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1. Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt's history goes back thousands of years. Today we can visit the pyramids and the Sphinx, see King Tut's coffin, and sail up the River Nile. But what was life really like in Ancient Egypt? Civilized life in Egypt, centered around the Riv...
2. Tutankhamun's Tomb KV62 and Treasures Photo © Kairanda. All rights reserved and reproduced here with special permission. Thank you.
3. Tutankhamun The Boy-king Tutankhamun is the most of all of Ancient Egypt's pharaohs because of the maginificent treasures found within Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Tragically he died as a teenager and had no surviving children, but left beh...
4. Thoth Thoth, Tehuti or Djehuty in ancient Egyptian, is the god of wisdom, writing, speech, measurement, the moon, and magic. He serves as the vizier (prime minister) to Re, King of the gods. He's also the gods' official record-keeper. He's Mr. Science, the...
5. Great Sphinx of Giza The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large stone statue in Egypt on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, one of the largest single-stone statues in existence. Located right beside the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx is often viewed as "guarding"...
6. Ankhesenamun Married to Tutankhamun when he was just nine, Ankhesenamun was his Great Royal Wife for his relatively brief reign as King   This Ancient Egypt lens by Kate Phizackerley covers the life of Ankhesenamun who may have been the queen of four p...
7. Toutânkhamon Toutankhamon (ou Toutânkhamon) (né v. -1345BCE, mort en -1327BCE) est le pharaon (roi) le plus célèbre de la XVIIIe dynastie (Nouvel Empire). En cette page vous trouverez des informations sur les trésors incroyables avér...
8. Hatshepsut- First Female Pharaoh For years, all that remained of the reign of Hatshepsut, Egypt's first female pharaoh, were the temples she had constructed and the records of her rule. A long running search for her mummy had gripped the world of archaeology and Egyptology for deca...
9. Tomb KV64 in the Valley of the Kings It is widely believed that a new tomb has been discovered in the Valley of the Kings but not yet announced to the public. This is the story of tomb KV64. This lens by Kate Phizackerley highlights the ongoing excavations in the Egypt's Valley of the...
10. Tomb KV63 in the Valley of the Kings On February 10, 2006, on behalf of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, Dr Zahi Hawass announced that a team from the University of Memphis had discovered a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings: KV63. This was the first tomb found in the valle...
11. Cleopatra Biography Cleopatra Biography - Queen Cleopatra of Egypt Last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.Born: 69 B.C. Birthplace: Egypt Died: 30 B.C. (Suicide, possibly by snake) Daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes.  Cleopatra's mother was probably Auletes's sist...
12. Isis, Goddess of Egypt In the Book of the Dead, Isis was described as: * She who gives birth to heaven and earth, * She who knows the orphan, * She who knows the widow spider, * She who seeks justice for the poor people, * She who seeks shelter for the weak people I was i...
13. The Anthropology Book Store Welcome to the Anthropology Bookstore. For the casual browser who may not be familiar with the term, the following is a definition of Anthropology as taken from Wikipedia: "Anthropology (from Greek: anthropos, "human being"; -logia) is the study of...
14. Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings is the burial ground of most pharaohs of the New Kingdom including Tutankhamun. This lens by Kate Phizackerley is one of her series of lenses about Ancient Egypt. Read on to find out more about this famous tourist site, and i...
15. Tutankhamun Tutankhamun was a king of ancient Egypt who lived around 1350 B.C. King Tutankhamun (or Tutankhamen, or King Tut, as he is popularly nicknamed) became famous when, in 1922, his tomb was found almost intact by the explorers Howard Carter and the earl...
16. The Complete Tutankhamun - Reviewed Kate Phizackerley, author of the highly respected News from the Valley of the Kings, offers a detaiiled review of "The Complete Tutankhamun" by Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves and published by Thames and Hudson with a forward by the Seventh Earl of Carn...
17. Biblical Archaeology & Beyond Presents The Rosetta Stone The thing that fascinates me the most about the Rosetta Stone is the sheer size of it. Written in three different languages it may have been on display for the public to view, almost like our modern day signs often written in different languages on...
18. Ancient Egyptian Herbalism According to the Papyrus Ebers, an ancient text written in 1500BC, there are plant medicine references to more than 700 herbal remedies and 800 compounds, and is thought to be a copy of the even more ancient books of Thoth (3000 BC ).
19. Bast the Beloved : Tales of Ancient Egypt She is the protector of cats, women and children and holds the mysteries of the cat in her power - those magnetic animals with such strong power to fascinate or repel. For the cat is identified with Bast and she is most recognised for her portrayal...
20. Secret of the Sands, adventure novel SECRET OF THE SANDS is an Indiana Jones type adventure novel where the reader is treated to two adventures-in-one as it weaves back and forth between a royal family with a potentially deadly secret in ancient Egypt and the adventures of a couple of m...