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A 5,000-Year-Old Linen Dress Is the World’s Oldest Woven Garment

by Allison Meier February 29, 2016February 29, 2016

An over-5,000-year-old linen dress was recently confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment.

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Garments from the Graves of Late Antiquity

by Allison Meier February 25, 2016February 28, 2016

Over 50 examples of textile garments and furnishings are on view in Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

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Looters Kill Two Guards at Ancient Egyptian Necropolis

by Benjamin Sutton February 22, 2016February 23, 2016

Two guards at the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological site in Middle Egypt were killed by looters during a foiled robbery this weekend.

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Light Projections Bring Color and Lost Glory to the Temple of Dendur

by Claire Voon February 10, 2016February 11, 2016

We recognize the Temple of Dendur today as a monochromatic sandstone structure, but its walls, like those of most ancient Egyptian temples, were originally painted bright colors.

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Egypt Bans Teen Who Climbed and Took Photos Atop the Great Pyramid of Giza

by Claire Voon February 5, 2016February 11, 2016

One teenager’s daredevil stunt to procure aerial photographs and video of the Egyptian desert has earned him a lifelong ban from the country.

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Ancient Egyptian Shrines, Once Thought Destroyed, Reveal Six New Statues

by Claire Voon January 4, 2016January 7, 2016

A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered six rock cut statues inside two adjoining shrines, previously believed to be completely destroyed by an earthquake that shook the region centuries ago.

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Documenting the Vanishing Hermitages of the Egyptian Desert

by Allison Meier December 10, 2015December 24, 2015

Constructed from stacked rocks and carved into remote mountainsides, the desert hermitages of Egypt and Sudan are barely perceptible in the arid landscape.

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From Pyramids to Ostriches, Stereoscopic Views of Late-19th-Century Egypt

by Claire Voon November 9, 2015November 9, 2015

In the late 19th century, many publishing companies produced stereoscopic photographs as a way to commercialize images of foreign lands as people began to travel more frequently and as tourism as an industry boomed.

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British Scientists Find Trove of Animal Mummies with No Bones

by Laura C. Mallonee May 20, 2015May 20, 2015

It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies.

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Images of War, Re-Photographed and Transformed

by Joseph Nechvatal March 13, 2015March 16, 2015

Re-photographing (or re-purposing) the news media began for me as a healing ritual, a kind of laying-on-of-hands, to purge my despair over news events around the world.

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Egypt Plans Skyscraper Inspired by Giza Pyramids

by Laura C. Mallonee March 4, 2015March 5, 2015

For centuries, tourists have flocked to Cairo to behold the Pyramids of Giza firsthand.

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Egypt Customs Officials Seize Street Art Books for “Instigating Revolt”

by Benjamin Sutton February 20, 2015February 20, 2015

Egyptian customs officials in Alexandria have reportedly seized a shipment of 400 copies of the art book Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution, over fears that it might incite rebellion.

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