Life Under Pharaoh Akhenaten: New Discoveries Shed Light on Egypt's Lost City

Life Under Pharaoh Akhenaten: New Discoveries Shed Light on Egypt's Lost City

Statue of Akhenaten in the collection of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Credit: Prof. Mortel / CC BY 2.0 Recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt are revealing new details about life under Pharaoh Akhenaten, offering a rare glimpse into a city frozen in time. More than 3,000 years ago, Pharaoh Akhenaten made a decision that uprooted an entire population. The ruler of ancient Egypt ordered citizens of So’oud Aten to seal their homes and move, leav…

Gebel Sukari gold mine

An Egyptian team has completed a two-year project to excavate a 3,000 year-old gold-processing centre found on the site of the modern Sukari gold mine, near Marsa Alam on the Red Sea coast. The complex consisted of grinding and pulverising stations, filtration and sedimentation basins, and ancient clay furnaces used for smelting gold extracted from…

They Pulled the Brain Out Through the Nose — Literally: How the Ancient Egyptians Made Mummies

It’s not a myth. The ancient Egyptians really did remove the brain through the nose when preparing a body for mummification. And yes—they did it quite literally.The image of a mummy might inspire awe, mystery, or even fear. But behind the linen wrappings and golden death masks lies one of the most bizarre and chilling procedures of the ancient world: the extraction of the brain through the nasal cavity. Strange as it may sound, it was standard p…

Paleontologists have found the head of a hyaenodonte. The find provides insights into the way of life of the millions-year-old animal.