Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology

Contact and interaction between Greek and Egyptian culture can be traced in different forms over more than a millennium: from the sixth century BC, when Greeks visited Egypt for the sake of tourism or trade, through to the Hellenistic period, when Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian-Greek Ptolemaic dynasty who encouraged a mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, and even more intensely in the Roman Empire, when Egypt came to be increasingly seen as a place of wonder and a source of magic and mystery.

Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities.

Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities.

The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century.

The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century.

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records.

This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.

The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading.

The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading.

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records.

From Herodotus to The Mummy, Western civilization has long been fascinated with the exotic myths and legends of Ancient Egypt but they have often been misunderstood.

The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift.

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC.

'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Alten Ägyptens mit Antoine de Jussac's meisterhaftem Werk, das die Anfänge und das Vermächtnis der ersten ägyptischen Dynastien erforscht.