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The "Headless Pyramid", or Number 29 as it was previously known as, stands today only as the foundation of the ancient structure. It was first discovered in the middle of the 19th century, by Karl Richard Lepsius, a German archaeologist, but the sands of Saqqara buried it, its location being lost. Yesterday, archaeol... |
6 June 2008
04:18 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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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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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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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
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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
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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 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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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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