Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city ... This civilization grew in power just as Egypt’s Middle Kingdom was in decline around 1785 B.C. By 1500 B.C., the Nubian empire ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

The study notes that the pyramids from the Middle Kingdom were built farther east ... gap related to the dominant waterscape in ancient Egypt,” the authors wrote, “which could help inform ...

most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. However, the most famous are in Egypt, including the spectacular Pyramid of Gaza ...

The question of who built the pyramids, and how ... So that you could be a young man in a village say in middle Egypt, and you had never seen more than a few hundred people in your village ...

Professor Mohamed Abdel Badie, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities said studies of ...

Scientists said pyramids constructed during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (about 2030 to 1650 BC) era were built eastward because the waterway had migrated since the Old Kingdom era (about 2650 to 2130 ...

Researchers re-analyzed skeletons found in 'chamber, pyramid/chapel/shaft, pit, and tumulus graves' at the site of Tombos - ...

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Many pharaoh’s tombs in Egypt were discovered by Western ... Unlike their Old and Middle Kingdom predecessors, who built pyramids as funerary monuments, New Kingdom rulers preferred more ...

CAIRO -- Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at ... for this cash-strapped Middle eastern country.

Cairo (AFP) – Nestled near the iconic Giza pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ... a tourist from the United Kingdom. South African visitor Leon Wolmarans said the GEM was a significant upgrade ...