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This is as far north as it is possible to get from Egypt because out there is the Mediterranean to my west, there is Libya to my east, Palestine and Arabia, while Egypt itself is there to the south, a thousand kilometers of desert cut through from the center by the mighty Nile River and at its top why is this the

great

port city of Alexandria? It was the last and most influential capital of

ancient

Egypt. It was a city of

great

power, wealth and luxury. The largest in the world. Alexandria was also home to one of the most important cities in Egypt.

Pharaoh's famous Cleopatra, the last ruler of a Greek dynasty and the last in a long line of foreign

invaders

, each of them claiming an Egyptian for themselves, seduced by its legendary splendours, the pyramids were already thousands of years old and were the beginning of a seemingly indestructible civilization. core belief that had survived chaos, famine and war, it is as if they had been eliminated, a belief that would shine even brighter in its legendary golden age whose temples, tombs and glittering treasures had made Egypt as irresistible a temptation as the jealous foreign rulers that there was a weakened Egypt, how could it survive successive waves of foreign attacks, but Egypt had a secret weapon, a culture so strong and deep-rooted that it seduced and then absorbed all who claimed it as their own?

Welcome to my history of

ancient

Egypt throughout the first century. millennium BC C. Egypt faced wave after wave of foreign

invaders

, but in the face of such a strong and enduring culture, all who tried to take over Egypt would be conquered almost a thousand years before Cleopatra. Egypt that entered its third intermediate period. time of political decline and vulnerability or is the beginning of Dynasty 22 around 9:45 BC. The priests are in charge of the south but in the north the vultures have begun to circle, waiting for their opportunity to attack when a group of Libyan generals seize power to govern us pharaohs of a land divided in many ways.

Egypt's waning power had been brought about by a loss of faith as the authority of the New Kingdom pharaohs had begun to crumble. The once pious Egyptian priests who helped plunder the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings systematically dismantled Egypt's previously unshakeable belief in the afterlife with the decline of the power of the New Kingdom pharaohs. The Libyans who had fought against the Egyptians as mercenary generals gradually infiltrated the power structure of Egypt and eventually took power as the 22nd Dynasty, the first king of the 22nd. The Sheshank Dynasty had several sons who helped it maintain the control of Egypt, one of whom was called NIM Lot and these are the bracelets of Prince NIM Lot.

Egypt's Libyan rulers understood that looking and acting Egyptian would help keep the country under their control. These beautiful bracelets are just a small fraction of the gold treasures created for Egypt's Libyan royalty, who on the surface at least maintained many of Egypt's most sacred traditions. They depict a very small figure of the god Horus, who symbolized Egyptian royalty, shown as a child emerging from a lotus flower and on either side protected by raised cobras, the royal symbol of the uraeus, but in some ways these images are simply window dressing of ancient Egyptian traditions to claim a greater prize for the Libyans who had organized no less than the state. -sponsored the plundering of Egypt's royal tombs, they were so transfixed by the wealth, gold and glitter of ancient Egypt that they wanted it for themselves and during their several centuries of rule while they looked like pharaohs and ruled like pharaoh's Egypt never feels . have been a cohesive United Kingdom, they were not Egyptian at heart and that is really what mattered, in many ways the Libyan government was destined to fail because even if they were militarily superior, their adoption of Egyptian culture was at best cases, superficial, was insufficient to unite the country in In the north, the feuding Libyan elite fought among themselves, while in the south, the Egyptian priesthood, including even more Libyan princes, still clung to power.

Fragmented Egypt was an easy choice for any potential invader. Egypt needed a regime that could reconnect with its most powerful asset. history and in 747 BC. C. that is what happened when the current rulers of Nubia made a direct spiritual connection with Egypt's glorious past. The Kushites were Egypt's southern neighbors in Nubia and from time immemorial they and the Egyptians had fought around a sort of southern border of Egypt in the 8th century BC. C., however, the Kushites had the advantage; They were fervent believers in the traditional gods of Egypt, which in some ways made them more Egyptian than the Egyptians.

