Archaeologists Found a Surprise Hiding in an Ancient Egyptian Tomb—A Second Body
One of the most famous tombs in all of Egypt was holding a family secret: another body.
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Scientists Are Using CT Scanners to Reveal the Secrets of More Than Two Dozen Ancient Egyptian Mummies
For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...
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Scans peer beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummies to reveal who they were
Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the ...
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This Ancient Egyptian Statue Of Ramesses II Is 3,300-Years-Old And Said To Have Inspired The Famous Poem Ozymandias By Percy Shelley
About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...
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Archaeologists find 'surprising' discoveries at ancient Egyptian church
An archaeological team s excavation of an ancient city has uncovered surprising revelations about an early Christian church ...
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Scans help solve a 3,000-year-old mystery of a high-status Egyptian woman
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Church in Egyptian Desert Reveals Early Christian Burial Practices
More than a decade ago, archaeologists began to excavate one of the world’s oldest Christian churches in the middle of a ...
Third-generation Egyptian carpenter keeps family tradition alive
A third-generation Egyptian carpenter keeps the family tradition alive in an Old Cairo workshop::1, 2024:: Cairo, Egypt:: ...
Ancient Greece's cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...
More evidence that Europe's ancient landscapes were open woodlands: Oak, hazel and yew were abundant
A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient vegetation was ...
Historians Got It Wrong: New DNA Evidence From Pompeii Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Ancient Rome
New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...