Sentences with phrase «of egyptian»

Evidence for prehistoric origins of Egyptian mummification in Late Neolithic burials.

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

A pair of Egyptian mummies were found to have been inked with the oldest known figural tattoos.

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This statue, found this year, together with the sphinx fragment of the Egyptian king Mycerinus (who ruled Egypt in the 25th century B.C.E.) discovered at the site by the research team three years ago, are the only monumental Egyptian statues found so far in second millennium contexts in the entire Levant.

This is the largest number of Egyptian statues found so far in any site in the Land of Israel, although there is no indication that Hazor was one of the Egyptian strongholds in Southern Canaan nor of the presence of an Egyptian official at Hazor during the Late Bronze Age.

At present only a preliminary reading of the inscriptions has been attempted, and the title and name of the Egyptian official who originally owned the statue, are not yet entirely clear.

Sometime around 2000 B.C., a Semitic people toiling in Egypt as soldiers or laborers simplified the system, assigning some of the Egyptian hieroglyphics to sounds in their own language.

The statue was originally placed either in the official's tomb or in a temple — most probably a temple of the Egyptian god Ptah — and most of the texts inscribed on the statue's base include words of praise to the official who may have served and most probably practiced his duties in the region of Memphis, the primary cult center of the god Ptah.

Inside a concrete dam, he describes «a network of galleries and shafts rather like the secret passageways of an Egyptian pyramid.»

Her memorial temple at Deir el - Bahri, built to celebrate and maintain her cult, is a masterpiece of Egyptian architecture.

«There are reports of Egyptian necklaces including meteoritic metal,» he says.

Hawass, Pusch and 15 other scientists continue to perform detailed anthropological, radiological and genetic studies on the precious mummies in a lab built into the basement of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo — two floors below the famous golden mask.

Day after day in early 2011, massive crowds gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

But that lack may itself be a clue, he says, suggesting a loss of state control of Egyptian society.

The overthrow of the Egyptian regime in February is being called by some the first social media revolution.

There the Nubian king Piye became the first of a succession of five «black pharaohs» who ruled Egypt for six decades with the blessing of the Egyptian priesthood.

Then, five years ago, his search gained momentum after six sandstone building blocks of Egyptian design turned up beneath the overburden of earthquake rubble.

The historian Herodotus, writing in the fifth century B.C., told of the Egyptian pharaoh Psammetichus, who, in an attempt to discover what the oldest civilization was, took two infants from their mothers and dispatched them to an isolated hut under the care of a mute shepherd.

The tomb was most probably built for a master goldsmith by the name of Khnummose, and was discovered during excavations conducted by Julia Budka, Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Art.

But what really stunned archaeologists was that the artefacts on this one vessel came from at least 11 different cultures — from a gold scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti to copper from Cyprus and tin from central Asia.

It likely has even more ancient roots; four of the Egyptian mummies carried the parasite's DNA, each dating from the Middle Kingdom period of 2050 to 1650 B.C. when trade ties with Nubia were strongest.

The island was then located in Nubia, which was the primary source of gold for the New Kingdom of the Egyptian Pharaohs at that time.

«One of the features of Egyptian architecture is overbuilding,» Ward says.

Radiocarbon dating and modeling of Egyptian dynasties are strengthening the links between historical chronology and archaeological associations.

Surviving accounts of Egyptian funerals come from the Greek historians Diodorus Siculus, who traveled in Egypt between 65 and 57 b.c., and Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the fifth century b.c.. From those reports we know that not all mummies were created equal.

Inside Wade's dim, windowless office stands a large Styrofoam replica of an Egyptian sarcophagus, and, but for a few replicas of human organs, the room looks as if it belonged to an Egyptologist at the British Museum.

«He played an important role in increasing people's knowledge of Egyptian heritage,» he says.

John Taylor, head of the Egyptian mummy collection at the British Museum in London, describes the idea as feasible.

Egyptologists previously dated mummification's beginnings to the Old Kingdom period, about 2500 B.C.. However, after conducting the first successful chemical analysis of linen used in Neolithic burials, researchers announced in August they had discovered that people living in what is now Egypt were mummifying their dead much earlier — as far back as 4300 B.C., more than a millennium before the establishment of the Egyptian state.

Some looting is still going on, and the full extent of the losses isn't known, says Tarek El Awady, director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

«I spent 1 billion Egyptian pounds [US$ 167 million] a year» in support of Egyptian archaeology, he says proudly.

Tony Blair stood by his defence of the Egyptian military for ousting the country's first democratically elected president this morning, as the army blamed a «terrorist group» for a shooting which has left at least 34 people dead.

Value is the best word to describe Venus, which offers plates of Egyptian food for an affordable price.

But Mr Corbyn would struggle to match the efforts of the Egyptian foreign ministry today, asked to comment about their citizen Ibrahim Samaha who hijacked a plane and forced it to be diverted to Cyprus.

Britain, France and other willing EU nations should immediately declare a no - fly zone in Libya and enforce it with the support of Egyptian arms.

Her DPhil at Oxford University (1989) was a study of Egyptian Islamist...

Only a year after President Bill Clinton signed the U.N. Convention, CIA agents started snatching terror suspects in the Balkans, some of them Egyptian nationals, and sending them to Cairo, where a torture - friendly autocracy could do whatever it wanted to them in its prisons.

Andrea Teti critiques European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.

She then described the unfolding particular quest for women's rights in the wake of the military council's repression and political exclusion of Egyptian women.

Fred Lawson examined the reconfiguration of Egyptian foreign policy since the revolution, particularly with respect to relations with Iran and Ethiopia.

Andrea Teti critiqued European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.

The combination of the Egyptian military, revolutionary forces, US and international suspicions — all coupled with no functioning parliament, constitution and executive — should go some way to alleviating any immediate premonitions about an emerging Brotherhood - led Islamist block acting as a serious counterweight to the Gulf's old guard.

Judging from the public debate, it has inspired and revitalised a large sector of Egyptian lawyers and rights activists.

Polarization again played a critical role as Islamists were largely excluded from the drafting process, despite maintaining support from at least half of the Egyptian population.

In doing so, foreign governments unwittingly played a part in the collapse of Egyptian democracy.

This powerbase, at the moment, appears to be a large swathe of the Egyptian public cheering on the crackdowns and arrests, and adulating Field Marshal Abdel - Fattah el - Sisi as their messiah.

In the context of the Egyptian regime, security sector violence subdues the majority to cause it not to exercise its power.

This is because they are very soft and durable due to the long fibres of Egyptian cotton, and this makes them be able to withstand numerous wash cycles.

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