The kingdom of Cush in Nubia was at the very edge of the Egyptian world after being repeatedly conquered. By Egypt the Kushites have been greatly influenced by Egyptian beliefs beliefs that centered on this great sandstone mountain Jebel Barkal for centuries had been considered the mythical mound of creation the mound from which the Great Creator of Egypt obtained a moon here was born It is the sacred mountain this is where God lived in his primitive form dr. Tim Kendall has spent almost 30 years working on the site, as it was on the southern edge of the Empire, it was where the Nile began, where fertility began, so it had to be the place where creation began, so this was the place where they imagined that this is the place of birth. of the god Amun, so this was early Karnak when the pharaohs of the New Kingdom arrived here in 1500 BC.

They built this temple and dedicated it to a moon and his wife, the goddess Mut, and when the Egyptians withdrew from Nubia about 400 years later, the native Kushites continued to honor the sacred mountain and the spiritual traditions of Egypt as they The Kushai kings gained increasing military power, they also claimed Egypt for themselves, so when King Pilate, a Kushite invasion of Egypt in 7 4 7 BC. C., he didn't plunder or destroy, but he restored and rebuilt and founded the 25th dynasty of Egypt, the irony is that he is conquering Egypt to fix everything I guess, so he saw such a cycle of rebirth, regrowth, redevelopment and the kosher night.

The kings are really tapping into that ancient source of power and just giving it away. Let's go back to the Egyptians, starting time again, so they had the same sense of history and continuity as the Egyptians. They are the natural successes of the kings of the 18th Dynasty driven by a genuine desire to leave their own mark on Egypt. The long history of the Kushites began to rebuild Egypt here in the heart of Nubia, King Pi expanded the existing temple of a Moon at Jebel Barkal to balance the original great temple of Karnak in Egyptian Thebes, but although the Kushites had absorbed the culture from Egypt, still have their roots here in Africa.

The fusion is expressed quite clearly in this extraordinary representation of the Egyptian goddess. Goddess Moot's face has tribal scars and look, we'll see if it shows in this light. You can see the three lines and the face. So this is an Egyptian goddess with a Nubian makeover yes she was a Nubian goddess and it was appropriate for Nubians to have tribal scars so this is a very very graphic version of the way the local Nubians were making the traditional deities of Egypt her own, marking them physically, it is as if she has been marked as a Nubian how incredible it is a land of surprises that is beautiful, but this land of surprises has something else in store also the hurricane winds hit the worst sand storm In years it is a powerful reminder that the ancients would also have had to deal with such dramatic natural phenomena and certainly taste the grit in their tea, the ancients would have dealt with this using spell rituals, they would also have made additional offerings to specific deities, in particular to the brother of Osiris, God Seth, the god of turbulence, the god of storms. of red-haired people who were seen as somewhat turbulent to cut power, why I am seeking refuge in the shrine dug into the mountain by PI Sun taharka, which is currently being restored by an Italian mission.

It apparently reveals graphic evidence of Egypt's continuing and powerful influence. I've never been here before. I have no idea what's going on here, so this will be as new to me as it is to you. It is a true privilege to see the moment when the blackened walls finally give up the secrets they are bringing to light. the targets, but the blues, these two colors, the bright blue of the sky and the Nile and gold, this really powerful color of the Sun God, this is for hakkar to the Kushites, the most powerful and important pharaoh in the classical Egyptian style , he is shown offering to the God a the moon and his wife the debatable goddess is in relief this is old school this is an old school technique this is skill and they are all overlaid in this yellow or gold and you can even see the small scales in this car select the moon carries all the details here it is fabulous it is like Christmas morning this is simply extraordinary just look at yourselves just look look at your faces look at your eyes this world truly exemplifies the ancient magic of Egypt as those who try conquer him they end up being seduced by him and then become part of this is Taharka's sincere attempt to connect his reign with the achievements of the pharaohs of Egypt's past, particularly the rulers of the new kingdom, so although the History records that Taharka conquered Egypt, this scene reveals that it is actually Egypt that conquered Taharka, it is like If the Egyptian identity will always prevail, no matter what, so much so that Taharka is even shown with the ram's horns of a moon that identify him as the son of the God of the gods of Egypt, these were used by Amenhotep, the third in appearance, in our temple in the 18th century. dynasty, they were later used by the great Alexander to show that he too was the son of a moon and here we have Harker in all his finery and all the splendor of him, who knew that they were here hidden in this special rock that we have I come. to the heart of jebel barkal now we have reached the heart of the

egypt

ian religion because this is the birthplace of a moon and here it is just for us at this moment emerging from the worlds, very few people have seen this here inside the temple. where only the most pious were allowed to perform haka is shown in deference to the most powerful god of Egypt and outside, on the mountain, he displays his devotion on a truly monumental scale beautifying the top of his 180 meter high, 11 meter pinnacle. of the cliff wall.

