What Was Childhood Like in Ancient Egypt?
Most Egyptian children worked. They helped in the fields, minded animals, fetched water, carried things in workshops and learned their parents’ trade by doing…
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Mahboob Alam
Mahboob Alam founded Egyptian Secrets out of a long-standing fascination with ancient Egypt. What began as personal reading — archaeology books, excavation reports, museum publications, and following new research online — turned into a decision to build somewhere the accurate version of these stories could live. He is not a practising Egyptologist and does not claim to be. What he does is read the specialist literature carefully, represent it accurately, and translate it for readers who want more than a surface summary. Where scholars disagree, he says so. Where the evidence runs out, he says that too. Alongside the site, he produces short-form video on ancient Egyptian history for social platforms. Corrections are welcome — particularly from people who work in the field.
What Were Ancient Egyptian Houses Like? Inside a Mud-Brick Home
An ordinary Egyptian house was made of mud brick: Nile mud mixed with chopped straw, pressed into moulds and dried in the sun. It…
What Did Ancient Egyptians Eat? Bread, Beer and Very Worn Teeth
Most ancient Egyptians ate bread and beer, every day, for their whole lives. Onions, and whatever vegetables were in season. Fish out of the…
Inside the Great Pyramid: What Is Actually in There
In 2023 a team pushed an endoscope through a narrow gap in the north face of the Great Pyramid and switched on a light.…
Tutankhamun’s Treasures: What Was Actually in the Tomb
Howard Carter’s team catalogued 5,398 objects from Tutankhamun’s tomb. It took them ten years. Hold that number against what we know about the king.…
The Nile River: Why Everything in Ancient Egypt Depended on It
Stand at Giza today and the pyramids sit in open desert. There is no water in sight. That has always been the awkward part…
Hatshepsut: The Woman Who Ruled Egypt as Pharaoh
In 1927, the archaeologist Herbert Winlock stood in a quarry pit near Deir el-Bahri looking at thousands of smashed statue fragments. They were the…
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: What It Actually Was
Learn what the Egyptian Book of the Dead was, how its spells guided the dead, why copies varied, and what famous scenes such as…
Anubis: Egyptian God of the Dead and Embalming (and Why He Isn’t a Jackal)
Beneath the desert at Saqqara there is a catacomb holding roughly eight million animal mummies. Almost all of them are canines, and a striking…
The Valley of the Kings: Why Egypt Abandoned Pyramids for Hidden Tombs
In 2022, a British-Egyptian team working in the desert wadis west of Luxor found a staircase and a blocked doorway. The assumption was that…