Ancient Egypt Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Four ancient Egyptian artefacts that were illegally smuggled to Italy have found their way home. The artefacts were handed over to the Egyptian
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Egypt has successfully recovered an ancient wooden coffin cover from a Houston museum in the US. The coffin cover was smuggled from Egypt
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pi-Ramesse (Piramesse) is an example of an ancient city of great importance, which archaeologists surprisingly identified in two locations. Reconstruction of the city
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Deir el-Bahri, a sacred resting place for the pharaohs, is a mountain valley on the western bank of the Nile River near Thebes,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty is considered one of the most significant figures in ancient Egypt, closely associated with the South of Egypt and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Heliopolis (" city of the Sun," or "city of pillars") was a city in ancient Egypt, located right at the apex of the
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Djoser was possibly the founder of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. The Old Kingdom began with the third dynasty
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Egyptian architects did not sign their buildings, so their impressive achievements or the remains of them, as we see them today can only
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Tanis, an ancient area in Egypt's Nile Delta, was an early subject of the archaeologists' interest. The city's name was already well known
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Giza pyramids belong to Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, and vandals and thieves looted them long ago. The southernmost is associated with Menkaure (Mykerinos, in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The history of Sais goes back to Egypt's pre-dynastic times (before 3100 BC). It was once a beautiful Egyptian city located in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Until the 9th century, 200 years after the Arabs took power in Egypt, papyrus scrolls, known from the beginning of the pharaonic state,
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Egyptian dream is, alongside the Babylonian dream, one of the most widespread ways of interpreting dreams. The belief that dreams can foretell
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Caesarion was murdered on August 23, 30 B.C., only 17 years old. He was the last King of the Egyptian Ptolemies, most probably
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Egyptian mythology, references to the Ogdoad appear in texts as early as the 25th Dynasty, known as the Nubian Dynasty or the Kushite
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages. com - In ancient Egyptian beliefs, Meskhenet (Meskhent) was a goddess associated with childbirth, motherhood, and destiny. By breathing into each newborn child, Meskhenet gave
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A roughly 5,000-year-old cuneiform stone tablet, in possession of the British Museum in London shows how workers were paid their daily rations in
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - The first governmental health system was introduced in ancient Egypt. We might think of state supported health care as an innovation of the 20th century, but it’s
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - A merkhet ("instrument of knowing") was an ancient Egyptian timekeeping instrument used for telling time at night. It is an amazing example of ancient technology. The device
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - The oldest preserved door locks we have ever found belong to the ancient Egyptians and date back to at least 2000 B.C. It’s believed, but not proven,
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Throughout history, the ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and that Osiris, the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead,
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ptah was among the most revered creator gods of the Egyptian pantheon, next to Amun and Ra. He was the creator god and keeper
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Maat represented the most essential religious concept of the Egyptian view of the world. It was a concept of order of the world
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Archaeology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient Egypt, pharaohs were considered to be both divine deities as well as mortal rulers, but natural disasters and climate change could
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - History of powerful gigantic shafts of polished granite – known as obelisk – is shrouded in mystery. The obelisk is a monolithic, four-sided piece
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most impressive and mysterious constructions of the ancient world. Many theories have been presented, but the truth is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Five ancient Roman tombs with different architectural style have been discovered in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis. The tombs, unearthed in Beir Al-Shaghala necropolis in the Western Desert are built
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Ancient giants roaming the Earth are mentioned in several myths and legends from all across the world. Nevertheless, the existence of prehistoric giants is still a subject
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ipuwer, an ancient Egyptian sage, was the author of a hieratic manuscript known as "Ipuwer Papyrus" (or Papyrus Leiden 344", even known as
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A controversial artifact known as the Inventory Stela says that the Valley Temple and the Sphinx, already existed during the reign of Khufu, who ruled more
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - According to Biblical scholars, the Ten Commandments were written by God upon two tablets of stone and then given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians sincerely believed in the afterlife, and a complex ritual set of burial customs was necessary to ensure an afterlife. Mummification was
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Much has been written and said about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. When and how was it created and for what purpose?
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - More than sixty years ago, two ancient wooden boats were discovered in separate carved stone pits next to Giza's Great Pyramid in Egypt. Until
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians were familiar with prosthetic foot technology and produced functioning toe prostheses for amputated limbs and many of these impressive achievements thousands of years ago. Scientists
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Egyptian Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Unquestionably, Osiris was one of the most important deities in ancient Egypt. Osiris was a god of death, resurrection, and fertility. His origin and
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Valley Temple at Giza, which is usually ascribed to the Pharaoh Chephren (2520-2494 BC) is a remarkable and mostly unusual ancient structure. The
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Very little is known about Sonchis of Sais, an Egyptian priest who, according to ancient Greek texts, revealed intriguing information about the legendary Atlantis.
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - With its magnificent pyramids, the sphinx, mysterious tombs and enigmatic hieroglyphs, Egypt is a country full of ancient secrets, some of which are heavily
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The first Pharaoh in Egyptian recorded history was Menes-Narmer and his reign marks the beginning of human civilization. As recorded on the Palermo Stone,
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - There is no other place on Earth like Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Anyone with even a slight interest in history and civilization is aware of this fact. For
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