Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets is at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn, N.
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It's got history (two balls and a jack were found in the sarcophagus of an ancient Egyptian prince).
Its name, although reminiscent of the Star Wars warriors, belongs to an ancient Egyptian magician whom Khufu consulted when building the pyramid.
Campaigners against the sale of an ancient Egyptian statue have formed an action group to fight Northampton Borough Council's decision to sell it.
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Highlights of its vast collection are the ancient Egyptian mummies, its Roman and Greek antiquities, the Rosetta Stone and the Anglo-Saxon treasures of Sutton Hoo.
Parades date back at least as far as ancient Egyptian culture.
John Rowe, the chief executive of Exelon, keeps a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts in his office and at one time even had a mummy case.
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Indeed, the same balanced bread tray (without the bike) can be seen in ancient Egyptian paintings which, come to think of it, were also painted on walls.
The group is made up of several organisations such as The Northamptonshire Ancient Egyptian Society, Art Fund Northamptonshire and The Friends of Northampton Museums and Art Gallery.
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Obsessed with languages, Wedeman is fluent in Arabic, Italian and French, has a working knowledge of Hebrew, and has studied Japanese, Russian, Farsi, ancient Egyptian, and classical and contemporary Mongolian.
Unlike the ancient Egyptian mummies, which went through a complicated preservation process to dry out their flesh, most of these corpses were preserved simply by putting them somewhere where moisture was scant.
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It clip highlights how an ancient Egyptian building method - the Nubian vault -, which requires only earth and water, was rediscovered by a Frenchman who transmitted this technique to Burkinabese masons.
According to researchers, while many modern pets may look like those depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs or Roman mosaics, extensive cross-breeding through thousands of years has meant that no modern dog breeds can be truly classified as "ancient".
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In 1994, Wade and Bob Brier, a professor of philosophy and Egyptology at Long Island University, took a human body that had been willed to science and mummified it following the ancient procedures of mummification outlined in ancient Egyptian lore.
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The heat got us moving the next morning, and we jammed into a boksi, a brightly-painted pickup fitted with benches, heading north to where we planned to rejoin the Nile and find traces of the upper reaches of the ancient Egyptian Empire.
The sport, based on attack and defense with swords, has a heritage that some claim dates back as far as 1200 BC, due to the discovery of several ancient Egyptian carvings detailing duels involving combatants with blades and wearing masks for protection.
Along the way, he exposes readers to early British civilisation, Egyptian pyramids, ancient Assyria and the Kingdom of Benin in the 13th century.
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.
The largest Christian population in the Middle East is the Egyptian community of Copts - Christians descended from the ancient Egyptians.
Last month Egyptian archaeologists travelled to the Louvre Museum in Paris to collect five ancient fresco fragments stolen from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in the 1980s.
Put simply, the Egyptian people want a future that befits the heirs to a great and ancient civilization.
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