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Discovered egyptian tomb with scenes of daily life

An Old Kingdom mastaba tomb adorned with painted decorations was recently uncovered during excavations.

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 · 28 Mar 2024
Painting showing ancient egyptians daily life found inside the mastaba.
A German-Egyptian archaeological expedition discovered during excavations in the city of Dahshur a mastaba decorated with paintings. The mastaba – a type of ancient Egyptian tomb with a rectangular base – was built during the Old Kingdom period and dates back to 2300 BC. It was built to bury Seneb-Nebef , the man who held administrative posts in the palace, and his wife Idut , who was a priestess of the goddess Hathor. Dahshur, one of the largest funerary complexes, is located in Giza and includes the Red Pyramid and the Curved Pyramid , both attributed to the pharaoh Seneferu, who reigned in the mid-3 rd century BC. “The mastaba is part ...

Tutankhamun's burned mummy: could it be spontaneous combustion?

Scholars have long studied one of history's most famous figures, Pharaoh Tutankhamun, whose life ended suddenly under mysterious circumstances in 1323 BC, when the Pharaoh was about 20 years old. The apparent burning of the pharaoh's mummy at the moment of its discovery deepens the mystery. Science tries to provide some plausible explanations.

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 · 17 Mar 2024
The mummy of Tutankhamun
The aura of mystery surrounding Tutankhamun's death has been felt ever since archaeologists Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered the pharaoh's tomb in 1922, in Cairo. A mystery that has lasted for thousands of years and that 21 st century forensic science tried to unravel. Based on the study of the mummified body, researchers have concluded that Tutankhamun was not poisoned, did not die from malaria, or from necrosis due to a fracture in his femur. He wasn't even hit by a sledgehammer on the base of the skull, as was initially thought. Instead today scholars, based on the fractures observed on the body, believe that anc...
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Pyramid of Menkaure: The smallest of the Giza Pyramids

It is significantly smaller than the other two sister pyramids on the Giza Plateau, up to a tenth the size of the Pyramid of Cheops. Yet, the dwarf pyramid raises questions equal to those of the other two pyramids.

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 · 5 Mar 2024
Pyramid of Menkaure
In documentaries and reportages it is often overlooked, perhaps due to its smaller size. Its official name is " Pyramid of Menkaure " or " Pyramid of Mykerinos ", from the Greek Mykerinos, the form in which the name appears in the works of the Greek historian Herodotus. It is the third pyramid of the Giza complex and is at least as intriguing as its better-known giant sisters. The total height of the Menkaure Pyramid is 65.5 metres, the sides of the square base measure 103.4 meters and the total volume is equal to 250 thousand m 3 , or a tenth of that of Cheops, and presenting the curious peculiarity of blocks much larger than that of Kha...

An Interview with Alan F. Alford

Probably from the late 1990s. Alan F. Alford is author of 'Gods of the New Millennium' and 'The Phoenix Solution'

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 · 26 Feb 2024
Alan F. Alford
Q. "Alan. In 1996 you put forward a sensational theory that the Great Pyramid was some kind of functional machine - a power generator. But in your new book [July 1998] you have carefully sidestepped the functionality of the Pyramid, and taken the approach that 'we don't really know what it is'. Can you clarify for us exactly where you stand on this question." A. "Certainly. The theory I put forward in 'Gods of the New Millennium' was just that - a theory and nothing more. Without full and unfettered access to the Pyramid, I can't test that theory. And nor is there any new information coming out of Egypt which might...

A Secret Tunnel Being Excavated in the Great Pyramid?

written by Richard C. Hoagland © 1997 The Enterprise Mission

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 · 26 Feb 2024
A Secret Tunnel Being Excavated in the Great Pyramid?
The following is a preliminary report of an "Enterprise Mission Terrestrial Archaeological Investigation." It concerns recent "curious activities" apparently occurring inside the Great Pyramid, now confirmed by on-site Enterprise representatives reporting back directly from Giza, Egypt. As many reading this already know, for more than a year before this writing, a new, private research expedition to Egypt -- headed by Dr. Joseph Schor -- has been conducting a series of scientific investigations of the Giza Plateau. Though, technically, the Egyptian licence for this activity only allowed for "exploration of underground geological faults an...

SEKHMET SPEAKS

This article was written by John Anthony West, probably in the 90s. Mr. West passed away on Feb 6th 2018.

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 · 26 Feb 2024
SEKHMET SPEAKS
Part One INTRODUCING SEKHMET: Sekhmet, in ancient Egypt, was portrayed as a female figure with the head of a lioness. In the mythology, it was Sekhmet who meted out Divine vengeance when errant humanity neglected to worship the gods and took matters into its own unknowing hands. Her destructive rampages were designed to restore rightful order, she was the goddess who heals... but by fire. Here in the pages of BRES she is spoken for (in appropriately contemporary terminology) by her amanuensis, John Anthony West, rogue Egyptologist, author of Serpent in the Sky: the High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt and other books and student of the 'symb...

