In the introduction to the ancient Egyptian calendar, you discover the several calendars utilized by the ancient Egyptians and what celestial or seasonal events synchronize…
Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Culture
Category: Kamat Radio – Wisdom for the Ear from Ancient Egypt
Kamat Radio is a podcast channel teaching facets of ancient Egyptian culture.
This episode reviews the book Fighting Pharaohs: Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Egypt, the journal article Notes on the Opening of the Mouth by T.…
A name meaning “House of Horus,” Hwt Hr is the mother or consort of Hr Horus.
A discussion of the nTr.w deities and Ax.w ancestors that are mythically considered to have ruled the most ancient Egypt.
Instruction of Ptahhotep is an ancient literary work attributed to Ptahhotep, a vizier under King Isesi of the Egyptian Fifth Dynasty ca. 2414-2375 BCE. It…
Horus and Seth are contending for 80 years for the office of the deceased Pharaoh Osiris the father of Horus and brother of Seth.
The Ptolemaic era story of the book of Thoth, written by the god of knowledge and writing and the prince’s son Nefer-ka-ptah, whose obsession with…
Rameses II was the longest-reigning Pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Learn of his life as Pharaoh, dealings with the Hittites, the Battle of Kadesh, his great…
Shu is the son of Ra and the god of wind, air, and light.
Ra becomes old and sees mankind conspiring against him. So he sends his eye to Hathor, who becomes Sekhmet in his rage at the betrayal.