Tag: Egypt
Ancient Egyptians Deliberately Produced Arsenical Bronze 4,000 Years Ago on Elephantine Island
Metalworkers on Elephantine Island near Aswan were deliberately producing arsenical bronze nearly 4,000 years ago using sophisticated alloying techniques, according to new research published in Archaeometry. The discovery overturns long-held assumptions about…
Museum Employee Steals 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Pharaoh’s Bracelet, Sells for $4,000
A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet belonging to an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been stolen from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, sold for less than $4,000, and melted down by a gold smelter. Egyptian authorities have…
Ancient Egyptian “House of Life” Discovered in Luxor
In the grand necropolis of ancient Thebes on the west bank of the Nile stands a sprawling mortuary complex to one of ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs. Known as the Ramesseum, this mortuary…
What’s All This About Hidden Megastructures Under the Great Pyramid?
Recently there has been a bit of a kerfuffle around ancient Egypt. Three new royal tombs have been uncovered in as many weeks, and that’s something of a big deal when the…
Mysterious Egyptian Tomb May Be From Lost “Abydos” Dynasty
It never rains but it pours when it comes to the tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, said nobody ever, but the metaphor certainly seems appropriate at the moment. A month ago we…
The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Three)
The Bronze Age Collapse was, definitively, the end of the Bronze Age. By the time the ancient civilizations had picked up the pieces and rediscovered how to write and interact with each…