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Egyptian conservators give King Tut's treasures new glow
As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...
Inside the Grand Egyptian Museum: A billion-dollar bridge between past and future
Rishika Sharma shares what it’s like inside. On my last visit to Egypt, you could drive right up to the Great Pyramid. Today, a hop-on/hop-off bus loops around a newly built visitor centre. You can ...
Travel: Discovering Egypt by river, from pharoahs to pyramids
Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...
Everything we’ve learnt from first DNA of ancient Egyptian
The first complete DNA study of an Ancient Egyptian has revealed he was probably a celebrated potter who was given an oddly ...
Scientists Sequence First Genome From Ancient Egypt, Revealing 4,800-Year-Old Secrets
The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...
First complete ancient Egyptian DNA genome reveals his occupation
But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...
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Scientists just sequenced the oldest and most complete ancient Egyptian human genome ever
In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...
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Scientists Have Sequenced an Ancient Egyptian Skeleton’s Entire Genome for the Very First Time. Here’s What They Found
Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...
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Broken, Burnt, Buried: Ritual Lives of Objects in Ancient Egypt
Broken, Burnt, Buried explores what the practice of breaking everyday objects tells us about the life of ordinary people in ...