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,…
In 2023 a team pushed an endoscope through a narrow gap in the north face of the Great Pyramid and switched on a light.…
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.…
Stand at Giza today and the pyramids sit in open desert. There is no water in sight. That has always been the awkward part…
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…
Learn what the Egyptian Book of the Dead was, how its spells guided the dead, why copies varied, and what famous scenes such as…
Beneath the desert at Saqqara there is a catacomb holding roughly eight million animal mummies. Almost all of them are canines, and a striking…
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…
In 1378, a Sufi named Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr came to Giza and found local farmers leaving offerings at the Sphinx in the hope of…
Sometime in the summer of AD 394, a priest at the temple of Philae carved a short message into the stone. It was a…
Egyptologists have catalogued well over a thousand named ancient Egyptian gods. Some presided over the sun and the cosmos. Others watched over a single…
