Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the afterlife
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Zahi Hawass attends an event celebrating the life of ancient Egyptian Chief of Dentists Hesy-Re, a trailblazer in the history of dentistry, at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square
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Zahi Hawass continues his history of pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom
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Description of some of the major pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Fifth Dynasty and the principles of their construction
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Was the ancient Egyptian pyramid chain really built along the abandoned Ahramat Branch of the Nile, asks Zahi Hawass
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Zahi Hawass describes the history of the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, the grandest monuments of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom
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Zahi Hawass describes the history of royal pyramid construction in the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom.
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Zahi Hawass continues his account of the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians by looking at evidence garnered through settlement archaeology and images and artefacts from mortuary contexts
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The evidence garnered through settlement archaeology, taken in combination with scenes and artefacts from mortuary contexts, provide us with a picture of the idealised daily life of the ancient Egyptians, writes Zahi Hawass in the first of two articles
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Zahi Hawass continues his review of the history of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom after the victory over the Hyksos
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Zahi Hawass reviews the history of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom after the victory over the Hyksos.
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Zahi Hawass continues his review of ancient Egyptian sites dating from the Old to the Middle Kingdom in the second of two articles
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The committee appointed to review work at the Menkaure Pyramid on the Giza Plateau has issued its recommendations after the controversy over “recladding” the pyramid, writes Zahi Hawass
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Zahi Hawass reviews ancient Egyptian sites dating from the Old to the Middle Kingdom in the first of two articles.
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Enough sites have now been excavated to provide convincing evidence of the very earliest inhabitants of prehistoric Egypt, writes Zahi Hawass
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Zahi Hawass describes the life and background of Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s last and most famous Ptolemaic queen
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In the second part of a two-article series, Zahi Hawass continues his outline history of Egypt with an account of the country’s Islamic and modern periods
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In a two-part series, Zahi Hawass gives an outline history of ancient and modern Egypt similar to the one that can be seen at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation.
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Zahi Hawass describes the funerary beliefs of the ancient Egyptians and their relationship to the Earth’s natural cycles
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Despite recent claims to the contrary, there is little evidence that the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti is buried behind the walls of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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