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Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries is a documentary on the Discovery Channel, written and directed by Ben Mole and hosted by Zahi Hawass, featuring a list of the top ten discoveries of Ancient Egyptian sites and artifacts which are of cultural significance to the country.
26 – 16 individual tombs and 6 funerary complex from the Persian, Roman and Coptic periods were discovered by the Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission at the Al-Bahnasa archaeological site, Minya, Egypt. [22] [23] 28 – A study reports that steel chisels were already in use in Europe on the Iberian peninsula around 2,900 years ago. [24] March
Pottery bowl fragments in the British Museum from early Neolithic Egypt, Nabta, 7050–6100 BC. Archaeological discoveries reveal that these New Stone Age peoples seem to have lived more organized lives than their contemporaries nearer to and in the Nile Valley. [2]
A rare Pictish ring was one of the discoveries. [128] 22 – Archaeologists from the “Uncovering Roman Carlisle” project announced the discovery of a stone head depicting a woman with a Classical Roman hairstyle from Roman period in Carlisle, England. [129] 23 – Scientists discovered more than 300 new Nazca Lines figures in Peru. [130]
Diversion dam — The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. [19]; Noria — Norias appeared in Egypt in the 4th Century B.C. [20]; Beekeeping — domesticated Beekeeping was first recorded in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C. [21] [22] as well as the first use of smoke while extracting the honey from bee nests.
Sabu's grave was discovered on January 19, 1936, by the British archaeologist Walter Bryan Emery.It is a mastaba tomb that consists of seven chambers. In Room E, the central burial chamber, the disk was found in a central location right next to Sabu's skeleton, which was originally buried in a wooden coffin. [4]
An absence of documented finds does not imply nothing was ever found. Pyramids not listed have either not been located or explored (e.g.: due to flooding or collapse), have no substructure, were fully looted, or contained nothing of note.
Egypt's New Tomb Revealed (an interactive site by Discovery Channel) Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt (BBC News, with video footage of tomb) Tomb Found in Egypt's Valley of Kings (ABC news, with pictures) Tomb of mummies found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings (CBC) "Experts in new Egypt tomb discovery." The Scotsman; New Tomb Found in Valley of ...