Egypt
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
- Egyptian Music's Ancient Past Resurrected ?
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. Last Wednesday, ancient met modern at El Sawy Culture Wheel when the band Welad el-Faraana (Children of the Pharaohs), wearing jeans and t-shirts and playing pharaonic and Nubian instruments, resurrected the music of their...
- Cemetery Of The Pyramid Builders
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I still consider the discovery of the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders to be one of the greatest archaeological achievements, and personally speaking this ranks as one of my most precious discoveries. This is because prior...
- Book Review: The Lost Tombs Of Thebes
Las Cruces Sun News (Greg Lennes) "The Lost Tombs of Thebes - Life in Paradise" By Zahi Hawass Photographs by Sandro Vannini Thames & Hudson, 288 pp. $80. LAS CRUCES— The interest in Ancient Egypt is understandable since it was the longest lasting...
- Travel: Highlights Of Luxor
Egyptian Gazette This is a really badly formatted feature on the Egyptian Gazette website. It probably made a lot more sense in the print version of the newspaper. It deals with key archaeological highlights in Luxor: The tombs of the nobles, the Luxor...
- Ancient Lives: The Story Of Pharaohs Tombmakers
John Romer Michael O'Mara Books Limited 1994 ISBN 1-85479-927-4 This book is written from the thousands of unique documents that survive from the ancient community of Deir El Medinah, the builders of the tombs in the Valley of Kings. The story is...
Egypt
Life of the Pharaohs. Festivals and Celebrations
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
Usually whenever we find a book published on Ancient Egypt, its subject will either always be on the pharaohs' tombs and their pyramids, or the religion of the pharaohs and their temples. There are very few books that deal with the everyday life of the pharaohs, and I can assure you that most people do not know anything about their lives other than that they built pyramids and tombs. This picture does not reflect the reality of the pharaohs’ lives, and how they enjoyed each day on earth.
They had numerous festivals and celebrations, and even the Greek historian Herodotus commented on this saying that "the life of [ancient] Egyptians are all festivals and celebrations…as one festival ends in one city, another begins in another city."
This is something that we know for a fact from documents and scenes depicted on antiquities, where we see different occasions being celebrated with music and dance. We see [images of] dancers wearing beautiful clothes and adornments dancing to the music, while the guests are either eating or drinking the food, drink, and fruit [on offer], or they are having conversations that were recorded by the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics in the form of dialogue between the depicted figures.
- Egyptian Music's Ancient Past Resurrected ?
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. Last Wednesday, ancient met modern at El Sawy Culture Wheel when the band Welad el-Faraana (Children of the Pharaohs), wearing jeans and t-shirts and playing pharaonic and Nubian instruments, resurrected the music of their...
- Cemetery Of The Pyramid Builders
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I still consider the discovery of the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders to be one of the greatest archaeological achievements, and personally speaking this ranks as one of my most precious discoveries. This is because prior...
- Book Review: The Lost Tombs Of Thebes
Las Cruces Sun News (Greg Lennes) "The Lost Tombs of Thebes - Life in Paradise" By Zahi Hawass Photographs by Sandro Vannini Thames & Hudson, 288 pp. $80. LAS CRUCES— The interest in Ancient Egypt is understandable since it was the longest lasting...
- Travel: Highlights Of Luxor
Egyptian Gazette This is a really badly formatted feature on the Egyptian Gazette website. It probably made a lot more sense in the print version of the newspaper. It deals with key archaeological highlights in Luxor: The tombs of the nobles, the Luxor...
- Ancient Lives: The Story Of Pharaohs Tombmakers
John Romer Michael O'Mara Books Limited 1994 ISBN 1-85479-927-4 This book is written from the thousands of unique documents that survive from the ancient community of Deir El Medinah, the builders of the tombs in the Valley of Kings. The story is...