Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Egypt. The burial site includes a limestone chamber surrounded by mudbrick vaults, but the king's identity remains a mystery due to damage caused by ancient tomb robbers. The tomb is believed to ...

Check out his tomb. Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious new king of ancient Egypt, buried in a network of tombs at Anubis Mountain. "Discovering king's tombs, new pharaohs, are few and far ...

The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of cosmetics can be traced back to the urban civilizations of the ancient world. In southern Iraq and in Egypt, men and women alike painted kohl around ...

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Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at the close of ... They are so iconic, so astonishingly ancient, that it is hard to imagine ...

This is a bronze hook from Ancient Egypt. This object or artefact takes us back over three thousand years to the New Kingdom. In Ancient Egypt, when someone important died, their body was ...

In ancient times ... allowing hunters to carry arrows without the need for a hip attachment. Recurve bows with interchangeable limbs feature specialised mounts that hold up to six broadhead ...