The discovery of 1,700-year-old Egyptian mummies with brains but no hearts shocked archaeologists
This 1,700-year-old mummy has a brain, no heart and plaques over her sternum and abdomen, say researchers. Here, the mummy is being unboxed on the first day…
“Mysterious Ancient Egyptian Art” – The Louvre Museum’s seated scribe is almost 4000 years old
This sculpture of the Seated Scribe represents a figure of an Egyptian scribe at work over 4,000 years ago. It is a painted limestone statue with the…
A 5,000-year-old wooden boat used by “the pharaohs” is discovered by French researchers
French archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old wooden boat in an expedition in Egypt, it has emerged. The significant discovery was made in Abu Rawash, west of Cairo,…
Ancient Egyptian mummification workshop and the secret of the burial chamber complex
The discovery of a mummification workshop and a collective burial place from the XXVI dynasty has been made to the south of the pyramid of Unas, in…
Amenhotep III’s Temple’s long-standing guardians who found a Voice in Memnon’s Musical Statues
The most important statues in Egypt, after the Giza Sphinx, are the two Colossi of Memnon in Western Luxor. The two gigantic statues, about 3500 years old,…
Discover the Chariot of War, the pharaohs’ “tank” used to annihilate their foes in ancient Egypt
Fast, light and deadly. The civilization based on the banks of the Nile perfected the war chariots to turn them into firing platforms that wreaked havoc among their adversaries….
Ancient Egyptian Sphinxes: What They did and their mystic Meaning
Sphinx (from the Greek word, Σφίγξ) is the Hellenized name of a fabulous being that is usually represented as a reclining lion with a human head. Sphinxes were…
Secret Unearthed in Unique tomb of the Egyptian commander – 6th Century BC
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on July 15 that a team of Czech archaeologists, while excavating near the Giza Plateau, discovered a tomb belonging to a powerful Egyptian…
Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Maker’s 4,000 year old teeth relate Hard Labor and Chronic Pain
Mendes was once the capital of Ancient Egypt and it was in the necropolis here in the 1970s that archaeologists discovered the remains of a very special,…
The Mystery of the Heartless Pharaoh: Who Stole King Tut’s Heart, and Why
The tomb of Tutankhamun revealed a wealth of anomalies, beginning with its discovery in 1922, right through the subsequent years of its excavation. The plethora of mysteries…