The groundbreaking archaeological findings about ancient Egypt

So far, archaeologists have made many important discoveries about ancient Egypt: tombs, mummies, pyramids, inventions before time . Around them there are always mysteries. strange makes scientists headaches.

Tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun was an 18th-century Egyptian emperor who was enthroned since he was young and died when he was only 18 or 19 years old.

In 1922 the famous pharaoh's tomb, Tutankhamun (also known as King Tut), was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter and his archaeological group in the Valley of the Kings , Luxor, Egypt. This discovery is an important milestone in archaeological history.

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Experts have discovered huge treasures with hundreds of extremely valuable artifacts, including the golden mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun inside the tomb.

They used modern technology to analyze Tutankhamun's mummy and discovered that the legendary pharaoh had some health problems and had to use a walking stick to move. But the cause of the sudden death of young Pharaoh Tutankhamun is still a controversial mystery. Some suggested that he was assassinated, but there was evidence that he died of illness.

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Paper books at Oxyrhynchus

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Oxyrhynchus is a city in the south of Egypt in ancient times. During that period, the people here after finishing writing the texts often throw them into the dug excavated.

It is the debris in the desert that is hot and dry, which is a very good environment to preserve these ancient documents , making them nearly intact for nearly 2 millennia.

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Between 1896 and 1907, archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt discovered more than 500,000 ancient documents written on papyrus dating to about 1,800 years old at Oxyrhynchus.

Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian stone tablet made of granodiorite, written by Egyptian priests in support of the pharaoh Ptolemy V (then 13 years old) who ruled the country dating back to the year 196. BC

Rosetta Stone was found by a French soldier while digging out sand in Egypt in 1799.

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The special thing of Rosetta Stone is the message on this rock written in 3 languages: Egyptian hieroglyphics, Demotic language and ancient Greek . Before Rosetta Stone was discovered, archaeologists only knew the ancient Greek language.

Based on the ancient Greek language, experts and scientists decipher the remaining two languages. So far, Rosetta Stone has become one of the greatest discoveries of archeology and a fundamental source of discovery for Egyptian hieroglyphs .