middle Kingdom. The kings of the Twelfth Dynasty (1991-1783  B.C.E.) applied the field for royal retreats. However, no memorials from that dynasty are recognizable now. Kom Aushim was likely Letopolis, a cult center of Horus, named Hem by the Egyptians.

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Memphis

The hieroglyphic
namr of Memphis

Memphis described Ankh-tawy (That Which Joins the Two Lands) or Men-nefer (after the name of a near pyramid) in ancient times, Memphis was the capital of Egypt and therefore the residency of kings in the Predynastic Period and Old Kingdom. Its placement was just south of the set where the Nile opens to form the Delta, about fifteen miles south of what is now Cairo. Its break, either King Narmer or King Aha, chose this situation for its positioning between Upper and Lower Egypt. Reported to legend, the king showed the city by establishing a dam to reroute a arm of the Nile and form a flat plain where he could form, and this dam was reinforced by incidental kings. So, scientists from  the  Egypt  Exploration  Society, a British administration that supports scientific explore in Egypt, recently addressed that the course of the Nile River near Memphis is importantly east of its original location, and from geological prove they suspect that this redirection was artificial rather than natural.

The location of Memphis

To the west of Memphis lies a necropolis with a important number of tombs and pyramids. Today this graveyard country is related to in terms of its several areas, each one addressed  for a nearby village: Dashur, Saqqara, Abusir, Zawiyet el-Aryan, Giza, and Abu Roash. complete of these are great archaeological  websites  that  stay to be pictures of ongoing research.

Ruins of the temple of Hathor

Ruins of the temple of Ptah

Even after Twelfth Dynasty  king Amenemhet I went Egypts capital to close Itj-tawy (plausibly in the field of el-Lisht, though it has never been learned), Memphis stayed a leading administrative and religious center. In fact, passim its history Memphis was a cult heart for the god Ptah, and so has a Temple of Ptah. The city likewise has a palace, the Palace of White Walls, established by either Narmer  or Aha.

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Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt

Cosmetics appear in
Ancient Egyptian painting

Egypt, one of the earliest civilizations on the earth, was not only remembered today as a cradle of the western cultivated world and direct from witch which many sciences and arts extended across the Europe, but likewise as a home of one of the most commonly used beauty items that are practiced today cosmetics. It was there that cosmetics were addressed by almost everyone, enabling them not only to keep better body appearing and fashion, but also giving very great medical profits to the civilization that gone in very harsh desert terms. Over 3 thousand years of get and practice with creating several cosmetic intersections have enabled Egyptian royalty, aristocracy, and middle separate to fully address cosmetics and make it to be important part of their lives. Greek traders who visited Egypt around 1000 BC referred that they were astonished with fashion showed in public places - almost everyone wore cosmetic productions of some kind, and not in small measures! But that was not the close, because even their statues of gods and public buildings with human motif ribbons wore aesthetic paints. There cosmetics were not only famous as a fashion products, but as points that were gifted to them by the gods. Religious priests who defended the secret recipes for many conventional oils fought always against enabling Egyptian traders to share their goods with the immediate civilizations.

The first archeological findings of Egyptian cosmetics is dated to 3100BC (ceremonial pallette that was used for grinding and mixing of cosmetic factors), but more regular artefacts could be saw after 1500 BC. One of such great findings was located in the tomb of the King Thutmosis III (c1450 BC) which gross not only buried consorts of the ruler, but besides their fashion items. Few of those surviving aesthetic jars even overseen to preserve cleansing oils that was used to remove close mascaras, lipsticks and eyeshades. The most important tool in Egyptian fashion was brush. With it they given nearly every cosmetic substance they had. The most common brush was made from the salvadorapersica tree, which in summation to giving facial paints was as well used as a toothbrush by many. Most commonly, Egyptians practiced black kohl as an eyeliner and green malachite as an eye shadow. Mascara was too popular. These productions were made not only to make wearer more pretty, but they likewise held their skin and eyes from diseases that could be made by the harsh African desert wind (grind of tiny particles and attempts by wind-blown organisms). Oils, pastes and hair's-breadth colors likewise contained heavy metals, such copper and lead, which successfully fought bacterias and transmissions. Finally, full body paints that were based on Chalk and white lead paint were used by nobles who worshipped to showcase their pale skin as a sign of aristocracy and situation.

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