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Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Sunday, December 31, 2017

The destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria

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Ancient Origins Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, was founded by Alexander the Great after his conquest of E...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

How Old Are the Most Ancient Houses in a Prominent Cypriot City?

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Ancient Origins Polish archaeologists working on Cyprus have discovered the oldest-known homes in Nea Paphos, a prominent capital city ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

5,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Pay Stub Reveals Workers Were Paid with Beer

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Ancient Origins An ancient cuneiform tablet dating back to 3,000 BC, which was discovered in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, in moder...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Beer Before Wine: Research Shows that Spain was a Beer Country First

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Ancient Origins A Colorado State University professor says he wants to write a book on caelia—an ancient Spanish beer that was replaced ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

History Trivia - Guy Fawkes Day

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November 5, 1219 - The port of Damietta (Egypt) fell to the Crusaders after a siege. 1530 St. Felix Flood ravaged the Dutch coast, ...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Rare ancient sarcophagus discovered in Israel

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Fox News An Israeli Antiquities Authority employee cleans an 1,800 years old stone sarcophagus.  (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) An e...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Precious Treasures from Ancient Heracleion to be Revealed

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Ancient Origins Artifacts from the Egyptian city of Thonis-Heracleion, once thought to be little more than a legend, will be displayed a...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

History Trivia - Temple of Artemis in Ephesus destroyed

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July 21  356 BC The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed by arson.  365 A tsunami de...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Polish Archaeologists Discover Rare Gift from Father of Cleopatra

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Ancient Origins A linen cloth that was once given as a gift by the father of legendary Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII has been discovered ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

King Tut's Beard Broken Off, Wrongly Glued Back on

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by Rossella Lorenzi Discovery News Inappropriate epoxy glue is now holding tog...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel

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by Owen Jarus Live Science      This mask was one of the masks that...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Pharaonic Rock Carvings Found in Egypt

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  by Rossella Lorenzi Discovery News    A rare wall relief showing an ...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Tomb of Previously Unknown Pharaonic Queen Found

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The tomb of Princess Shert Nebti in Abu Sir, south of Cairo, dating from around 2,500 BC and discovered in 2012. Czech archaeologists ha...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Egypt cemetery is home to a million 'mummies'

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A stray dog is seen at an archaeological site in Egypt this year.  (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) By Matt Cantor Fox News For the past 30 year...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt

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by Owen Jarus Live Science This image is of a child, around 18 months old, who...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

History Trivia - Pompey the Great murdered

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September 28 48 BC Pompey the Great was murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt. 351 Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Empero...