Hierakonpolis, Hampi, Cliff Palace, Delos, and the Plain of Jars highlight early capitals, sacred monuments, and burial traditions from ancient civilizations.

Egyptologist's Dr Renee Friedman and Vivian Davies will be heading to Horsham on Saturday 28th June to present this double lecture. Dr Friedman will be telling us about animal burials in Hierakonpolis ...

The world’s first zoo is thought to have started in Hierakonpolis, Egypt, around 3500 BC. These animals likely led short, tortured lives as their remains show evidence of beatings and being ...

The world’s first zoo is thought to have started in Hierakonpolis, Egypt, around 3500 BC. These animals likely led short, tortured lives as their remains show evidence of beatings and being tethered.

Pharaoh Khasekhemwy ruled ancient Egypt during the 2nd Dynasty, in the 27th century BCE, between 2727 and 2700 BCE. He unified Upper and Lower Egypt after a period of turmoil and established his ...

LIVERPOOL.—The arrangements for excavations to be made during the winter under the auspices of the university institute of archaeology, in Upper Egypt, have been com pleted, and the work will be ...

Tomb 54 at the elite cemetery of Hierakonpolis containing the sheep. They had corkscrew-shaped horns, as evidenced by the keratin sheath that was found. (Renée Friedman and Bea De Cupere) While sheep ...

In the 5,700-year-old dig site of Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, archaeologists uncovered the remains of five male sheep that showed clear evidence of having their horns artificially modified.

An estimated 100,000 African specimens are held by the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge; while the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences has over 41,000 African rocks, minerals and fossils; and the ...

These Hierakonpolis sheep remains, according to researchers, provide the oldest case of horn modification of livestock by humans, and the first demonstration of this practice applied to sheep.

Researchers also found the remains of at least six large, castrated male sheep at the mortuary complex in Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, dating to about 3,700 BC.