It seems completely inaccessible, but for Hawk to have achieved an incredible technical achievement, he built a crane arm and elaborate scaffolding to leave his own permanent mark on the mountain. What he did was make an inscription to commemorate his victories in the east and the west. Then, beneath him, his men cut out a small statue of the king and covered the inscription with gold. Today it can barely be seen, but in those days it would have been the most striking feature of the mountain. I mean, that must be seen by the gods. brother gods of course no mortal could read this from the ground but that was not the point this was a message to the gods carved into a monument built to impress completely covered in gold it reflected the sun's rays and acted as a giant billboard as it telegraphed the Harker's message for miles around and this again went back to Egypt's past, when previous pharaohs had placed golden stones in their pyramids and obelisks to harness the potent powers of the Sun, just to the east of Jebel Barkal is the necropolis of Newry. where the transformation of King Kashyyyk into Egyptian pharaohs was finally completed for the dynasty that had invaded Egypt was now copying the ultimate symbol of Egypt and for the first time in over a thousand years the kings who ruled Egypt were buried in pyramids when the kings made their capital. in Memphis they lived just across the river from the great pyramids.

Vitarka spent most of his life there and was familiar with the great pyramids, so when he died he needed a pyramid of proportional scale and with this he established this new type and it was followed by all his successors. The Kushites eventually built more pyramids here in their Nubian homeland than the Egyptians had built in Egypt and like at Giza, the Dehaka pyramid is precisely aligned with its surroundings from the exact day the flood of the Nile. to go back, the Sun thus sets directly behind the pinnacle of Jebel Barkal, but only on this specific day and only when viewed from the top of the two Harker pyramids, that is totally impressive, not just a skill, a engineering feat, but also such devotion to the gods.

By observing nature I mean that it would take a lot of observation to get the perfect position to get the perfect day surrounded by these pyramids.images of a moon and Moot and its monumental temples it is easy to forget that the Kushites were actually foreigners taking power by force, but it is almost as if Egypt is mocking its invaders, while you may try to dominate our land, our culture will eventually dominate it and, as such, the Kushites left a legacy of renewal and resurrection, but like all of Egypt's conquerors, the Kushites' moment in the Sun was fleeting because their 25th dynasty lasted only a century when a much more ruthless power an ambitious now invaded in 674 BC.

C. the fearsome Assyrian army marched into Egypt as ruthless expansionists had little interest in Egyptian culture graphically demonstrated their contempt by sucking up the sacred city of Thebes the Assyrians unlike the Egyptians who were interested in expanding their empire and actually taking over others parts of the world and they do it by violence. This ferry on an Egyptian bronze hull was discovered in Thebes. It is one of the few objects that reveal the Assyrian takeover of Egypt. Despite having an equally powerful iconography of its own, the Assyrians had little time to leave their trace, they simply stamped their authority on Egypt by trying to rip out its religious heart, this sacred complex, this really enormous sacred space, had never been attacked. in in Egyptian history and therefore for greater damage, the temple to the statues damaged, perhaps the precious things too damaged would really have been absolute enough for the Egyptians, what is really surprising is that it is obvious and in the Egyptian article, but the Egyptians didn't even wear helmets, right?

