In Ancient Egypt, the calendar had twelve months which each had thirty days in it. This all added up to a total of 360 days, so the Egyptians added five more days which were not parent of previous or coming months, but were used for festivals. The events that led to the creatzion of these …

This was a female monster with the body of lion, the breast and head  a woman, an eagles in Greek mythology. Many times, she is described as the daughter of Echidna and Typhon, or Chimaera and Typhon, or Orthos and Chimaera. Sent by the gods, the sphinx was to plague the town of Thebes. Because …

Mummification is a method of preserving artificially the bodies of the deceased. In Ancient Egypt, they used mummification to respect the dead .  The main subject of interest is mummies for those who study it. It depends on the wealthiest of the deceased family of how the body is mummified, although there is no anctient …

The book of the dead is an ancient funerary text, containing all information needed for a spirit to pass the tests and trials to go to the after life. It also is a collection of speeches and prayers that are there to help guide the deceased pass the tests to get to the after life. …

During one of the French soldiers occupations of Egypt in July 15 1799, they discovered a stone with three different columns of writing. Each column of the Rosetta Stone was written in different languages, Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic, and Greek. The stone had puzzled scholars for centuries. It was the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, few people …