World Spirit Arts

Across the Nile from the great temple complexes of Luxor and Karnak is a vast 'City of the Dead'. In deep valleys on the western side of the river, the bodies of pharaohs, queens and nobles of the second millennium BCE were buried with all the ritual necessary to ensure their survival in the afterlife. The famous Valley of the Kings is only one part of this whole great necropolis. The valley is a remote, desolate place with no vegetation. Rising above the area is the Qurn ("horn"), a mountain which many regard as a natural pyramid shape, which presides over the entire cemetery. Over 60 pharaohs' tombs have been discovered, but only a small number can be visited.

The Pyramid Texts were funerary inscriptions that were written on the walls of the early Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Sakkara. These date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties, approximately the years 2350-2175 B.C.E. However, because of extensive internal evidence, it is believed that they were composed much earlier, circa 3000 B.C.E. The Pyramid Texts are, therefore, essentially the oldest sacred texts known.

The Papyrus of Ani, which was acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in the year 1888, is the largest, the most perfect, the best preserved, and the best illuminated of all the papyri which date from the second half of the XVIIIth dynasty (about B.C. 1500 to 1400).

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"This statue is in the style of dynasty 12 [1991 to 1786 B.C.] and may have been usurped by Ramses II," he added, meaning that it may have been altered to resemble Ramses II.

Two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun will undergo DNA testing to determine their relation to the famous pharaoh, Egyptian officials announced today.

July 2, 2008--A remarkably intact mud-brick settlement has been partially excavated near the ancient Egyptian temple (upper left) at Edfu, archaeologists announced Tuesday.

The "Flower of Life" can be found in all major religions of the world. It contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the "Great Void". Everything is made from the Creator's thought.

The Egyptian Hieroglyphs is among the old writing system in the world. Unlike its contemporary cuneiform Sumerian, Egyptian Hieroglyph's origin is much more obscure. There is no identifiable precursor It was once thought that the origin of Egyptian Hieroglyphs are religious and historical, but recent developments could point to an economical impetus for this script as well as push back the time depth of this writing system.