Archive for May, 2010

Persecutions during Sassanid Rule

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The high-priest of Zoroastrianism, Kartir Hangirpe, believed that he represented the one true religion. He was an absolutist, believing that there was good and evil, with nothing in between. Into the later half of the 200s CE, he continued with his persecution of competing religions: the Manichaeans, Christians, Jews and Buddhists. Then, sometime during the [...]

Queen Hatshepsut’s Temple Deir El Bahri

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

By the banks of the Nile, across the river from Thebes, a three-tiered temple was found beneath hundreds of tons of sand tens of centuries after its construction. The temple is a reflection of the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II, and was constructed alongside that eleventh-dynasty structure. However, the temple of Hatshepsut is far larger [...]

Hatshepsut Poetry : Speak to Me

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Poetry These poems are taken from Hatshepsut, Speak to Me by Ruth Whitman [Wayne SU Press, Detroit: 1992] HATSHEPSUT: When I was six my father Thutmose the First lifted me up to sit beside him on his throne of Amen.

Hatshepsut

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Hatshepsut was born in the 18th Dynasty.  This Dynasty is also referred too as the New Kingdom.

Life of Hatshepsut (1479-1457BC)

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Hatshepsut (1479 – 1457 BC) Queen Hatshepsut (left) was the first great woman in recorded history: the forerunner of such figures as Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I.

The Story of Queen Hatshepsut

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

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