I relied on his thick head, so for me it really conjures up a completely strange image. I mean the Assyrians, I mean war was their business, wasn't it with their sophisticated weapons and armor? The Assyrians were a war machine whose unstoppable progress seemed to spell disaster for Egypt. After just over 20 years, the Assyrians returned east to address internal problems, leaving their vassals in charge of Egypt based in the Delta city of SACE. enough to declare independence Egypt was now back in Egyptian hands, instigating a spectacular revival of native culture at the heart of which was the most powerful symbol of Egyptian national identity, mummification, but which was no longer limited to the humans, there was an explosion of animals. mummification of everything from dogs, cats, crocodiles, ibises and even small shrews, the ancient Egyptians always mummified their dead, both human and animal, and with the size we can almost see it as a way for the CI kings to try to declare that We are Egypt, we are important.

What makes us special: No one else in the ancient world could mummify like the Egyptians, so they multiplied it a million times with animals bred specifically for mummification and then sold as offerings in temples. Sea ice had revitalized Egypt's oldest industry. Death was great again. Now this may seem pretty silly, but about 2,000 years ago here in Saqqara this would have been a very common sight, this place would have been full of pilgrims and priests making animal mummies and they would transport them on the mummies via landscaping carts like this one, so we have to get out of our minds this idea of ​​the Egyptian priests as these silent, pious figures floating across the landscape.

It was all carried out in large numbers and it was Egypt's infinite ability to reinterpret its fundamental beliefs that was the key to its longevity over the millennia was that the Egyptians had believed that the Pharaoh was a living God who embodied the soul of Egypt. . When the king died, his soul lived in his mummified body, which had to be kept safe to ensure the continuity of Egypt. They always buried their rulers in the safety of pyramids or elaborate rock-cut tombs, but in times of growing unrest and foreign rule, the Egyptians could no longer trust even having a pharaoh to bury, so they turned to another centuries-old practice, the pyramid of Sara.

Saqqara is a massive underground tomb complex where the concepts of royalty and animal mummification merged, as each of these giant granite sarcophagi once contained an animal believed to embody all the qualities of royalty. This is the burial place of the sacred bull API. the bodies of mummified bulls of such importance to the Egyptian mentality, they extended all this effort and cost to create a suitably impressive burial site and have more than done so when one ball dies and is mummified and buried, the other is then worshiped in life and when they die mummified and buried again, so there is a real progression, the cult of the APU bulb dates back to the beginning of Egyptian history and is closely linked to the pharaoh, it was believed that when the sacred bull died it became one with a Cyrus, the god of the afterlife, became an acai hrus API or Serapis for short, and these sacred Bulls became enormously important under the spotlight during times of foreign occupation, when Egypt was increasingly ruled by pharaohs in obscenity, a little in Persia or anywhere else.

The Egyptians needed a physical presence and the people provided this presence because they could see him with their own eyes, they could celebrate rituals in his company and when he died he would be mummified and then buried in the manner of the pharaohs for millennia. It was crucial to have this creature here, each successively buried in a sarcophagus like this, we are seeing serious devotion to this sacred creature and all that it represented to Egypt in many ways, the Sarah pium is Egypt writ large in which its Core beliefs are taken to the extreme. Being down here really makes you feel like a mini skill.

You realize that you are now walking among the gods. Words fail me, frankly, because of the enormity of it all, but that was the skill of the Egyptians they fought. over their heads with this idea of ​​the colossal, the monumental, the spectacular, but the Egyptians' devotion to the API ball had left them vulnerable by embodying the power of Egypt in a single living animal, they had created an easy target given the status divine of the API Bulls, damaging him. It would have been completely unthinkable, but when the Persian king arrived by sea, invaded Egypt, he had other plans: the Persian Empire swept through the west, taking everything before it, and then, into Egypt itself, the Persian king entered Egypt between the five and five a.

C. and destroyed, let's say. 1st dynasty, like the Assyrians, the Persians were ruthless expansionists mainly interested in expanding their empire and can buy seeds that seem to have trampled all the ancient traditions of Egypt having taken Egypt by force, seized, burned the mummy of the previous , I say, Pharaoh, before crushing the API bull, which slowly bled to death and in doing so can be captured, sent a very clear message to the Egyptians. Now I'm in charge for the next 200 years. The Egyptians were little more than the high-taxed servants of the Persian Empire. Attempts at rebellion were met with extreme retaliation.

