The ancient Puntites were a nation of people that had close relations with Pharaonic Egypt during the times of Pharaoh Sahure and Queen Hatshepsut.

Emmer had a special place in ancient Egypt, where it was the main wheat cultivated in Pharaonic times, although cultivated einkorn wheat was grown in great abundance during the Third Dynasty, and large quantities of it were found preserved, along with cultivated emmer wheat and barleys, in the subterranean chambers beneath the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.

The museum's Royal Mummy Room, containing 27 royal mummies from Pharaonic times, was closed on the orders of President Anwar Sadat in 1981.

In Pharaonic times Upper Egypt was known as Ta Shemau which means " the land of reeds.

Records from Pharaonic times indicate that on average, one year out of every five saw an inundation that was either over-abundant or fell short of expectations.

While nilometers originated in Pharaonic times, they continued to be used by the later civilizations that held sway in Egypt.

The Museum of Tanta contains collections from the present day back to Pharaonic times.

Experts think that a new understanding of Egyptian funerary architecture and customs of the Middle Pharaonic Kingdom all the way to the Roman era could be learned from the exploration of the dozens of tombs encompassing the site near the Lahun, Egypt ’ s southernmost pyramid.

The Pharaonic Period is dated from around 3200 BC, when Lower and Upper Egypt became a unified state, until the country fell under Greek rule in 332 BC.

It was once the capital of the 6th Nome ( Pharaonic province ) of Upper Egypt, and was also named Nikentori or Nitentori, which signifies willow wood or willow earth.

The long history of Egyptian military activity in Lower Nubia indicates that Kerma was perceived as a major threat to Pharaonic Egypt.

Censuses in Egypt are said to have been taken during the early Pharaonic period in 3340 BCE and in 3056 BCE.

Pharaonic gifts found during excavations confirm Ebla's contact with Egypt.

After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came under the influence of Hellenism, for a time Christianity, and later, Islamic culture.

* Eunuchs in Pharaonic Egypt

Most famously in Pharaonic Egypt — along with many other ancient cultures — preparation for burial included anointing human remains with sweet-smelling oils in devotion as well with the practical intent of obscuring the stench of death.

Tell el-Balamun was the most northerly city of Pharaonic Egypt, located at ( 31. 2586 North, 31. 5714 East ), about 29 km southwest of Damietta.

Numerous crowns of various forms were used in Antiquity, such as the White crown, Red Crown, combined Pschent crown and blue crown of Pharaonic Egypt.

Ombos was a garrison town under every dynasty of Egypt, Pharaonic, Macedonian, and Roman, and was celebrated for the magnificence of its temples and its hereditary feud with the people of.

Pharaonic Egypt is credited with introducing copper mining and smelting in both the Negev and the Sinai between 1400 and 1300 BC.

The use of the vulture as a symbol of royalty in Egyptian culture and their protection by Pharaonic law made the species common on the streets of Egypt and gave rise to the name " Pharaoh's Chicken ".

During the Renaissance these texts were believed to be of ancient Egyptian origin and even today some readers believe them to date from Pharaonic Egypt.

More recent research, while affirming the late dating in a period of syncretic cultural ferment in Roman Egypt, suggests more continuity with the culture of Pharaonic Egypt than had previously been believed.

Budge's contention that the religion of the Egyptians was essentially identical to the religions of the people of northeastern and central Africa was regarded by his colleagues as impossible, since all but a few followed Petrie in his contention that the culture of Ancient Egypt was derived from an invading Caucasian " Dynastic Race " which had conquered Egypt in late prehistory and introduced the Pharaonic culture ( Trigger, 1994 ).

After the collapse of the Old Kingdom, Egypt entered a period of weak Pharaonic power and decentralization called the First Intermediate Period.

In Pharaonic Egypt, toilette articles, weapons against possible enemies, amulets against serpents, were also left in the tomb, together with magic texts and a magic wand which enabled the ba ( soul ) to use them.

The triumph of Christianity led to a virtual abandonment of pharaonic traditions: with the disappearance of the Egyptian priests and priestesses who officiated at the temples, no-one could read the hieroglyphs of Pharaonic Egypt, and its temples were converted to churches or abandoned to the desert.

* In Pharaonic Egypt, wrestling has been evidenced by documentation on tombs ( circa 2300 BC ) and Egyptian artwork ( 2000-1085 BC ).

The usage of the hieroglyphic script had become increasingly specialised even in the later Pharaonic period ; by the 4th century AD, few Egyptians were capable of reading hieroglyphs.

The lineage of Horus, the eventual product of unions between the children of Atum, may have been a means to explain and justify Pharaonic power ; The gods produced by Atum were all representative of cosmic and terrestrial forces in Egyptian life ; by identifying Horus as the offspring of these forces, then identifying him with Atum himself, and finally identifying the Pharaoh with Horus, the Pharaoh theologically had dominion over all the world.

The building itself was remodelled in celebration of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with its main rooms redesigned by Dante Ferretti, and " featured an imaginative use of lighting and mirrors in a spectacular display of some of the most important and impressive Pharaonic statues in the museum collection.

Two miles east of Canopus was the famous Pharaonic temple of Manouthin, afterwards destroyed by monks, and a church on the same spot dedicated to the Four Evangelists.

This portico was a work of the Pharaonic era, but the erections of the Ptolemies at Hermopolis were on a scale of great extent and magnificence, and, although raised by Greek monarchs, are essentially Egyptian in their conception and execution.

These farmers live in small villages, often settled by their Pharaonic ancestors, scattered along the Nile.

( There is no historicity to the assertion of Diodorus Siculus that this was the model for the labyrinth of Crete that Greeks imagined housed the Minotaur ,) The demolition of the " labyrinth " may date in part to the reign of Ptolemy II, under whom the Pharaonic city of Shedyt ( Greek Crocodilopolis, the modern Medinet el-Fayum ) was renamed to honour his sister-wife Arsinoë ; a massive Ptolemaic building program at Arsinoe has been suggested as the ultimate destination of Middle Kingdom limestone columns and blocks removed from Hawara, and now lost.

In 1887, a local inhabitant who was delving into sebakh deposits accidentally discovered more than 300 cuneiform tablets that turned out to be Pharaonic records of correspondence.

Modern occultists suggest that some Hermetic texts may be of Pharaonic origin, and that the legendary " forty-two essential texts " that contain the core Hermetic religious beliefs and philosophy of life remain hidden in a secret library.

There are ruins of a number of temples, including the chief temple dedicated to Amun, and a very important royal necropolis of the Third Intermediate Period ( which contains the only known intact royal Pharaonic burials — the tomb of Tutankhamun having been entered in antiquity ).

The Jewish historian Artapanus of Alexandria ( 2nd century BCE ), portrayed Moses as a cultural hero, alien to the Pharaonic court.

The basalt image originally was stationed at Medinet-Habu, as part of the cultic celebration of the Pharaonic " Sed-Festival ," but was transferred at some point to Herakleopolis and the temple of Herishef.

It houses the world ’ s largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, and many treasures of King Tutankhamen.

Resuming work, he discovered the village of the Pharaonic tomb-workers.