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Circular Mass Graves East of the Nile Are Rewriting Egypt’s Prehistory

Over 280 ancient mass graves have been discovered east of the Nile, and the monuments predate ancient Egypt.

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Throug...

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last...

Buried for 2,500 years: giant lost structure discovered beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta

The Grand Egyptian Museum and Other Adventures in Egypt ~ by Lesley Downer

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.’Ramses II at Luxor - Ozymandias, King of KingsOzymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818The Grand Egy...

Archaeologists Just Found 260 Mysterious Burial Monuments Across The Sahara That Were Built Before The Egyptian Pyramids

Archaeologists recently identified 260 enclosure burials in Sudan's Atbai Desert that date back as far as 4000 B.C.E. and hold the remains of humans and livestock from an unknown n...

Radar Discovers Huge Oval-Shaped Anomaly Beneath Ancient Egyptian City – An Archaeological Mystery In Lower Egypt

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers using an advanced satellite radar system have identified a large, oval-shaped anomaly beneath one of the most significant prehistoric si...

Partial statue of Ramesses the Great found in ancient Egyptian capital city along Nile

Ramesses II (“Ramesses the Great”) is believed by many to have been the pharoah in the biblical story of the Exodus.

Egypt unveils two restored New Kingdom tombs in Luxor

By Sayed SheashaLUXOR, Egypt, May 14 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Thursday unveiled two restored ancient tombs on the West Bank of Luxor that date back to the New Kingdom an...

Ancient monastic complex uncovered in Egypt's Nile Delta

Officials called the find significant for understanding the origins of organized monastic life.

3,000-year-old Egyptian amulet found in Spanish tomb shocks archaeologists

Monumental Statue Unearthed in Northern Egypt

SHARQIYA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that the upper half of a massive statue has been […] The post Monumental Statue Unearthed in Northern Egypt appeared first on Archa...

Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Scrolls

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered rare papyrus scrolls approximately 3,000 years old, according to Egyptian officials. The post Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptia...

Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Scrolls

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered rare papyrus scrolls approximately 3,000 years old, according to Egyptian officials. The post Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptia...

Egypt opens Luxor tombs from era when civilisation was 'at its peak'

The tombs of Amenhotep-Rabuia and his son Samut have been opened to the public for the first time since they were rediscovered in 2015.

The Assyrians: The Civilization That Terrorized the Ancient World

Origins of Egypt's Great Pyramid questioned as evidence hints at earlier use by lost civilization

New claims about chemical traces inside Egypt's Great Pyramid are fueling explosive theories that the ancient monument may be far older than history suggests.

Archaeologists uncover massive artifact depicting pharaoh thought to have challenged Moses in Exodus

According to a report from Fox News, archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a massive ancient statue believed to depict King Ramses II, the powerful pharaoh widely associated by sc...

Scientists found fossil pollen that revealed a hidden Nile channel used to build the Great Pyramid

Ancient Egyptians ingeniously utilized a forgotten, high-volume Nile branch, the Khufu Branch, to transport massive pyramid stones. Scientific evidence reveals this 'water highway'...

These Three Ancient Civilizations Across Three Continents Built Similar Monuments. Were They Mapping The Stars?

A long-standing theory suggests that civilizations in Egypt, Cambodia, and Mexico built similar structures that aligned with a mysterious cosmic event that took place in 10500 B.C....

Sacred Ancient Ritual Water Complex Dedicated To The God Pelusium Discovered At Tell El-Farama In North Sinai

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After six years of excavation at Tell El-Farama in North Sinai, archaeologists have uncovered a rare water-focused ritual complex dedicated to the l...

Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC

Image of Ancient Egyptian Dentistry, via Wikimedia Commons When we assume that modern improvements are far superior to the practices of the ancients, we might do well to actually l...

The ghosting protocols: Cancel culture in ancient Egypt and Rome

Cancel culture isn't a modern invention. Long before viral outrage, the ancient Egyptians were erasing names from monuments, while the Romans elevated the practice into a formal st...

Ancient Mummy Found with Iliad Text

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona along with the Institute of the Ancient Near East worki...

Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of ‘The Iliad’ Tucked Inside Its Wrapping

A papyrus found within the wrappings of an ancient Egyptian mummy contains a passage from Book 2 of The Iliad that lists the Greek ships sent out to fight in the Trojan War. The po...