Egypt needed a savior, an outsider who could be transformed by Egypt's powerful ideology and, in return, could transform Egypt. An empire that stretched across three continents and founded more than 70 cities that bore his name after his initial defeat of the Persian king Alexander entered Egypt unopposed in 332 BC. The world's most successful empire builder had arrived not only transforming Egypt's future but preserving its ancient past. It's really no exaggeration to say that Alexander the Great is one of the most notable people who ever lived. He really was the superhero of the ancient world, so you'd think Egypt would be filled with images of him after all, he had saved them from destruction.

He hated the Persians and, apart from the great city of Alexandria named after him, is notoriously difficult to find within the traditional temples of Egypt, except here, in this small, modest shrine in the heart of the Luxor Temple. . Alexander was not only a brilliant soldier but a master marching politician. to Egypt's ancient capital, Memphis, amidst rumors that he was the son of Egypt's last native pharaoh, this instantly connected him to Egypt's long native history and he was crowned as a traditional pharaoh. Here is the great man repeatedly through the walls of this limestone sanctuary and You would never know who it was Alexander just by looking because he looks like any other Egyptian pharaoh, but he knew his secrets that to rule Egypt you had to look Egyptian and he did it brilliantly to the point that he had his name, his Greek name Alexandros. written in Egyptian tradition even on a royal cartouche and it is the only indication that it is Alexander the Great because his name Alexander is written in the typical Egyptian style and there he even wears the red and white jeweled crown of a United Earth and so on which is summing up everything it was to be an

egypt

ian pharaoh, just like cush.

He came to haka in jebel barkal. Alexander is shown offering incense to the king of the gods, a moon, but simply connecting with the gods was not enough. Alejandro understood that he was real. The power came from becoming a god, so he undertook a dangerous journey through the Libyan desert to the remote Oasis sanctuary of c1, where he was able to communicate with the Oracle of the moon and is set in this legendary story in which the god actually told him: you are my son and from then on something clicked in Alexander's mind and he went to conquer the rest of the ancient world truly believing that he was divine and that he had all the blessing and support of Emil himself, the king of the gods of Egypt.

Alexander only stayed in Egypt for six short months, but during his stay here he founded a city that would be his lasting legacy: the great city of Alexandria, built on the Mediterranean coast to create trade links with the rest of the ancient world. . The later Aryan historian recorded that Alexander himself had drawn up the general plan of the city, but lacking chalk or other means, he resorted to marking it with grain when a flock of birds began to eat the grain. Alexander considered this a bad omen, but his religious advisor quickly turned the bad news into good and interpreted this as a sign that the new city would soon prosper and one day feed the entire world with a remarkably accurate prophecy, for within a very short time In a few years, Alexandria would not only be the new capital of Egypt but the largest city on earth, although Alexander himself would never see it.

However, despite his pious nature, Alexander was essentially a soldier and his quest to conquer the Persian Empire left Egypt in 331 BC. C. to never return alive and moved to India. He conquered an empire of 2 million square miles before dying in Babylon at just 32 years old. But still undefeated and still the dying pharaoh of Egypt, Alexander was mummified and his body became the focus of a power struggle. Some of his officials wanted him buried in his Greek homeland, but for others he had to return to Egypt and be buried like a pharaoh. thus preserving the long traditions of Egypt, but obviously it meant that whoever possessed his mummified body could also claim the throne of Egypt and the clues to this drama can be found here in the windswept desert of Saqqara, 10 years after Having left Egypt alive, Alexander returned here. because his body had been mummified in the Egyptian style and became an enormously powerful talisman because whoever had the body of Alexander the Great held Egypt while he was on his way to Greece, his hut was diverted and his mummified body was brought here to Egypt, the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, exactly where his tomb is located.

It itself remains a mystery, although just a few meters from the Serapeum is this collection of Egyptian looking statues and it is these somewhat sandblasted statues that give us a real clue that Alexander may have initially been buried somewhere. place nearby because these are the sculpted images of some of the greatest scholars and artists of ancient Greece, although exactly who is who has kept you scratching your heads for years, it is likely that their identities reveal a direct link to the world in which Alexander grew up and was educated, take Homer, for example, his great warrior.

