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The list was compiled by Hawass with the assistance of some of the world's leading Egyptologists. Each discovery has a theme centered on a part of everyday life in Ancient Egypt. For six of those discoveries, a certain emphasis is placed on how some of their themes have managed to influence modern life.
24 – A joint Egyptian-German team discovered a 167-foot-wide temple pylon at Athribis in Sohag, Egypt, dating back to King Ptolemy VIII. [ 144 ] 25 – A shipwreck off the coast of Malindi , Kenya, which was initially discovered in 2013, was suggested to be possibly the São Jorge from Vasco da Gama 's 1524 voyage, as one of the earliest ...
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.
The Pharaohs' Golden Parade [a] was held in Cairo, Egypt, on 3 April 2021.It involved the transportation of 22 ancient Egyptian mummies—all Kings and Queens of the New Kingdom—from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat.
Believed to have ruled for approximately 12 years between 2300 and 2181 B.C., Teti was the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Although Teti’s sarcophagus is 4,300 years old ...
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.
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
The Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass called this ancient papyrus "the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century". [31] [32] [33] In March 2017, the Egyptian-German team of archaeologists unearthed an eight-meter 3,000-year-old statue that included a head and a torso thought to depict Pharaoh Ramses II.