Ancient Egyptian Facts 101

05/03/2024

"It may not look (like) there is any way inside of the pyramid, however the video shows how it is riddled with tunnels, chambers and side passages."

A video giving a rare look inside Egypt's pyramids has gone viral, with people describing it as 'claustrophobic'.

01/10/2023

'Martin, leading a mission of 22 Spanish Egyptologists and 8 Egyptian experts, clarified to EFE that the two tombs reflect “a very important richness of the architectural style and evidence that the vizier's tomb at some point became a necropolis.”'''

Right at the turn of the year, a Spanish archaeological mission made a tremendous discovery in the modern city of Luxor in Egypt, which includes the site of the ancient city of Thebes.

09/29/2022

“The first people to look at the Rosetta Stone thought it would take two weeks to decipher,” says Edward Dolnick, author of The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone. “It ended up taking 20 years.”

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822

09/15/2021

"Egypt on Tuesday showcased an ancient tomb structure belonging to the cemetery complex of King Djoser, a pharaoh who lived more than 4,500 years ago, following extensive restorations of the site."

SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Tuesday showcased an ancient tomb structure belonging to the cemetery complex of King Djoser, a pharaoh who lived more than 4,500 years ago, following extensive restorations of the site.

06/20/2021

"The farmer found this ancient slab of sandstone while preparing his land for cultivation, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Cairo"

A farmer living near Ismailia in Egypt has uncovered a 2,600-year-old stela erected by pharaoh Apries, who ruled from about 589 B.C., to 570 B.C.

05/17/2021

"The find includes 68 oval-shaped tombs from the predynastic Buto Period (6000–3150 B.C.), 37 rectangular-shaped tombs from the Second Intermediate Period (1782–1570 B.C., also known as the era of Hyksos, a Semitic people that ruled Egypt at the time), and five oval-shaped tombs from the Naqada III period (3200–3000 B.C.), according to Smithsonian Magazine."

Scholars are now trying to determine whether and how the people of one period absorbed the traditions of another.

04/30/2021

First pregnant Egyptian mummy surprises researchers.

Polish researchers examining an Egyptian mummy previously believed to be a male priest discover it was actually a woman after spotting the tiny foot of a 26-30 week old fetus in her abdomen.

04/28/2021

"In recent months a series of discoveries down shafts in Saqqara, Egypt, has captivated the world of archaeology."

In recent months a series of discoveries down shafts in Saqqara, Egypt, has captivated the world of archaeology. Sudarsan Raghavan was able to descend on ropes into one. One mistake and he could have fallen 100ft

04/04/2021

"Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital."

Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital.

03/05/2021

Tutankhamen’s Outer-space Connection?

It seems as if every night there are four or five hours of Ancient Aliens shows on TV. Don’t you wonder where those ancient aliens are now? How come they don’t visit us now? Did they deplete their fuel reserves for their spaceships?

Anyway, recently I was working on a book about current research on Tutankhamen and realized there is a real connection between Tutankhamen and outer-space, and it involves a mystery I have always wondered about. (Don’t tell William Shatner.)

Within the wrappings of Tutankhamen’s mummy were three objects from outer space. Your trivia question is: What were they? The answer is a slight cheat, but only a little one. Three objects within the wrappings were made of iron: an eye-of-Horus amulet, a tiny magical headrest, and a spectacular dagger with an iron blade, gold hilt, and rock crystal pommel. At this time Egypt didn’t have iron and recent studies have shown that the iron is meteoritic, so it really did come from outer-space.

When the ancient Egyptians first used a word for “iron” is was bia. Later, they extended it to the phrase bia n pet which translates to “iron from the sky,” so they must have known its extraterrestrial origin. How did they know? If they merely found a meteorite in the desert, there wouldn’t have been any reason to think it was from outer-space. It would just have been an interesting rock. So, they must have seen a meteor fall from the sky --- perhaps during a meteor shower. That made it a very special rock, indeed. It came from the realm of the gods.

The mystery is why the Egyptians never adopted iron technology. They had their own small deposits of iron and could have worked them, or they could have imported iron objects from their neighbors who did develop iron technology, but no, they were centuries behind everyone in adopting iron. The answer may be a simple one. The Egyptians were slow to accept change in general. They never picked up on the idea of cattle as beasts of burden, to haul loads, nor did they really take the wheel beyond chariots. So, it may just have been this resistance to change that stopped them from moving into the iron age. Still, the three iron objects were viewed as very special, special enough to be buried within the wrappings of the boy-king. This is a picture of the iron dagger that was found in King Tut's tomb.

02/22/2021

Sent to me by a longtime group member. Thank you, Z.

An Egyptian amethyst cat amulet. Late period to ptolemaic period, 664-30 BC, sold at christie's in 2007

02/21/2021

"A hi-tech study has offered new clues about the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt 3,600 years ago, according to the country’s antiquities ministry."

Experts believe Seqenenre Tao II was killed after being captured on battlefield 3,600 years ago