- ... that, according to Herodotus, Pharaoh Necho II (pictured) commissioned an expedition of Phoenicians, who in three years sailed from the Red Sea around Africa back to the Nile Delta?
- ... that the Diary of Merer is a group of papyrus logbooks written by Merer, who worked on the transport of white limestone blocks from the Tura quarries to Giza for the outer cladding of the Great Pyramid?
- ... that the Lost Army of Cambyses was a legendary army of 50,000 men who all disappeared in a sandstorm in Egypt’s Western Desert?