Ancient Egypt / Third Intermediate Period
Wenamun: Egypt's Humbling Odyssey to Byblos
Around 1070 BCE, Wenamun sailed from Thebes to Phoenicia for cedar wood, revealing an Egypt forced to negotiate where it once commanded.
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Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egypt / Pharaonic Egypt
Osiris, Isis, Set, and Horus: The Egyptian Myth of Death and Resurrection
Osiris, murdered by Set and restored by Isis, became Egypt's great god of resurrection, afterlife, and sacred kingship.
Ancient Egypt / Pharaonic Egypt
Hapi, When the Nile Rose: The Sacred Breath of Water in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt turns the Nile divine: Hapi, god of the flood, hymns, nilometers, Elephantine, and water at the heart of power.