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Lower-Class Workers May Have Been Buried in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Alongside Elites
When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who ...
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Ancient shackles testify to brutality of Egypt’s gold mines
After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...
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Ancient Egyptian pyramids, thought to contain only the elite, may also hold low-class laborers
At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid ...
The Bashiri mystery: A 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy that no archaeologist dares to open
A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ...
Archaeologists Unearth Rare, Elaborately Decorated Egyptian Tomb
Egyptian archaeologists working in tandem with students from the University of Pittsburgh made an astonishing discovery in ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Royal Tomb From Ancient Egypt’s Most Mysterious Dynasty
A 2014 excavation proved the Abydos Dynasty existed. Now, Archaeologists have found a second tomb, but the king's identity ...
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in ...
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Who (or What) Was Ma’at in Ancient Egypt?
Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a ...