The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?
Abydos, located west of the Nile, was once a cemetery for Egyptian royalty as well as a popular pilgrimage site where people journeyed to worship the god Osiris ... The temple and town continued ...
A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian city may depict Cleopatra ... it had a number of temples dedicated to Osiris and Isis, among other deities.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ... The team suspects the temple was dedicated to Osiris and his queen, Isis—goddess with whom Cleopatra was closely associated.
They adopted the images of both the Greek gods Aphrodite and Dionysus, and their Egyptian counterparts, Isis and Osiris. Relations between Augustus and Marc Antony disintegrated. In Rome ...
Though additions to the Temple of Luxor were made by many of Egypt's pharaohs (Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Hatshepsut, to name a few), the bulk of this ancient structure was created in the 14th ...
Built to honor Amon-Re (ancient Egypt's sun god) and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (who was believed to have descended from Amon-Re), the Temple of Hatshepsut stands out for its grand architecture ...