There was a reason Southern businessmen and thinkers were inspired by ancient Egypt: To them, it served as proof that all great civilizations were hierarchal societies sustained by enslaved labor.
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A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of the power they contained.
Some spiritualists in the 1920s moaned that Tutankhamun appeared almost too often.
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
Mummies are scary but they also fascinate us, giving us the feeling that we can vanquish time by preserving our most perishable feature: flesh.
