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Police recover pharaonic artefacts stolen in wake of revolution
Objects found buried at Saqqara Necropolis include several ancient Egyptian statuettes carved from green faience
Nevine El-Aref ,...
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Actually a lot of Faience pieces were made to order and were exclusive to a particular person so the items were carved from clay before having the faience glaze applied; sculpted would be a more...
The coffin dating to the 22/23rd dynasty originally intended for Ankhpakhered, a priest at the temple of Min at Akhmin was found to contain the mummy of a man named Wehem-ef-ankh .
Howard Carter: Famous Archaeologist, Not-So-Famous Painter
It isn’t often that we hear anything about English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter other than this groundbreaking discovery...
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True - he worked under Flinders Petrie, where he gained most of his archaeological training, but was employed as a tracer, thanks to his draughtsmanship, learnt from his father. His first tasks were...
Here presented is a draughted and shortened 1st part of an inspective morphological-study series under the full title: “The Sum Of WALL Fears And STATUA Awes, For Akhon-A'toun’s Femineity Denyers” ....
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Too Too Many 2D and 3D Artifacts Attesting Akhen's Reality
LivinginLuxor , you said: So, relying on artistic portrayals, you must also ... .
You are making a too much exaggerated expression,...
My early enthusiasm for Egypt was driven by an interest in the ancient - particularly the esoteric aspects - I duly went out and read Bauval et al but I have the retention skills of a wet teabag and...
This is an enormous site detailing some of the best 3d modelling of the Giza plateau I've ever seen. It requires a special plugin which can be installed on your first visit, and each section of the...
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Well, I have left that to load in my browser,
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just finished off building a new extension on the West wing of B.M Towers...
Many of the mythologies, have a goddess who is Queen of the Underworld, (Earth) and lives there with the Husband no-one likes, such as in Persephone etc.
Is Nepthys the equivalent ? Many myths have...
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Well, if we think of elementals, the closest I can think of Genii in Egypt.
So have started there. First thing I found was this
The Four Sons of Horus are sometimes described as the funerary...
Did Ancient Germans Steal the Pharaoh's Chair Design?
By Matthias Schulz
Roughly 3,500 years ago, folding chairs remarkably similar to ones found in Egypt suddenly became must-have items in...
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But could it just be that the design was so simple that it 'naturally' sprung up in different societies at different times - a folding stool would be easy to carry. To give a totally simplistic...
A long and in depth article about the Palaeolithic and early dynastic rock art in the Wadi Abu Subeira with photographs and maps. One to have a coffee with you as you read.
Philae's Hathor temple gets facelift in advance of formal inauguration
Following years of exhaustive restoration work, the Hathor temple on Egypt's island of Philae will reopen to public next...
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Thank you, I am so pleased to hear this! I'm returning to Luxor next winter for 2 months and then hope to go to Aswan for a week or so. This temple is on my list to see, I've read a lot about it; now...
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