Pharaoh

Egyptological Essays, 2002

Course Website: Canvas website under the Quercus system at: https://q.utoronto.ca. *It is essential that you sign into and use this site on a regular basis. Course Description: The purpose of NMC101H is to give students a preliminary acquaintance with the current state of knowledge about ancient Egyptthe land of pharaohs, pyramids, and mummies and much more)covering broadly the period from the founding of the earliest state around 3,000 BCE up to Egypt's incorporation into the Roman Empire under Augustus in 30 BCE. The course will focus on ancient Egyptian history, as well as geography, art, architecture, writing, and religion. Besides offering a gateway to upper level courses on Egyptological topics, NMC101H aims to promote student understanding of the sources and methods by which knowledge about an ancient civilization may be obtained, and to provide an appreciation of the complexity of human development over the three thousand years before the beginning of the Common Era, which will allow them to see the achievements of later ages in perspective.

2013

Catalog of an exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (April 13, 2013 until January 4, 2014). Expanded on-line catalog entries available at http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/.

Pharaohs and Animals in Ancient Egypt.

2010

There has been a vas t amount of s tudy on the Egyptian concept of kings hip. 1 The ques tion of his divinity has been one of the principal problems. Earlier s tudies normally attribute a specific divinity to the Egyptian King. 2 Highly influential in bringing down s uch an approach was a s tudy by George Pos ener who pres ented evidence which, in his eyes , s poke agains t an authentic divinity of the Pha raoh. 3 Nowadays, there is a strong tendency to ascribe a more differentiated approach to the Egyptians: they are supposed to have considered the office itself as divine, but not the individual king. 4 While such a picture might seem reasonable, it raises, at least with me, some uneasiness. Doesn't it smack too much like making the Ancient Egyptian civilisation palatable to a modern public by demolishing such a thing as the real divinity of a living human being which is so hard to swallow for modern minds? After all, the Egyptians themselves explicitly said about the king "he is not a man" (Edfou VI 301,13) The framework of this workshop does not allow more than a relatively short discussion, but that can be turned to an advantage by focussing on one specific aspect which has not been all that much in the focus of previous scholarship, instead of making a fullscale reopening of the case on all fronts. The guiding question for the following aspects will be the way the king can be approached and dealt with. Is he treated in a way so special that it suggests an ontological status different from human beings also as a person, not only as representing an office? To answer this, I will consider a number of cases where the Pharaoh as a person and how to behave towards him is at stake.

Choice Reviews Online

Egyptomania aims to explore our fascination with all things Egyptian and the events that fanned the flames: from ancient times, to Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the Discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb by Howard Carter in the 1920s. Elaine Housby finds this an accessible read, though Brier's framing of some historical events is problematic. Egypt omania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession wit h t he Land of t he Pharaohs. Bob Brier. Palgrave Macmillan. November 2013.

In January 2011, the Egyptians were shouting in the street that Egypt will be better without Pharaoh. Hosni Mubarak, the Pharaoh, was removed from power in February 2011, after a revolution, part of the wave of change that swept North Africa and the Middle East, known as the Arab Spring. Mubarak's dictatorship lasted 40 years. But it is not the first egyptian president who was named Pharaoh. One of those who had assassinated Anwar Sadat, who ruled Egypt before Mubarak, said „I killed the Pharaoh”. On the other hand, the Egyptians are proud of their history and are saying to those who are trying to give them lessons in democracy, that their civilization is older with at least 5,000 years than of other peoples. They are proud of their Pharaohs and Pyramids. And, in this case, when and where the gap occurred? Why the contemporary Pharaohs are despicable and the old ones are worthy of admiration and source of national pride?