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Stunning discovery in Luxor
A massive red granite sculpted head of pharaoh Amenhotep III has been unearthed behind the famous Colossi of Memnon in Luxor. Not only huge in dimensions, the 2.5m (8ft) head is one of the best preserved and finely carved image of the king, recently identified as the grandfather of Tutankhamen thru DNA and CT scan... »
The Pharaohs
“The Pharaohs” is an illustrated history of the kings who ruled over this extraordinary land, narrating the story of 30 dynasties starting around 3100 BC when the first pharaoh, Menes, unified Upper and Lower Egypt, and ending with the conquest of Egypt in 332 BC by Alexander the Great. It profiles powerful, and sometimes... »
King Tut in San Francisco – Then and Now
Image via Wikipedia Though the traveling exhibit “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” stills draws crowds and excitement wherever it goes, Tut and intriguing mythology behind him just doesn’t generate the same frenzy as he used to. Back in 1979, Tutmania was akin to Beatlemania. That’s when the “Tutafacts,” 55 items from King Tutankhamun’s... »
The Scent of an Ancient Egyptian Woman
In its permanent exhibition, Bonn University’s Egyptian Museum has a particularly well preserved example of a perfume flacon on display. Screening this 3,500-year-old flacon with a computer tomograph, scientists at the university has detected the desiccated residues of a fluid, which they now want to submit to further analysis. They might even succeed in... »
Archaeologists find statues of ancient Egypt king
A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists have discovered two statues of King Amenhotep III in front his mortuary temple at Kom Al-Hittan near modern Luxor, the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes. Amenhotep III (ca. 1379 – 1340 BC) left more images of himself than any other pharaoh, among these the... »
Amenhotep III statue rises again in Luxor
A colossal statue of Amenhotep III, grandfather of Tutankhamun and ruler of Egypt for more than 36 years, has been raised and given back his head. The red quartzite statue, with arms crossed and wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, is one of a set that stood around the courtyard of his funerary temple... »
Lecture: Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed
The Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities is hosting “Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed” at the Atlanta Civic Center theater on March 19 at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Zahi Hawass will discuss the importance of Tutankhamun’s life, the theories about his death, and the latest news about excavations in Egypt. He will also speak about... »
Lego Pharaoh
Not monumental by Egyptian standards, but huge for Lego builders, a 16 foot high, one ton model of an Egyptian pharaoh made of 200,000 Lego blocks floated down the Thames during its final leg on a journey 1,395 miles from the Czech Republic. The statue is the centerpiece of a new attraction called Kingdom... »
Ancient statue discovered near Egyptian pyramid
A 1.5 meter (5 feet) high 4,000-year-old quartz statue has been discovered buried just 40 centimetres (16 inches) below the surface of the sand in the northern part of the pyramid of pharaoh Menkaure (2551-2523 BC). Amazingly, the lifesize statue was not found during an archaeological excavation, but by maintenance workers cleaning an area... »
Up to 2,000 tourists witness sun perpendicular on Ramses II face in Abu Simbel
Image via Wikipedia Up to 2,000 tourists saw in the morning of Feb 22 the unique event of the Sun’s rays penetrating the Great Temple all the way to the inner sanctum to illuminate the face of Ramses II. The rare astronomical and engineering phenomenon happens on February 22 and October 22 each year. The director... »
