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Napoleon's Egypt Campaign Mapped

This episode retraces Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign through the lens of Google Earth, following the 1798 expedition that aimed ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple south of Cairo

CAIROCAIRO — Egypt’s former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass on Sunday revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. Hawass told reporters ...
CNN

Ancient mummies are paraded through the streets of Cairo

Ancient mummies of Egypt’s royal pharaohs emerged from their resting places Saturday and were paraded through the streets of Cairo to a new home. What sounds like the plot of a movie was part of a ...
WTVD

Mummy parade planned through streets of Cairo as Egypt moves bodies of ancient royal pharaohs

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...
Newsweek

First Known Star Map Found Hidden in Ancient Parchment in Egypt

Researchers have discovered what is thought to be the first known map of the night sky, written over 2,000 years ago. The map was discovered by scholars studying Christian texts written on an old ...
Artnet News

Archaeologists Uncover One of Ancient Egypt’s Largest Forts

Egyptian archaeologists in North Sinai have discovered a more than 3,000-year-old fortress that once defended an ancient ...
Artnet

Egypt Just Held an Astonishing, Real-Life Mummy Parade Though the Streets of Cairo to Celebrate the Opening of a New Museum—See Photos Here

Cairo celebrated the long-awaited opening of its National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with a procession of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies, transporting them across the city to their new home, ...