Six on History: Ancient Egypt

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Six on History: Ancient Egypt

1) Why did an ancient Egyptian king erase all gods but Aten? Aeon Essays

"Out of the many gods of ancient Egypt an inspired Pharaoh created a monotheistic faith. What was Atenism and why did it fail?"

Why did an ancient Egyptian king erase all gods but Aten? – James K Hoffmeier | Aeon Essays

Out of the many gods of ancient Egypt an inspired Pharaoh created a monotheistic faith. What was Atenism and why...

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

"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."

Miles to go: Stepping up progress toward gender equality

A year after the UN General Assembly vowed to achieve gender equality as part of the Sustainable Development Goa...

Women Now Outnumber Men in Spain's Cabinet. What's Stopping Them Elsewhere?A woman member of British parliament examines the global issue

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

3) New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian              doctor”, Larry Ferlazzo's Blog 

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

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

"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"

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-you-were-not-slaves-in-egypt-the-memories-behind-the-exodus-myth-1.7138961

5) Ancient Egyptians Hunted, Then Mummified, Crocodiles, Smithsonian                  Magazine

" ... The ancient Egyptians mummified millions of animals, including dogs, cats, baboons, horses, goats and birds, between the 1st millennium B.C. and the 4th century A.D. As Edward Bleiberg, [sweet and generous guy who helped us with DOE Passport] a curator at the Brooklyn Museum who was not involved in the study, tells the Post’s Ruane, these well-preserved specimens were revered as messengers capable of conveying requests to the gods.

“There are falcon mummies associated with the god Horus, cat mummies for Bastet, dog mummies for Anubis, ibis mummies for Thoth,” Bleiberg says.

Crocodiles, meanwhile, were commonly associated with Sobek, a powerful fertility god depicted as a deity with the head of a reptile and the body of a man.

Sobek, the Crocodile God Who Sweated the Nile While Creating the World

Sobek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god of strength and power. His ferocious attributes led Sobek to become a ...

“The requests that we have in writing are very standard,” Bleiberg concludes, “for health, for yourself, or for a relative, requests for intervention in business disputes. ... ”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptians-hunted-then-mummified-crocodiles-180973197/

(Crocodile Mummies: Bonus coverage) 

Crocodiles were so revered in ancient Egypt that they were hunted, killed and mummified, ATI (All That's Interesting)

Ancient Egyptians Murdered Crocodiles With Clubs Just To Mummify Them

Crocodiles were among the most revered animals in ancient Egypt, as they were believed to represent the god of f...

6) New National Geographic Video: “Ancient Egypt 101”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO1tzmi1V5g