The hero Achilles was Alexander's lifelong role model. Plato, who had been a tutor to Aristotle, who in turn had been a tutor to Alexander, and Pinder, whose poetry had praised Alexander's Macedonian ancestors as to who placed these statues here, the most likely candidate is the unlikely middle Alexander's general brother, Ptolemy 4 when burying Alexander. Here, near Egypt's ancient capital, Memphis, Ptolemy was able to legitimize his own takeover of Egypt and, by claiming Alexander's body and Egypt, founded the dynasty named after him. His fabulous and scandalous Ptolemies ruled Egypt for the last three centuries BC, the Ptolemaic dynasty would flourish.end of Egypt: 15 male kings, all called Ptolemy with their Kohl rulers, half of whom were called Cleopatra.

Macedonian Greek by descent. His dynasty would bring Greek-style cultural knowledge and fabulous wealth to Egypt while at the same time immersing themselves in Egypt's irresistible religion and customs. They were very, very sensitive to the cultural practices and religious sensitivities of the Egyptians. They knew that to control this ancient land of Egypt they had to take advantage of what made Egypt powerful. What made Egypt special. They wore the right clothes. The right crowns. They built the temples. right worship the right gods and the Ptolemies moved the capital of Egypt from Memphis to their new super city Alexandria built according to Alexander's original plan was one of the most luxurious building projects in the world the historian Strabo would later comment that the city had magnificent public precincts and royal palaces that covered a quarter or even a third of the entire area the streets with marble columns were more than ten meters wide there were public baths a huge gymnasium in one of the greatest wonders of the ancient world the lighthouse of The 135-meter-high Pharos that guided ships safely into the harbor and into the city center, Alexander himself, whose mummified body had been exhumed from Saqqara and brought here, the Ptolemies had built a capital unlike anything else. that Egypt had seen before, because in Alexandria a new Egypt was being born, the creation of Alexandria and the great influx of immigrants gave it a freshness of adversity and really transformed ancient culture, whereas previously Egyptian civilization had developed along of the Nile and in many ways was quite introspective and quite insular.

I think the fact that Alexandria was open to so many diverse people has religious and cultural influences and this gave it a real air of tolerance. I think I have felt very at home here. There is a real sense of culture and you learn to appreciate life today. Alexandria is the largest city in the Mediterranean and stretches for more than 20 miles along the coast. As Egypt's largest seaport, it supplies more than 80% of the country's imports and exports, a legacy that dates back directly to the Ptolemies, who improved Egyptian agriculture by reclaiming new farmland through increased irrigation and supplemented Egyptian staples with new crops like cotton and better grapes. for wine production and todayAlexandria's markets still vibrate with some of the first cities, the lively cosmopolitan Fingaz Elam style.

I'm going to try to find the closest equivalents to the ancient Egyptian delicacies and these are dates and the ancient Egyptians used to make cakes and bread with them because they are very sweet too, I think I will have to try just one for quality control. You understand, look how authentic they are. This is incense in its raw state and of course it was burned in temples and in funerary rites. The port city of Alexandria became huge. international trade center establishing roots in Greece, the Middle East, India and even Britain and its native country, Egyptian goods such as papyrus and perfumes flowed from the country.

New exotic luxuries such as spices, silks and wines. The Greeks loved olives, so they were imported and the Greeks loved olives. The Egyptians began to cultivate them. I will definitely eat some of these delicious ones. We have to get some black pepper. This is one of the really popular things, no doubt, in Ptolemaic times because markets were traded and opened subtly as far east as India and the Greeks went crazy for these things, unfortunately there is lively shopping in Egypt never There is a boring time with Alexandria now at the heart of the ancient world the rest of Egypt also benefited from their determination to honor their adopted countries long history the Ptolemies undertook a massive temple reconstruction and restoration program in fact modern visitors They often don't realize that many of the places they visit were built or restored by the Ptolemies esna ed through Dendera colombo all of these are Ptolemaic buildings that tourists and scholars greatly admire and yet don't really give enough credit to the people whose vision created them, the most impressive of all temples purchase the farthest from Alexandria deep in / Egypt, near Aswan, lies the impressive temple of Feli, which an Egyptian meant the end as it was located in the extreme south.

