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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 »

Tags: > Books, Publications, Articles, High School, In The News, Parent Interest, Research, Science, History, Topical Trivia?, Teacher Interest, Research, archaeology

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 »

Tags: Current Affairs, Ancient Egypt, South Manchester Reporter, disrespecting the past, Egyptian Archaeology, stolen antiquities, antiquities theft, News Reports, egyptian skull

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 »

Tags: News Reports, new kingdom, Late Period, Egyptology, Egyptian History, Saqqara, UNAS, archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology

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 »

Tags: faience

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 »

Tags: faience

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 »

Tags: writing

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 »

Tags: Figurine

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 »

Tags: Anthropology, Pre-History, Race, Ancient Nubia., Ancient Egypt, ancient farmers, Craniofacial measurements, Neolithic expansion, pre

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 »

Tags: Ancient History, Livius.Org

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 »

Tags: Ancient Egypt, copper working

Egyptian Labyrinth

ferdinando wrote 2 weeks ago: From a longer –and very interesting– description of the now nonexistent Labyrinth near L … more »

Tags: Herodotus, Immense, carved figures, collonade, Courtyard, gallery, marble, Roof's, white marble

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 »

Tags: Blogging, Egyptians, Google, Internet, Leah, Pharaohs, plagiarism, Search Results

Contraception in ancient times.

mathilda37 wrote 2 weeks ago: I should have called this blog ‘anthropology and ancient history’. Sometimes it’s … more »

Tags: Anthropology, archaeology, Ancient Egypt, Contraception, Ancient History, Medicine

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 »

Tags: writing, Books, Memes, time travel romance

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 »

Tags: archaeology, Birds, Classical Civilization, Classical Sites, Greece, History, mythology

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 »

Tags: News Reports, Egyptology, giza plateau, Egyptian History, Egyptian antiquities, Egyptian Monuments, Egyptian Archaeology, Sphinx, Save the Sphinx

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 »

Tags: News Reports, News, Egyptian History, Pharaonic Culture, Music in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Music, Musical Instruments in Ancient Egypt, Daily Star Egypt, Daily News Egypt

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 »

Tags: News Reports, Late Period, Egyptology, Egyptian History, Egyptian religion, egyptian gods, Ptolemaic Period, Papyri, lexicon

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 »

Tags: Anthropology, Race, Add new tag, Craniofacial measurements, Cro Magnons, Dr C. Loring Brace, Natufians


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