Tag: Ancient Egypt

Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Egypt has successfully recovered an ancient wooden coffin cover from a Houston museum in the US. The coffin cover was smuggled from Egypt

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptians were familiar with many branches of science. There is solid evidence they possessed advanced astronomical knowledge mastered mathematics and applied their

Richard Cassaro – MessageToEagle.com – The Egyptian ankh cross…in Mexico? That’s right. The ruins of a mysterious Aztec temple bears a strange and striking resemblance to Egypt’s ankh

MessageToEagle.com – Most probably no other site in Egypt is more impressive and fascinating than Karnak. Karnak represents one of the greatest temple complexes in the world. It is

MessageToEagle.com – The vessel, which is believed to be the ceremonial boat of Pharaoh Cheops, known for building the largest of Egypt’s pyramids, will be restored by the largest

MessageToEagle.com – Dedicated to one of the most famous deities of ancient Egypt, the magnificent temple of Goddess Hathor is the largest and most impressive building in the Denderah

MessageToEagle.com – Two decade-long archaeological excavations conducted by Polish researchers in the Egyptian necropolis at Saqqara helped to shed light on social status and physical health of the people

MessageToEagle.com – On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1873 – 1939), an English archaeologist and Egyptologist unsealed and opened the burial chamber of the 14th century pharaoh King Tutankhamun in the

MessageToEagle.com – How many more ancient tombs can still be found in Egypt? It looks as if there is still a lot we don’t know about those who lived

MessageToEagle.com – In 1904, archaeologists discovered a pair of mummified legs in the plundered tomb of Queen Nefertari in Egypt’s Valley of the Queens. The 3,200-year old legs were

MessageToEagle.com – A controversial study suggests that the world’s earliest alphabet inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites was an early form of Hebrew and the ancient inscriptions

MessageToEagle.com – On November 4, 1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings. The tomb was intact and packed with antiquities

MessageToEagle.com – Have you ever wondered what it really looks like inside ancient Egyptian tombs? To take photos of ancient tombs in Egypt requires special permission that is very

MessageToEagle.com – Meritamun is the name of a woman who lived in Egypt about 2,000 years ago. Now, in order to learn more the face of this ancient

  MessageToEagle.com – The Egyptian elite was buried in a coffin placed inside another coffin – in ensembles of up to eight coffins. This was intended to ensure the

MessageToEagle.com – A 2,200-year-old Egyptian mummy of a priest has been given the name Alex. The ancient mummy has spent 88 years in storage and is now finally revealed

MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists have made a unique find in form of a large fragment of an ancient Egyptian statue. Only the lower part of the statue survived, depicting

MessageToEagle.com – Once, it was the site of many temples, especially the temple of Seti I and first of all, this very ancient city is strongly associated with

MessageToEagle.com – Ancient Egyptian schools were in some way similar to the Eduba, ancient scribal school in Mesopotamia. Students in ancient Egypt were mainly wealthy boys who started school

MessagetoEagle.com –  For the last 3,400 years, since 1350 B.C. two gigantic stone statues known as the Colossi of Memnon have been guarding the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep

MessageToEagle.com – Lady Sattjeni was an ancient Egyptian noblewoman who lived about 3,800 years ago. She was a daughter of a prince and the mother of two of

MessageToEagle.com – The use of a nilometer in ancient Egypt can be traced back to over 5,000 years ago. The simplest design was a vertical column submerged in the river with

MessageToEagle.com – Archaeologists excavating in Egypt think they have discovered new evidence suggesting the existence of a temple to 30th dynasty King Nektanebo I (380-363 BC) in the Matariya district

MessageToEagle.com – According to the Amarna Letters and the annals of Thutmose III, Byblos (‘Papyrus’ in Greek), was dependent and subservient to Egypt for hundreds of years. However, these

MessageToEagle.com – The ancient Egyptian world of belief was inhabited by a huge number of entities with supernatural powers. These creatures could play both malevolent and benevolent roles,