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5,000-Year-Old Discovery Of Pollution At The Great Pyramids Up-Ends Everything We Thought We Knew About Ancient Egypt
(Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) So advanced was Ancient Egypt’s use of copper that Pharaoh Sahure, of the 5th Dynasty, had copper plumbing inside of his funerary ...
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Cosmetics and Perfumes, Egypt, 10,000 BCE
The Egyptians were among the first to use cosmetics and perfumes ... burnt almonds, lead, oxidized copper, ochre, ash, malachite and chrysocolla, a blue-green copper ore. Such measures were intended ...
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Ancient Egyptian Coffins Found Sealed With Mummified Lizards, Sacrificed as Part of Offerings During Religious Ceremonies
Six ancient Egyptian coffins were sealed, and their contents were unknown to researchers and were housed at the British Museum in London. Recent utilization of advanced technology allowed them to ...