When Dr. Selim Hasan excavated near the Great Sphinx, he uncovered a series of mysterious ear stele. But why did Ancient Egyptians carve giant ears into stone? In this video, we explore their ...

A newly unearthed settlement in Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta dates back around 3,400 years to the New Kingdom era and features a temple believed to have been dedicated to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...

Matt Stirn For years, European and American historians and archaeologists viewed ancient Kush through ... line inscription in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphics on a stele of dark gray granite ...

Sir Flanders Petrie, discovered the largest Egyptian temple to have existed outside of the Nile Valley, on Mt. Serabit el-Khadem, in Southwest Sinai. This temple existed near a number of mines and a ...

On display are 50 stunning funerary objects from the pharaoh’s tomb and 70 pieces from other ancient ... stela as an apology for Akhenaten’s actions and a boast of all Tut had done for the ...

Just off the entry hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the displays of ancient Greek sculpture, is a marble memorial marker, or stela ... by watching an Egyptian vender at a coffee wagon ...

Through this ritual, the ancient Egyptians sought to maintain the fabric and process ... raising his arms while singing hymns The sandstone stela UC 14231 depicts a man named Meh with his arms raised ...

We visit the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, Spain in the 1800's ... King Richard III and the Neo-Assyrian Stele. The hunt takes us to Russia, ancient Egypt, a remote Island in Polynesia and France, ...

His acquistions included an Egyptian limestone monument or stela dating from 1295-1069 BC ... His journal, much of it written in French, gives an account of the ancient ...