Day in the life of a healer in ancient Egypt
06:00 am Since medicine was deeply rooted in the religious doctrine of ancient Egyptian society, a healer would have likely begun his day in the temple. Sekhmet, the goddess of healing, would have been the likely point of tribute, as well as other smaller deities such...Read more
The largest embalming cache ever found in Egypt
For more than three decades, the Czech Institute of Egyptology has been excavating at the Abusir necropolis, a site several kilometers north of Saqqara, in an area that contains a group of large shaft tombs dating to the late 26th dynasty. (664-525 BC) and early 27th...Read more
The royal mummies of the cache of Deir el-Bahari
One of the most impressive archaeological discoveries of ancient Egypt is, without a doubt, that of the so-called “cache” of Deir el-Bahri. After years of tracking down a family of tomb raiders, the Abd el Rassuls, who had been saturating the antiquities...Read more
The Palermo Stone: The Earliest Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt
A Sicilian lawyer named Ferdinand Guidano bought in 1859 a black basalt slab that had a series of Egyptian hieroglyphs engraved on it. He probably acquired it in some antique market in Cairo, but the truth is that its origin is not known. In 1877, perhaps after...Read more