Permanent exhibits include displays about Africa, animal biology, bird habitats, ancient Egypt, Eskimos and Native Americans.
Ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, the Civil, Vietnam and World Wars for America.
In ancient Egypt, pairs of tapering stone towers called pylons marked the entrances of temples.
Sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread and was used at least as early as ancient Egypt.
Ruth Thomas, an expert on ancient Egypt, said the town could now be discredited by the Museums Association.
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Northampton Museum boasts an internationally important collection of 12, 000 shoes - from ancient Egypt to the present day.
It seems that in ancient Egypt hieroglyphs were considered magical and divine, and body parts corresponded to hieroglyphic representations.
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Hair removal goes back to ancient Egypt, where women applied hot wax and strips of gauze to their legs.
By the mid-1940s he had published three historical novels set in ancient Egypt, and planned a long further series.
The Pyramid of Chefren is the second largest at Giza and the tomb of the Pharaoh Khafre from ancient Egypt's fourth dynasty.
Although historians and archeologists call them icons, artifacts, and talismans, it may be that the first cat memes appeared in ancient Egypt.
Since ancient Egypt, if not long before, hats have served the practical (protection against heat and cold) and the symbolic (religious function, military rank, social status).
The range pays homage to ancient Egypt and includes an elegant pair of peach-hued chalcedony earrings that she said are meant to evoke the movement of feathers.
Mr. Wartke suggested that the lack of eye-catching finds from Uruk comparable to those from ancient Egypt might have something to do with the city's relative obscurity.
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Twenty-nine, or 38%, of the 76 mummies from ancient Egypt, 13 of the 51 (25%) mummies from ancient Peru, and 2 of 5 (40%) of ancient Puebloans had atherosclerosis.
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Foie gras has been produced by farmers since the days of ancient Egypt, when farmers discovered that the waterfowl's liver expanded in the days leading up to the bird's planned migration.
Handwritten on bleached calfskin, the manuscript dates to the once-thriving Jewish community in Spain and describes events ranging from the Creation to the Jewish exodus from ancient Egypt to the death of Moses.
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They then applied it to previously illegible manuscripts called the Oxyrhynchus papyri, which were discovered in an ancient rubbish dump in Egypt.
Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.
Many of the ancient hierarchical world empires (Egypt, Babylon, etc.) have fat chapters in history of mathematics texts.
The unsanctioned excavation and trade of ancient artefacts are illegal in Egypt.
Highlights include the Sistine Chapel, featuring Michelangelo's famed ceiling fresco series and "Last Judgment, " works by Raphael, da Vinci, Caravaggio, and ancient wonders from Rome and Egypt.
The rulers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, ancient as they are, have made improvements.
The precise modern calendar we take for granted has roots in ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Arabia and Rome.
Egypt and Ireland have similar calamities based on ineptitude in sports they devised in ancient times.
He uncovers a French plot to infiltrate the museum and snatch the Rosetta Stone (the ancient artefact that provides the key to Egyptian hieroglyphs) in order to return it not to Egypt but to France, which first discovered and translated it.
Balloon rides are a popular way to see the numerous ancient sites which line the banks of the River Nile at Luxor, in the south of Egypt, such as the temple of Karnak and the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
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But the ancient rite, common in the Nile Valley and other parts of Africa, has remained particularly prevalent in Egypt.
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At the moment Egypt is something of a stronghold - about 10% of the population are Copts - descendants of the ancient pre-Muslim inhabitants of the country.
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