This week’s soft opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum marks the beginning of a new era for Egypt’s heritage, reports Nevine ...

During the New Kingdom, the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak was the most important place of worship in Egypt. (Amun-Re was King of the Gods and father to the pharaoh.) The entire temple complex covers ...

The temple was identified as a shrine dedicated to the Egyptian god of wind and air, ‘Amun.’ Artifacts from Thonis-Heracleion / Photo = Franck Goddio’s Homepage The Temple of Amun was a ...

The new excavation revealed the gold and silver treasure of the sunken temple of Amun, which included artifacts that were likely used to bless the pharaohs as they ascended to the throne.

Nesyamun was a priest at the temple of Amun in the Karnak complex at Thebes (modern-day Luxor). He was a waab priest, which meant he had reached a certain level of purification and was therefore ...

The main temple is constructed such that the sun shines directly into the inner sanctum twice a year, illuminating three of ...

Temples, including a Temple of Amun and a Temple of Horus, have been found. Even urban districts of the ancient city remain, and the site continues to host archaeological expeditions in search of ...

He was in fact, a sort of ancient Egyptian civil servant, who worked as a grain counter at the temple of Amun. How he was able to afford or convince a painter of such skill to work on his own tomb ...

That ruler's invasion of the region shortly after Solomon's death is chronicled in the Old Testament and at the Temple of Amun at Karnak. "I definitely believe that Shoshenq disrupted metal ...

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Considered Egypt’s Golden Age, the New Kingdom was a period of economic success, expansion, and advancements in technology, ...