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The Diary of Merer is a papyrus logbook found at Wadi al-Jarf in 2013 recording the transport of limestone from Tura to...

Saqqara is the vast necropolis of ancient Memphis, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser and tombs spanning from the Early...

The Colossi of Memnon are two seated quartzite statues of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, once the...

The Library of Alexandria was the great research institution of the Ptolemaic capital, founded under Ptolemy I or II in...

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining lion with a human head on the Giza Plateau, conventionally...

French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone near the town of Rosetta (Rashid) in July 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian c...

A port city in the Nile Delta of Egypt (modern Rashid), where the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799.

Dynastic civilization along the Nile from early unification through the Ptolemaic period.

In the scorching sands of ancient Egypt, a mystery lies buried beneath the Valley of the Queens. As the sun beats down m...

The Valley of the Queens (Ta Set Neferu, meaning 'the Place of Beauty') is a necropolis located on the west bank of the...

Ancient Greek poet, author of the Iliad and Odyssey

Founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Library of Alexandria