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The Beast of Set resembles an aardvark, but also a dog, a lion, a jackal and yet has features of none of these. What could it be? Source: A. Parrot / Public Domain.

The Beast of Set, the Unknown Creature at the Heart of Ancient Egypt

All That History August 26, 2024

The Egyptian pantheon of gods is among the most familiar to the modern world. Although...

It is theorized that the mastaba tombs which surround the earliest Egyptian pyramids, including those at Giza, may be designed to contain deadly radioactive uranium. Source: MagisterDawn / CC BY 3.0.

The Radioactive Guardian of the Egyptian Afterlife

All That History August 12, 2024

The pyramids were old for most of Egyptian history. Of the three great kingdoms that...

The Great Pyramids of Giza are the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Yasser Nazmi / CC BY-SA 3.0)

So, What Exactly is Hidden Inside the Great Pyramid?

All That History August 1, 2024

There is no site more emblematic and obviously ancient Egyptian than the pyramids at Giza....