On the edge of Egypt, much of the temple was built by Ptolemy II and his co-ruler and his sister, arson. There was a law passed by her husband, she told me to say that a statue of us had to be erected in every temple in Egypt. became its resident goddess, our sinner, was a powerful pharaoh associated with a goddess Isis, a role that the famous Cleopatra would adopt two centuries later and under the Ptolemies I felt like an important center of the cult of Isis and here at the heart the temple of Feli our The golden statue of the cinema would have been next to that of Isis, so the walls are full of images of Isis and her companion gods, according to me, Isis was responsible for the vital flooding of the Nile that made the I laughed as I cried tears of sadness for her.

She murdered her husband Osiris who she later resurrected and with its spectacular location I feel that the ice still retains its hugely spiritual atmosphere in case that sense of continuity I really feel when you meet Claire, you feel like you are at the center of the world , as the ancient Egyptians suppose. you were the center of their religious world and at this point, which was the heart of the religion of ancient Egypt until Christianity, back in the 6th century AD, it bothers your head a little, you are a very, very holy classist, but While I feel that I was becoming an increasingly important center of Egyptian religion its new capital Alexandria had become the main center of knowledge for the Ptolemies created some of the first scholarships that attracted scholars from around the world to study a wide range of subjects biology geology astronomy geometry and that is my philosophy and of course my favorite story and at the center of this intellectual greenhouse was the famous royal library, but inside it were housed half a million works to compete with the famous schools of Plato and Aristotle in Athens and today that legacy lives on with Alexandria presenting new library Ptolemies really appreciated that knowledge was power and they wanted that power, so they gathered in this one place some of the most important works in the history of humanity, the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the works of the philosopher Aristotle, the Scriptures of the Old Testament and all the accumulated knowledge of the temples of ancient Egypt were gathered in this single building.

The Great Library also contained the works of Herodotus, a Greek historian who traveled throughout Egypt more than a century before the Ptolemies came to power. His stories summarize Greek knowledge. The fascination with Egyptian society is not only that the climate is different from the rest of the world and the river does not look like any other river, but that the people also, in most of their manners and customs, exactly reverse the common practice of humanity that women attend markets and trade while men sit at home and weave. In fact, the level of equality of Egyptian women surprised Herodotus, something he vividly recorded when he saw a group of men and women traveling together by boat to the city of Bubastis in the Delta, some of the women making a noise with clappers. others play the oboe while the rest of the women and men sing and applaud, some of the women shout mockery at the women of that town they pass through while others dance and others stand up and expose their private parts in the temples Throughout Egypt , the Ptolemies made sure to be portrayed as Egyptian pharaohs, making them almost indistinguishable from their native Egyptian predecessors, but in Alexandria the mixing of Greek and Egyptian could sometimes create a hybrid with rather strange results.

Namine Sami is a local historian who spent years studying this. remarkable tomb complex built just after the Ptolemaic period and here we come to a unique fault, the imperial children, which is fabulous, guarded by Greek Doric columns, the entrance is covered with images of Egyptian gods that would guarantee safe passage to the afterlife, It is like a tomb, but it is also like a temple, but a typical Egyptian star that protects the interests, yes, yes, you know why companies choose to appear in the tubes because the Cobra has no eyelashes and keeps its eyes open 24 hours, which means it is a wake to protect. for more than 24 hours a day unknown.

