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Pharaohs and their priests were praised in Ancient Egypt as something close to gods. Their status was highly privileged, and they benefited from all spoils that their lands could produce, while others were starving and dying. But it would seem that, in spite of having the best possible conditions to live as long as p... |
18 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Tutankhamen was perhaps the most renowned pharaoh that lived in Ancient Egypt. His name is mentioned in nearly all museums around the world, as well as in most history books. The actual historical figure lived between 1341 BC and 1323 BC, and was a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. Since its discovery, in 1922, the tomb a... |
11 November 2009
11:08 GMT |
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The Valley of the Kings, on the banks of the Nile River, opposite to the ancient city of Thebes, is the necropolis where all pharaohs and nobles from the New Kingdom (16th to 11th century BC) were entombed. For over 500 years, numerous funeral monuments were built at the location. Since it began being explored, the V... |
19 October 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Digital Chocolate has released Pyramid Bloxx in the App Store. The puzzle game resembling Tower Bloxx has won several awards from reviewers and can be immediately downloaded, either in full or limited, free version. “Pyramid Bloxx is simple, innovative and fun to play,” Trip Hawkins, CEO of Digital Choco... |
7 May 2009
08:43 GMT |
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The Lahun pyramid was first discovered and excavated about a century ago, but, thus far, the mud-brick-built structure has revealed little significant secrets. On Sunday, however, the head of the excavations at the 4,000-year-old site announced that a cache of mummies had been discovered, each neatly buried in its li... |
27 April 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Egypt’s Superior Council for Antiquities Director Zahi Hawass announced on Wednesday that a team of Egyptian archaeologists would start excavations on a new location near the ancient city of Alexandria, where they believed the bodies of the pharaoh Cleopatra and her consort Mark Antony were entombed. The couple... |
17 April 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Tempering with portraits and pictures to hide imperfections is not something new. Even kings and queens did it, either to hide scars or deformities, or to magnify certain physical traits, depending on the purpose of the painting. However, it now appears that this type of modifications is something that has been aroun... |
31 March 2009
04:13 GMT |
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On Friday, an Italian archaeologist claimed to have discovered one of the oldest-known temples in the Mediterranean Sea area, one that was believed to be more than 4,000 years old. If this turns out to be accurate, then it precedes all other known structures in the region by more than a millennium. Maria Rosaria Belg... |
30 March 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Each time archaeologists discover something that belonged to the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, they are overwhelmed with joy upon unearthing items that are more than 2 or 3 millennia old. But recently, one of their discoveries has made the entire community buzz with excitement – researchers have found a perfectly-... |
16 March 2009
04:33 GMT |
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The tombs of the pharaohs that were buried at Saqqara, an Egyptian archaeological site that never seizes to amaze archaeologists, has recently revealed other surprises, when a team of Japanese investigators has found four wooden sarcophagi, which date back more than 3,300 years, Egyptian authorities have announced on... |
26 February 2009
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The Saqqara necropolis, situated south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, dates back to the 6th Dynasty, which reigned over the areas some 4,300 years ago. A vast stretch of land was covered with temples, tombs and pyramids, in what would today look like an over-sized and gigantic graveyard. Over the years, it has yie... |
10 February 2009
08:23 GMT |
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A new pair of Pharaonic tombs that were recently dug up at the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo prove that the ancient burial grounds are far more widespread than previously thought. The two new tombs actually belonged to high-ranking officials in the old Egyptian dynasties. The nation's top archaeologist says that... |
23 December 2008
06:45 GMT |
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The numbers of compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered cars has been slowly rising in Egypt, South America and Europe over the last few years, as people try to escape the burden of having to pay more and more money for gasoline or diesel. Plus, the gas offers a slightly cleaner alternative to fossil fuel, releasing very... |
2 December 2008
09:11 GMT |
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A 4,300-year old pyramid has been discovered at Saqqara, the ancient Egyptian necropolis and burial place of the pharaohs. The monument was lying buried under the desert sands and was effectively discovered two years ago. But the announcement comes so late because the archaeologists wanted to be sure that it was ind... |
12 November 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Two mummies of Egyptians who died very young, about 3 and a half millennia ago, were unearthed from a nameless tomb in Thebes, once a great necropolis and capital city of Egypt. DNA techniques used by the researchers enabled them to find out that the 2 people were killed by malaria, which pushes further in time the ... |
24 October 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Archaeologists discovered an ancient bowl, dated 2nd century BC to early 1st century AD, engraved with an inscription that refers to Christ, the earliest one found to date. The carving on the bowl reads "DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS," which can be translated either as "by Christ the magician" or "the magician by Chris... |
6 October 2008
08:12 GMT |
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Among the most puzzling monuments in the world, pyramids are also among the first large-scale landmarks, built with no help from the engineering and technology of modern times. Although the large majority thinks of Egypt when speaking of pyramids, it is not the only place where they exist(ed).Geometrically speaking, ... |
