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NSFW Ancient Egyptians were so into oral sex, they put it in their religion — and religious art
Artifacts from ancient Egyptian culture reveal a culture that was far less puritanical about oral sex than we are
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Cleopatra: Egypt jurists seek $2bn from Netflix
Netflix's docudrama Queen Cleopatra depicted the Ptolemaic queen as a black African woman, causing much controversy in Egypt. Now a team of jurists want to sue Netflix for $2 billion in compensation.
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These bracelets survived tomb robbers and time — now they're helping us understand the 'beginnings of the globalised world'
An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.
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Egypt nearly supplied rockets to Russia, agreed to arm Ukraine instead, leak shows
Egypt made detailed plans to export rockets at Moscow’s request, but after a diplomatic offensive from Washington, later approved artillery production for Kyiv.
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Egyptians offered loans to buy books as inflation soars
Egyptians are used to paying for costly items such as cars or washing machines in instalments, but rocketing inflation means they can now buy books this way. "A book has become a luxury item here in Egypt. It's not a basic commodity like food and people are saving on luxuries," says Mohammed El-Baaly of Sefsafa Publishing House.
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Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables
When underwater cables congregate in one place, things get tricky.
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Egyptian pharaoh reveals his secrets after ancient mummy is 'digitally unwrapped'
Egyptian scientists have unwrapped a 3,500-year-old royal mummy without peeling away a single layer of embalming linen.
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The Egyptian Egg Ovens Considered More Wondrous Than the Pyramids
A hatching system devised 2,000 years ago is still in use in rural Egypt.
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Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria
Twenty-four hundred years ago, Heraklion was ancient Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean Sea. Today, the ancient city lies submerged beneath Abu Qir Bay, a few kilometers off the coast of Alexandria. Archaeologists recently discovered the wreck of a warship from the city’s final years buried in the seabed for 2,100 years beneath five meters of clay and crumbled pieces of an ancient temple to the Egyptian god Amun.
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Study shows dire impacts downstream of Nile River dam
Rapid filling of a giant dam at the headwaters of the Nile River—the world's biggest waterway that supports millions of people—could reduce water supplies to downstream Egypt by more than one-third, new USC research shows.
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Ever Given: Egypt agrees deal to release ship that blocked Suez Canal
Egypt will release the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, after it agreed a compensation deal with the vessel's owners and insurers. The two sides said the Ever Given would be allowed on Wednesday to leave the Great Bitter Lake, the canal's midway point, where it has been impounded.
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Egypt executes student who was 'tortured to confess' to attempted assassination of senior officer
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Exclusive: Saudi assassins picked up illicit drugs in Cairo to kill Khashoggi
The new season of Yahoo News’ "Conspiracyland" podcast reveals compelling new evidence that a Saudi hit team intended to kill Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi long before he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
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Egypt: 12 death sentences upheld over Rabaa sit-in
Egypt’s highest appeals court, the Court of Cassation, today upheld death sentences for 12 people, including a number of senior Muslim Brotherhood figures
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Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs
Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt's Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.
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In the tombs of Saqqara, new discoveries are rewriting ancient Egypt’s history
Seated in a yellow plastic laundry basket attached to two thick ropes, I was lowered into the earth. The light got dimmer, the temperature colder. A musty smell filled the air. The only sound was from the workmen above handling the ropes and yelling “shweya” — slowly.
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Suez Canal workman finally gets his overtime pay
Abdullah Abdul-Gawad, a subcontractor, had previously revealed how he was owed his overtime payment and he and his workers had got by on just three hours of sleep.
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Dislodged Suez Canal cargo ship held amid $916 million claim
A mammoth cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal last month is being held in the waterway as authorities pursue a $916 million compensation claim against its owner, according to the vessel’s insurer. The UK Club, an insurer for the Ever Given, said in a statement Tuesday that the ship's Japanese owners received a claim from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), which runs the canal, on April 7. The claim includes $300 million for "loss of reputation."
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3,000-year-old ‘Lost Golden City’ found under the sands of Egypt
The buried city of Aten was built in the golden age of Ancient Egypt, and would have been used by powerful pharaohs such as Tutankhamun.
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Suez canal: Ever Given ship refloated after blocking waterway for six days
Salvage teams on Monday succeeded in freeing a massive container ship that had blocked the Suez canal for the past seven days, clogging up one of the world’s key trade arteries.
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