Egypt may be the fifteenth most populous country in the world and its 78.8 million populations, according to the census held in 2006, live near the fertile banks of the river Nile, having a location around 15,500 sq miles. The region is the only farming land found in the united kingdom, where agriculture is possible. The major the main country forms a the main Sahara Desert and is not much inhibited. The cities in the united kingdom is densely populated , with majority spread across greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major towns in the Nile Delta. Incidentally, Cairo is the greatest city in Africa and the Middle East.

Egypt holds among the richest proof of ancient civilisation and a number of the world’s ancient and famous monuments attract countless tourists to the country. These monuments include the Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza. You will discover a big amount of ancient artifacts like the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings, in the southern city of Luxor. In the current days, Egypt has arrive at be called the key political and cultural centre of the Middle East. About 2,000 years back the ancient culture of Egypt started initially to decline and disappeared, and the final trace of the culture ceased to exist in the season 391 AD, once the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I closed all pagan temples throughout the Roman Empire. It was through the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon that Europe surely got to see the wonderful artifacts of the Egypt, once the most loved culture grew to become awakened.

Through the yearly flooding of the Nile, the water enriched the soil on the banks of the river that brought in good harvests and wealth to the land. The daily life in ancient Egypt revolved surrounding this fertile land. The people of ancient Egypt built mud-brick homes for themselves in the villages of the country and grew a number of their particular food and traded the others in the villages for food and other goods which they could not produce. Most of these people worked in the fields as farmers and many worked as craftsmen and scribes. A small couple of everyone was nobles and together, they formed the inhabitants of ancient Egypt.

The ruler of the ancient Egyptian Kingdom, in the pre-Christian and pre-Islamic period are is referred to as a Pharaoh. Such rulers were believed to be the re-incarnation of Horus, who is an ancient God of the ancient Egyptian religion, whose cult survived long enough for him to evolve and gain many names over time. The Pharaoh was the absolute most powerful person in Egypt and was the political leader and religious head of the Egyptian people and held the name of ‘Lord of the Two Lands’ ;.Egypt images HD  He was the head priest of every Temple in Egypt, and represented the Gods on Earth and would build the temples all around the country to honour the Gods. He’d also perform rituals for the wellness of his country. He owned most of the land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners.

In the beginning, the term Pharaoh described the house where in actuality the King of Egypt resided and this translated to the ‘great house’ ;.With time the king himself came to be called the Pharaoh. The interesting point is that the King was never officially described by this name and the official designation of the King for ancient Egypt was ‘nesw-bit’, which combined both dimensions of the King. While ‘nesw’ described the divine dimension he had, ‘bit’ described the King being an individual he is. As regarded as the son of God Osiris, as Horus, the Pharaoh was himself the divine being. He was regarded as an institution rather than someone and was the protector of maat, the universal ethical principle. The consideration of the King to be an institution, changed with time.

During the time when pharaohs rules the Ancient Egypt, the people build Pyramids as tombs for theit Kings and their Queens, in that your pharaohs were buried. These pyramids came in various shapes and sizes and were built in the period from the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the finish of the Middle Kingdom. Today we know 80 such existing pyramids, out of which, the three largest and best preserved pyramids have already been present in Giza, with the well-known pyramid being that of the Pharaoh Khufu, called the ‘Great Pyramid’ ;.

This pyramid was built by pharaoh Khufu, an Egyptian King of the fourth dynasty, who existed around the season 2560 B.C. This he developed to serve as his resting place after his death. It is said that pyramid took 20 years to be built and there are modern theories as to the way the construction proceeded.

The wonders of those pyramids have always stimulated the human interest, which they make reference to as ‘The Mountains of Pharaoh’ ;.When Napoleon invaded and conquered Egypt, he was supposed to own said he could see 40 centuries from the top of the pyramid. Today the ‘Great Pyramid’ is enclosed, along with other pyramids combined with Sphinx. The famous ‘Sun Boat’ was discovered in 1954 and historians say that this is the boat which carried King Khufu in his last journey in the world before being buried within the pyramid. In line with the ancient Egyptian beliefs, the boat has been placed there to serve him as a means of transportation your after death.

The ancient Egyptians thought that the temples were the places where God and Goddesses lived, and as a result, every temple that was built at that time was dedicated to a God or Goddess, who were worshipped by the High Priest and the Pharaoh himself. Temples were designed with stone, especially the large ones, which had the walls curved with paintings of scenes from that period. It also contained curved inscriptions of the ancient Egypt and is a subject of interest to the Egyptologists and tourists. In those times, entry to these Temples was restricted and today, whenever you visit one of them, you may visualise the wonders of the civilisation that existed in that period.