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Bulldozers have moved in to demolish houses in the Egyptian village of Qurna which sits on top of dozens of pharaonic tombs in Luxor.
2006-12-02
Egypt ancient EgyptEgyptian archaeologists have found more than 20 mummies in a burial chamber dating back at least 2,600 years. ... Some 70% of Egypt's ancient monuments remain buried...
2009-02-09
ancient Egypt mummyNewly published documents show how a German archaeologist used trickery to smuggle home a fabulous sculpture of the Egyptian queen, Nefertiti. The archaeologist, Ludwig Borchardt, listed the bust of Queen Nefertiti among his finds in Egypt in 1913. But he described it as a worthless piece of gypsum and hid it in a box.
2009-02-11
Egypt ancient Egypt Germany Nefertiti sculpture AkhenatenEgyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female ruler...
2007-06-27
ancient Egypt mummy femaleArchaeologists in Egypt say that a chamber unearthed last month in the Valley of the Kings is not a tomb, as was first thought. Instead, it appears the room was used by the ancient Egyptians for mummifying pharaohs.
2006-03-15
tomb ancient Egypt mumificationArchaeologists say they have found the largest funerary complex yet dating from the earliest era of ancient Egypt, more than 5,000 years ago.
2005-04-21
ancient EgyptAn ancient Egyptian mummy thought to be that of Pharaoh Ramses I has returned home after more than 140 years in North American museums.
2003-10-26
ancient Egypt mummyThe astronomers, physicists and mathematicians of ancient Greece were true innovators. But one thing it seems the ancient Greeks did not invent was the counting system on which many of their greatest thinkers based their pioneering calculations. New research suggests the Greeks borrowed their system known as alphabetic numerals from the Egyptians, and did not develop it themselves as was long believed.
2003-09-15
ancient Egypt ancient Greece number writingScientists in Egypt say they may have discovered the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, one of the most famous figures of ancient Egypt.
2003-06-10
Nefertiti mummy ancient Egypt tombArchaeologists have discovered some of the oldest evidence yet of mummification. Human remains covered in resin and cloth were found inside a 5,000-year-old cedar wood coffin at Sakkara near Cairo, Egypt. The coffin had been placed in a tomb thought to date from 3100 to 2890 BC under Egypt's 1st Dynasty...
2003-03-31
mummification ancient EgyptArchaeologists in Egypt have said they have discovered the largest known tomb in the ancient necropolis of Sakkara, to the south of Cairo. The tomb dates back 2,500 years to the 26th Dynasty and contains important artefacts, including mummified eagles.
2010-01-04
ancient Egypt tomb eagle mummy archaeologyArchaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in Alexandria dedicated to a cat goddess. The temple is the first trace of the royal quarters of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be revealed in Alexandria. The find confirms the Greek dynasty of Egyptians continued the worship of ancient animal deities.
2010-01-19
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