Friday, 18 March 2011

The legend of Isis and Osiris



The legend of Isis and Osiris of the most famous myths that have reached us, and I've got this story from several different sources but they agree the details and content, related to this legend four gods were Isis and Osiris and Horus West
Believe in this myth that Osiris was a king just a lover of the best governed Egypt from its headquarters in Lower Egypt, who taught his people agriculture and patriotism and the dissemination of justice in the reign of that win people's love for him, and I have raised this love hate his brother Seth was therefore thought to the work of Moamra to kill him and dispose him, and he envies his brother Seth and he wants the throne of Egypt prepared a great feast called to his brother
He had made a coffin inlaid with gold and jewels, said that the coffin will be right come on measured, this was a coffin made at the level of Osiris and At least six had been prepared on the size of Osiris, and everyone started in the rotation of the coffin came up the role of Osiris. And when you lay it Osiris closed coffin six associates him and threw him into the Nile, Osiris, and he died by drowning. 



But Isis did not stand idle, but hit the ground in search of in search of her husband's body until she found them in Jbeil (Byblos) but six returned to steal the corpse and cut into 14 parts (and in some reports 16-part), he disperses in different places in Egypt, but Isis and Nephthys were able to restore body parts, and used magic to rejuvenate him for a period of time and gave birth to Isis him a son, a Horus (witchcraft as well) and has been difficult to live Osiris as his first Vlzim him to live in the realm of the dead. and be a king there. 




And disappeared Isis for Aion six until the baby Horus and the Isis raising Horus in the swamps of the Delta in secret and has cooperated with the gods in his upbringing, even grown up and become a man, then returned Isis Bhors to the valley to demand six throne of Osiris, which has become now the right and his son Horus, has held many of battles between Horus and six stood beside the gods Horus, even triumphed in the end of the following six

The gods set up after the trial was not convicted of the gods on what he did and gave the country the rule of Horus, while six became the ruler of the desert, and restored life to the gods Osiris, but he refused to be king on the ground and preferred to be the ruler of the underworld away from evil

It is said that the origin myth of Osiris that personal reality was a king in the era of immemorial very land of Egypt as a whole had its capital east of the Delta "Bozyres" (Abu Sir - Banha current) has been interpreted by his death by drowning at the hands of god Seth that he died in a rebellion against him was based in "Otbos , "which became the seat of worship of the god of six (Tookh place in Qena Governorate) and thus Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, one in Delta and the other in Upper Egypt and Ouhdta a result of a successful campaign to Cmalen.

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

King Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun was a pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt in the history of ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 BC. M. In the era of the modern state. Tutankhamun is the most famous pharaohs, for reasons not related to the achievements made or won by wars, as is the case with a lot of the Pharaohs; but for other reasons are important from a historical perspective and the most notable is the discovery of his tomb and treasures in full without any damage. The mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death, that many considered the death of Pharaoh at a very early age is not normal, especially with the presence of traces of fractures of the thigh bone and skull, and the marriage of his minister from his widow after his death, declaring himself Pharaoh. All of these mysterious events, and heavy usage of the myth of the curse of the pharaohs associated with the tomb of Tutankhamun that were used in films and video games made from Tutankhamun months Pharos mysteries and unanswered questions have considered assassinations of some of the oldest in the history of humanity.



 Tutankhamun was 9 years old when he became pharaoh of Egypt and his name in ancient Egyptian means "the living image of the god Amun", a large ancient Egyptian gods. Tutankhamen lived in a transitional period in the history of ancient Egypt, where he came after Akhenaten, who tried to unify the gods of ancient Egypt in the form of the same God. It was in his return to the worship of multiple gods of ancient Egypt. His tomb was discovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter. This discovery and the latest media frenzy and widespread in the world.


The origins of Tutankhamun's grandfather King Omnhotپ III, who had major wives Queen Tiye his son Amenhotep IV, known as Akhenaten, married Akhenaten, Queen Nefertiti and his wife was the main addition to the secondary wife named Kiya; which is probably the mother of Tutankhamun, has announced Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt in the month of April 2010 that, based on DNA tests, known for short DNA show that Tutankhamun was the son of King Akhenaten.

