Drawing of sky-goddess Nut, held by Shu, arched over her brother, the earth-god Geb. The rising Sun sails up her legs in the east before setting down her arms in the west.
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A new study shines light on the link between the Milky Way and the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut
The south wall of the temple of Hathor at Dendera. Cleopatra and her son Caesarian are depicted on the left side.
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From the trinkets of the tomb to the mummy of the queen herself, the discovery of Cleopatra’s mausoleum could rewrite our understanding of the ancient world.
Howard Carter, Ahmed Gerigar and King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus, opened three years after the tomb was discovered, in 1925.
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The discovery of his tomb full of magnificent and unique objects is more than a story of treasures. It’s also a story of class, privilege, colonialism, political freedom and national identity.
‘BoJack Horseman’ still and figures shown in the tomb of Horemheb from the Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
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Both the art of BoJack Horseman and of ancient Egyptian artists places great emphasis on balance and proportion.
Fragments of Sappho? The 2014 discovery was of five stanzas of one poem and portions of a second.
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In 2014, reports of a new discovery of Sappho’s poems were remarkable. New research argues the papyrus had a fabricated backstory.
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Emerging ‘mixed reality’ technology promises to bring history back to life.
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Ancient quarry workers left messages carved on walls like a 4,500-year-old form of social media.
Piazza del Popolo.
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From the Temple of Heliopolis to the centre of Rome, the massive stone column has boosted the egos of several powerful men.
The Mummy, in its 2017 rendition, rehashes an 80-year-old franchise focused on revived Egyptian corpses.
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Mummies are scary but they also fascinate us, giving us the feeling that we can vanquish time by preserving our most perishable feature: flesh.