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3 days ago · Great Pyramid of Giza, Khufu ship. Dynasty. 4th Dynasty. Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period ( 26th century BC ). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king.
May 22, 2024 · Akhenaten (pronounced / ˌ æ k ə ˈ n ɑː t ən /), also spelled Akhenaton or Echnaton (Ancient Egyptian: ꜣḫ-n-jtn ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy, pronounced [ˈʔuːχəʔ nə ˈjaːtəj], meaning 'Effective for the Aten'), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
May 23, 2024 · The Ptolemaic dynasty (/ ˌ t ɒ l ɪ ˈ m eɪ. ɪ k /; Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖοι, Ptolemaioi), also known as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, Lagidai; after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period.
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4 days ago · Khufu, the second king of the Fourth Dynasty, is famous for building the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Standing 146.5 meters (481 feet) tall and composed of 2.3 million stone blocks weighing an average of 2.5 tons each, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years.
May 22, 2024 · Sudan Egypt. The Kingdom of Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣEcōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁKūš ), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and ...
May 16, 2024 · Posted on May 16, 2024 1:42 PM EDT. 3 minute read. The Red Pyramid at the Dahshur necropolis, constructed during the Fourth Dynasty. Credit: Eman Ghoneim. A long lost portion of the Nile may...
4 days ago · Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [3] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom [4] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [5] [6] [7] Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten [8]
