Ancient Egypt Week

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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial

Detail from a funerary papyrus dating from the 21st Dynasty (11th-10th century BC). Four figures in a boat, including the ibis-headed god Thoth and the scarab-headed god Khepri. Located in the Louvre, Paris. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

8 ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses that you (probably) didn’t know about

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The truth about ancient Egypt

An acrobat dancer, c1200 BC. (Getty Images)

Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt

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

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

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

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

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A guide to ancient gardening

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Life in Ancient Egypt: what was it like?

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

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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

A page from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, from Thebes, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c1300 BC. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife