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Beyond the tombs and riches, life in ancient Egypt wasn’t so luxurious, after all.
Rock art from a Malagasy cave hints at some remarkable cultural connections.
A new exhibition in Sydney is just the latest in a long, near continuous, list of Egyptian exhibitions in Australia. How much Egypt can we take?
Some of popular culture’s most famous ghosts and demons have roots in ancient Mesopotamia. What did ancient humans believe about the supernatural? And what stories did they tell?
It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
Ancient texts are still teaching us new things about the prevalence of wildlife.
There is often a distinct fragrance of pine or cedar, with some spiciness from cloves, cumin, myrrh, and warm notes from plants, flowers and trees.
This Egyptian noblewoman was sweetly scented upon her death, researchers have discovered. And they’ve teamed up with a perfumer to recreate her scent.
Some time measurements, like months and years, use the movements of the moon and sun, respectively. But other time measurements, like the hour, aren’t clearly connected to astronomical phenomena.
The way many Americans think about racial identity today is hard to map onto the complex history of ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia.
Archaeologists speculate the first soup might have been made by Neanderthals.
The ethnicity outcry says more about today’s preoccupations with race than ancient Egypt’s.
The modern soundtrack and dialogue feels far more anachronistic and intrusive than the diverse casting.
We uncovered evidence of a rebellion so significant, that events such as Cleopatra’s affairs and the rise of Christianity may not have come to pass without it.
Several studies have upended what we thought we knew about mummification using scientific dating techniques to reveal some fascinating – and surprising – insights.
Egyptians believed gold was the colour of the gods and gilding the dead expressed the idea that they acquired divine qualities in the afterlife.
Archaeological discoveries show the different options that have solved human problems over time.
As the Grand Egyptian Museum begins welcoming visitors ahead of its opening in 2023, one object remains conspicuously absent.
From the trinkets of the tomb to the mummy of the queen herself, the discovery of Cleopatra’s mausoleum could rewrite our understanding of the ancient world.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Museum and Curatorial Studies, University of Adelaide
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Lecturer, Classics, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Experimental Officer and Geophysical Researcher, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Griffith University
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Post-doctoral research fellow in Egyptology, University of Sydney
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Docteur en Egyptologie, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III
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PhD Archaeology. Lecturer and Tutor in Ancient World Studies., The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Griffith University
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Professeur d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lorraine
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
