The original occupant of an Egyptian sarcophagus was unknown. Then a tiny ornament revealed a very big name
“The cartouche dates back to its first usage ... His mummy is at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
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What were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs?
It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek ... royal people in an oval shape called a cartouche. The oval shape represents a rope ...
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Sword with pharaoh’s mark found in Egypt, still shimmering 3,000 years later
More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II ... with the intricacies of an ornamental cartouche — the personal emblem used by the ...