On the 4th November 1922 the archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the almost intact tomb of Tutankhamun, the Child Pharaoh dead before having turned 20. His importance as an Egyptian sovereign is relative:…
Ancient Egypt
For the ancient Egyptians death was not the end of the journey but a break along the way for an intricate, demanding, sometimes dangerous trip to the afterlife. One of the important…
Every summer the rivers flood the Nile, the water overflows its borders and creates in some parts the so called floodplains. In ancient Egypt the Nilometer was the structure used for measuring…
How can a mummy who’s beyond 3,000 years old be moved from one country to another? It is not simple thing as it used to be back in 1800, so in 1974,…
The Reddit user named “Sbay”, during a visit to the Museum of the Louvre in Paris, photographed and shared a picture of the original weave with which a mummy’s head had been…
Maybe you have seen a helicopter, a submarine and maybe an airplane, or perhaps a spaceship like the ones from Futurama? At first glance these ancient hieroglyphics look like they have been…
The biography of Ankhesenamun, queen of Egypt during the empire of Tutankhamon, is a sequence of tangled enigmas for all those people passionate about Egyptology. The reason falls within the “Damnatio Memoriae”…