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Most people know that my interest in Egyptology is very limited. However, as it is the 100th Anniversary since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, I thought I'd watch at least one of the many...
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The Second coming of a gay jesus ?........
I must say i found the people speaking fairly boring, sorry about that...... 8)
Ps: But....My birthday present arrived...'excellent stuff! direct from the...
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Cairo's Historic Gayer-Anderson Museum Reopens After Renovations
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British Museum celebrates 200 years of reading Egyptian hieroglyphs
This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of mankind's great achievements, the decyphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the...
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AmariCole, sadly newcastle died a short while ago.
But to answer your question; it would seem that that is the accepted opinion amongst those that have delved into these things.
At the Tell Basta Open-Air Museum in the Sharqiya governorate stands a beautiful colossus of the Pharaoh Ramses II’s daughter Meritamun. This week, she...
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but surely you realise that being Christian means different things to different people, or peoples
I totally agree with Teddyboy, and I am sure even the Amish community in the U.S.A. would agree...
I don't know whether this has been posted before as it was originally shown on Channel 4 back in 2012 but I found it very interesting.
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My friend's parents are in a situation where his father believes in God, but his mother does not. And I could say that it isn’t the biggest problem when they have a strong feeling of respect. This...
The upcoming anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, and the opening of the GEM, will undoubtedly reawaken the clamour for Egypt’s “ stolen” heritage to be returned.
There was a...
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Talking of repatriating Egypt’s artefacts, there was an interesting program tonight on the PBS America channel covering the rescue of Egyptian temples by UNESCO after the flooding of the Nile valley...
A new exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, highlights the contribution of Egyptians to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb
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I was at the Petrie a couple of weeks ago.
There is an exhibition, commencing September, themed around the childhood of Tutankhamun and Egyptian children of his era. I didn’t notice any specific...
Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to visit this yet….not that I’d be allowed too close…but it looks impressive.
Apologies for foisting Hawass onto you…but the video is interesting.
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I am convinced that highly intelligent civilisations have lived on many continents on this earth in the past, and while thier technology may not have been the same as ours, they had the ability to...
From personal experience and that of friends living here he has definitely got a reputation for being inappropriate with ladies and grabbing the acclaim from other who did the original work. Not...
A friend sent me this link ; we had such plans for this place.
The link doesn't work but anyhow...it's reopened as an eco hotel. eco = green = cheap...
Last night, I saw some photographs that had been posted online of the Avenue of Sphinx in the Karnak area. The photo graphs had been taken some years ago and showed some very worn, barely...
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I don’t think, for a moment, that anyone doubts that Shelley’s Ozymandias is Ramesses II and his poem was inspired by the fallen colossus at the Ramasseum. How could the Heliopolis torso possibly...
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