Solar Boats

Khufu Boats

Solar boats were wooden boats made of cedar wood, they were found disassembled. The first one who called them solar boats was the journalist “Kamal al-Malakh“. The archaeologists varied about its name and, as its uses, it was probably a funerary boat made from 5000 years ago in 2800 BC when King Khufu, the king of Egypt, died. 

His body was mummified and the funerary ceremony was performed.

 His body was placed on these boats with the priests to visit Helioules, Saiss and others before his burial. 

And then these boats moved to the royal cemetery in Giza where he was buried in the Great Pyramid, then these boats dissociated and buried in a hole south of the pyramid and the name of King Khufu put on it, Is its real name solar boats or Khufu boats?!

Khufu Boats

How they discover these boats?

Inspector of Antiquities of the pyramid area “Mohamed Zaki Nur” and civil engineer, who is cleaning the area of the pyramid, “Kamal Malakh” and the supervisor of the cleaning works ” Dr Abdel Moneim Abu Bakr”, and after the completion of the cleaning works, suddenly traces of mud brick wall appeared and after reaching the bottom of the wall 42 A stone piece appeared divided into two groups, separated by a three-meter gap in a stone room.

Although Kamal Malakh was the first to see these boats, it was found by chance, not by conducting a scientific discovery study, preceded by archaeological research, and the conditions served him as there was no except him at that time in the workplace.

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Ancient Egypt Obelisks

Since old times, The ancient Egyptian known by worshiping the sun, which one of its holy symbols was a tapering stone in the form of a pyramid known in the ancient Egyptian language by the name of “Ben Ben”

Starting from this sacred symbol, the idea of establishing the obelisks had developed, which symbolized the worship of the sun god. 

special temples had been established during the era of the Old Kingdom in order to worship the sun god, which were based mainly on a large open courtyard, on its back, there is a large base on which was erected a large obelisk and a table for the sacrifices.

The obelisks industry had developed especially since the 18th Dynasty. The obelisk was made of one piece of granite stone whose sides were tilted to its inside as it rose, and ended with a small pyramid covered with golden plates reflecting the sun when it fell on it. The obelisk was mounted on a base of the same type of stone of the obelisk.

The kings of the modern state era took great interest in establishing the obelisks during the royal jubilee or for the commemoration of certain events. The names of the king and his titles were usually inscribed on the obelisk.

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Nefertiti Queen

Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen known for her beauty. It is known that Nefertiti had an elegant beauty and had a great Iconic statue a symbol of many modern cosmetic lines. Many communities around the world adopted Queen Nefertiti as a symbol of true beauty, some historians have declared that she was the most beautiful woman in the whole world.

Queen Nefertiti was the wife of King Amenhotep IV, Akhenaten, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who is also King Tutankhamen’ mother-in-law. She lived in the 14th century BC.

Nefertiti is one of the most powerful and famous women in ancient Egypt. Nefertiti name means “the beauty has come”, She had a great place in the era of her husband, after her husband’s death she lived only a short time. after her death, She was mutilated and erased from history the same as her husband after his death.

 

Nefertiti Queen

Queen Nefertiti loved her husband Amenhotep IV, she was always supportive of him. She was the first to believe in her new husband goodness, the God Aton, whose strength lies in the sun. The great evidence of her full faith in her new religion is changing her name to “Nefernfratone Nefertiti” to fit her new religion, this name means ” Aton shine again because the beautiful has come”, in addition to supporting him in the worship of the new God, she also has supported him in all aspects of life, as she helped him in the administrative, religious and social reforms that he had performed on his era.

She supplied him with help and advice, and show up with him in all celebrations and religious’ rites. She participated in the celebrations that were held after their victory over the enemies.

 

Nefertiti Queen

Whatever it said about her, there is one thing that is true, that she is still famous for her iconic beauty even after her death and during her life as queen. Nefertiti was one of the most obscure and powerful women in ancient Egypt, Nefertiti Queen and Akhenaten were sides by side in the period 1353 -1336 BC, and may be had ruled the modern state after the death of her husband.

 Historians wrote that her era characterized of enormous cultural upheaval, especially because of the orientation of Akhenaten religious and political structure in Egypt towards the worship of the sun god Aton, it is known that Nefertiti had a statue of a sandstone, which was discovered in 1913 and became a world symbol of beauty and feminine power.

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The Wall Art

Egypt is the mother & cradle of the whole arts for the whole world, especially the wall art. The significant monuments, those fill the world’s museums, are the strongest evidence of this kind of art, indicating the merit of its artists and their achievements since the time of the Pharaohs, Let “Egy Bazaar” take you into a tour around these amazing pharaonic wall art.

The Egyptian wall art has been in the leadership since the era of the Pharaohs until the time of Sultan Selim I, where calamities occurred in Egypt with this art in particular, leading to a great recession until the time of Muhammad Ali Pasha, where the Egyptian arts reached its peak and progress.

The Egyptian Pharaonic wall art dates back to the period of the fourth and fifth Dynasties achieving a long way of accuracy and brilliance. In the time of the Sixth Dynasty and the subsequent period of the Middle Kingdom, it began its decline and stagnancy, reaching the era of the 18th Dynasty.

Amazing Pharaonic wall art

Most of the ancient Egyptian wall art were simulating death and post-mortal life. They decorated their own tombs and walls, They painted on papyrus to guide the dead in their journey to the afterlife. They also decorated their palaces and temples’ walls. Their decoration was characterized by simplicity, Delicateness , color consistency, balance, and perfection.

Amazing Pharaonic wall art

Ancient Egyptians used expressions and decorative elements including: The sun god spreads its left and right wings as an expression of its care and protection to the ends of the whole universe. The eagle, which symbolizes the perspicacity and acts as a supporter.

 

The lotus flower, a flower spread on the banks of the Nile, was later known as the flower of ancient Egypt, was used extensively in the decoration of their religious rites. The Egyptians also apply their wall art on their temples & capitals through using  chrysanthemums, cypresses, papyrus, grape leaves and palm trees.

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