Egypt

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  Woodrow Wilson and ‘the Ugliest of Treacheries’

  by Erez Manela

  After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?

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• 2/24/19
  

  What Can One Ecologist Teach Historians?

  by John Gaudet

  Ecology can help substantiate historical changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/19
  

  Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies

  Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a tomb that consisted of a number of chambers that dated from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C. that were accessible through a corridor and sloping set of stairs.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-25-18
  

  The Newest Curse of the Mummy: Bad Drainage

  Engineers and archaeologists working together to save an ancient riverside temple in Egypt have discovered rare treasures, including a sphinx.

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• SOURCE: Press Release
  4/6/18
  

  Historian tells the forgotten story of America’s first female Egyptologist

  Missouri University's Kathleen Sheppard painstakingly spent two years transcribing the scholar's letters.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  2-3-18
  

  Ancient Egypt: Mysterious 4,400-Year-Old Tomb Reveals Rare Paintings in New Excavation

  The tomb is thought to have belonged to “Hetpet,” a high-ranking female official.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  12-9-17
  

  Egypt discovers 3,500-year-old tombs in ancient city of Luxor

  The tombs, located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery for noblemen and top officials, are the latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs spanning different dynasties of ancient Egyptian history.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  10-5-17
  

  Ancient Egypt: 1,800 Years-old Pet Cemetery Filled With 100 Skeletons Discovered

  The cemetery, dating from the first and second centuries A.D., was discovered in the Roman port town of Berenike, established in Ptolemaic Egypt between 285-246 B.C.

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• SOURCE: ynetnews.com
  9-13-17
  

  Textbook featuring Israeli flag raises ire in Egypt

  Study book for eight graders shows the Israeli flag instead of the Palestinian one on a map of the Middle East, causing the Education Ministry in the country to order the removal of the controversial page from the book and bar it from further distribution while it investigates the matter.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6-22-17
  

  Ancient Egyptian Writing: New Symbols Reveal Development Of Hieroglyphics

  A new discovery may hold some clues as to how carved images evolved into a formal writing system.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  5-30-17
  

  Egyptian Mummy Study Suggests Close Ties to Near East

  The study found that the genetic material within the mummies was more similar to ancient peoples of the Near East and the Levant (an area of the eastern Mediterranean including Israel and Palestine) than it is to modern Egyptians.

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• 4-10-17
  

  The Mummies Are Back, Directly from the Grave

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "Mummies," a new exhibit at New York's Museum of Natural History, is a sprawling tribute to the mummies of Egypt and Peru.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4-2-17
  

  2,000-year-old mummy shroud found in museum storage

  Museum curators in Scotland have discovered a piece of Egyptian history -- and they found it inside a crumpled up paper bag.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  3-16-17
  

  Egypt Pharaoh statue 'not Ramses II but different ruler'

  Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  3-10-17
  

  Archaeologists hail 'big discovery' in Egypt as statue 'depicting Ramses II' unearthed

  The quartzite statue was found broken into several pieces in the Matariyyah neighborhood of Cairo by a German-Egyptian archaeological team.

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• SOURCE: Seeker
  12-22-16
  

  5,000-Year-Old Nativity Scene Found in Egypt

  Italian researchers have discovered what might be the oldest nativity scene ever found — 5,000-year-old rock art that depicts a star in the east, a newborn between parents and two animals.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  11-5-16
  

  Too Many People Have Stolen Egypt’s History

  Here’s how it’s getting it back.

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• 11-2-16
  

  Sixty Years After the Suez Crisis, It’s Time to Correct Misconceptions

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  Britain and France went along with every effort to resolve the crisis diplomatically.

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• SOURCE: History Extra
  10-28-16
  

  How significant was the Suez Crisis?

  The 1956 Suez Crisis is widely remembered as a critical event in post-war British history, which helped bring to an end the era of Britain as a global empire and superpower.

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• SOURCE: The World Post
  1-25-16
  

  How A Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself In The Middle Of A Revolution

  Khaled Fahmy shares his memories of Egypt's uprising, five years after Tahrir.