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'Royal Egyptian inscription' of Ramesses III's name is first of its kind discovered in Jordan
Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...
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Hidden Message Discovered On 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Obelisk In Paris
The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to ...
What the ancient world can teach us about death
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...
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Archaeologists found another Egyptian royal tomb—but who does it belong to?
The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient Egyptian name Abedju. The size of the 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber (shown from below and above) suggests that it was likely ...
Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery
In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn
The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived of the universe through the astronomical objects and ...
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Newfound ancient Egyptian town had links with Queen Nefertiti's daughter
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II ...
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'Major' ancient Egyptian town discovered — and it has a jug stamped with the name of Nefertiti's daughter
Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were studying the Greek one. An unexpected discovery of mudbrick dating to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) revealed the ...
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Mysterious altar found in ancient Mayan city contains bodies – and wasn’t made by the Maya
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Archaeologists ...
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Ancient jawbone found on seafloor belongs to mysterious group of human ancestors
This illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP) (Cheng-Han Sun ...
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Ancient altar found in Guatemala jungle apparently used for sacrifices, "especially of children," archaeologists say
An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...
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A wetter ancient Arabia could have enabled easier intercontinental species dispersal
Faysal Bibi is a senior scientist at the Natural History Museum – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Read the paper: Recurrent humid phases in ...