Last updated: 30 August 2026
This page sets out how Egyptian Secrets researches, writes, reviews, and corrects its articles.
Why we publish this
Ancient Egypt attracts an unusual amount of confident misinformation. Claims about lost civilisations, alien construction, and secret chambers circulate widely and are often presented as suppressed fact.
We think readers deserve to know where our information comes from and how it was checked, so they can judge it for themselves.
Sourcing
We work from published Egyptological scholarship. In order of preference:
- Peer-reviewed journal articles and excavation reports
- Academic monographs and standard reference works
- Museum and university collection records and published research
- Reporting from established outlets that cites named researchers or published studies
We link to sources so readers can check them. We prefer freely accessible sources where a suitable one exists, because a paywalled link a reader cannot open is of limited use.
We do not source from content farms, AI-generated summaries, pseudo-archaeological sites, or other blogs.
How we handle uncertainty
Much about ancient Egypt is genuinely unknown, and pretending otherwise makes for worse articles.
Where scholars disagree, we set out the main positions rather than picking one and presenting it as settled. Where a proposed explanation is plausible but unproven — the various pyramid ramp models, for instance — we label it as a proposal, not a finding. Where the honest answer is that nobody knows, we say so.
We also try to represent researchers’ own caution accurately. If a study’s authors hedged their conclusion, we hedge it too rather than reporting it more dramatically than they did.
Fact-checking
Before publication, each article is checked for the following:
- Every specific claim — dates, measurements, names, quantities — traces to a source
- Study findings are described as the researchers described them
- Names, titles, and institutional affiliations are spelled correctly
- External links resolve and support the claim attached to them
- Speculation is clearly labelled as speculation
We do not fabricate quotes, statistics, sources, or citations. If we cannot verify something, it does not go in.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools in parts of our workflow, including research assistance, drafting, and editing. We also use AI image generation to produce illustrative reconstructions where no suitable photograph exists.
Every factual claim is verified against a real source by a human before publication. AI output is never published unchecked, and AI is not treated as a source. Illustrative images are identified as reconstructions rather than presented as photographs of specific artefacts.
Corrections
We correct errors openly rather than quietly deleting them.
Factual errors are corrected as soon as we are aware of them. Where a correction changes the substance of an article, we note what changed and when. Minor fixes to spelling, grammar, or formatting are made without a note.
Articles are also revisited when new research supersedes what we published. An accurate article from last year can become an outdated one after a single excavation season.
Independence
Egyptian Secrets is independent. We are not affiliated with any museum, university, government body, or tour operator, and no organisation approves our coverage before publication.
The site is funded by advertising displayed alongside our articles. Advertisers have no input into what we cover or how we cover it, and we do not publish sponsored content disguised as editorial.
Tell us if we got something wrong
If you spot an error, we want to know — particularly if you work in the field. Please get in touch through our contact page, and include a source where you can.