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Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is set in a future world where only five humans are left alive, living inside a computer ...
According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...
The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...
The burial chamber — which was found in January and features many decorated rooms and mudbrick vaults — is the second major ...
It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may ...
The goings-on at Ramesseum Temple near Luxor, Egypt, were far more in-depth than ... unveiling a wide window into the ancient culture and revealing details about the daily life at the temple ...
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...
Sham El-Nessim traces its origins to Shemu, an ancient Egyptian harvest festival celebrating the life-giving Nile flood and the rebirth of the land. Hieroglyphs from 2,700 BCE depict offerings of ...
A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...
II. IT has often been maintained that the Aton-cult instituted by Ōkhnatōn (Amenōphis IV.) displays non-Egyptian features and is in a large measure the product of foreign influences. I hope ...