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Avec le jeu vidéo « Assassin’s Creed Origins », Ubisoft invite à l’égyptologie
Destiné aux publics scolaires et aux réfractaires aux jeux d’action, « Discovery Tour Assassin’s Creed Ancient Egypt » permettra d’explorer l’Egypte antique, au début de l’année prochaine. Qui a dit qu’Assassin’s Creed était une série de jeux violents ? Lors d’une conférence au British Museum à laquelle Le Monde était invité, Ubisoft a annoncé, mercredi […]
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Why Dead Languages Like Akkadian Still Matter?
I grew up hearing the Code of Hammurabi read out loud, in Akkadian, at the dining-room table. I did not know that my graduate-student mother was one of Akkadian’s few regular readers. The language of the ancient Akkad region, or modern-day Iraq, is considered a “dead language,” just like Ugaritic and Phoenician. All these dead […]
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Does cuneiform make you want to bite a tablet?
Then it’s time you signed up for our online Sumerian Cuneiform Course! Less than a week left to this course in Oriental Institute – University of Chicago. Register here
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En construction
Le site web de l’AEPOA est actuellement en construction. Des sections sont donc encore manquantes. Merci de votre patience
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Le Qatar sauvera-t-il les pyramides soudanaises ?
L’exploration des trésors archéologiques du Soudan, en particulier ses nombreuses pyramides, est relancée grâce à un programme de financement qatari. C’est la mission que s’est donnée le Projet archéologique qataro-soudanais (Paqs), rapporte Al-Monitor. Ces pyramides, vestiges de l’ancien royaume méroïtique (VIIIe-IVe siècle avant J.-C.), restent méconnues du grand public. Or, le Qatar s’intéresse à ces […]
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King Tut’s wet nurse may have been his sister: expert
An archaeologist said Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king. DNA tests have proved that the pharaoh Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamun, but the identity of his mother has long been a mystery. On […]
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Tomb of Tutankhamun’s wt nurse is opened for the firts time since it was discovered in 1996.
Tomb of Tutankhamun’s wet nurse is opened for the first time since it was discovered in 1996… as Egypt launch a PR offensive in a bid to woo tourists back. The tomb of Tutankhamun’s wet nurse has been opened to visitors for the first time, following its discovery almost 20 years ago. The burial site, […]
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La nourrice de Toutankhamon était en réalité sa sœur
Un égyptologue français a affirmé dimanche en Égypte que la nourrice du pharaon Toutankhamon, Maïa, n’était autre que sa sœur, la princesse Mérytaton, relançant les spéculations sur l’identité de la mère du jeune roi, décédé il y a plus de 3 000 ans. L’archéologue Alain Zivie avait découvert en novembre 1996 la tombe de Maïa, […]
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Unique Hebrew inscription unearthed at Galilee site
Excavations at the Kursi site on the shores of the Sea of Galilee have uncovered an inscription in Hebrew letters engraved on a large marble slab, dating back ca. 1,600 years. No similar artifact has even been found before in Israel, and the finding confirms for the first time that the ancient settlement at the […]
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Could Queen Nefertiti’s Tomb Reveal Secrets From Egypt’s Shadowy Past?
She was married to one of the most eccentric pharaohs. But after his death she may have reigned on her own––as a man. If researchers have found her tomb, what’s inside could change Middle Eastern history. Every time something is discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the whispers begin. Is it the queen? Has […]
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