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It’s no mystery that the world’s greatest riddles still fascinate and their invariably spectacular locations all await the ...
For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D.
How did they build the pyramids? Why were they so obsessed with cats? Did they mummify everyone? Egyptologist Chris Naunton ...
Almost 2 years ago, it was confirmed that the cones depicted on the heads of Ancient Egyptian relief scenes were real ...
Last week, Egyptologist Fatma Keshk gave a lecture at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on courtyards in ancient Egypt. This talk was based on Keshk’s PHD titled ...
Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...
A record-breaking exhibition in Rome celebrates an artist who refused to live in the shadow of Leonardo, Michelangelo and ...
Millions of Americans experience chest pain every year. The American Heart Association (AHA) says that chest pain accounts for more than 6.5 million emergency room visits annually in the United ...
The Abel prizewinner’s pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from ...
For more than 100 years, he explains in the petition, Egypt has been deprived of many of its most significant ancient Egyptian artifacts – one of which is the 18th Dynasty Bust of Queen ...
The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure. Similar patterns follow after ...
xi, 490 pages : 25 cm "In his new book, Egyptologist Jan Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide new insights into the particular character of the civilization ...