Egyptology, decoded
Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology, and Mythology
Inside the Grand Egyptian Museum: Tutankhamun's 5,000 treasures, the Ramesses II statue, Grand Staircase, Khufu's boat, tickets, hours and visiting tips.
Who was Thoth? The ibis-headed Egyptian god of writing, wisdom and the moon: his baboon form, his role at the weighing of the heart,…
Meet Amenhotep III — the pharaoh behind Egypt's golden age of peace, gold, and monuments. Colossi of Memnon, Luxor Temple, the Lost Golden City,…
The oldest metal trumpets on Earth sat silent in Tutankhamun's tomb for 3,300 years — until a 1939 BBC broadcast played them live to…
Cleopatra's tomb has never been found. Inside the 20-year hunt at Taposiris Magna — a 4,265-foot bedrock tunnel, a sunken harbor, golden-tongued mummies, and…
Archaeologists keep finding ancient Egyptian mummies with tongues of solid gold — at Quesna, Taposiris Magna, and Oxyrhynchus. Here's why embalmers placed them in…
Who was Ramesses II, and why is he called "the Great"? From the Battle of Kadesh to Abu Simbel — plus the lost statue…
On July 12, 2026, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced a Luxor tomb discovery archaeologists dream about: a previously unknown, 3,000-year-old tomb near…
In 2015 the Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves proposed that Nefertiti lay behind a wall in Tutankhamun’s tomb. Radar surveys followed. The first seemed promising. Later,…
Egyptian school meant one thing: learning to write. There was no general education. A boy sent to school was being trained for a job…
Most Egyptian children worked. They helped in the fields, minded animals, fetched water, carried things in workshops and learned their parents’ trade by doing…
An ordinary Egyptian house was made of mud brick: Nile mud mixed with chopped straw, pressed into moulds and dried in the sun. It…
Most ancient Egyptians ate bread and beer, every day, for their whole lives. Onions, and whatever vegetables were in season. Fish out of the…
