Making sense of the pyramids’ enduring mysteries

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...
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Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids

Catalogue of an exhibition to be held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Apr. 6-July 12, 1999, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 16, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000, and the Royal Ontario Museum ...

Egypt’s Grand Museum Opens Near Giza Pyramids

After decades of planning and construction, Egypt has officially inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in a spectacular ...
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First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt Sequenced from 4,800-Year-Old Teeth

The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...
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Egyptian art in the age of the pyramids

Feature on the jewelry in the exhibition "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 16, 1999-January 9, 2000. Special ...