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Short Video: How to Get Rid of Your Enemies – Ancient Egyptian Voodoo Dolls

In this short video I introduce to you how ancient Egyptians believed to get rid of their enemies: With the help of “voodoo dolls”. To…

Short Video: What is Demotic?

This video provides a short introduction to “What is Demotic?” To write more posts and make more of my research accessible for free I need…

Video: Ancient Magic Signs

“Ancient Magic Signs” is a term used in modern scholarship to address a large group of signs that occur in ancient contexts of communication and…

Video: Ancient Magic Inks

In ancient magic and ritual practice special inks were used to create powerful inscriptions. These inks and their applications are preserved in ancient Egyptian and…

Icosahedron, limestone, inscribed in Demotic with the names of 20 different Egyptian deities, 1st century A.D. (?)Qaret el-Muzzawaqa, Western end of the Dakhleh Oasis, New Valley Museum, Kharga, Egypt, inventory number 843. Image: M. Minas-Nerpel, A Demotic Inscribed Icosahedron From Dakhleh Oasis, in: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 93, 2007, p. 142.

An Ancient 20-sided Dice Inscribed with the Names of Egyptian Deities

Overview This so far unique dice was made of limestone. Instead of numbers it was inscribed with the names of 20 different Egyptian deities. These…

Anubis, bronze with gilt, gold inlay, ca. 747-525 BCE, Egypt, Karnak, Temple of Amun 20.8 x 14.4 x 5.3 cm. The Walteres Art Museum, 54.400. CC0 1.0 © Kirsten D. Dzwiza ∙ ancientmagic.academy

A Worshipper Kneeling Before the Egyptian God Anubis

Date: ca. 747-525 BCE Findspot: Egypt, Karnak, Temple of Amun (Karnak Cachette) Location: The Walters Art Museum, 54.400 A bronze statuette of the anthropomorphic god…

Video Sparks #1 Pyramid Texts, by Dr. Kirsten D. Dzwiza

Video: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs: Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts & Book of the Dead

Ancient Egyptian beliefs and mythology are preserved in the so-called funerary texts. These writings were created for the deceased to guide and protect them in…

Alabaster Sistrum Inscribed with the Names of King Teti Ca. 2323-2291 B.C., Dynasty 6, reign of Teti. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), pigment, resin. Egypt. H. 26.5 cm, W: 7 cm, D: 1,7 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 26.7.1450

Alabaster Sistrum Inscribed – An Egyptian Ritual Instrument

This sistrum is made of Egyptian alabaster and inscribed with the names of Pharaoh Teti. It is dated around 2.323-2.291 BCE. The carved handle of…

Soknopaiou Nesos – Religious center of the god Soknopaios

Soknopaiou Nesos was the religious center of the god Soknopaios, an oracular and healing god in the shape of a crocodile with a falcon head.…

P 7083, Temple inventory from the ancient Egyptian city of Soknopaios Nesos. Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung /CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The “Treasures of Soknopaios”

The religious centre of the ancient Egyptian deity Soknopaios was in Soknopaiou Nesos, a town in the Fayum oasis. His temple and the cult area…