Category: History - Ancient
Map of Ancient Egypt 8 Amarna Tablets 11 Courtesy, British Museum Map of Akhetaton, the City of Akhenaton 15 Commemorative Scarab of Amenhotep III 18 Courtesy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1935 Amenhotep III 18 Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Akhenaton an...
Map of Ancient Egypt 8 Amarna Tablets 11 Courtesy, British Museum Map of Akhetaton, the City of Akhenaton 15 Commemorative Scarab of Amenhotep III 18 Courtesy, The Metropolitan...
2. Part 2Amenhotep III was responsible for the immense colonnades at Luxor and a great funerary temple which has disappeared except for two immense seated statues of the Pharaoh now know...
3. Part 3The sun and the Nile River were the two important factors in the life of all Egyptians, and gods associated with these phenomena tended to transcend Egyptian provincialism and b...
4. Part 4The Mitannian Empire was at an end. Mattiwaza gained Hittite support and took the throne of Mitanni with the aid of Suppiluliumas' army. He remained a vassal of the Hittites, ho...
5. Part 5It was not the Mycenaeans, however, but the Phoenicians who succeeded the Minoans as the seafarers and the traders of the eastern Mediterranean. A tomb painting from Thebes show...
6. Part 6The simple tastes of the Israelite tribes in the period before the monarchy may be contrasted with the ostentation of Solomon's harem with its thousand wives and concubines (I K...