A Diary of a Well-Known Musician in Ancient Egypt

This is a picture of the archeologist that found the diary of an ancient Egyptian musician.

A Diary of KhamenOn February 17, 2010, a diary of an ancient Egyptian was found. Harry Park, a prominent Egyptologist who had been working in Egypt for years, claims that he had found the diary in the Valley of Pharaohs in Cairo, Egypt. The other archaeologist believes that this diary was dated in the New Kingdom. The archaeologists believes that the diary was owned by a Egyptian Musician that was named Khamen Rah. He played music in the important ceremonies and for their son god ‘Rah’ in the temple. According to the Khamen’s dairy, he was a professional musician who played music to the gods in the temple. He was allowed to play as many instruments he could unlike the women, who had the option of playing harp and percussion. He played harps, lutes, drums, flutes, cymbals, clappers and tambourines, etc. Egyptian arts and music was way ahead of the rest of the world while the Egyptians Pharaohs acted like their gods. Khamen was a strong artisan in the Egyptian society. To learn more about a life of Egyptian musician, read Khamen’s translated dairy, a life of a Well-known Egyptian Musician.