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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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A massive Old Kingdom mastaba featuring rare and beautiful paintings has been unearthed during an archaeological dig in the Dahshur necropolis, located about
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During an excavation in Egypt's Minya Governorate, archaeologists discovered a massive statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II, who reigned during the 19th Dynasty of
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Places
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The tomb of Neferhotep, a renowned scribe of Amun from the 18th Dynasty, during the reign of Pharaoh Ay (1327-1323 BC), was finally
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A group of academic researchers from the University of Würzburg dedicated five years to examining "magical" texts from ancient Egypt. Their efforts have culminated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Saqqara necropolis in Egypt has revealed more of its ancient secrets. A remarkable 4,000-year-old tomb has been unearthed by the joint archaeological
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Rock-hewn Ptolemaic and Roman tombs with intriguing golden masks, mummies, coffins, and terracotta statues have been unearthed in the historic city of Al Bahnasa
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many reports from antiquity about outbreaks of plague mention Egypt as the source of pestilences that reached the Mediterranean. But was this really
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Thousands of previously ignored small coins discovered in Marea, a city near Alexandria, have been examined by numismatists from the Faculty of Archaeology of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This year, an archaeology expedition of the Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Faculty of Arts of the UK excavated shaft tombs from
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As many as 25,000 statues of ancient Egyptian deities and Ushabti figurines crafted from faience have been revealed to the public for the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In ancient Egypt, various deities were portrayed as animals. Thoth, the god of learning and wisdom was represented by a hamadryas baboon. Baboons,
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they lived alongside? Published in Environmental Archaeology, Our latest research, based on the venomous
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the ongoing restoration works of Esna Temple in Luxor , the Egyptian-German archaeologists additionally uncovered more original reliefs and engravings on the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Different people have different religions. Each religion has its symbols and characteristic signs. Egyptian Ankh. Image credit: Nachbarnebenan - Public Domain Just as
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A marvelous submerged ancient world can be found in the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in the Bay of Aboukir off Egypt’s Mediterranean
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The language of ancient Egypt has no known word for ‘art’. Its civilization is often perceived as having been extremely formal in its
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Worn as a note in an amulet around the neck, deposited in a grave, or found as a manual in a scholar's library:
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1927, a team of archaeologists led by George A. Reisner excavated at Giza, Egypt, where they unearthed a remarkable ancient treasure. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers who discovered a vast network of stone walls along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan say these
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt, have unearthed two stunning embalming workshops. During a press conference, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An Egyptian team of archaeologists has discovered a collection of structure relics dated to the Byzantine and Late Period in Meir Necropolis in
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient Egypt, there was no public school system. In consequence, the average Egyptian could neither read nor write. It is estimated that
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Historical Figures
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Netflix's new movie about Queen Cleopatra has upset many people. Starring Adele James as Cleopatra, John Partridge as Julius Caesar, Craig Russell as Marc
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Egyptian seaport Berenice Troglodytica (also knowns as Briniki ) on the western shore of the Red Sea have
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As archaeologists continue to excavate the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, new impressive findings are being made. The Italian Dutch archeological mission from the
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time in nearly 50 years, the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramses II will go on display and can be admired by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have reconstructed the face of a man who lived 35,000 years ago in Egypt. His remains, an almost complete skeleton, with the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Several severed hands have been discovered in three pits within a courtyard in front of the throne room of a 15th Dynasty (c.1640–1530 BC)
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti—and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti—as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of
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