30 September 2008
09:17 GMT |
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The first underwater museum in the world will allow Egypt's visitors to glance at the remains of queen Cleopatra's Palace covered long ago by the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The area near the New Library of Alexandria, where Cleopatra and her Roman lover, Mark Antony stayed just before she commit... |
18 September 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Huawei, the giant Chinese telecommunications company based in Shenzhen, announced that it was selected by Etisalat Misr, one of Egypt's three mobile carriers, to expand and enhance its GSM / 3.75G network. Following the new agreement between the two companies, Huawei will deploy an end-to-end network soluti... |
11 September 2008
08:47 GMT |
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The pantheon of the ancient Egyptians was rich in diverse deities. The question inevitably arises: how could this polytheist religion influence later monotheist religions?The Sun GodThe main Egyptian deity was Amon Re, the king of all gods and the Sun God. The Sun had a central position in the religion of the ancient... |
13 May 2008
10:21 GMT |
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The pharaoh Amenophis IV (1372-1354 BC) is most known amongst Egyptologists as the pharaoh who intended to introduce a monotheist religion in ancient Egypt. The cult of Aton (the solar disk) officially replaced Amon-Ra's cult. This was clearly an act of authority of the pharaoh, as priests considered the new ori... |
6 May 2008
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It has already been known as the largest pharaoh tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Now it appears that the tomb of Seti I, who ruled Egypt between 1313-1292 BC, is larger than originally believed. In 1817, Giovanni Battista Belzoni measured the tomb as being 328 ft (107 m) long. The new research shows its real length ... |
21 April 2008
02:59 GMT |
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In time, flowers generated thousands of legends and myths. These legends speak about their powers and magical virtues. No wonder flowers have their secret languages. The rose is by far the flower most charged of symbolism and meaning. 25 Ma year old petrified fossils of roses (Rosa sp) were found. The oldest known hu... |
2 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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This is one of the best preserved and oldest large Egyptian statues. A European-Egyptian team discovered the 12-ft-tall (3.6-m-tall) quartzite representation of the powerful Egyptian queen at the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor's West Bank. The statue was joined to the broken-off leg of a much larger c... |
1 April 2008
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There is nothing more defining for the Egyptian civilization than the royal tombs called pyramids. Donald Redford, professor of Classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at Penn State has attempted, on Physorg.com, to explain how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, based on their solar religion. The Egyptian s... |
28 March 2008
09:45 GMT |
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The Sun had a central position in the religion of the ancient Egyptians. First, it was represented as the golden scarab, Hepri, symbolizing the becoming. Then, the hieroglyph of Sun, the proper god Ra (Re), appeared, as a circle with a point in the middle. A first rank god, Ra personified the Sun as source of vital f... |
27 March 2008
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When the Greeks saw the odd tombs of the pharaohs for the first time, they observed they had the shape of cookies made of flour and sesame, called "piramys". Hence the name "pyramids", even if the Egyptians always called them "mer". The shape of the pyramids was the result of an architectonic concept that evolved in ... |
21 March 2008
17:31 GMT |
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How much gold did the ancient Egyptian goldsmith process? The historian Hecateus of Miletus (4th century BC) said the extracted gold would raise to 32 million Greek mines (the 'mine' was the ancient Greek unit of mass; the amount in discussion represents about 10,000 tonnes!), a highly exaggerated number. T... |
20 March 2008
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This river is the maker of the oldest civilization recorded by the historical sources: 5,000 years ago, the Egyptian state emerged on its banks. It is best known as the longest river on the planet. Nile is consensually considered so as it has 6,695 km in length, even if some say that Amazon is longer (6,800 km). The ... |
15 March 2008
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It has been considered that the donkey was domesticated 6,000 years ago, from the African wild ass (Equus asinus), in northeastern Africa, to which it still bears a great resemblance, including the shoulders' "cross" (the wild donkeys of southwestern US and other areas are just feral bewildered animals). But a n... |
11 March 2008
06:02 GMT |
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest monolith statue in the world. It is 73.5 m (241 ft) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide, and 20 m (65 ft) high and represent the oldest known monumental sculpture. But its origins are still a subject of debate, as the statue seems to be much older than the Egyptian civilization. In the famo... |
12 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In the heaven of the tomb raiders, an American-Russian team has managed to find 4 ancient tombs with well-preserved mummies, ornate painted coffins, and mummified dogs. The necropolis of Deir el-Banat is located in the oasis El Faiyum, 50 mi (80 km) southwest of Cairo, a place also famous for the discoveries of the o... |
31 January 2008
02:55 GMT |
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1. The fertile banks of the Nile River offered several annual crops, as many floodings the river produced. The farmers would eagerly wait for the flooding, because after the water's retreat, the fields remained covered with a thick layer of mud on which the crops grew rapidly. This condition boosted the existenc... |
30 January 2008
15:58 GMT |
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Nubia is the name of a region historically located in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, at the gates of Black Africa, stretching from the first cataract to the sixth cataract of the Nile River. The Egyptians called the main Nubia kingdom 'Kush'. Kush was located on the region of the third cataract and was ... |
