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The food of the gods in Ancient Egypt was more likely to guarantee an early grave than immortality, scientists have discovered.
Delicious banquets offered to the deities and eaten by Egyptian...
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:lol: true , but down in good old luxor most of the time , antbiotic, cure everything , each time one of my lot has had anything wrong he/she comes back from local quack with bloody antibiotic :)
Trip includes visit to :
Pyramid of Meidum,Pyramid of Hawara,Pyramid of Al-Lahun.
Evening spent at Wadi Rayan Waterfalls.
Included in price are :...
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It seems a bit expensive, bu at least they are treating the Egyptians fairly and giving them a different price because of the tickets. The EES does not offer the same discounts to Egyptians for its...
At the southern corner of the grand Citadel of Salaheddin stands the Youssef Well, a distinguished Ayyubid structure built 916 years ago. Over the centuries it had fallen into disrepair, but...
A new program on Sky History Channel at 9.0 pm on Monday.
Presented by Bettaney Hughes, another ancient Egypt program, the subject title says it all. :) should be interesting but done with taste :lol:
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Will set sky plus to record .....should be good - certainly interesting thanks ;)
There is a new program tonight on Sky National Goegraphic channel at 8.0 pm BST about the burial of King Tut. It is supposed to be a new one dealing with the details of how it was a botched job,...
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Sounds interesting Horus but fraid I aint got sky :cry:
Well it's taken another 15 years but the Ring Road has now been officially inaugurated by the 'Big Pharoah' himself this week.
Huge tent, lot's of 'back slapping', 3 helicopter pads purely for the...
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Thing is Horus the Egyptians as you know are addicts when it comes to building, but once it is built no one thinks to maintain it :(
The roads are shocking. They Tarmac and then allow cars over it...
Egyptologists have poured scorn on a new study claiming that construction of the great pyramid began on 23 August, reports Nevine El-Aref
Constructed 4,500 years ago, and the only extant wonder of...
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I find these sort of claims a bit ridiculous :roll: given the time scale involved, the change in the night sky, the inaccuracies regarding the length of time any particular Pharaoh actually ruled...
4,000-year-old dye found on Egyptian artifact
It’s earliest evidence of extracting dye from plant to get pigment
By Randolph E. Schmid
updated 4:59 p.m. ET Aug. 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - Four thousand...
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History
Early evidence of dyeing comes from India where a piece of cotton dyed with madder has been recovered from the archaeological site at Mohenjo-daro (3rd millennium BCE). In Sanskrit, this...
Archaeologists at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have discovered several ‘new’ artefacts.
The nine items – which include a sacred table, a limestone column...
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The egyptian museum is a treasure chest! While other items are hidden away unrecorded, the recorded items are misplaced :lol: There are lots of old registers that record a location for an item that...
This Nilometer is a somewhat more sophisticated instrument then earlier examples such as the one on Elephantine Islandin the Nile at Aswan. It consists of a pit that extends well below the level of...
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Thanks for that... will let you know what it's like if we get there (not till Jan/Feb).
I thought that I would post a few pictures of some of the temple sites in 'Then & Now' photographs.
Where possible I will try to match it with a similar modern one of my own, but of course everyone...
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There is a very good exhibition at AS showing how the move was done, well worth seeing :)
Egypt will soon provide evidence that the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti was taken illegally out of the country by Germany, Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Sunday.
We are...
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You are not wrong there Kiya :) Once our Zahi got his mitts on that particular artifact they would need to surgically separate them both to get it returned.
But seriously, why does he keep doing...
PARIS (AFP) — The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be 3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians,...
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Sounds to me like another one of those 'Chariots of the Gods' type theories to me. Most of what he is saying would not hold up to close scrutiny, most statues with eyes had them made from rock...
Cairo Restores 450 Archaeological Pieces from Britain
By Fathia al-Dakhakhni 1/ 5/ 2009
Egypt has restored 450 Egyptian ancient pieces from Myers Museum of Eaton College. The pieces arrived...
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Isn't the contention that these were stolen from Egypt?
I think it is exactly that, a contention, it all depends upon your point of view. If at the time these artefacts were of some real importance...
AN EMBALMING bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Nevine El-Aref reports.
Following weeks of restoration work, a number of...
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I remember going around King Tut's treasures at the Cairo Museum and looking at one of the gold gilt embalming couches and there were definite old rusty coloured blood stains on it.
I asked the guide...
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