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The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
It can all be, I have to admit, rather overwhelming and I’d suggest anyone planning a Nile cruise should swot up a little on ...
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The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?
The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...
Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...
It marked the second discovery announced this year of a tomb of an ancient Egyptian king. The burial chamber discovered in January at Abydos, an important city in ancient Egypt located about 10 km ...
Six Russian tourists were killed on Thursday after a viewing submarine sank near the Egyptian resort city of Hurghada, according to the local governor. Maj. Gen. Amr Hanafy confirmed the deaths in ...
An international team of archeologists have discovered a massive tomb that belonged to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest ... as well as hieroglyphic texts on yellow bands. According to Wegner ...
The burial chamber discovered in January at Abydos, an important city in ancient Egypt located about 10 ... buried inside was originally recorded in hieroglyphic texts on plastered brickwork ...
He described the rumors as "nothing but fabrications propagated by individuals with no expertise in ancient Egyptian civilization or the history of the pyramids." He also said that there is "no ...