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Ancient Egyptian Religion Religion guided every aspect of Egyptian life. Egyptian religion was based onpolytheism, or the worship of many deities, except for during the reign of Akenaton. TheEgyptians had as many as 2000 gods and goddesses. Some, such as Amun, wereworshipped throughout the whole country, while others had only a local following. Oftengods and…

How would you compare the life of the poor Egyptian boy in ‘The Conjurer Made off with the Dish’ with that of a poor boy living in a metropolitan city like Karachi? “The day was passing and soon mysterious darkness would descend”. This is how Naguib Mahfouz’s story ends. A short story filled with a…

What are the main obstacles to a ‘two-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestine conflict? On December 1st 2003, a group of Palestinian and Israeli experts presented a plan which could serve as a blueprint for a ‘two-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestine conflict. (Golan, 2008) It was presented in Geneva and is therefore often referred to as…

Drawing the Color Line shows the development of racism in our country and how our society has lowered people of a different race other than caucasian to be the “have-not’s” of society. Background Information: Sometimes it is noted that, even before 1600, when the slave trade had just begun, before Africans were stamped by it—literally…

The Egyptian and Mesopotamian View of the Afterlife The Egyptians’ view of the afterlife contrasts with the Mesopotamian’s view in that the Egyptians believed in the afterlife as a continuation of life on earth and the Mesopotamians believed life after death would be a miserable existence. The geographical location of the two civilizations may have…

After just glancing at the artwork in the chapter about the Ancient Near East and the chapter about Egypt, the one thing that strikes me the most is great size of some of these structures and the great detail that is shown in them. It is amazing to see that people that lived thousands and…

Today, Nefertiti is renowned as one of Egypt’s most celebrated queens, admired for her beauty. Despite the mysterious nature of her origins, it is widely believed that she was not born into a royal family. It has been speculated that she may have been the daughter of an influential official in the court of Amenhotep…

After being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) became a worldwide symbol of heroic black resistance to the apartheid regime of South Africa. He joined the African National Congress in 1952 and became a member of a small action group whose main task was to launch Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear…

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s grave is important in its being one of a few integral royal graves to hold been discovered in Egypt therefore far. Many of the artefacts in the grave were dramatic, but the three amphorae found in Tutankhamun’s burial chamber raised many inquiries. Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane’s article looks at the amphorae found…

Palestine had suffered from a lot of Israeli attacks since 1948, which is the day of the Nakba that was a bloodshed to the Palestinians, thousands of Palestinians died, including men, women, and children. Until these days Israel is destroying Palestinians physically by murdering, kidnapping ,and detention. Also emotionally by for example checkpoints. The conflict…