Yam was an African kingdom that existed in ancient times. Not much is known about this ancient kingdom, and what little we do know about it comes from a few Kemetic texts from the Old Kingdom period. According to these texts, the people of Yam had contacts, specifically trade and military, with the Old Kingdom’s …
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In the childhood of the world, Africa was the pioneer land as regards the evolution of medicine. To her belongs the high honor of having raised the healing art to a level far exceeding that hitherto attained. Both in diagnosis and in therapeutics astonishing progress was made. Even pathology attracted widespread interest; the Edwin Smith …
The Ministry of Antiquities’ mission working in Ismailia’s Hassan Dawood archaeological area revealed a part of a multi-layered cemetery dating back to the Roman, Greek, and pre-dynastic eras. Head of Egyptian Antiquities Sector Ayman Ashmawy explained that the discovered part is a multi-layered cemetery, whose upper layers consist of mass graves of mud-bricks from the …
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An underwater archaeologist has told the BBC of the extraordinary lengths he went to access the secret tomb of a pharaoh underneath a pyramid. Pearce Paul Creasman and his team were the first people to go into the tomb for 100 years and, in that time, it has become harder to access because of the …
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Most Egyptologists use the term Nubian to refer to the Kingdom of Kush, which is the territory located south of Kemet. But the same Egyptologists also use the word Nubian to describe any representation that has the appearance of an indigenous African person or individuals with what some call “Negroid features”. And that practice creates …
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A team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered the earliest royal inscriptions in Wadi Abu Subeira near Aswan. The inscriptions have been found in the eastern desert, northeast of Aswan. It dates back to the Neolithic age, which means that it belongs to the Predynastic period of Kemet. The predynastic period spans the period from the earliest …
Ancient Egypt: Earliest Royal Inscriptions Discovered in Nubia! Read More »
The opening of three Egyptian sarcophagi, or stone coffins, shown live on an American reality-TV program, created a sensation on some social-media and news outlets. For many archaeologists and heritage specialists around the world — and especially those in Egypt — the episode raises serious questions and concerns. Archaeology as a discipline and Egypt as …
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The Hyksos, this name is known by all the Kemet’s enthusiasts. These mysterious people who invaded the northern part of Kemet. They were a confederacy of nomad Semitic tribes, possibly from Western Asia and they were known from the Kemites as Aamu, but also as Aat-t which means invaders, plague bearers or rebels. Most scholars …
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A tomb belonging to a soldier called Djehuty Shed Sou has been discovered in Dra’ Abu el-Naga, a site located on the West Bank of Luxor city the ancient Thebes, the historical and religious capital of Kemet in Upper Kemet. The information has been announced by the Minister of Antiquities Khaled el Anani. According to …
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In 2017, a team of scholars suggested, based largely on the results of an ancient DNA study of later period remains from northern Egypt, that the ‘ancient Egyptians’ (AE) as an entity came from Asia (the Near East, NE), and that modern Egyptians “received additional sub-Saharan African (SSA) admixtures in recent times” after the latest …
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