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What Did A Day In Pharaoh’ s Life Look Like?

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Ancient Egyptians believed that the great gods had created the universe and maintained order; they were also involved in people's everyday lives...

8 Household Items Every Ancient Egyptian Family Owned

From makeup and board games to stone pillows and toe socks, the everyday items of ancient Egyptians reveal they valued cleanliness, leisure, and piety.

3,500-year-old residential complex discovered in Egypt

THE MYTH OF EGYPT

THE MYTH OF EGYPT Egypt in antiquity existed not only in actuality, in the north-eastern quadrant of Africa at the point where the forces which were to mould civilisation meet and...

The Myths and Deities of Ancient Egypt by Rachel Louise Driscoll

The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a pantheon of well over 1,400 gods and goddesses – possibly as many as 2,000.  Each deity was believed to have its area of power in life or in deat...

Scientists Find Unexpected Ingredients in Ancient Egyptian Paint

The findings suggest that the artists of ancient Egypt cared deeply about every step of their work.

The Only Ancient Coin Ever Struck with Egyptian Hieroglyphics

With Permission By Russell A. Augustin In the long history of ancient coinage, innovation usually followed power. Greek city-states expressed civic identity through coin designs, a...

Archaeologists Say 3,200-Year-Old Inscription May Point to ‘Lost’ Ancient Egyptian City

The city of Mesen lay in a key strategic location for ancient Egypt's military campaigns at the time.

What Ancient Egyptians Really Ate for Breakfast

Find out what Ancient Egyptians ate (and drank) to fuel a day of pyramid building.

7 Jobs Available to Women in Ancient Egypt, From Physician to Priestess

Women in ancient Egypt had plenty of legal rights alongside a number of employment opportunities.

From Nefertiti to Cleopatra, Ancient Egypt's Biggest Mysteries Have Yet to Be Solved

Learn more about some of ancient Egypt's most sought-after mysteries and what we have discovered so far. 

Mystery as 3,000-year-old tomb is unearthed in Egypt

It contains an open courtyard leading to a rock-cut chapel shaped like an inverted “T”, with burial chambers carved beneath the ground.

Egypt discovers remains of tomb, false door of ancient royal chamberlain at Saqqara necropolis

In front of the false door, archaeologists uncovered a complete set of alabaster funerary tools, including an offering table and disc, a purification basin, a jug, and a basin. 

Princesses in Ancient Egypt were trained in their grave weapons

Life as a daughter of royalty in Ancient Egypt may not have been all rose petals and feather fans.Continue ReadingCategory: Archaeology, Sc...

The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb

Carved into the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt is a relief that looks a great deal like a lightbulb: an oval bubble with a snake curling inside it, held up by a pil...

An Egyptian Tomb's 4,000-Year-Old False Door Reveals How the Living Honored the Dead

Learn how a false door, ritual offerings, and later burials trace centuries of changing funerary practices at Saqqara.

Egypt uncovers burial ground spanning thousands of years in Nile Delta

Scientists uncover lost world beneath Egypt's desert that rewrites its ancient past

Scientists uncover lost world beneath Egypt's desert that rewrites its ancient past

In 1922, Howard Carter’s team lifted a sealed alabaster jar from Tutankhamun’s tomb and found paint pigments still vivid...

Egyptian blue — the world's first synthetic pigment — held its colour inside Tutankhamun's tomb for 3,300 years, and its strange near-infrared glow now lets conservators separate g...

Lost City Ancient Egyptian City Of Masn And Tell Abu Saifi: Archaeological Discoveries Along The Ancient Horus Military...

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The search for the lost ancient Egyptian city of Masn continues, and archaeologists have uncovered important clues about its location. Several yea...

4,000-Year-Old Tomb Unearthed in Saqqara

SAQQARA, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, an intact Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 b.c.) tomb […] The post 4,000-Year-Old Tomb Unearthed in Saqqara appeared first on Archaeol...

The Egyptian temple carving that looks like a giant lightbulb

Carved into the Hathor temple at Dendera in Egypt is a relief that looks a great deal like a lightbulb: an oval bubble with a snake curling inside it, held up by a pillar. A fringe...

Over 4,000-year-old tomb discovered at Egypt's Saqqara

Egypt on Monday announced the discovery of an over 4,000-year-old tomb dating to the late Fifth Dynasty (2494-2345 BC) at the Mariette Cemetery north of Saqqara, Giza Province, wes...

Egypt uncovers ancient tombstones (PHOTOS)

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered carved tombstones coffins and ritual artifacts at Tel El-Deir Read Full Article at RT.com