by mrvaldesogo | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Pa-aton-em-heb (“The Sun Disk is in Feast”), was “Royal Singer” of the end of the Amarna period. It seems that his tomb was originally in Saqqara (although the location remains unknown) and was dismantled. Some blocks of the chapel are nowadays...
by mrvaldesogo | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
The king in Ancient Egypt, despite his solar nature, was also a human being. After dying, the pharaoh became also a corpse, so a mummy. Therefore it was inevitable to asimilate the dead souvereign with Osiris. And he required also a resurection following the...
by mrvaldesogo | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Isis, Nephthys and later on also Serket and Neith were essential in the regeneration sphere. They, as women/goddessees, played a crucial role in the process of resurrection in Ancient Egypt. For that reason, ancient Egyptian artist included their images in every...
by mrvaldesogo | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Let’s start with that: women were crucial in Ancient Egypt for the dead’s resurrection. The rite of the professional mourning ritual in ancient Egyptian funerals was based on the Osirian theology. That happened becasue in the belief of Ancient Egypt the dead (Osiris)...
by mrvaldesogo | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
During the reign of Akhenaten many things changed in Ancient Egypt. The new Pharaoh modified the artistic canon, his residence, the religion, the cult…but what happened with the death? Documents coming from that period of the history of Ancient Egypt show a belief on...
