Search results for "Thebes" - New World Encyclopedia
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- court of Merneptah's mortuary temple at Thebes by Flinders Petrie in 1896.Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson, The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (British ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- as possible, including Athens and Thebes, before the Western Powers imposed a ceasefire. A conference in London, in March 1829, proposed an independent ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Pachomius was born in 292 in Thebes (Luxor, Egypt) to pagan parents. A particularly hagiographical detail, found in the Bohairic version of the ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- come to visit a poor man called Hyrieus (from Thebes or Chios) who served them a whole bull, and when they offered him a favor, he asked for sons. ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- by more easily recognizable sites of Giza and Thebes, until William John Bankes discovered the "Table of Abydos," which brought more attention ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- the most notable perhaps being at Corinth and at Thebes. The government of the Roman republic is often described as "oligarchical." ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man.' That simple word ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- rise in influence of the High Priests of Amun at Thebes, who founded the 21st dynasty at the start the Third Intermediate Period although their rule ...12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:32, 11 November 2022
- also transported the Egyptian capital from Thebes to Ra'amses in the Delta ... most notably the Ramesseum in the western Thebes and the rock temples of Abu ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- In later Classical times, Sparta along with Athens, Thebes and Persia ... a coalition of the leading Greek states: Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- had no cult of her own. In this way, at Thebes Hathor was identified with ... varied locales as Atfih, Cusae, Memphis, Thebes, Deir el-Medina, and Dendera, ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- In another case of deadly hubris, Niobe, a queen of Thebes and wife to King Amphion, boasted that she was superior to Leto because she had 14 ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- to their priesthoods, and the capital moved back to Thebes. The young pharaoh also adopted the name Tutankhamun, changing it from his birth name Tutankhaten ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
- 3D%23156;layout=;loc=5.11 10] Supported by Thebes and Thessaly, Macedon took ... the most desirable ally for Athens was Thebes. Therefore, Demosthenes was ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- by Giza and later by the Valley of the Kings in Thebes, it remained an important complex for minor burials and cult ceremonies for more than 3,000 years ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- mythology. Traditionally, the city of Thebes was founded by a Phoenician ... arrived in Greece with the mythical founder of Thebes, Cadmus. ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- temples and the splendid temple of Der al-Bakri at Thebes. Its general form also reminds students of ancient architecture of several Egyptian sanctuaries. ...30 KB (4,697 words) - 20:29, 9 May 2024
- " He was the mythical founder and king of Thebes. The Ogygian flood covered the whole world and was so devastating that the country remained without ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- May you spend millions of years, You who love Thebes, Sitting with your face to the north wind, Your eyes beholding happiness" (from the Wishing ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- Horus= Kanakht Khaemwaset Mighty Bull, Arising in Thebes | ... city like Memphis or Heliopolis, or in Thebes. These two latitudes give ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
