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Six on Ancient Egypt: Why did an ancient Egyptian king erase all gods but Aten?; Women Achieved Enormous Power in Ancient Egypt; “A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor”; The Ancient Memories Behind the Exodus Myth; Crocodiles were so revered in ancient Egypt that they were hunted, killed and mummified; New National Geographic Video: “Ancient Egypt 101”






Women Achieved Enormous Power in Ancient Egypt. What They Did With It Is a Warning for Today

"Ancient Egypt’s female feline goddess had two sides. As Bastet, she could nurture and protect; as Sakhmet she had a propensity to brutally attack and maim without control. But in both forms, she had one raison d’être: to protect and nurture the patriarchy.

Such was the case for strong Egyptian goddesses in general, and for the real female leaders of that time. They weren’t in it for themselves, to help a sisterhood rise up, to change the playing field for all women. They used their great and mercurial power to help the men around them – to protect them with their ferocity, to shield them from harm, to keep the same system going.

I study women and power in the ancient world, having just written a book about six queens from ancient Egypt. Their stories reveal a troubling and difficult aspect of female power in history, and one worth keeping in mind today. Though a high number of women in positions of power is often seen as a marker of progress in governments and corporations, history shows that what matters is not how many women rise to that level but what they do once they get there."

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor”

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor”







For You Were (Not) Slaves in Egypt: The Ancient Memories Behind the Exodus Myth

From the expulsion of the Hyksos to Armageddon, the epic Passover saga does not reflect a specific event, but seems to contain distant memories that may give us clues to the real history of the ancient Israelites








New National Geographic Video: “Ancient Egypt 101”
 
Sheshonq's triumphal inscription at Karnak, showing the god Amun surrounded by the list of cities captured by the pharaoh during his campaign Egypt.jpg
The restaurant Mombar in the ‘Little Egypt’ section of Astoria.jpg
Jaffa-Thebes-Limestone-Relief.jpgA fragment of a painted limestone relief dating to about 1400 B.C. from Thebes in Egypt depicts defeated Canaanites..jpg
King Khufu's solar boat is displayed at a museum on the northern side of Khufu's Great Pyramid, in Giza, Egypt,.jpg
A painting of the pillars of the temple at Karnac in Thebes, Egypt, a poor city according to Pausanias..jpg
Paddling into the afterlife, Nile boatmen once accompanied an Egyptian on death’s long voyage. The artifacts were looted from a grave around 2009 and began a clandestine journey from Egypt to Dubai, then on to NY & VA.jpg
The Pharaoh Ahmose I fighting the Hyksos Egypt.jpg
Imagining the Exodus, Edward Poynter Egypt.jpg
plague Eygpt.jpeg
Spoon with pomegranate branch motif - Egypt, New Kingdom, late Dynasty XVIII, probably reign of Tutankhamun.jpg
nefertitiThe Nefertiti Bust, ca 1350 BC..jpeg
St. Catherine’s sixth-century walls rise as high as 65 feet and protect sites including a fourth-century chapel..jpg
An illustrated Greek medical text was found beneath the oldest Arabic translation of the Gospels. (Courtesy of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt).jpg
We tend to forget that Egypt was one of the first locations tourism expanded to outside Europe. It was the beginning of Egyptomania, a cultural reawakening and appreciation for all things Egyptian.jpg
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