The first and second Muslim civil wars appear to have made little difference in Cairo’s life, though the governors of Egypt now received their orders from Damascus instead of Medina. It also…
Hammer and chisel
Mallets and chisels were chosen according to the task at hand: big and heavy mallets and sizable chisels for coarse work, carving and inlay work required more delicate implements. The mallets were…
Holi
Holi, which falls on the full moon day, in the Hindu month of ‘Falgun’, is the last major festival of the year. People celebrate this festival with enthusiasm and without making any…
Arensnuphis
Arensnuphis was an anthropomorphic Nubian deity wearing a plumed crown who occurred in southern temples during the Graeco-Roman period, coeval with the Meroitic civilization based around the mid fifth to sixth cataract…
Menhit
God of war, have the appearance of a lion-headed woman. Together with her husband Khenmu and their son Hike, Menhit was worshipped in Upper Egypt, the three were called the Esna Triad….
Thirty-first Dynasty
By Ochus’s strategical skill and politcal sagacity Egypt was a Persian province once more. Diodorus (xvi. 51) may here be quoted: Artaxerxes, after taking over all Egypt and demolishing the walls of…
Anuket
God of the Nile and its inundation, she have the appearance of a woman wearing a crown of reeds and ostrich feathers, often accompanied by a gazelle. Anuket was most likely an…
Thebes
The ancient name for the city the Greeks called Thebai was Waset, the Scepter nome, and it was the main city of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome. It was close to Nubia…