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Explore ancient Egyptian beliefs, hieroglyphs, & mummies
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Travel back in time to ancient Egypt
Return of the Cat Mummy
Can you save the pharaoh's afterlife?
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Packing for the afterlife? Don't forget the cats!
Learn more about cats and the ancient Egyptian afterlife
Cultures of cat lovers
Did you know the Ancient Egyptians thought cats brought luck?
What do you need to pack for an eternity?
Explore the burial necessities to secure a safe journey to the afterlife
Figurine of the Goddess Bastet as a Cat
Bronze figure of a seated cat
Mummy of a cat
Figurine of the Goddess Bastet as a Cat
Mummified cat
Bronze figure of the cat-headed goddess Bastet
Is Egyptology your calling?
Quick tips on studying ancient Egypt
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What is Egyptology?
With Dr. Salima Ikram, University Professor at the American University in Cairo
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What's New in the World of Egyptology?
With Dr. Yasmin el Shazly, Deputy Director for Research and Programs, ARCE
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Who Ruled Ancient Egypt?
With Tessa Litecky, Project Archives Assistant, ARCE
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Who are the People Who Are Involved in Conservation?
With Bianca Madden, Art Conservator
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Restoration vs Conservation?
With Dr. Nicholas Warner, Conservation Architect
Life after life
Discover how the Ancient Egyptians prepared the dead for their next adventure
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The Journey to the Afterlife
Follow Menna on his journey into the afterlife and learn about the beliefs and rituals of the ancient Egyptians
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See the Tomb of Menna in 3D
Take a closer look at the life's journey of an ancient Egyptian official
Who Was Menna?
The tomb of Menna is one of the most beautiful in Egypt. But who was he?
The Beautiful Feast of the Valley
Every year the ancient Egyptians traveled across the Nile River to celebrate the dead
The Resurrection Machine
How ancient Egyptian tombs were designed to transport the dead to the afterlife
Where Did Menna’s Face Go?
Why is Menna's face erased from history?
Is Your Heart as Light as a Feather?
In order to get to the afterlife, the Egyptians had to pass a very unusual test
Why is This Tomb Blue?
Conservators used a special technique to understand these 3,400-year-old paintings
What do the walls say?
Images from daily life in ancient Egypt
Discover more tombs and gods of the dead
From A to Z of an ancient Egyptian tomb
TT110: A Private Tomb with Royal Depictions
From A to Z, all about this ancient Egyptian tomb, the final resting place of an important official who served under two influential rulers
Travel to the Tomb of Djehuty
Explore the tomb of Djehuty, an official who lived during a unique time in ancient Egyptian history
The Story of Anubis
By Jaden and Fares
Nebamun's Colorful Afterlife
Fragments of scenes from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun
Nebamun's Geese
Explore a fragment of a scene from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun
A Feast for Nebamun
Explore the top half of a scene from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun
Scrolls, Spells, and Eternity
Learn why people were buried with The Book of the Dead
Who is Osiris?
Learn more about the God of the Dead
Unroll the scrolls & meet the mummies
Explore the stories in Books of the Dead and get wrapped in these discoveries
Zoom In
Heart weighing ceremony
Cult of the Dead
Look inside
What are hieroglyphs?
Discover the hand carved puns of Ancient Egypt
The ABCs
What the ancient symbols are all about
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The breakthrough
The Discovery That Changed Everything
The Rosetta Stone and the story of how we finally understood hieroglyphics
The secrets
How to Decode Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
The secrets of the intricate system of writing
How to read hieroglyphs with AI
Discover Fabricius and how it works
How Fabricius Translates Hieroglyphs
Learn how to use the Work feature
History's Past Attempts To Translate Hieroglyphs
Discover the different times people have tried to understand the hieroglyphics
Explore Fabricius
The brand new interactive game that helps you write and share your own Egyptian hieroglyphs
See hieroglyphs, up close
The history
The Ancient Language That Was Undecipherable For Centuries...
Learn the history of the Egyptian symbology
Learn with calligrapher Seb Lester
What do the hieroglyphs teach us today?
Seb Lester Looks at Hieroglyphs Through Calligraphy
How and why they're still a source of inspiration for artists today
Learn More About Hieroglyphs with Lettering Artist Seb Lester
The lettering and calligraphy artist explains the enduring impact of Ancient Egyptian script
What letter does the owl represent?
M
M is a phonetic transliteration for the symbol.
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Unearthing Egypt's secrets
Meet the women Egyptologists digging into history
4 Leading Egyptologists Share the Secrets of Their Field
Louise Bertini, Yasmin ElShazly, Monica Hanna, and Alex Woods on the little known facts about Egyptology
Listen and look
Explore Ancient Egyptian artifacts while you enjoy music
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Music x The Iconic Women of Ancient Egypt
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Sit Back and Enjoy Ancient Egyptian Art Set to Traditional Music
Ancient creations
Egyptian art and architecture that continue to inspire us
Exploring the Art of Ancient Egypt
Creations carved in stone, painted on tomb walls, or cast in metal
The Masterpieces That Still Exist Today
From the Great Sphinx to the Tomb Chapel of Nebanum
Visit the pyramids
Discover surprising secrets about the mysterious structures
7 Intriguing Facts About The Pyramids
Did you know it took 20 years to build one?
A Tour of the Pyramids of Giza
Discover new things about the mystifying Pyramids of Giza
Take your virtual tour
Try to avoid the curses
5 Spectacular Views of the Egyptian Pyramids
Transport yourself back in time to Ancient Egypt and take a virtual tour of the pyramids of Giza
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La gran pirámide
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La necrópolis de Guiza
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La pirámide de Djoser
Royal lives and love stories
The people pulling the strings back in the day
History's Most Beautiful Women
Answering the big questions about Queen Nefertiti
Get to know her
The Pharaoh Erased From History
When archaeologists found this in the sand, nobody knew who this guy was...
Queen, Wife, Mother ... Goddess?
How an everyday girl became a royal
Who was Nefertiti's husband?
Akhenaten
Plaster model of King Akhenaten (Thutmosis)
Ramses II
Tutankhamun
Akhenaten
Hatshepsut
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The curse of the child king
A tale of ancient secrets and modern tragedy
Unburying Pharaoh Tutankhamun
An exciting discovery after years of searching
How long did the mummification process typically take?
70 days
Hieroglyphs and demotics are two scripts often found.
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70 days
3 weeks
1 year
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Ancient Egypt meets AI
Learn more about what technology teaches us about the past
Egyptology and Technology
Discover the modern research practices of Egyptologists at Macquarie University
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What Have You Learned About the Pyramids of Egypt?
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What Have You Learned About Hieroglyphs and Ancient Languages?
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What Have You Learned About Kings and Queens?
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What Have You Learned About The Journey Into The Afterlife?
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Downloadable lesson plan
Preserving Egypt's Layered History
This lesson plan can be used in the classroom or given to students to work through at their own pace
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