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Travel impressions VIII
During the same reign of Ramses XI, the XXth dinasty succumbs or leaves, despite what says the monarchist propaganda through the bas-reliefs of the temples, in fact the real power is held in one hand by a general of libyan origin, Herihor, high priest of Amon, owner of Upper Egypt and in the other hand, [...]
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Tags: Farbaitos, Oxyrhynchus, Panehesy, Uhm Msut
Travel impressions VII
For forty-six years, Egypt enjoyed of a peace achieved under the treaty with Hatti, a historic agreement that allowed to Hattusili III conjure the Assyrian menace, but his son and successor, Tutaliya IV, although he maintained the stability in the area, thanks to a intense diplomatic activity with Shalmaneser, he was forced to fight soon [...]
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Tags: Colquide, Ramses, Tartessos
Travel impressions VI
The positivist philosophy of Amenofis IV, influenced the poetry, music and especially sculpture, endowing them with a naturalism that broke with the usual fees, it deploying new concepts and new forms affected of a humanism, outside the stereotyped classical formalism,until the point of constituting an own style, the Amarna style.
Politically, Amenhotep IV revived the old confrontation [...]
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Tags: Amarna, Amenophis, Aten, Nefertiti, Taduhepa
Travel impressions V.
V.
As an anecdote, some time during the reign of the first hikso ruler of Egypt, called Salitis, there was a general commotion in the Eastern Mediterranean, caused by huge volcanic eruption that made explode , literally, the Thera island, producing a tsunami that devastated coastlines and ports of Creta, and whose immediate effects were in [...]
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Tags: Adonay, Ahmose, Akkadian, Alasia, Amduat, Amenhotep, Amenophis, Amun Hymn, Apepi, Apofis, Argos, Assur, Atón, Babilonia, Biblos, book of what is in the underworld, Cecrops, Creta, Danaus, Deir el Bahri, doric temple, Erechtheus, Euphrates, Hatshepsut, Hatti, Kamose, Karnak, Kus, Kush, minoans, Mitanni, Mut, Mutemuia, mycenaeans, Napata, pharaoh, Pharos, Ra-Horakhti, Salitis, Sequenenre, Shamash, Sharuhen, Thera, Thutmose
Travel impressions IV
IV.
Neferkare and Antef I, were followed respectively by Kheti III from Heracleopolis and Uakhankh Antef II from Thebes, they inherited the dynastic conflict, the eternal rivalry between the north and south.
Kheti III, embarked on the ambitious venture of conquer the prefecture of Abidos at the South and also in expel the Asian invaders [...]
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Tags: antef, Avaris, Didumes, kheti, neferkare, Un, Xois
Travel Impressions III
III.
There seems to be no break in the dynastic line between the IV and V dynasty. Sahure and Userkaf could be the children of Shepseskaf, although it is also possible that Userkaf was in fact the son of Princess Neferhetepes, daughter of Djedefre and some high priest of Heliopolis. In any case the essential [...]
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Tags: Ankhtifi, Merenre, Neferkauhor Neteribau, Pepi, Sahure, Serefenka, Shepseskaf, solar cult, Teti, text of Weni, texts of the pyramids, Unas, Uni, Userkaf
Travel impressions II
Intro.
The Pyramids are truly impressive, however we must make an effort to imagine how they were originally, now the monotonous color of the sand, does not give us no clue, neither the unforgivable sellers of souvenirs , nor camels, much less the absurd multicolor procession of tourists. Herodotus describes the land of Egypt during the [...]
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Tags: Dahchur, Imhotep, Meidum, Shepseskaf, Snefru
Travel Impressions
Intro.
The airport was no different from other airports, long corridors and empty , where no one stops, that lead to the hall of the mechanical gateways, where everyone expects to have no lost their luggage, but this time, before going out, we had to go through the control of passports . Within his cabin, the [...]
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Tags: Anedjti, Buto, Gebel-el-Arak, Heliopolis, Hermopolis, Horus, Letopolis, Men nefer, Metelis, Msr, Narmer, Osiris, Uruk
Around the year -30,000 is the time when has been established which is produced the disappearance of Neanderthals and also casually by the same time, the Cro-Magnon enjoys more free time, which he employs full-time to translate their newly discovered artistic concerns, in the walls of the rock shelters.
Some people speculate that the Cro-Magnon [...]
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A la “industria” (no hay que imaginarse chimeneas ni parques empresariales por ejemplo, porque en aquellos tiempos a lo mas que se llegaba era a dar precisos pescozones a una piedra con otra), a la “tecnologia” ( es difícil encontrar un termino que no induzca a confusión) de los neandertales los especialistas la llaman Musteriense [...]
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Tags: antropologia, glaciaciones, historia antigua, neolitico, paleoclimas, prehistoria, sumerios
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