Ancient Egyptian Mummy Rewrites History: Advanced Techniques 1,000 Years Earlier A new analysis of an ancient Egyptian mummy suggests that advanced mummification techniques were used 1,000 years earlier than previously believed, rewriting the understood history of ancient Egyptian funerary practices.…
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Amazing Ancient Underwater Treasures And Temples Discovered At Thonis-Heracleion A marvelous submerged ancient world can be found in the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in the Bay of Aboukir off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. Beneath the waters lies the legendary lost…
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World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery Unearthed in Ancient Egypt A dig near the famous ancient Egyptian port city of Berenice has turned up a mysterious animal cemetery dating to the 1st century AD. It emerged in the dunes to the northwest of the…
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Ancient Egyptian Head Cones Were Real, Grave Excavations Suggest Researchers have revealed details of mysterious cone-shaped headgear discovered in the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna. “Ancient Egyptian art frequently depicted people wearing cone-shaped headgear, but none had ever been found,” the…
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Egyptian mummy believed to be of a male priest turns out to be a pregnant woman According to the AFP, X-rays of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy kept at Poland’s National Museum since 1917 showed the remains of a woman with…
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Archaeologists Find Hidden Ruins of ‘Complete’ Roman-Era City in Egypt Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered a 1,800-year-old “complete residential city from the Roman Era” in the heart of the southern city of Luxor. The city, dating to the second and third…
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Luxor, Egypt’s Two Ancient Egyptian Kingdom Tombs Are Now Open Two tombs of unidentified officials dated to Egypt’s New Kingdom era have been opened at Luxor’s Draa Abul-Naglaa necropolis years after they were initially discovered by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp…
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4,500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt’s Great Pyramid In a 4,500-year-old quarry in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ramp structure that could justify how the ancient Egyptians constructed the pyramids. According to researchers from the University of…
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