KA - Ancient Society https://ancientsociety.com Ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome History Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:42:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://ancientsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/favicon-1-150x126.png KA - Ancient Society https://ancientsociety.com 32 32 167794014 The Ancient Egyptian Soul: Ka, Ba, Akh and the Essential Parts of a Person https://ancientsociety.com/egypt/ancient-egyptian-soul/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:42:10 +0000 https://www.ancientsociety.com/?p=1494 What made a person a person in ancient Egypt? The answer was much more complicated than simply having a body and a soul. Ancient Egyptians understood a human being as a collection of interconnected physical and spiritual aspects. A person had a body, but also a Ka, a Ba, a heart, a name, a shadow, and […]

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]]> 1494 Who Was the First Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt? Narmer or Menes? https://ancientsociety.com/egypt/first-pharaoh-of-ancient-egypt/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:11:19 +0000 https://www.ancientsociety.com/?p=1790 Narmer is widely regarded as the first ruler of a unified ancient Egypt and the founder, or one of the founders, of Egypt’s First Dynasty. He ruled around 3100 BCE, more than 5,000 years ago, near the end of the Predynastic Period and the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period. Narmer is famous for apparently […]

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