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Inside One of Egypt’s Biggest Royal Weddings

When Ramses II married a Hittite princess, it strengthened the political alliance between the two former enemies. But the arrangements weren’t easy to make.

One of the most important weddings that ever took place that affected the state of ancient Near East, or at least from Egypt up to Anatolia, was between that of Ramses II and a Hittite princess whose name would become Maathorneferure.

~Hasmonean 

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A Ghost Story of Ancient Egypt

The best-known ghost story from ancient Egypt is known, simply, as A Ghost Story but sometimes referenced as Khonsemhab and the Ghost. The story dates from the late New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1570 - c.1069...

A ghost story from ancient Egypt just in time for Halloween!

SOOOOKYY!!!

~Hasmonean

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I went to a library at a nearby seminary to research for my thesis and they had a small museum with ancient Near Eastern stuff.  They had an actual Egyptian sarcophagus with a mummy on display; the other displays were replicas of actual artifacts.

 As the last picture says, it is the sarcophagus and mummy of Sheryet-Mehyet a priestess from 8th century B.C. Egypt with the sarcophagus from around 700 B.C. specifically.  This means she probably would have lived during the 25th Dynasty, which was also called the Kushite Empire or Nubian Dynasty.  The Nubians were a civilization south of Egypt in what is now modern northern Sudan.  This makes this sarcophagus and mummy one of the few of Nubian-era women from Egypt known to modern day; whether she herself was native Egyptian, Nubian, or of mixed heritage is not known.

Her name means “child of the goddess Mehyet”.  “Mehyet” maybe the Egyptian form “Menhit” an actual Nubian goddess whose worship was imported to southern Egypt (Upper Egypt) where she was identified with Sekhmet the lion-headed war goddess.

The sarcophagus and mummy now reside in the library of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky where the students, staff, and professors affectionately refer to her as “Sheri”.  Read more here.    

~Hasmonean    

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Egyptian Women's Legal Rights

While it is known that most ancient Near Eastern and North African societies were patriarchal, ancient Egyptian women enjoyed more legal rights than their contemporaries.  For one they could divorce their husbands and if that could happen they made sure they could something before divorcing.   

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RA by PeridotKitty

Cute Chibi-Ra!! >.<