During the reign of Tutankhamun, began a revolution against the Tel el-Amarna pharaoh Akhenaten, who earlier moved the capital from Thebes to the new capital furnace sister queens and tried to unify the gods of ancient Egypt, including the multi-god Amun in the form of one god, Aten. In 1331 BC. M any in the third year for the rule of Tutankhamun, who was 11 years and the impact of the Minister Aye lift the ban on the worship of the gods.
There is a belief that the death of Tutankhamun was not due to illness but may be a result of the assassination of the Minister Kپrkپro Ra Aye of plotting and there is plenty of evidence supplied by the believers in this theory, for example, marriage minister Kپrkپro Ra Eye of the widow of Tutankhamun, where he found the seal of Pharaonic carries the name of any and Ankh Sun Amun, the widow of Tutankhamun, and there is also a letter sent by Ankh Essen Amon widow of Tutankhamun, the king of the Hittites asking him to send one of his sons for the purpose of marrying her after the death of her husband and the king of the Hittites to send one of his sons to marry the widow of Tutankhamun Amon, but he died before it enters the land of Egypt, and there is a belief that he was assassinated probably masterminded by the Minister Kپrkپro Ra Aye, who apparently had been planning to seize the throne of Egypt stood to kill King Tutankhamun and killed the son of the king of the Hittites, but this hypothesis and there was no conclusive evidence to prove each of these theories .
It is worth noting that the historical evidence indicates the presence of ministers of Tutankhamun, one iPhone that was mentioned and the other was named Horemheb There is archaeological evidence confirms that after the death of Tutankhamun, received the Minister Aye reins of power for a short period to be replaced by the Second Minister of Horemheb, which was in his destruction of most evidence of the reign of Tutankhamen, Minister Aye and this confirms to some conspiracy theory and the fact that the death of Tutankhamun from malaria which was rife in the south.
 

The so-called Valley of the Kings, located on the west bank of the River Nile near Thebes for a period of 450 years during the era of the modern history of the ancient Egyptians which lasted of 1539 to 1075 BC as a tomb for the pharaoh of this period where there is in this valley rocky, an area of approximately 20,000 square meters 27 royal tombs belonging to three families of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the Egyptian family nineteenth and twentieth Egyptian family was discovered to this day
Believed that the Valley has at least 30 other graves had not been discovered yet. Graves discovered in the Valley of the Kings so far and in chronological order for the rule of the Pharaohs dating back to Thutmose I and Omnhotپ II and Tutankhamun and Horemheb are of the Egyptian family of eighteen, Ramses I and Seti I and Ramses II and Aminmsis and the City II and Sptah they are of the Egyptian family nineteenth West Nachti, Ramses III and Ramses IV , Ramses V and Ramses IX are of the Egyptian family twenty. There are the graves of other pharaohs of the unknown is still ongoing attempts of their knowledge.
The construction of the tomb of the pharaoh usually begins just days after his inauguration pharaoh of Egypt and the construction will take probably tens of years and the workers were using simple tools such as ax to dig grooves long and the formation of small rooms in the valley and over time there were tombs built over the graves of the other was the construction of tunnels and canyons of the new lead mostly to the blockage of corridors leading to the tomb of the pharaoh earlier, the lack of systematic planning that was the main reason which led to the survival of these treasures and not exposed to the theft of thousands of years.
 

