New Kingdom Egypt - Ancient Society https://ancientsociety.com Ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome History Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:18:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://ancientsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/favicon-1-150x126.png New Kingdom Egypt - Ancient Society https://ancientsociety.com 32 32 167794014 The Opet Festival: Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Religious Celebration https://ancientsociety.com/egypt/the-opet-festival-ancient-egypts-greatest-religious-celebration/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:47:47 +0000 https://www.ancientsociety.com/?p=2377 The Opet Festival was one of the most important and spectacular religious festivals in ancient Egypt. Held annually in Thebes, modern-day Luxor, this grand celebration honored the gods, renewed the pharaoh’s power, and strengthened the sacred bond between Egypt’s ruler and the divine. For the ancient Egyptians, the Opet Festival was far more than a […]

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]]> 2377 An Ancient Egyptian Murder Mystery: The Assassination of Ramesses III https://ancientsociety.com/egypt/an-ancient-egyptian-murder-mystery/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 01:38:07 +0000 https://ancientsociety.com/?p=1085 Fans of true crime stories are going to love what I have for you today. It’s one of the first ever documented murder mysteries. The murder of Pharaoh Ramesses III is one of the oldest documented political conspiracies in human history. For centuries, historians knew that a plot had been hatched against the aging pharaoh, but […]

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