This web ring is devoted to one of Africa's oldest kingdoms, the ancient Egyptian civilization. These indigenous Africans referred to their land as Kemet, and themselves as Kamites. All new websites with realistic information and or images of Ancient Egypt are welcome. If your website has images, we will only accept real images. Fictional images of ancient people only creates false tales of history and the people who created it. We deal with evidence when it come to history, not thoughts. The idea of Atlantis will not be accepted without real evidence.
A team of archeologists from Toronto University has discovered a cache of animal mummies that reveal rituals carried out by ancient Egyptians for their god Osiris. The team discovered the remains of three hall temples from the reign of King Seti I. One of them was filled with 83 mummified dogs, cats, sheep and goats over 2000-years-old. Ahram Onlin...
The Spanish government will return to Egypt eight items, dating back to the time of the pharaohs, which had been taken illegally from the Arab country in 1999, the Egyptian foreign ministry announced Sunday. The antiquities, which are of limestone, come from the tomb of Eimb Hur, one of the most important officials of the sixth Dynasty, and they ar...
A find in Egypt of a wooden statue of a king, a chapel and animal mummies suggests ritual activity associated with the great Egyptian gods, researchers say. Archaeologists from the University of Toronto said the items and evidence of a monumental building were found in Abydos, Egypt in June and July 2011. The wooden statue may represent the female ...
Ten people were killed when the soil caved in on them as they were illegally digging for ancient treasures under a house in a central Egyptian village, police officials told AFP on Monday. The 10, including four brothers, were buried alive when the walls of the dig collapsed in the village of Arab al-Manasra, north of the historic city of Luxor. Al...
Hong Kong dentist is wielding forceps to help reach for answers inside the last surviving example of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza. Pulling teeth by day and devising inventions by night, Ng Tze-chuen, 59, said he organized a team working with Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass to unlock the mystery s...
Despte her fascination with the Ancient Egyptians, Claire Ollett took the âsensibleâ route and gained a university place to study English. But a few years later, when she took a last minute holiday to Egypt with then boyfriend Mark, Claireâs interest in the culture surrounding Tutankhamum, Rameses, Cleopatra and co grew to an obsession and a ...
Ancient Egyptians tried to send their dead into the next world equipped with all the comforts of terrestrial existence. But they clearly left out one thing: moisturizer. Now on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, âEternal Life in Ancient Egyptâ examines the afterlife of the people who built the pyramids, both from a spiritua...
A quartzite colossus of 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III is to be raised on Luxor's west bank. The colossus was unearthed in 2004 by an Egyptian-European archaeological mission led by Horig Sourouzian during routine excavation work. It was 100 meters behind the gigantic colossi of Memnon which represent the same king at the main entrance of its temp...
During routine excavations on the northern side of the Amun-Re Temple in Luxorâs famous Karnak temple complex, a team from the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of the Karnak Temples this week unearthed a gate that they say has led to a significant breakthrough in archaeologistsâ understanding of Egyptâs enigmatic 17th Dynasty. It was this...
A Swiss team has uncovered a mummy in Egyptâs Valley of the Kings â the first of its kind since the exhumation of Tutankhamen in 1922. The latest find, which has created quite a stir, began on January 25, 2011, as part of clean-up work by a team of researchers from Basel University. âThereâs no decoration on the sides,â said one researche...
A British couple are on their way home after they were arrested at an Egyptian airport on suspicion of trying to smuggle antiquities out of the country before experts realised they were imitations bought at a local bazaar. Officials at Luxor International Airport stopped Michael Newey, 65, and his wife Angela, 62, with 19 mementoes including Pharon...
Egyptian police prevented a British man and his wife from smuggling 19 artifacts out of the country, an antiquities official told Agence France Presse Sunday. The couple were stopped in the southern Luxor airport with an assortment of relics including figurines and pots dating back to several eras, said Hassan Rasmi, who monitors the movement of an...
Two thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Now, using state-of-the-art High Definition Volume Rendering software from California-based Fovia, Inc. to virtually unwrap the artifact, National Museums Scotland together with a team of radiologists and a forensic ...
The Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, UK, has been awarded £233,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to launch a new ancient world exhibition. Unwrapping the Past will showcase the museum's mummified remains of Egyptian priest Iset Tayf Nakht. A statue of Sekmet, the Lion Goddess, which has been loaned from the British Museum, will also go on display....
Gamal El Ghitaniâs writing on Egypt is first and foremost sensitive to and celebratory of the notion of the Egyptian identity vis-Ã -vis its history, starting with Ancient Egypt to the Mamluk era to modern day. In his works â which include modern classics such as âThe Zafarani Files,â âZayni Barakatâ and âRinnâ among many others â...
