The Mystery of Egyptian Tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings
Tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton on January 6, 1907. Ayrton’s sponsor, Theodore M. Davis, published a summary of the excavation (The Tomb of Queen Tiye) in 1910. KV55 is from the 18th dynasty, being a problematic...Read more
The Mysterious Black Bones of Set
An investigation studies the boxes forgotten for years with fossils of animals that the ancient Egyptians venerated. Ancient Egyptians collected fossils of extinct animals that they worshiped as sacred relics of Set, god of darkness and chaos, and placed, wrapped in...Read more
Memphis, the first capital of Egypt
Located in the north of the country and founded by Narmer, the first pharaoh of Egypt, Memphis was during its three thousand years of history an important political and religious center, seat of the great temple of the god Ptah and place of coronation of the pharaohs....Read more
First Egyptian mummy of a pregnant woman is identified by researchers
A study carried out by Polish Egyptologists and which has just been published concludes that a mummy preserved in the National Museum in Warsaw, and which until now was believed to be that of an ancient priest, is actually that of a pregnant woman who lived in the 1st...Read more