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Khufu's name was dedicated to the god Khnum, which might point to an increase of Khnum's popularity and religious importance.In fact, several royal and religious titles introduced at this time may point out that Egyptian pharaohs sought to accentuate their divine origin and status by dedicating their cartouche names (official royal names) to certain deities.
The diary also mentions the original name of the Great Pyramid: Akhet-Khufu, meaning "Horizon of Khufu". [16] In addition to Merer, a few other people are mentioned in the fragments. The most important is Ankhhaf (half-brother of Pharaoh Khufu), known from other sources, who is believed to have been a prince and vizier under Khufu and/or Khafre ...
Akhet (hieroglyph) Akhet (horizon) in hieroglyphs. Akhet (Ancient Egyptian: Ꜣḫt; Gardiner: N27) is an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as "horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". [1] Betrò describes it as "Mountain with the Rising Sun" (The hieroglyph for "mountain" is ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza[a] is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Built c. 2600 BC, [3] over a period of about 26 years, [4] the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only wonder that has remained largely intact.
in hieroglyphs. Era: Old Kingdom. (2686–2181 BC) Hetepheres I was a queen of Egypt during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt (fl. c. 2600 BC) who was a wife of one king, the mother of the next king, the grandmother of two more kings, and the figure who tied together two dynasties.
4th Dynasty. Djedefre (also known as Djedefra and Radjedef; died c. 2558 BC) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He is well known by the Hellenized form of his name Rhatoisēs (Ῥατοίσης) by Manetho. Djedefre was the son and immediate throne successor of Khufu, the builder of the Great ...
King Khufu. Temple of Khentyamentiu, Abydos, Upper Egypt. The Khufu Statuette or the Ivory figurine of Khufu is an ancient Egyptian statue. Historically and archaeologically significant, it was found in 1903 by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie during excavation of Kom el-Sultan in Abydos, Egypt. It depicts Khufu, a Pharaoh of the Fourth ...
Almaany (Arabic: المعاني 'The Meanings') is a free online Arabic dictionary. [1][2][3][4] According to The Routledge Course on Media, Legal and Technical Translation, Almaany has more than thirty different search domains, including accounting, agriculture, computer, social, legal, et cetera. [5] It has Arabic to English translations and ...