Enlarge / Illustration of an embalming scene in an underground chamber. Nikola Nevenov reader comments 14 with 0 posters participating Share this story Most of what we know about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques comes from a few ancient texts. In addition to a text called The Ritual of Embalming, Greek historian Herodotus, in his Histories, mentions ..
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Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reader comments 60 with 21 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists in Egypt recently rediscovered two sphinxes that guarded the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun. Despite 3,400 years of weathering, the sphinxes still bear the carved limestone face of the pharaoh, who is adorned ..
Enlarge / Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 3400-year-old city just outside Luxor, dating back to the reign of Amenhotop III, grandfather to King Tut. Zahi Hawass reader comments 38 with 24 posters participating Share this story A team of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed what some describe as an industrial royal metropolis just north of modern-day ..
reader comments 37 with 27 posters participating Share this story Egyptologists have recently translated the oldest-known mummification manual. Translating it required solving a literal puzzle; the medical text that includes the manual is currently in pieces, with half of what remains in the Louvre Museum in France and half at the University of Copenhagen in ..
Saleem and Hawass 2021 reader comments 42 with 34 posters participating Share this story CT scans of a mummified Egyptian pharaoh, once suspected to be the victim of a palace assassination, suggest that he was actually executed after being captured in battle in the mid-16th century BCE. Pharaoh Seqenenre led his army from Upper Egypt ..
Enlarge / Copies of the Book of the Dead, or excerpts from it, were often included in burials so the deceased would have a guide to the afterlife. reader comments 30 with 24 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists in Egypt are preparing to open a 3,000-year-old burial shaft at the Saqqara necropolis, south of ..