All Ancient Pages articles related to ancient Egypt in the sections of archaeology, history, civilizations, places, myths and legends, Biblical mysteries, ancient history facts, featured stories, ancient symbols and Vikings.
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One can imagine losing a wallet, suitcase, shoe, or even some clothes, but how can an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus end up abandoned on
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Can the nearly 7,000-year-old Gradeshnitsa Tablets offer evidence of one of the world's oldest human writing? Are the carved signs and symbols on
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient temple complex Medinet Habu has survived in the arid desert climate for thousands of years. But in the 100 years since
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The Rosetta Stone is not known for its content, but as a lexicon of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The decree inscribed on the stone, however, discusses a violent
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient people understood a smile could brighten the day. That is a least what most think after the announcement a smiling sphinx has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using modern scanning technology, scientists have located a long, mysterious, never-before-seen tunnel in the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt. Named after its builder, a
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Inscribed with passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the ancient Egyptian scroll known as the Waziri Papyrus I is over 16
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - In January 2023, a group of archaeologists excavating tombs in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo, discovered the mummified remains of a man named Hekashepes, who lived
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists excavating in Egypt have made a major archaeological discovery. In the heart of the southern city of Luxor, the Egyptian archaeological team
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Egyptians believed that when we died, our spiritual body sought out an afterlife similar to this world. But entry into this
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in a century, archaeologists excavating in Egypt have discovered a 16 meters long ancient papyrus in the Saqqara area.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crocodiles were mummified in a unique way at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawa during the 5th Century BC, according to a study
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists excavating in Luxor, Egypt, has announced the discovery of a mysterious ancient tomb. According to Mostafa Waziri, head of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The sarcophagus belonged to an ancient Egyptian priest of Heracleopolis city, Ankh In Maat, and dates from the Late Period (664-332 BC). Known
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient temple of Khnum at Esna in Luxor, Egypt, continues to reveal its secrets. Scientists have been busy restoring the Esna Temple for some
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This magnificent artwork was discovered in a palace at Amarna, ancient Egypt's capital, during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten (1347–1332 B.C). The ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at Tell El-Amarna necropolis in Minya governorate in Upper Egypt have unearthed a burial containing magnificent ancient jewelry. The English Egyptian archaeological
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Athribis in the Nile Delta in Egypt was once an. important political center. Archaeological excavations at the site have
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers of the University of Malaga (UMA) and the University of Jaen (UJA) have discovered Egypt's oldest tomb oriented to the winter solstice.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian team of archaeologists working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered the remains of a colonnaded hall at the ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a pyramid dedicated to an unknown ancient Egyptian queen. Who was the mysterious Queen, and why
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun now have a promising new
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pyramids are frighteningly anonymous structures. Pharaohs built huge and well-constructed pyramids, tombs, and temples to glorify themselves and to be remembered after death, but
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists are optimistic and think the mystery of Nefertiti's tomb may soon be solved. Egypt is a land where archaeologists regularly find ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Excavations in Saqqara, Giza in Egypt continue to be successful. This time the science team unearthed the sarcophagus of King Ramses II's head
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Archaeology
Conny Waters -– AncientPages.com - Queen Nefertiti was the most powerful woman of her time and one of ancient Egypt's most mysterious historical people. There is still much
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While excavating at Giza's Saqqara necropolis, archaeologists made a surprising discovery. A team of Egyptian archaeologists headed by Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The pyramids of Giza constitute one of the world’s most iconic cultural landscapes and have fascinated humanity for thousands of years. How these
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - US Agents in Memphis have seized a precious ancient artifact. The 3,000-year-old Egyptian artifact was hidden in a canopic jar lid of a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Situated in Luxor, about 6 km from the Valley of the Kings, the Habu Temple is one of the most important Egyptian temples.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was an archaeological sensation. When British archaeologist Howard Carter found King Tut's tomb in Luxor's
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While carrying out recent restoration works on the statues of Memnon and the "Temple of Millions of Years" on the western mainland in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A joint Polish- Italian archaeological mission excavating at the temple of King Nyuserre in the Abu Gorab necropolis north of Abusir made an important
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sunken city of Heracleion off the shores of Alexandria, Egypt, was once part of the kingdom of Cleopatra. In recent years, underwater
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Abusir near Saqqara, Egypt, have unearthed a unique tomb belonging to a military officer who commanded battalions made up of
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