Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Rediscovered at Saqqara
	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, archaeologists announced that they have again discovered the 'lost' pyramid currently believed to have belonged t ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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