The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his ...
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What life was really like for women in ancient Egypt
In the modern day, we may think of Feminism and equal rights between the sexes as a recent phenomenon, but in Ancient Egypt, ...
This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...
Archaeologists have uncovered part of a 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple that was part of a complex built to honor the Sun god Ra. Located at the Abu Ghurab archaeological site near Cairo, the temple is ...
Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held ...
Underwater archaeologists announced Monday they had discovered the 2,000-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of Alexandria. Divers found the vessel's hull, which was more ...
A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...
Researchers investigated the remains inside an ancient Egyptian alabaster vessel. Credit: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to ...
A newly analyzed ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed unmistakable traces of opium, challenging long-held assumptions about daily life and ritual in ancient Egypt. The ...
Egyptian alabaster vessels may have been the ancient world’s hookah. In a study published in September in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, researchers identified ...
Opium use may have been a “fixture of daily life” for Ancient Egyptians, according to a new study. Experts from the Yale Peabody Museum uncovered traces of the addictive narcotic after becoming ...
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