Mysteries associated with ancient Egypt are not confined to the pyramids of Giza. For example, consider these:

One Egyptian hieroglyph is patterned after a bird known as the jabiru; another is an image of a saguaro cactus. Both the jabiru and the saguaro are found only in the Western Hemisphere, so how did they become hieroglyphs?

Tutankhamen is referred to as the "boy-king" by Egyptologists. Why then were statues found in the tomb portraits of a young woman?

Hatshepsut is said to have been a female pharaoh who reigned for 22 years but then disappeared from the scene. What...