A domino set was found in the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh. Jupiterimages/Polka Dot/Thinkstock The origins of the domino -- a small, flat, rectangular block of wood or bone, with one blank side and the other usually marked by an arrangement of spots, called pips -- is a bit murky...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
In 1822, Champollionstudied a cartouchecopied fromAbu Simbel, a religious site established by the pharaohRamses II, or Ramesses. Unlike Ptolemy, Cleopatra and other non-Egyptian names deciphered to date, the name Ramses was Egyptian—a fact that Young believed precluded his cartouche from contain...
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For thousands of years, ancient Egypt’s professional embalmers blended science and magic to unite body and soul for the hereafter.