http://www.dailyindia.com/show/170080.php/There-may-have-been-a-second- There may have been a second Sphinx, claims Egyptologist From our ANI Correspondent ...
Ancient Egyptian temples consist typically of an impressive entrance in form of a massive pylon gateway, outer courtyards surrounded by columns, inner halls...
I got a glimpse of it, it seems to work reasonably well for very simple words and sentences, just like many other automatic translators. There is no...
"While there are many mysteries yet to be solved about Egypt's ancient pyramids, it is clear that they were not simply monumental tombs, at least in the eyes...
Like the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, declared war on death itself and searched obsessively for the secret of eternal...
New York Times September 20, 2007 In Egypt, a Rising Push Against Genital Cutting By MICHAEL SLACKMAN KAFR AL MANSHI ABOU HAMAR, Egypt — The men in this...
CAIRO, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists working in the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun have found baskets and intact clay pots apparently...
... Thaks, I don't quite understand when and where they found the baskets, I mean that tomb has been crowded with tourists for years... I was there last...
http://www.discoverycivilization.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=771 "It was thought that Sumerians were earlier in writing than Egypt," Gunter Dreyer, director of...
Hi everyone. I'm Mathilda and I'm new. I got into a very repetetive and heated argument with an Afrocentrist recently, over what the Egyptians looked like. He...
Hi Mathilda, we had this question already a while ago, see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ancient_Egypt_Group/message/663 Many ancient Egyptians certainly...
I am forwarding an email from another list about Wallis Budge and Flinders Pettie that has some bearing on the race question as well as other interesting...
The fact that your afrocentrist friend ignored the mummy of Ramses II tells you all you need to know. Arguing is a waste of time. Your friend has already ...
You can get a hundred different "rationales" from people as to what race they were. Most defy basic logic in exchange for some specific concept they hold to....
Thank you for an useful post. I shall have a word with one of the British museum managers to see if that's true about the Petrie stuff. From the evidence that...
About female circumcision. I know that it's hideously common in Egypt, but is it specific to Nilotic cultures? Is it possible that it's a remnant of ancient...
The total ignoring of my point about Ramses II was the point I ended the conversation. You can't argue with the irrational. He kept pointing out all the...
Don't make the mistake of confusing the two major but different types of female circumcision. One is done to increase female enjoyment and the other to reduce...
By the way, I am aware that many people believe that the Egyptians practiced the latter type of female circumcision (pharaonic circumcision), but I have never...
Pharaoh Senusret (Sesostris) conquered in the Middle Kingdom Lower Nubia and controlled it by building a number of fortresses, among them the Middle Kingdom...
I had read that a devout Muslim (Sufi?) had destroyed the nose of the Sphinx. and that the local village had some kind of disaster happen shortly thereafter,...