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From the archive in 1989, former president of Australian Skeptics Barry Williams examines the mystical claims for pyramid power

More than 2,000 mummified ram heads dating back to the Ptolemaic era (305-30 BC) and a palatial structure from the Old Kingdom’s Sixth

Ancient Egyptian Pottery Workshop Practices Revealed Working under the authority of the Ministry, a team of researchers led by Fayoum University archaeologist Dr. Ibrahim Sobhi uncovered the largely intact workshop while performing excavations at the Tell Kon Aziza site near the village of Abu Hummus in  northern Egypt .  This site is located approximately 32 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of  Alexandria, and 105 miles (169 kilometers) north of Cairo. Indications are that settlements exis...

1. I. The pyramids of Egypt have survived time and weather. 2. II. The pyramids were constructed as burial places for the ancient Egyptian royal family members. 2.1. The ancient Egyptians believed in life after death. 2.1.1. They prepared for their afterlife by building tombs (pyramids) and collecting possessions to put into the tombs. 2.1.2. They had their bodies preserved from decay by embalming. 2.1.3. The believed that the dead person could take his or her earthly possessions along to the n...