Mystery over contents of 9 foot tall ancient Egyptian sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria

Mystery over contents of 9 foot tall ancient Egyptian sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria

Mystery over contents of 9  foot tall ancient Egyptian sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria Mystery over contents of 9-foot-tall ancient Egyptian sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria The spooky relic was found inside an ancient tomb and has left archaeologists baffled – because it measures NINE foot long. Experts say the sarcophagus is built from black granite and …

Archaeologists Discover Remains Of Three Different Cats Inside Ancient Egyptian Mummy

Archaeologists Discover Remains Of Three Different Cats Inside Ancient Egyptian Mummy

Archaeologists Discover Remains Of Three Different Cats Inside Ancient Egyptian Mummy An elderly cat mom’s scan showed that the 2500-year-old feline, ostensibly inside the covers, wasn’t a single animal. Instead, according to recent results, the mummy contained partial remains of three cats. Cat mummies in ancient Egypt are not common, although thousands of cat mummies …

Evidence of hidden pyramid discovered in Saqqara near Egypt’s oldest pyramid

Evidence of hidden pyramid discovered in Saqqara near Egypt’s oldest pyramid

Evidence of hidden pyramid discovered in Saqqara near Egypt’s oldest pyramid A 30-year-old archeologist with work experience in Egypt made an impressive report. It says it has found evidence of a secret pyramid deep below the desert of Saqqara. If it has proven to be correct, that could be said that Egypt has still many …

Ornately-tattooed 3,000-year-old mummy discovered by archaeologists

Ornately-tattooed 3,000-year-old mummy discovered by archaeologists

Ornately-tattooed 3,000-year-old mummy discovered by archaeologists In 2016, an ancient Egyptian mummy with symbolic tattoos was discovered by a team of archeologists, they thought were first of their kind. The 3000-year-old mummified woman was tattooed with various symbols, including cows, lotus and divine eyes, which could represent her religious status or practices. It was the …

Egypt unveils biggest ancient coffin find in over a century

Egypt unveils biggest ancient coffin find in over a century

Egypt unveils discovery of 30 ancient coffins with mummies inside On Saturday, the Egyptian authorities revealed 30 ancient wooden sarcophagi found in Luxor, including mummies indeed. The Supreme Council of Antiquities secretary general Mostafa Waziri told reporters that the discovery was the country’s largest in more than a century. After years of foreign archeological digs, it …

Temple of Ptolemy IV Discovered in Southern Egypt

Temple of Ptolemy IV Discovered in Southern Egypt

Temple of Ptolemy IV Discovered in Southern Egypt The remains of Ptolemy 4 Philopator’s temple were incidentally stumbled upon when an Egyptian archeological mission was digging in Kom Ishqaw City, Sohag Governorate. It was a nome in Egypt under the Greek Empire rule, earlier known as the Per-Wadjet. During an excavation in Kom Shaqao Sohag, a …

King Tut’s Coffin Has been Removed from his Tomb for the First Time in History

King Tut’s Coffin Has been Removed from his Tomb for the First Time in History

King Tut’s Coffin Has been Removed from his Tomb for the First Time in History From the time that King Tutankhamun’s body was placed, the outermost sarcophagus had never left the 3300-year-old tomb. Even in 1922, following the discovery of the tomb by the British archeologist Howard Carter, the outer coffin made from wood and …

Divers find temples and treasure in Egypt’s ancient city of Heracleion

Divers find temples and treasure in Egypt’s ancient city of Heracleion

Divers find temples and treasure in Egypt’s ancient city of Heracleion A trove of artefacts, including the remains of a temple, gold jewelry, coins and the missing piece of a ceremonial ship, have been found by divers swimming through Heracleion, an ancient Egyptian city now underwater. Heracleion — named after the legendary Hercules, who ancient …

9-Year-Old Kid Literally Stumbled on Stunning Fossils of a New Hominid

9-Year-Old Kid Literally Stumbled on Stunning Fossils of a New Hominid

9-Year-Old Kid Literally Stumbled on Stunning Fossils of a New Hominid In South Africa, a young boy walking his dog has unconsciously stumbled through a pair of about 2 million years old which is now supposed to fill an integral gap in our knowledge of human evolution. Nine-years-old Matthew Berger and his dog stumbled in a cavern …

Roman Senate Building Unearthed in Egypt

Roman Senate Building Unearthed in Egypt

Remains of Graeco-Roman Senate Building Unearthed in Egypt With a history as rich as Egypt’s, there’s really no limit to the type of discoveries that can be unearthed between Sinai to Siwa and down to Aswan. North Sinai holds the remains of the ancient Egyptian city of Pelusium – an area now known as Tell …