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Luxor Temple, the final destination of the barque of Amun-Re during the Opet festival. The Opet Festival (Ancient Egyptian: ḥb nfr n jpt, "beautiful festival of Opet") [citation needed] was an annual ancient Egyptian festival celebrated in Thebes (Luxor), especially in the New Kingdom and later periods, during the second month of the season of Akhet, the flooding of the Nile.
Alabaster sculpture of an Old Kingdom pharaoh, Pepi I Meryre, dressed to celebrate his Heb Sed, c. 2362 BCE, Brooklyn Museum. The Sed festival (ḥb-sd, conventional pronunciation / s ɛ d /; also known as Heb Sed or Feast of the Tail) was an ancient Egyptian ceremony that celebrated the continued rule of a pharaoh.
Pages in category "Festivals in ancient Egypt" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley depicted in the Tomb of Nakht. The Beautiful Festival of the Valley (Egyptian: hb nfr n jnt; Arabic: عيد الوادي الجميل, romanized: Eid al-Wadi al-Jamil) was an ancient Egyptian festival, celebrated annually in Thebes (now Luxor), during the Middle Kingdom period and later.
The festival has been nationally celebrated by all the Egyptians since ancient times, [1] as it is considered a national festival in Egypt. Its history goes back to ancient Egyptian times, as it was related to the agricultural background of the ancient Egyptians, originating from Shemu. [1] Sham Ennessim is an official holiday in modern Egypt.
The Mysteries of Osiris, also known as Osirism, [1] were religious festivities celebrated in ancient Egypt to commemorate the murder and regeneration of Osiris.The course of the ceremonies is attested by various written sources, but the most important document is the Ritual of the Mysteries of Osiris in the Month of Khoiak, a compilation of Middle Kingdom texts engraved during the Ptolemaic ...
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival is being put on hiatus this year after five successful editions in what could be a precursor to the event being permanently scrapped or radically reshaped. In a ...
Multi-sport events in Egypt (4 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Festivals in Egypt" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.