A look into the past: the mythology of Egypt, the gods

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Published in 
 · 25 Feb 2024
Heket, The frog Goddess
Egypt is renowned for its legends, for the various fantastic elaborations and for the related choreographies; the findings of archaeological research confirm the link of the population (from the simple servant to the Pharaoh) to myths and magic. For the Egyptians, magic was considered the most effective protection against the inability to face difficulties. When they felt defenseless and opposed, they practiced magical formulas so that daily life would be strengthened and protected from all types of evil. The cults of the ancient Egyptians were many and the gods were never of a unitary character throughout Egypt. In fact, each city had it...

The Gift of the Nile

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Published in 
 · 25 Feb 2024
Herodotus
The Gift of the Nile : it is with this famous expression that Herodotus summarizes the beauty of a country that flourishes along the banks of the great river, drawing its wealth and strength from it. Herodotus stayed several months in Egypt, suffering the charm of a millenary and refined civilization of which he wanted to record every custom with precision. He went as far as the first cataract of the Nile, visiting the cities and markets, questioning the priests and scribes and those descendants of the Egyptians who had learned Greek from the Ionians. With amiability and scrupulous competence, Herodotus talks about everything: oracles, sa...

Was the Great Pyramid of Giza sabotaged before its completion?

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 · 25 Feb 2024
The Great Pyramid of Giza (Kufu pyramid)
Contents The architecture of the Egyptian pyramids The internal environments of the Cheops pyramid The defense mechanism The closing operations of the pyramid Lifting and transporting marble blocks The excavation of tunnels and the quarrying of blocks The sabotage of the Great Pyramid Who is responsible? The sabotage operation The Pyramid of Chephren and the Sphinx Other clues The mystery of the secret chamber Granite processing Dynastic successions in ancient Egypt The extraction of gold in the mines The architecture of the Egyptian pyramids The pyramid of Cheops, the oldest and only one remaining of the seven wonders of the world, is s...

Legends of the Cheops pyramid

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 · 23 Feb 2024
Legends of the Cheops pyramid
In 820 AD Caliph Abdullah Al Mamun attempted to breach the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Some documents in his possession indicated to him that inside the pyramid existed a room full of great riches. The caliph had a passage opened until he discovered, with a thousand difficulties, what is today called the "ascending corridor" which leads to what, in Al Mamun's hopes, was to be the treasure room. In reality, the room was more similar to that of a funerary room, so much so that there was even a sarcophagus, but no treasures were found. The sarcophagus that should have contained the pharaoh's mummy was empty. But why was the sarcophagus ...

The Khufu Cartouche Fraud

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 · 23 Feb 2024
The Khufu Cartouche Fraud
Egyptologists tell us that the pyramid was built by Cheops or during his reign, in the 26 th century BC. The main evidence of this attribution are some cartouches found in some stones inside the pyramid. They are all fake. In 1765, British consul Nathaniel Davison discovered a hidden chamber directly above the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza. He gained access to the chamber via a passage at the south end of the pyramid's Great Gallery. It seems that the passage leading to this chamber was already accessible during the construction of the pyramid. The dimensions of the chamber floor were similar to those of the King'...

8 unsolved mysteries from the ancient Egypt

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 · 19 Feb 2024
giza plateau pyramids
The Great Pyramid in Egypt The Pyramid of Cheops is undoubtedly one of the greatest mysteries in the world. 2.5 million blocks with an average weight of 2.5 tons per cuboid were installed here. The Egyptological literature states that everything concerning this building has been clarified - but doubts about it are legitimate. According to modern theories, the building dates back to around 2,550 BC and was built by Pharaoh Khufu in the 1 st century BC, because Herodotus writes in his Histories "he was told that a Pharaoh named Cheops had the pyramid built within 20 years." There is nothing else that connects the pyramid to Cheops. Not a s...

Rejected the plan to reattach granite blocks to the Menkaure pyramid in Giza

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 · 17 Feb 2024
The Menkaures pyramid with the detached blocks at the base. The debate is part of a broader discussi
This Friday, a committee of experts consulted by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities unanimously rejected the project announced at the end of January 2024 by the country's authorities to restore the facades of the Menkaure's pyramid by reattaching the large granite blocks that have been on the ground around the structure for centuries. The Menkaure's pyramid is the smallest of the three pyramids that, together with the large statue of the Sphinx, defines the necropolis of Giza. The project was proposed by Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, but was strongly criticized by various a...

The natural disaster of the bronze age reported in an Egyptian stele

Fragments of the Storm Stele were found in the third pylon of the Temple of Karnak, Thebes, between 1947 and 1951. The stele dates back to the reign of Pharaoh Ahmose, first pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. A translation of the reported inscription describes intense rain, darkness and “the stormy sky, without ceasing, with cries louder than those of the masses”.

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 · 3 Feb 2024
The natural disaster of the bronze age reported in an Egyptian stele
The unusual climate patterns described in the Storm Stele are probably the result of the catastrophic eruption of the Thera's volcano (now Santorini island in the Mediterranean Sea). Since geology and meteorology have concluded that massive volcanic eruptions can have significant effects on weather conditions, the Thera explosion likely had its effects felt in Egypt as well. The volcanic event, also known as the “Minoan Eruption,” was one of the largest historically documented eruptions to occur on Earth. According to some scholars, the eruption was so catastrophic that it inspired certain Greek myths and perhaps, although less likely...

