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#egypt

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Papyrus With Spells From The Book of the DeadNow, this is quite a find!Archaeologists have found an ancient papyrus in Egypt’s Saqqara region. The UNESCO World Heritage site is a vast necropolis that is home to pyramids, animal burial sites, and ancient Coptic Christian monasteries. From this description alone, experts would have dug up something interesting at some point. But this 16-meter-long ancient papyrus is quite a cut about the rest, mostly because of its contents. The parchment contains texts from the Pharaonic Book of the Dead, a funerary text from ancient Egypt that contains declarations and spells to aid the deceased in their afterlife. It was found in one of the 250 caskets at the site. Dubbed the “Waziri Papyrus,” the ancient texts will be presented at the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum!Image credit: wikimedia commons#discoveries #archaeologists #Egypt #papyrus #bookofthedead #Saqqara

The Oldest Cities in the World Humanity has been living on this planet for thousands of years ago. As time progressed, so did the living beings on Earth. From small communities, they’ve done their best to innovate and create bigger and better cities.From being hunter-gatherers to farmers and to the variety of jobs and occupations we have today, we can truly say that humanity has done its best to thrive. What’s interesting is to learn how all of this played out. From the very beginning, the oldest beginnings of cities started near fertile farmland and rivers that provided water, both for irrigation for farm fields and as a means of transporting the crops they produced to other markets. A common example of an ancient city was located in Mesopotamia, which lay in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Due to advancements in navigation and transportation, eventually, other cities were able to rise away from bodies of water. Howstuffworks compiles a list of the oldest inhabitable cities in the world and some details on how they were founded. While it’s difficult to determine the precise time period when a small village became a city, our best bet is to look at these ten cities that have been recognized as the oldest in the world: 1. Damascus, Syria2. Jericho, West Bank, Palestine3. Faiyum, Egypt4. Beirut, Lebanon5. Byblos, Lebanon6. Aleppo, Syria7. Athens, Greece8. Plovdiv, Bulgaria9. Gaziantep, Turkey10. Susa/Shush, IranLearn more about these cities here. Image credit: David McEachan#history #Howstuffworks #Egypt #Syria #Palestine #Lebanon #Greece #Bulgaria #Turkey #Iran

Archaeologists Unearthed Two New Sphinxes in Luxor, EgyptA team of researchers composed of Germans and Egyptians has unearthed a pair of limestone sphinxes at the ancient Egyptian temple of Amenhotep III in western Luxor, Egypt. The sphinxes measure around 26 feet long and could have depicted the pharaoh.Other significant ancient artifacts were also at the site, like three nearly intact statues of the goddess Sekhmet (the protector of the pharaohs).Amenhotep III is also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent, and Egypt prospered greatly during his reign.(On an unrelated note, I’m happy no mummies that can turn back to life were disturbed during the excavation).(Image Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities)#Archaeology #AncientEgypt #Sphinx #Egypt

Incredibly Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Wicker Baskets Filled with Fruit Recovered from the Ruins of a Sunken Egyptian CityUndisturbed wicker baskets filled with fruit have been discovered in the submerged ruins of Thonis-Heracleion, a near-legendary city off the coast of Egypt. The city was Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean before the establishment of Alexandria. The wicker baskets were found to be filled with doum (a sacred fruit of an African palm tree) and grape seeds. French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio was surprised with the discovery of the artifacts, and that the baskets were untouched for more than 2,000 years. “Nothing was disturbed,” Goddio said to The Guardian. “It was very striking to see baskets of fruits.”Goddio pointed out that a possible explanation for the preservation of the baskets and their contents is that they were placed within an underground room.Photograph: Christoph Gerigk/Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation#WickerBaskets #Archaeology #Finds #Egypt #MiddleEast #Heritage #Artifacts

Moving King Khufu's Solar Boat from the Giza Pyramids After 4,600 YearsOn August 10, 2021, the oldest and biggest boat discovered in Egypt known as King Khufu's Solar Boat was moved from its home near the Giza pyramids to the Grand Egyptian Museum nearby.So how do you move a 4,600-year-old boat measuring 138 feet (42 m) in length and weighing 20 tons? With as much fanfare as possible, of course!King Khufu's Solar Boat was moved in one piece inside a metal cage carried on a remote-controlled vehicle that looks like a giant semi-trailer. The vehicle was imported from Belgium specifically for this occasion.#Egypt #KingKhufu #boat #SolarBoat #GizaPyramids #EgyptologyEgypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities tweeted a short video clip of the transport:

Drone Brings a Bird's Eye View of the Great Pyramid of GizaUkrainian photographer and travel blogger Alexander Ladanivskyy collaborated with the Ministry of Tourism in Egypt to bring us a view of the Great Pyramid of Giza unlike anything we've seen before.Using drone photography, Ladanivskyy managed to bring a bird's eye view of the pyramid. Here, we can see the pyramid's tip, which used to have a golden Pyramidion (now long lost to history).Instead, we could see that the top blocks on the tip of the pyramids had various etchings that travelers had left throughout the centuries, long before the pyramids had better security.#pyramid #pyramidion #GreatPyramidofGiza #Egypt #dronephotography #birdseyeview #AlexanderLadanivskyy