Researchers announce that they may have finally found who King Tutankhamun's parents were. The results came after scientists began investigating a number of Egyptian mummies belonging to the royal class, and they looked at all of their DNA records. The finding is very important, as it sheds some light on one of ... |
17 February 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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