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
Egyptian Mythology: Isis and the seven scorpions
The myth of Isis and the Seven Scorpions appeared written on the Metternich Stela, a tablet found in Alexandria in 1828 and which is currently in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Egyptian Mythology tells that … .. the veneration of the Egyptians for Osiris had...Read more
The Hyksos Did Not Invade Egypt
A recently published study questions the ancient theory that the Hyksos invaded ancient Egypt. The study is based on isotopic analyses performed on individuals buried in the Tell el-Dab’a cemetery, the ancient Avaris, capital of the Hyksos. One of the most...Read more
The First Border Sign in History is in Egypt: The Dominions of the Scorpion King
A team of archaeologists has found what could be considered the first border marker in history in Egypt. It is a rock with hieroglyphs, the inscription of which marks the “domain of King Horus Scorpion.” A group of researchers from the Egyptian Ministry of...Read more
Death of Cleopatra – The last days of the queen
When on August 12, 30 BC, Octavian’s soldiers stormed the rooms of the last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, they encountered an overwhelming sight: the queen lay lifeless on her royal bed, with one of her dying maidens at her feet and the other, about to...Read more