A Pharaoh with Female Body
	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 orientation a heresy. Amenophis IV, or Amenothes ("Amon is pleased") in Egyptian, adopted a royal name - ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 03:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Largest Pharaoh Tomb Is Larger than Previously Thought
	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 to be 446 ft (136 m). "[This is] the largest tomb and this is longest tunnel that's ever found in any ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Flowers: Legends, Myths, Symbols
	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 human representation of a flower is that of a 7,000 years old rose carved on a silver medal found in a tomb from the Altay ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 17:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Huge Statue of Powerful Egyptian Queen Has Been Found
	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 colossal statue of Amenhotep III, the pharaoh of the 18th dynasty who ruled between 1391 and 1353 B.C. The queen was Tiye, ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Debunked Myths About How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built
	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 ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mysteries of the Egyptian Sun
	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 force, but also as a star implying light as reality and symbol. He was the supreme judge of the Universe. Worshiped in Egy ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Egyptian Pyramids: How They Appeared and How They Were Built
	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 the same time with the Egyptian religious ideology. The origin of the pyramids was in the g ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Gold of the Pharaohs
	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. The study of the hieroglyphs carved on the walls of the temple of Karnak, representing the annals of Tutmosis III, from the 18 ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mystic River: Nile
	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 problem is that nobody could tell where Amazon ends, due to its huge mouth. Anyway, while Amazon is the mightiest riv ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2008, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

When Was the Donkey Domesticated?
	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 new research published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows that donkey dome ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Enigma of the Great Sphinx
	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 famous Egyptian Giza Valley, three pyramids captured the attention of the Egyptologists. They were built at close d ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First Dog Mummies Ever Found in Egypt!
	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 oldest elephant fossils, some 50 million years old. Given the intensity of looting in the area, this was a surprise. The cemet ... [read more >>]
	31 January 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

9 Things About the Ancient Egyptian Civilization
	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 existence of various independent agricultural settlements. But around 5,200 BC, the first pharaoh, Menes, unified by war all the popu ... [read more >>]
	30 January 2008, 15:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Were the Black Pharaohs?
	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 attested since 2,000 BC. Egypt was better developed, economically and culturally, than Nubia, but Nubia was ric ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's An Obelisk?
	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 "youngest" about 2,000. Most obelisks are made of red granite carved by ancient Egyptians. They were ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Egyptian Authorities Out for Blogger Blood
	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 writings and was condemned to four years behind bars. Back in February, the verdict was widely condemned by the hu ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tutankhamon's Face Exposed to the Public
	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 shriveled leathery black face and body and it is exposed in a climate-controlled glass box, but only the face and ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did Tut Die? The Hunter King
	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 hypothesis of death from an infection. "He had an accident when he was hunting in the desert. Falling from the chariot m ... [read more >>]
	24 October 2007, 03:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Curse of the Pharaoh
	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 consciousness does not work, an agonizing death could make the bad tourists more cautious about their acquisitions. This is what happ ... [read more >>]
	10 September 2007, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Oldest Human Functional Prosthesis, Found on an Egyptian Mummy
	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 how effective that really was. The mummy from the Cairo museum in Egypt was discovered in 2000 in a tomb close to the an ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nile, the River That Revives the Desert
	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 debit of 200,000 cubic meters/second, 20 % of the freshwater volume penetrating the oceans), Nile has a 60 times lower debit ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 11:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Did Alexander Really Found Alexandria?
	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 adventures on the way back home of the Greek hero Odysseus or Ulysses, the inventor of the Trojan horse, with which the Greeks defeat ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Egyptian Civilization, 10,000 Years Older than Thought
	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 Collection at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium. "The style is riveting. The art ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mummy Analysis Shows Ancient Egyptian Queen Was Fat, Balding and Bearded
	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 Luxor. One apparently harbored the mummy of Hatshepsut's wet nurse Sitre-In and the identity of the other mu ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mummy of the Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut Has Been Identified!
	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 tomb of Tutankhamun by the English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. A broken tooth represents the latest clue which m ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Luxor 2
	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 the game are not bad at all. In this game, called "Luxor 2", the player is taken into a voyage to the land of the ... [read more >>]
	01 June 2007, 15:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scanning Finds A Spear in the Head of an Egyptian Mummy
	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), installed in Egypt after its conquest by Alexander the Great. A CT scan done Wednesday at a Pittsburgh hospital d ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pharaoh of the Exodus Receives Back His Hair Stolen in France
	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 3,200-year-old hair from this pharaoh' head adornments were displayed at the Egyptian Museum on Tuesd ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Volcanic Foam from Atlantis Explosion Found on Egyptian Sinai
	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 Atlantis. And currently, Santorini is the only place near Europe where submarine volcanoes can be found (in 1650, one ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pharaoh's Heart Unmasked
	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 what people thought they are: the jars contained just ordinary cosmetics, from a much later date. The jars exhibit the ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Was the Labyrinth?
	When talking about the labyrinth, the most common concept is that of the famous palace from Knossos belonging to king Minos of Crete, built by the legendary Daedalus, who escaped from captivity together with his son Icarus by making themselves wax wings. Archaeologists named the palace “labyrinth” because the building had 1,500 rooms connected through twisted corridors, contorted stairs, fake outdoors and reception halls, where the vis ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2007, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia