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Egyptology is the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities. It is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archæology. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist. Egyptology investigates the range of Ancient Egyptian culture from the 5th millennium BC up to the end of Roman rule in the 4th century AD.
Ahmose I (sometimes read as Amosis I and meaning The Moon is Born) was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Eighteenth dynasty. He was a member of the Theban royal house, the son of King Tao II Seqenenre, and brother of the last King of the Seventeenth dynasty, King Kamose. Sometime during the reign of his father or grandfather, Thebes rebelled against the Hyksos, the rulers of Lower Egypt. When he was seven his father was killed in battle, and when he was ten his brother died of unknown causes, after reigning only three years. Ahmose I assumed the throne after the death of his brother, and upon coronation he became known as Neb-pehty-re (The Lord of Strength is Re).
During his reign he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos from the delta region, restored Theban rule over the whole of Egypt, and successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of Nubia and Canaan. He then reorganized the administration of the country, reopened quarries, mines, and trade routes, and began massive construction projects of a type that had not been undertaken since the time of the Middle Kingdom. This building program culminated in the construction of the last pyramid built by native Egyptian rulers. Ahmose's reign laid the foundations for the New Kingdom, under which Egyptian power reached its peak. His reign is usually dated to about 1550-1525 BC.
... A jewel found in Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, was formed by an ancient meteor fireball in the Sahara desert.
... The Rosetta Stone was the key to deciphering hieroglyphs in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion, and in 1823 by Thomas Young. The discovery facilitated translation of other hieroglyphic texts.
... Dr. Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهى حواس ) is one of the world's foremost Egyptologists. He is currently the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.
... Cleopatra's Needle in London, UK was actually constructed at the time of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC, and has nothing to do with the famous queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
... A seal found in the tomb of the Second Dynasty king Peribsen contains the first full sentence written in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Margaret Benson (June 16, 1865 – May 1916) was an English, artist, author and Egyptologist, one of the six children of Edward White Benson, an Anglican clergyman (later Archbishop of Canterbury). She attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Along with Janet Gourlay she was one of the first to excavate at the Mut Complex in Karnak, near Thebes in Egypt.
Later, in 1907 she suffered a severe mental breakdown and she died in 1916 (in the Priory, Roehampton)
The Fourth dynasty of Egypt was the second of the four dynasties considered forming the Old Kingdom. The Pharaohs of this dynasty include some of the best-known kings of ancient Egypt, known for constructing pyramids, perhaps the hallmark of Egypt. All of the kings of this dynasty commissioned at least one pyramid to serve as a tomb or cenotaph. Like the Third dynasty, these kings maintained their capital at Memphis.
- A 125–ton statue of Ramesses II was moved in August, 2006, from a congested square in downtown Cairo to a more serene home near the Great Pyramids in a bid to save it from corrosive pollution. Around it there will be built the new Grand Egyptian Museum.
- On February 8, 2006, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of a previously unknown and intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The discovery was the first new tomb to be revealed in the Valley since the discovery of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, by Howard Carter in 1922. The actual date on which the discovery was made has not yet been revealed.
- A new temple has been discovered at Heliopolis (ancient Iunu), near modern Cairo. An Egyptian-German team has uncovered the remains of a sun-temple dating back to the time of Ramesses II.
- French diving archaeologists believe they have discovered the foundation of the ancient lighthouse of Pharos in Alexandria, the seventh wonder of the world.
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Category:Ancient Egypt includes the following sub-categories:
- Austria
- Kunsthistorisches Museum – The museum of art history in Vienna has a sizable collection
- Canada
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- France
- Germany
- Egyptian Museum of Berlin – Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
- Italy
- Museo Egizio, Turin
- Palermo Archeological Museum
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
