Literature In the Life of Ancient Egypt
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009libraries – The Story of Sinuhe – Fiction – Love Poems – History The Story of Sinuhe
Archive for December, 2009
Morals and Sexual Morality in Ancient egypt
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Modesty, as distinct from fidelity, was not prominent among the Egyptians; they spoke of sexual affairs with a directness alien to our late sexual morality. Life in Ancient Egypt, Morals and Sexual Morality
The Neo-Elamite period
Thursday, December 10th, 2009A long period of darkness separates the Middle and Neo-Elamite periods. In 742 BC a certain Huban-nugash is mentioned as king in Elam. The land appears to have been divided into separate principalities, with the central power fairly weak. The next 100 years witnessed the constant attempts of the Elamites to interfere in Mesopotamian affairs, [...]
The Middle Elamite period
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009HTML clipboardAfter two centuries for which sources reveal nothing, the Middle Elamite period opened with the rise to power of the Anzanite dynasty, whose homeland probably lay in the mountains northeast of Khuzestan. Political expansion under Khumbannumena (c. 1285-c. 1266 BC), the fourth king of this line, proceeded apace, and his successes were commemorated by [...]