 Valley of the Kings

In the November 4, 1922 when he was an archaeologist and specialist in the history of ancient Egypt, the British Howard Carter, the excavations at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the tomb of Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings noticed a cellar and large continued exploration flour to be entered to the room containing the tomb of Tutankhamun, and was on the walls of the room containing the mausoleum of the fees great tells in the form of pictures the story of the departure of Tutankhamun to the world of the dead and the scene was very good for the world of Howard Carter, who was seen to the room through a hole in his hand a candle and said that the assistant asked, "Can you see anything?" Fjaoppe Carter: "Yes, I see wonderful things."
On February 16, 1923 was Howard Carter (1874-1939) was the first man since more than 3000 years of land set foot room containing the ark of Tutankhamun. Note that Carter and a wooden box with patterns inlaid with gold in the middle of the room and when the lifting of the Fund noted that the fund was covering second fund decorated with carvings inlaid with gold and when he lifted the second fund noted that the second fund was covering the fund Third restaurant in gold and when you raise the third fund Carter arrived to the sarcophagus which was covered with a thick layer of stone carved in the form of a statue of Tutankhamun, and when you lift this cover Stone Carter arrived to Altabutalzahbi the key was in the form of a statue of Tutankhamun was the golden coffin covered coffins Gold Sponsors others in the form of statues of the young Pharaoh. Met with Howard difficulty in lifting the shroud Golden III, who was covering the mummy of Tutankhamun for the mummy idea Carter said exposing the shroud to the heat of the sun summer of Egypt blazing will be capable of separating the shroud Golden mummy but his attempts failed and forced the latter to cut the shroud golden halves up to the mummy which was wrapped in layers of silk, after the removal of the shroud is made of cloth found the mummy of Tutankhamun full finery of necklaces, rings and crown and sticks and were all of pure gold, to remove these artifacts had excavation team to the separation of the skull and bones of major joints and after the removal of ornaments team brought the installation structure marrow of the mummy and put it in a wooden coffin.


The main shrine to the tomb of Tutankhamun


 Ministry of Tourism has decided to allow an Egyptian mummy of a young mummy of Tutankhamun to the public for the first time since its discovery with her shrine's golden city of Luxor 85 years ago.
The news agency Associated Press reported the director of Egyptian antiquities, Zahi Hawass, as saying that Egyptian scientists began more than two years restoring the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, which has been severely damaged after graduation for a brief period of her coffin stone when subjected to imaging CT.
Hawass added that the bulk of the body of the mummy fragmented to 18 piece looks - described by the senses - Khjarp crashed when he discovered parts of the British archaeologist Howard Carter first time, and remove it from the grave and tried to remove the golden mask which covered the face of King Tutankhamun.
Char to the mystery surrounding Tutankhamun and the Golden tomb raised the curiosity and enthusiasm of the fans since the studies of ancient Egyptian mummy revealed Carter site in the November 4, 1922, and what was in store for the treasures of gold and precious stones.
Archaeologists have tried in recent years uncovered the mystery behind the way the death of the young pharaoh, who was believed to be the ruler of 12 of the 18 Dynasty and ascended to the throne, the ruler of ancient Egypt at the age of no more than eight years.
In an attempt to uncover these secrets out scientists mummy of Tutankhamun from the grave and put it on the table CT evolving for a quarter of an hour in 2005 in order to obtain three-dimensional image of the mummy older than 3000 years.
And excluded the results of medical examination to be young pharaoh had died were killed, but was unable to determine precisely the way his death, which occurred in 1323 BC.
I discovered that the image of King Tutankhamun suffered a fractured left thigh, caused by an accident most likely, led to his later fatal disease could not be determined.
It also provided an account of the images in a timely manner is unprecedented about the life of the young pharaoh, who is one of the most famous kings of ancient Egypt, including that he was healthy because of good nutrition despite his intention to transform the relatively does not exceed 170 centimeters tall England when he died.


 Mummy of King Tutankhamun



The importance of a group of King Tutankhamun to many reasons; First, the treasure of King Tutankhamun is the most complete treasure royal was found not unprecedented, as it consists of three hundred and fifty-eight pieces, including the golden mask, magnificent and three coffins in the form of rights, one of pure gold and two of gilded wood. Second: that the effects due to the family of eighteen months and the Golden Age of the modern state, where the country has opened up the provinces of the ancient Near East through military campaigns and trade relations of the export and import of resources and manufactured products and the activity of the people of character and artists. Finally; that this enormous collection has remained in Egypt, and to explain how the tomb was the Royal processes and is, there is baggage of daily life like puppets and toys, and then a set of furniture unfinished instruments and military equipment, and statues of the gods concerning the burial of the king and lead him from the rituals, and with the trumpet of Tutankhamun famous made of silver and another of copper, all of these contents now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. IV: From this treasure or an array know a lot of the life of King and his love of hunting and its relationship to his wife "Ankh Teeth of Amun", which is believed to be his relative, as well as to learn the most important work and his entourage, and finally the throne only one who reached us from the civilization of the ancient Egyptians.