The unsolved enigma of the giant sarcophagi of the Egyptian Serapeum of Saqqara

Gigantic granite sarcophagi weighing 70 tons positioned in narrow niches dug deep into the earth. It is the enigma of Saqqara, one of the oldest and largest archaeological sites in ancient Egypt. How was it possible to place these huge artefacts in such small spaces? And, above all, why?

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Published in 
 · 3 Feb 2024
Sarcofagi Serape Saqqara
Located on the west bank of the Nile, about 30 km south of Cairo, is the site of Saqqara, one of the oldest and largest funerary areas in all of ancient Egypt. The pyramid of Teti, the first ruler of the 6 th dynasty of Egypt, towers above the immense necropolis. The pharaoh built the pyramid and the nearby mortuary temple during his reign, more than 4 thousand years ago. The pyramid of Tethys is very important, as it contains the oldest inscriptions in the world, part of the so-called " Pyramid Texts ", a collection of ancient religious writings dating back to 2400 BC, containing passages about Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, ...

EGYPT: The Famine Stele in Aswan

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 · 29 Jan 2024
The Famine Stele
The Famine Stele is an epigraph written in hieroglyphics located on the island of Sehel in the Nile, near Aswan, Egypt, which reports of a seven-year period of drought. This famine occurred during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser of the 3 rd Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was engraved in the Ptolemaic period, i.e. between 332 and 31 BC. The famine stele is engraved on a rectangular block of granite, extracted from a natural granite wall. The inscription is in hieroglyphics and contains 42 columns. The upper part of the stele depicts three Egyptian deities: Khnum, Satet and Anuqet. Djoser is shown in front of them, in the act of bringing...

The queen-pharaoh HATSHEPSUT

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 · 18 Jan 2024
The queen-pharaoh HATSHEPSUT
Of all the great female figures of ancient Egypt, Hatshepsut, the only woman who was a pharaoh, stands out. Hatshepsut was the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmosis I and the Great Royal Bride Ahmes. Having survived her "legitimate" brothers, had she been born a male she would certainly have been ruler; but since Egyptian tradition allowed only men to succeed to the throne, Hatshepsut went in marriage at a very young age to her half-brother Thutmosis II (born from the union of Thutmosis I with a secondary wife, Mutnofret), who was crowned Pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt. Hatshepsut became the Great Royal Bride, the principal consort of Thutmosis...

The Mysteries of Giza

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 · 18 Jan 2024
The Mysteries of Giza
The Giza plateau is without a doubt one of the most mysterious places in the world. This is due to the fact that the megalithic complex that stands in this location is still today a source of doubts and new and innovative theories. I think it is legitimate to ask questions when you have in front of your eyes the largest megalithic complex on the face of the Earth which, not surprisingly, is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world still standing. First of all, let's start our analysis with the most visible part of the pyramid: the dimensions NORTH SIDE 230 m and 25.05 cm SOUTH SIDE 230 and 45.35 m EAST SIDE 230 m and 39...

Ancient Egypt Cosmology and Myth

I felt the need, while studying Egyptian History, to highlight the importance of myth and cosmology in understanding a people as mysterious and fascinating as the Egyptians.

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 · 18 Jan 2024
The everyday life of Egyptian Man is marked by adherence to the rules handed down by the Myths of the cosmogonies. Man lives according to precise canons taken from the examples of life led by the gods in the afterlife. Myth serves to communicate knowledge. The Egyptian Myths that are handed down to us from the Pyramid texts also convey the social history of a very ancient and highly cultured people. One testimony is provided to us by the Palermo Stone: it is a fragment of a black stone slab, which bears the list of the kings of Egypt beginning with Menes, the first ruler of the First Dynasty, and at least up to Neferirkara, the third king...

Ancient Egypt and Pre-Columbian America: so distant, yet so similar

The ancient Egyptians in Africa and the ancient pre-Inca and Inca cultures in South America developed on opposite sides of the globe. According to our knowledge, the two cultures have never come into contact with each other, yet they mysteriously share the same iconographic system, architecture, symbolism, mythology and religion. Victorian era scholars, faced with this enigma, concluded that both cultures were daughters of a previous mother civilization spread across the planet: Atlantis.

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 · 23 Dec 2023
Ancient Egypt and Pre-Columbian America: so distant, yet so similar
There are many disconcerting and unresolved analogies that connect ancient Egypt with pre-Columbian cultures, despite the fact that they developed on opposite sides of the planet, with an ocean in between. Faced with this enigma, scholars of the Victorian era became convinced that both cultures had inherited the same iconographic, symbolic, architectural and religious system from the same previous 'mother civilization', now lost in the distant past of history. Inspired by Plato's stories, the Victorians called this ancient global civilization Atlantis, a hypothesis that well explained the parallels between Ancient Egypt and Pr...
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