If your goal is to find a fun activity to review some Ancient Egypt vocabulary, facts, or the like, then I have the activity for you. Escape rooms are becoming a big deal and many people are successfully incorporating them into educational situations. I knew that this would be something my kids would love. It's different

Tribute from the South in the Tomb of Huy, the Viceroy of Kush, "King’s Son of Kush, Overseer of the Southern Countries".

In Cleopatra, a recent Netflix documentary, Cleopatra is depicted as a Black African ruler, which has led to a renewed debate about her racial identity. However, Cleopatra was not black, but rather of Macedonian Greek descent. To understand why Cleopatra was not black, we must look at her family

[EGYPT 29869] ’Seti and Hathor at Abydos.’ This relief shows the goddess Hathor giving pharaoh Seti I the breath of life, in the form of an “ankh” sign (symbolizing life) flanked by two “was” sceptres (symbols for prosperity). Her head is protected by the vulture goddess Nekhbet who spreads her wings over Hathor’s hair. On top of that is a rarely seen crown, consisting of again a vulture, whose wings are protecting two cobras, wearing the crowns of Upper- and Lower-Egypt. The relief is located on the west wall of the Second Hypostyle Hall of the Seti I Temple at Abydos, between the entrances of the Chapel of Ptah and the Chapel of Ra-Horakhty. For a wider view see picture 29867. The Seti Temple at Abydos was begun by Seti I and completed by his son Ramses II in the 13th century BC. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

When Brian and I initially developed the idea of starting a blog together, I scoffed at the idea of starting one because I'm a reserved individual. My utter lack of respect for political correctness was another stumbling block. I'm also not the kind of person that wants to turn people the wrong way or have people misjudge me based on the content of the blog. After a while, I put aside all my reservations and here we are. With that said, I want to start this off by talking about what brings everybody here: ANCIENT EGYPT. The real name of the country is KEMET which translates to LAND OF BLACKS. I brought up the word KEMET because I want everybody to understand it's significance and importance. KEMET is the word that was used to describe the inhabitants of country, not the soil as some"scholars"(scholastic racists as I like to call them) have said. Kemet(KMT) had a few different capitals. Hwt-ka-Ptah(Saqqara), Waset(Luxor) and holy places like Abedju(Abydos) and Iunet(Dendera). The names sound extremely African, especially Abedju(sounds like Abuja in Nigeria). I'm citing different cities on this map to show you the African etymology of Ancient Kemet. Forget the geography for a second, you can observe the names of the cities or provinces and see that the etymology of the Egyptian language was wholly African. So when I see Ancient Egyptians being depicted as anything other than black, that troubles me. When I open a book and I see the original African name being substituted for a Greek one, that bothers me. You can chip the paint off artifacts, you can deface the images, and you can even designate settlers as the descendants of the ancients but you CANNOT steal the roots of Kemet(Egypt).

The Black Pharaohs Of Kush Who Founded Egypt's 25th Dynasty In the 8th Century, the Kushite King Piye from the Nile Valley Civilization of Kemet conquered Egypt and founded the 25th Egyptian Dynasty of Black Pharaohs from Nubian Kush circa 747 BC. Piye was followed by a succession of

The Black Pharaohs Of Kush Who Founded Egypt's 25th Dynasty In the 8th Century, the Kushite King Piye from the Nile Valley Civilization of Kemet conquered Egypt and founded the 25th Egyptian Dynasty of Black Pharaohs from Nubian Kush circa 747 BC. Piye was followed by a succession of

The pyramids at Meroë, some 125 miles north of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, are rarely visited despite being a Unesco World Heritage site.

Shrine of King Taharqa (Takarqo or Taharka). Dynasty 25, about 690-664 B.C. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Taharqa was a pharaoh of Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. His reign can be dated from 690 BC to 664 BC. He was the son of Piye, the Nubian…

Death, the ancient Egyptians believed, was not the end of our struggles. They believed in an afterlife and that the worthy would go on to paradise, but their dead didn’t simply pass over to the other side. If they wanted eternal life, they would have to fight for it.

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In his Book, Imhotep The African: Architect Of The Cosmos, Robert Buaval contends that the Imhotep the Black African from the Ancient Egyptian Nile Valley Civilization of Kemet should be known and recognised as the First Architect and world Genius. Imhotep the African is also known as the first

Ancient Egyptian Fresco of a Father and His Children