I love these snakes. It's a very attractive snake, but it wears a very little-mentioned Egyptian crown. It's crazy. They are literally throwing away everything they have. I mean Medusa Horus. Some discs for guarantee 50 this is the best garden gate I have seen in Egypt, it has everything here and these statues represent the inhabitants of a single rich family. These two exhibit a strange mix of Greek and Egyptian. I think the bodies are from ancient Egypt. the posture is ancient egyptian the man's kilt is egyptian from the neck down his egyptian but from the neck up they are european it is clear that the owners of the tomb had done everything possible to ensure safe passage to the egyptian afterlife even if they didn't I quite understand how it all worked, all the features are: you have Thoth, you know, presenting the oils and Anubis in the same way, when we find the dead, you even have jazz under some slightly large jaws and a feather of power, the goddess of for justice without her approval that you will never cross to the other side did not forget to add a Greek touch in a lower part to the enosis images Dionysus was the Greek god of wine and fertility clearly these to mock your pants destined to continue the lives they lived in Alexandria into the afterlife I want everything I enjoy in life to be with the other side, especially wine, a great place to spend eternity despite its rather cartoonish quality, The apparent appearance of this tool demonstrates desire. of the Alexandrian elite to integrate into Egyptian culture, but in many ways it was little more than a veneer that hid the real force that would ultimately destroy Egypt, for where outside invaders had tried and largely failed, Egypt's true nemesis It would be the famous love of luxury of the Ptolemies. and excess, much of this luxury was just a facade for the royals of Alexandria, known for their love of display, they were like actors on their stage, as one ancient commentator observed, everything in Egypt is simply a performance and a painted stage, a comment that reaches the heart. of this melodramatic monarchy for whom image was everything, for while the ruling elite lived large in Alexandria, other parts of Egypt were far from satisfied at the end of the 3rd century BC.

C. Egypt was once again divided by the supply of civil war. Egypt began to rebel and it fell to Ptolemy V to try to fight the fires of anarchy, so he not only presented himself as an Egyptian, but went even further in supporting ancient Egyptian beliefs. . In doing so, he left the world one of his most famous ancient artifacts, the rosetta. The stone is best known as the means by which the French scholar Shampo Liang was able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time in 1822 and we can say that the inscription on the stone was of great importance because it was written in three types of Greek script, Demotic and hieroglyphic in a way that could almost be described as a kind of newsletter.

It is the priests of Memphis who issue this decree so that as many people as possible know exactly what the religious and political policy of the crown and the clergy was and it focuses particularly on Ptolemy V. Generous patronage, the priests praise him because he is he who gives wealth to the temple and gives due honor and respect to the sacred animals that were such an integral part of the Egyptian religion. The priests are truly grateful to their Ptolemaic pharaoh, whom they consider wanting. to access ancient Egyptian culture, an ancient Egyptian religion very similar to that of Alexander had a lot to say "I am sad" and the Kushites if they had known that to achieve true power, true control in Egypt, he had to do things in the Egyptian way, but Ptolemy is the Fitz's philanthropy came at a price: keeping the peace in Egypt proved tremendously costly, so the second half of the Ptolemaic dynasty was torn apart by debt corruption and the cruel Civil War. .

Soon, the expanding Roman Empire bore down on a divided Egypt, only the famous Cleopatra standing in its way. In the mold of great-uncle Alexander, she believed herself to be divine and managed to keep the Romans at bay for more than 20 years, but not even the great Cleopatra could avoid the inevitable and so it was, in August 30 BC. C., Cleopatra's famous suicide put an end to theAncient Egypt as we know it, this epic culture that had lasted three thousand years came to an end in a matter of days when on August 31 Egypt was formally annexed to Rome.

This was the point of no return for Egypt. A slow and painful decline of Egyptian beliefs. and culture until the arrival of Christianity with its numerous abandoned, rebuilt or simply destroyed temples. The glories of Egypt began to fade from memory, but Egypt's great history now stretches back 20,000 years, to the very origins of its magical culture, which had evolved from its unique environment. By creating a series of sophisticated beliefs capable of uniting a country to build great monuments, it had survived chaos and famine only to re-emerge in a glorious zenith of rebirth and resurrection, even waves of foreign invasions were eventually assimilated by the powerful traditions of Egypt and, despite eventually being absorbed into the Roman Empire, ancient culture had continued until the arrival of Christianity.

The Egyptians had always believed that there would be a life after death. Cleopatra's Needle on London's Embankment had remained forgotten in Egypt until the 19th century, but pioneering Egyptologists began a 200-year investigation. The process of rediscovery of ancient Egypt was reborn and this time it became global and what a privilege it is for us today to be able to see such wonderful things and capture just a glimpse of this fascinating ancient culture, the culture of the people who are one with their environment. and who captured through their timeless monuments their own unique vision of the world.

In fact, Egypt's story is far from over because its rediscovery means it is just beginning and these are the things that made the Egyptians so special. I ventured to say that they. They are now known throughout the world and have achieved their ultimate goal of living forever.