The Ancient Egyptians regarded their king and the office of kingship as the apex and organizing principle of their society. The king’s preeminent task was to preserve the right order of society, also called maat. This included ensuring peace and political stability, performing all necessary religious rituals, seeing to the economic needs of his people, providing justice, and protecting the country from external and internal danger. It has sometimes been said that the ancient Egyptians believed their kings to be divine, but it was the power of kingship, which the king embodied, rather than the individual himself that was divine.

Over the course of Egyptian history hundreds of gods and goddesses were worshipped. Osiris. ...Isis. ...Horus. ...Seth. ...Ptah. ...Re. ...Hathor. ...Anubis.

A unified kingdom was formed in 3150 BC by King Menes, leading to a series of dynasties that ruled Egypt for the next three millennia. Egyptian culture flourished during this long period and remained distinctively Egyptian in its religion, arts, language and customs.

Egyptians kept many animals as pets. The Egyptians saw animals as incarnations of the gods and were one of the first civilizations to keep ...

One of the most mysterious and powerful women in ancient Egypt, Nefertiti was queen alongside Pharaoh Akhenaten from 1353 to 1336 B.C. Historians have gleaned that Nefertiti was a major proponent of Akhenaten's religious and cultural movement. She represented the female aspect ...

aspects of the Kings and Queens who lived then as well as aspects of Egyptian ... Known rulers in the history of Egypt for the First Dynasty are as follows: ...

Egypt was a vast kingdom of the ancient world. It was unified around 3100 B.C.E. and lasted as a leading economic and cultural influence throughout North ...

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