In Ancient Egyptian belief, the afterlife, known as Aaru, or the Field of Reeds, was not some ethereal realm of clouds and choirs, but rather a perfected reflection of life along the Nile. To the Egyptians, paradise was not an abstract heaven above but an idealised Egypt itself: abundant, eternal, and unmarred by suffering or...
Egypt was one of the very first lands to embrace Christianity, long before it was sanctioned by the Roman Empire. Tradition holds that Saint Mark the Evangelist brought the Christian faith to Alexandria in the 1st century A.D., establishing one of the world’s earliest Christian communities. By the time Constantine issued the Edict of Milan...
In Ancient Egyptian thought, the gods were not merely supernatural beings to be worshipped, but profound personifications of essential concepts that underpinned the very fabric of existence. To the Egyptians, divinity and ideology were inseparable; their deities embodied the principles that sustained both the cosmos and society. Foremost among these was Ma’at, the divine embodiment...
