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The tomb robbers have led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of Egypt's most ancient pyramid.
The mud-brick and limestone tombs date back more than 4,000 years to the 5th Dynasty were meant to house a chief dentist, Iy...
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Egypt announced Sunday the discovery of a carving dating back to the 12th century BC which could hold the key to valuable information on Karnak Temple, the largest ancient religious site in the world.
According to an Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) statement, the stone carving was...
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The great library of Alexandria part 1 Click to Play | View Details The great library of Alexandria part 2 Click to Play | View Details
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Ancient Egyptians
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The discovery of gold cartouches dating back to 1400 BC sheds new light on the relationship between two ancient Egyptian rulers, Egypt's antiquities department said Friday.
A team of French and Egyptian archaeologists have discovered two sets of nine solid gold cartouches bearing the name o...
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Robots are set to probe the narrow shafts of the Great Pyramid to try to solve one of the mysteries of the 4 500-year-old structure.
This week, Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist, will inspect a robot designed to climb the two narrow shafts which might lead to an undiscovered chamber in the pyramid of [b...
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Egyptian radiologists who performed the first-ever computed tomography (CT) evaluation of King Tutankhamun’s mummy believe they have solved the mystery of how the ancient pharaoh died. The CT images and results of their study were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of N...
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When King Tutankhamen died, about 1400 BC, he was buried with one of the most lavish funerals of all time. When it was discovered in 1922, the tomb contained more gold than the Royal Bank of Egypt at the time. Tutankhamen had with him a truly royal weapon: an iron dagger with a hilt and sheath of gold decor...
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Another new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: ‘KV64’ - II
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project says radar readings show what could be another 3,500-year-old chamber from the days of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, not far from the recently explored KV63 chamber.
“ARTP first encountered evide...
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Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egy...
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Outside the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, a long line of people are waiting for a first chance to glimpse the sun's rays as they fall on the faces of the statues of Pharaoh Ramses II, and the gods of creation and light, Ptah, Amen and Heru-khuti. At exactly 6:20 AM, the first beams of light fall on the sanctua...
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The Egyptian pharaoh Djedefre (or Radjedef) was the successor and son of Khufu. The mother of Djedefre is unknown. His name means "Enduring like Re." Djedefre was the first king to use the title Son of Ra as part of his royal titulary, which is seen as an indication of the growing popularity...
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Crown reveals new holy female pharaoh A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the basis for a re-interpretation of historical developments in Egypt in the period following the death of Alexander the Great. A thesis from th...
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Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday. After five hours spent lifting the lid of a sarcophagus in a pyramid discovered south of Cairo last year, the...
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Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis III, and meaning Thoth is born) was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost fifty-four years, and his reign is usually dated from April 24, 1479 BC to March 11, 1425 BC; however, this includ...
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Crocodile God Temple Featured Croc Nursery Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country's tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo. Founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III (about 1859-1813 B.C.) and Amenemha...
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Pi-Ramesses (Pi-Ramesses Aa-nakhtu, meaning "House of Ramesses, Great in Victory") was the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt Pharaoh Ramesses II (Ramesses the Great, reigned 1279 - 1213 BC) at Qantir near the old site of Avaris. The city had previously served as a sum...
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Google Earth satellite imagery survey may have revealed two possible pyramid complexes in Egypt. Satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol of Maiden, N.C said that the complexes were located about 90 miles apart, and contained unusual grouping of mounds with intriguing features and orien...
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King Ramesses III's throat was slit, analysis reveals Conspirators murdered Egyptian King Ramesses III by slitting his throat, experts now believe, based on a new forensic analysis. The first CT scans to examine the king's mummy reveal a cut to the neck deep enough to be fatal. [url=http://www.bb...
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Ramesses II was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his 90th or 91st year. If he became Pharaoh in 1279 BCE as most Egyptologists today believe, he would have assumed the throne on May 31, 1279 BC, based on his known accession date of III Shemu day 27. Read more
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