Tag: Egypt
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…
The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Two)
The main problem in understanding the Bronze Age Collapse is that we don’t really know what happened. This may look like an oversimplification but it is not. It is, instead, the simple…
Team Behind the Discovery of Egyptian Royal Tomb May Have Found Another
Remember last week when we reported that the first Egyptian Royal Tomb in a century had been discovered? Well, the team who found the tomb of Thutmose II may just have done…
Tomb of Thutmose II: First Egyptian Royal Tomb Found in 100 Years
The 18th Dynasty of Egypt was the start of its last golden age as a superpower. Its founder, Ahmose I, rose to control the whole of the Nile, expelling the mysterious semitic…
Pyramid Found in Peru May be Older than Ancient Egypt
A team of archaeologists and researchers have found something in the valley holding Peru’s, (and South America’s) oldest civilization. A new pyramid has been found in the Supe valley, home to the…