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Yet more discoveries in Saqqara
A little confusion here. According to a Yahoo News article there have been several significant discoveries in Saqqara of 19th Dynasty and Late Period coffins. The Yahoo article goes on to mention that… more »
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+ Uncovering an Ancient Workaday World Along the Nile
Adrienne Edwards wrote 4 days ago: other topics: click a “category” or use search box This is John Noble Wilford’s a … more »
Finally! The "mystery" of the skulls is revealed...
honourablerekhyet wrote 5 days ago: The Ancient Egyptian skulls found last year in Manchester, that is, not some bad Indiana Jones refer … more »
Yet more discoveries in Saqqara
pavementsofsilver wrote 6 days ago: A little confusion here. According to a Yahoo News article there have been several significant disco … more »
Object: Amulet
katesbarr wrote 1 week ago: C/1987/7/16 Amulet Egypt Date unknown Materials: faience The museum’s catalog identifies this amul … more »
Object: Amulet
katesbarr wrote 1 week ago: C/1987/7/17 Amulet Egypt Date unknown Materials: faience Amulets were used by ancient Egyptians as g … more »
Object: Inscribed Papyrus Fragment
katesbarr wrote 1 week ago: C/44-5/5/1 Fragment of inscribed papyrus Egypt Ca. 100 BCE Material: papyrus and ink Papyrus is an e … more »
Object: Ushabti
Jason Baird Jackson wrote 1 week ago: C/53-4/58/1 Faience ushabti Egypt XXVI Dynasty (ca. 664-525 BCE) Materials: faience Ushabtis, also k … more »
Eugen Strouhal's summary of Pre-dynastic Badarians racial affinites.
mathilda37 wrote 1 week ago: Eugen Strouhal The Journal of African History, Vol. 12, No. 1. (1971), pp. 1-9. “In Nubia, acc … more »
The Black Pharaohs
rambambashi wrote 1 week ago: It is impossible to call the period of the Nubian pharaohs an unknown chapter from Egyptian history; … more »
Ma'adi, the oldest copper working site in Egypt.
mathilda37 wrote 1 week ago: Old Predynastic Maadi by Jimmy Dunn The archaeological site of Maadi, for which a modern suburb o … more »
Egyptian Labyrinth
ferdinando wrote 2 weeks ago: From a longer –and very interesting– description of the now nonexistent Labyrinth near L … more »
The Influence of Egypt
jmreep wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m fascinated by this blog’s stats. I like watching the daily roller coaster of tracked … more »
Contraception in ancient times.
mathilda37 wrote 2 weeks ago: I should have called this blog ‘anthropology and ancient history’. Sometimes it’s … more »
Book Meme
elizabethdelisi wrote 3 weeks ago: Found something I thought would be fun to try, with a bit of modification to make it more interestin … more »
The Bird Gods of Ancient Egypt
hoaryredpoll wrote 3 weeks ago: As many of you know the ancient Egyptians personified many of their major gods as birds. Why the … more »
Sphinx in dire need of a bird-repellent
pavementsofsilver wrote 3 weeks ago: From Daily News Egypt (May 29th) - Link to original article By Ahmed Maged CAIRO: The crowds of pig … more »
The Pharaohs are alive, with the sound of music
pavementsofsilver wrote 3 weeks ago: From the Daily News Egypt (June 3rd) - Link to original article By Ahmed Maged CAIRO: Some of the im … more »
Ancient Egyptian Lexicon Discovered in University Digitisation Project
pavementsofsilver wrote 1 month ago: Thanks to A K Eyma and Michael Tilgner for giving the EEF Email list a heads up on this: At the Univ … more »
A commonly 'misunderstood' paper by Dr C. Loring Brace.
mathilda37 wrote 1 month ago: The amount of times I’ve read Afrocentrist work that thinks this paper proves … The an … more »
