Tikal was the model for the rebel base in the original film "Star Wars" (Epsiode IV). A view of Tikal appears in the movie for about 30 seconds as a guard in a...
Hi, I just joined this group a few days ago. I would like to ask if anyone knows how to pronounce the translitterated hieroglyphics ( ' ) and ( 3 ). I know...
THE FOLLOWING BOOK WILL RECEIVE ITS FIRST STARRED REVIEW IN THE APRIL 1, 2005 ISSUE OF KIRKUS. PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR THE REVIEW: How the Amazon Queen Fought the...
Dr. Ronald Wells The Origins of Egyptian Calendars and Their Modern Legacy http://home.comcast.net/~hebsed/wells.htm Dr. Pat Podzorski What Predynastic...
The quest for immortality was one of the driving forces behind the construction of the pyramids. It was not unique in the ancient World, though. The Epic of...
Ancient Egyptian sounded certainly similar to arabic and other semitic languages today. Why ? One reason is the Coptic language as a direct link between...
The Egyptology course at Warwick University, UK, starts again next week. "Egypt: W. M. Flinders Petrie: sites past and present" "Flinders Petrie was arguably...
Hi there, I am a homeschooling mom and we are reading about ancient Egypt right now. My son had a few questions about life in ancient Egypt and I really had no...
Hello everyone! I'm a 16-year-old 6th Form student from England. I've had a long passion for Egyptology and recently I decided to create a new, fresh Yahoo!...
1. They had no pencils as we do, but they had pens and brushes to write on papyrus. The English word "paper" is derived from the word "papyrus". The ancient...
The Sanskrit language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family and is not only a...
FIRE.....john although your reply is quite correct, I have seen "flint boxes" used by the egyptians, no doubt how they use it was not unlike how the kids use...
Of course they had jackets, it can get quite cool in northern Egypt especially at night in the winter. Take a look at the touregypt site that was referenced: ...
I think it sounds too good to be true (probably some scientists involved in Oxyrhynchus projects need more funding): Scientists at Oxford University have made...
I'm not familiar with a taboo on wool ... http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/ancientegyptwriting.htm ... http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag01012001/magf4.htm...
micheal regarding wool. I am sure somewhere I read that wool was considered unclean and not used for clothing. the theory given was that it was unclean because...
Thank you very much for answering our questions. My son thanks you too. This is a very interesting list. We might stick around a while and read. That is very...
Amarna - Ancient City of Akhetaten http://www.thearchitecturestore.co.uk/homepage.html The Ruins of El-Amarna http://touregypt.net/featurestories/amarna.htm ...
The lost and forgotten ancient city of the ancient Roman civilization - Pompeii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii Pompeii Map with Panoramic Quicktime...
Swedish archeologists led by Anne-Marie Leander Touati from Stockholm University have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the...
CAIRO (Reuters) - American archaeologists working in southern Egypt have found what they think is the tomb of a prehistoric ruler from the middle of the 4th...
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