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Beyond its culinary use in South Africa, honey held profound symbolic meaning in ancient Egypt, representing love, marriage, ...
Archaeologists uncovered Old Kingdom tombs in Aswan’s Qubbat al-Hawa, Egypt, shedding light on a key transitional period in ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a long-lost Egyptian city that dates back 2,500 years. Located around six miles (10 km) south ...
Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 2,600-year-old clay vessels — filled with ancient cheese. The discovery was made at ...
A newly revealed private collection of ancient Egyptian hard-stone vessels has ignited intense debate among archaeologists, engineers, and alternative historians alike.
Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...
An ancient Egyptian city has been uncovered by a team of British and Egyptian archaeologists. Archaeologists from the ...
The National Museum of Funeral History houses the country’s largest collection of funeral service artifacts and memorabilia, offering a surprisingly upbeat look at how we’ve commemorated our dearly ...
Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...
For a long time, the image of Pharaoh Hatshepsut has been linked to the idea of a damnatio memoriae, a deliberate attempt to ...
Re-assessment of damaged statues depicting the famous female pharaoh Hatshepsut questions the prevailing view that they were ...
Ammit, Egyptian devourer of the dead. (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 344 PP, £25) TABLET BOOKSHOP PRICE £22.50 • TEL 020 7799 ...