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Ancient Egypt Week

Tutankhamun’s golden funeral mask. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tutankhamun

Four figures in a boat, including the ibis-headed god Thoth and the scarab-headed god Khepri

8 ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses you might not know about

c50 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, the last and most famous of the Ptolemaic dynasty. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about Cleopatra

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Tutankhamun: who’s afraid of the pharaoh’s curse?

(Photo by Michele Falzone via Getty Images)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about ancient Egypt

A painting in the tomb of Inherkha – a priest wearing the mask of Horus is performing the opening of the mouth ritual. The purpose was to restore to the deceased the use of the senses, thus restoring life in the next world. Ancient Egyptian 20th dynasty c1186-1070 BC. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Why was mummification used in Ancient Egypt, and why did they leave the heart in the body?

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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

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The truth about ancient Egypt

An acrobat dancer, c1200 BC. (Getty Images)

Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt

Pyramids at Giza. (DEA/A Vergani/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Ancient Egyptian family trees: are present-day Egyptians the descendants of the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids?

Roman garden at the House of the Golden Cupids, Pompeii. (Linda Farrar)

A guide to ancient gardening

Theban mural showing people plucking geese. (Photo by DEA / G Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Life in Ancient Egypt: what was it like?

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The face of Cleopatra: was she really so beautiful?

A seated statue of Hatshepsut, one of the longest-reigning and most prominent female pharaohs of ancient Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

Life of the Week: Hatshepsut

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The amazing history of Egypt