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Is this another piece of royal propaganda, or a secret code for the elite? Well, it's all a matter of perspective.
An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...
Each block, quarried during the Ptolemaic Period of Ancient Egypt, is larger than the famous Stone of the Pregnant Woman at Baalbek and estimates say that each weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 tons.
There is perhaps no institution on Earth whose opening has been as wildly anticipated as the Grand Egyptian Museum outside ...
Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...
Archaeologists have uncovered vestiges of the ancient past in Sinai. A 2,000-year-old limestone road revealed an even older ...
The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
Archaeologists were amazed to discover that a false door at an excavation site led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty, per the ...
A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.
The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times ... At Medum, a step pyramid was built, then filled in with stone, and covered with a limestone casing. Nearby at Bahshur, ...
The largest Egyptian pyramid ever built was Pharaoh Khufu’s Great Pyramid of Giza. It is the tallest pyramid that you can see in this picture. It is made from over two million stone blocks.