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Tomb of the century
Archaeological traces found at Taposiris Magna west of Alexandria may indicate the tomb of one of the most famous couples in history, Queen Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, reports...
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JoJo I think you hit the nail on the head there!!!!!:lol:
I saw this the other week - and it really was excellent, put the rest of the Museum to shame really with all the information and explanation boards and use of colour.
A necropolis consisting of 53 rock-cut tombs dating to the Middle (ca. 2061-1786 BC) and New (ca. 1569-1081 BC) Kingdoms and the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) has been discovered by an Egyptian...
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He's been on enough programmes to have his own channel
Zahi TV
God take that off just in case he sees it and gets ideas!!!!!!! :lol:
Visited Kom Ombo yesterday, for only the third time, the first was 2001, the second 2005 (can't overdo these things :lol: ) but became intrigued by the fact that it is dedicated to Horus the Elder...
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If you get Ancient Egypt magazine, look at page 48 in the October/November 2008 edition.
I know that many programs have been done of this famous battle but this particular one caught my eye. It's peppered with battle scenes shown using computer game animation - quite cute and gives, for...
Herbs have been detected in wine from the tomb of one of ancient Egypt's first rulers, many centuries before the civilization's known use of herbal remedies in alcoholic beverages, according to a...
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Interesting article. So may be this is where the monks got the recipe from to make Benedicine - it sounds similar.
After listening to what his trumpet may have sounded like it was interesting to see this archive footage of activities around the kings tomb.
I'd seen bits and pieces of old film footage many times...
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Those clips were brilliant Sesen :) It makes me all excited just looking at them, to think that over a hundred and fifty years later, I was standing in the very same places and seeing the very same...
The latest medical scanning technology reveals that the Egyptian queen Nefertiti was given an ancient facelift.
Her name means a beautiful woman has arrived and for almost a century the...
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Looking at the underlying features of the bust of Queen Nefertiti, I am curious about the plaster cast reference. As the head was carved from Limestone what use would that plaster cast be other than...
I'm glad Horus posted a Dendera photo competition, it reminded me that I have questions.
Why is there a large blue stone by the entrance?
How long has it been there (or rather they as there is...
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The whole of the blocks are blue, it doesn't look as though it has been painted, but more like a blue stone (or is it concrete) ;)
I was intrigued because it is actually quite incongruous, I noticed...
Just stumbled upon this and thought how cool it would have been to blow in the actual trumpet buried with Tutankhamun.
A recording was made by the BBC in 1939 of the silver trumpet being played by a...
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I know absolutely nothing about musical instruments but I was quite taken with the sound from this trumpet. A little heraldic type of tune that made me think of the festivals and the entertainers,...
Zahi Hawass has anounced that in an attempt to safeguard the communities and increase access to the sites The Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Ministries of Foreign Affairs,...
Hot on the heels of recent discoveries comes an exciting discovery made by the Japanese misson working in Saqqara.
Press release from dr hawass.com
Within the tomb fragments from a...
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My major source was in German - so all the quotes to back up what I was saying were in German since I can't paraphrase it. So it switches back and forth between the two languages.
A Chinese art collector identified himself on Monday as the winning bidder in last week's Paris auction for two sculptures looted from Beijing in the 1800s but said that, as a patriot, he had no...
A Japanese team have found 4 empty sarcophaguses, (I thought they were sarcophagi :? ) and grave goods in a tomb in Sakkara. Full story & pictures here
A quartzite statue 149cm tall, of a seated man, dating back over 4500 years was found by maintenance workers only 16 below the surface.
Full story & pictures here
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I wondered who Mycerinus was, now why didn't they say Menkaure, I'd have known who they meant. :oops:
Not that I met him personally you understand, I'm not quite that old :lol:
The University of Chicago Hospitals recently got hold of the Philips' Brilliance iCT 256 slice CT scanner. The first patient to be imaged on the device is a 2,800 year old mummy of an Egyptian...
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:) Yes I think one of the most exciting aspects of egyptology today is the advances of technology and how thats impacting on how the world sees these ancient people.
Hopefully more and more of those...
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