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Regarded as Ancient Egypt's greatest and most powerful pharaoh. Ramesses II led successful expeditions north into Canaan, Lebanon and Syria and south into Nubia. He focused on building cities, temples and monuments and established the city of Pi-Ramesses in the Nile Delta as his new capital. Ramesses III Usimare: Pharaoh: 20th dynasty
Ancient Egyptian physicians were renowned in the ancient Near East for their healing skills, and some, such as Imhotep, remained famous long after their deaths. [176] Herodotus remarked that there was a high degree of specialization among Egyptian physicians, with some treating only the head or the stomach, while others were eye-doctors and ...
The following is a list of some of the notable Egyptians inside and outside of Egypt This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Ancient Egyptian documents describe Sneferu as a pious, generous and even accostable ruler. [68] 2613–2589 BC [32] Medjedu (Khnum-) Khufu: Greek form: Cheops and Suphis. Built the Great Pyramid of Giza. Khufu is depicted as a cruel tyrant by ancient Greek authors; Ancient Egyptian sources however describe him as a generous and pious ruler.
Her parents worked at the temple of Min in Akhmim, Upper Egypt, and it is likely that she was also a member of the temple staff before her early death. [16] Meresamun: Priestess c. 800 BC 23rd: Female 1920 Merit: Lady of the house Unknown 18th Female 1906 Merit was the wife of Kha, a foreman at Deir el-Medina.
This is a list of Egyptian scribes, almost exclusively from the ancient Egyptian periods. The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe , to write , and "writings" , etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, from the category of: 'writings, games, & music'.
The following is a list of mummies that include Egyptian pharaohs and their named mummified family members. [a] Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions (with some only having small fragments representing the mummy as a result).
The history of ancient Egypt spans the period from the early prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The pharaonic period, the period in which Egypt was ruled by a pharaoh, is dated from the 32nd century BC, when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified, until the country fell under Macedonian rule in 332 BC.