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Thousands of years ago, a man called Djoser ruled over the land of Egypt. Mainstream Egyptologists placed his reign around 4,700 Years ago, during a period often referred to by…
The Serapeum of Saqqara has remained a mystery since its re-discovery in 1850. It is the cemetery of the personified ancient Egyptian Apis bulls, the god Ptah. A graveyard near…
When it comes to the impressive and famous monuments of ancient Egypt, Pyramids fascinate everyone, even to the present day. When mentioning Egypt, the first thing that springs to mind…
Beyond a reason of a doubt, Egypt’s ancient pyramids are the most famous monuments in existence and continue fascinating people to this day. The massive stone-made structures have stood for…
One of the oldest pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, is one of the least known and least visited monuments of ancient Egypt. That’s because it remained closed…
Of all the ancient Egyptian Pyramids— there are about 120—those located at Giza are the rock stars of the ancient world. The three pyramids at Giza—Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure—symbolize the…
Long before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 3rd dynasty during the Old Kingdom and the founder of this epoch called Netjerikhet revolutionized Egypt in ways that perhaps even…
There’s a massive trench surrounding the oldest step pyramid in Egypt, the Pyramid of Djoser, and an expert has now claimed it may have severed as a kind of 3D…
As I’ve written in previous articles, thousands of years ago, on a global scale, ancient cultures decided to build massive pyramids reaching for the skies. The ancients erected some of…