29 January 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Their origins are traced in ancient Egypt, but they "traveled" around the world, reaching cities like Istanbul, London, Paris, Rome and New York. The obelisk is a stone column with four sides thinning towards the upper part and ending with a pointed, pyramidal top. The oldest obelisks are 4,000 years old, while the ... |
29 November 2007
02:56 GMT |
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How would it feel if you heard that anything you wrote on your blog could send you to jail? Imagine how Abdel Karim Suleiman felt when he was charged with insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak in eight of his blog articles written since 2004. He was also the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for Internet wr... |
20 November 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Those fascinated by the ancient Egypt have been waiting for this moment for 85 years, since the discovery of the famous mummy of the 19-year-old "Boy Pharaoh" by Howard Carter: as from yesterday the public can see the 3,000-year-old face of Tutankhamon in his tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings.The mummy has a shr... |
5 November 2007
02:50 GMT |
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The puzzle around the death of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun becomes more and more interesting. An upcoming TV documentary says the boy king could have died because of a fall from his chariot during a hunt. 2005 CT scans revealed a severe fracture in his left thighbone and theories about murder were replaced by the hypothe... |
24 October 2007
03:01 GMT |
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Ignorant tourists make many dumb acquisitions and they should prevent that. Buying exotic seashells means more reefs destroyed, an ivory piece another dead elephant, a monkey and a parrot a step towards the species' extinction and tiger bones or rhino horns translate to less tigers or rhinos. But if consciousnes... |
10 September 2007
06:00 GMT |
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We know that queen Hatshepsut wore false beard. But the ancient Egyptian technology went much further. An artificial big toe discovered on the foot of an Egyptian mummy could be the world's oldest functioning prosthetic body part. Volunteers missing their right big toe will test replicas of the prosthesis to see... |
28 July 2007
03:43 GMT |
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It is best known as the longest river on the planet. Nile is consensually considered so as it has 6,695 km in length, even if some say that Amazon is longer (6,800 km). The problem is that nobody could tell where Amazon ends, due to its huge mouth. Anyway, while Amazon is the mightiest river on the planet (with a deb... |
25 July 2007
11:27 GMT |
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In his conquest of the world, Alexander the Great founded the legendary city of Alexandria when he reached Egypt. But new traces found underwater reveal a city existing on the same place at least seven centuries before the arrival of Alexander, which was even mentioned in Homer's Odyssey (describing the adventur... |
25 July 2007
02:52 GMT |
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While early Europeans were decorating cave walls with paintings of bisons, aurochs and lions, 15,000 years ago the ancient Egyptians made similar rock face drawings and etchings. "It is not at all an exaggeration to call it 'Lascaux on the Nile,'" said expedition leader Dirk Huyge, curator of the Egyptian C... |
12 July 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Last week, perhaps the most significant finding from the ancient Egypt was announced, ever since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by the English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. In 1903, Carter had come across two sarcophagi in a tomb marked as KV60 in the Theban necropolis, the Valley of the Kings in Lux... |
7 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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Perhaps the most fascinating woman of the ancient Egypt was not Cleopatra (which was not even Egyptian, but Greek), but the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Now, the rush for finding her mummy seems to have finally reached an end. This would be the most significant finding from the ancient Egypt since the discovery of the ... |
27 June 2007
06:38 GMT |
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This week's game is one that many of you already like. It has a very well known game-play... same old action-puzzle casual stuff.But nobody cares if the theme is expired, because everybody knows how addictive this game-play is. The rules of the game are easy to learn and in these kinds of cases, the graphics of ... |
1 June 2007
15:24 GMT |
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A mysterious mummy of a child was found in central Egypt, near the city of Abydos, in 1912. It was acquired by the Pittsburgh museum and it has been on display since 1989. The child must have lived sometime between 380 B.C. and 250 B.C., during the Greek Ptolemaic Dynasty (Cleopatra was the last of this dynasty), in... |
5 May 2007
04:57 GMT |
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This mighty pharaoh has been linked to the events counted in the Bible about the Jews' exodus from Egypt and was confronted by Moses. Ramses II (1270 to 1213 B.C.) was even more known as one of the greatest military leaders of the Ancient Egypt and builder of some of the largest Egyptian monuments. Now, locks of... |
11 April 2007
11:07 GMT |
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4700 years ago, in the place where Santorini archipelago is located today, occurred a devastating huge volcanic explosion. This eruption sank most of the land where now the Greek islands are located and killed over 35,000 people and the thriving Minoan civilization.All this is connected today to the myth of the Atlan... |
3 April 2007
05:35 GMT |
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The Canopic jars have been on display in the Louvre Museum (Paris) for a century (more precisely from 1905) holding the embalmed innards of the great Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II the Great (1302-1213 BC). But a new chemical analysis made by a French team revealed that the four pots, scripted with hieroglyphs, are not w... |
16 March 2007
08:40 GMT |
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