DR JOANN FLETCHER:Welcome to Pa-Demi, an ancient Egyptian village where nobody's lived for over 3,000 years. An yet, believe it or not, it was once really busy, teeming with life, a very noisy ...

One morning in Amarna, a village in Upper Egypt about 200 miles ... has captured the modern imagination as much as any other figure from ancient Egypt. This anonymous skeleton, in contrast ...

You know, it's like today. If you go to any village you will understand the system of ancient Egyptians. When you build, I mean a dam, or you build a big house, people would come to help you.

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...

Kellis was a village in the Dakhleh Oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert inhabited continuously ... including the transition from ancient religious beliefs to various branches of Christianity. This ...

“Ancient Egyptians were using waterways for transportation more often than we thought.” The study looks at 31 pyramids ...

The ancient Egyptians believed their kings would live ... Every household in every village, in the north and south, participated in building it. (If you thought today of building a pyramid ...

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Daily life in Ancient Egypt. videoDaily life in Ancient Egypt Dr Joann Fletcher visits the village of Pa-Demi to discover more about the daily lives and tombs of Kha and Merit. She looks at their ...

Viking ( (NYSE: VIK) today announced it has taken delivery of the company’s newest ship for the Nile River, the Viking Sobek.

Among surviving examples of ancient Egyptian literature, one poem stands out for its complexity, beauty, and the number of ...

The most famous ancient Egyptian monuments ... s farming community and what’s presumed to be the epicenter of a village. On the equinoxes, the rising Sun lines up with twin openings in the ...