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Mini Roman-Era Sphinx Discovered Near Egyptian Temple

by Rhea Nayyar March 8, 2023March 8, 2023

The small statue was recovered from the ruins of a tomb east of the Dendera Temple.

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Mysterious 30-Foot-Long Tunnel Found Inside Giza Pyramid

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie March 5, 2023March 3, 2023

Scholars don’t know exactly how the 4,500 year-old-pyramid was built, but the new finding could offer valuable clues.

Posted inNews

4,000-Year-Old Mummy May Be Egypt’s Oldest

by Rhea Nayyar January 30, 2023January 30, 2023

The excavation project also yielded Old Kingdom-era amulets, stoneware, and daily-use tools.

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Activists Crash British Museum Opening to Protest Egypt’s Political Prisoners

by Rhea Nayyar October 11, 2022October 12, 2022

The anti-fuel group Culture Unstained criticized the museum’s connections to British Petroleum and its silence on the imprisonment of Egyptian political critic Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

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New Research Says High Nile Water Levels Helped Build Giza Pyramids

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 20, 2022September 21, 2022

Researchers have found new evidence to support the theory that builders transported materials on a now-dried-up branch of the Nile.

Posted inOpinion

Why We Must Challenge the Typical Museum Narrative Regarding Ancient Egypt

Avatar photo by Jennifer Miller March 29, 2022March 30, 2022

For museums to truly grasp their colonial history, self-examination must go beyond questioning how they built their collections to how they interpret them.

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Archaeologists Uncover Largest Trove of Mummification Materials in Egypt

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

“It is probably the largest complex and undisturbed find of its kind originating from ancient Egypt,” said Mohamed Megahed, head of the archaeological mission.

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Children’s Drawings, Grocery Lists, And Other Inscriptions Found On Ancient Egyptian Sherds

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 7, 2022February 8, 2022

Egyptologists have uncovered over 18,000 bits of broken pottery used as writing surfaces 2,000 years ago.

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Scientists “Digitally Unwrap” Amenhotep I’s Mummy

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu January 2, 2022December 30, 2021

This pharaonic mummy is the only one dating from the New Kingdom that has not been unwrapped and hence irreversibly damaged in the process in modern times.

Posted inArt

The Uneasy History of Swimming and Race, as Relayed Through Art

Avatar photo by Karen Carr May 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Swimming has been racialized for 3,000 years, but for most of that time it was Africans who were good swimmers, and Europeans who tried to keep up.

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What the “Nefertiti Hack” Tells Us About Digital Colonialism

by Sarah E. Bond May 24, 2021August 4, 2021

A hacked 3D scan of the famous sculpture shows how traditional models of heritage ownership might change in museums.

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Discovery of an Industrial Brewery in Ancient Egypt Rewrites the History of Beer

by Sarah E. Bond March 17, 2021August 4, 2021

To archaeologists, understanding the building of the Pyramids at Giza is a matter of scaling up the labor system seen earlier at sites like Abydos.

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