Resource Manager Posted December 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2017 Winter 2018, Cover Stories, Daily News CT Scans of Egyptian Mummies Reveal Oldest Known Cases of Breast Cancer and Multiple Myeloma Thu, Dec 21, 2017 UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA—"An international team, including researchers from the UGR's anthropology group led by Prof. Miguel Cecilio Botella López of the Department of Legal Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, has discovered the world's oldest known cases of breast cancer and multiple myeloma (a type of bone marrow cancer). The discoveries were made by conducting CT scans of two mummies found in the pharaonic necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan, Egypt."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 King Tut's Dagger Is 'Out of This World' By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor | December 18, 2017 06:47am ET "Daggers, axes and jewelry made from rare iron during the Bronze Age are literally out of this world, according to new research finding that ancient artisans crafted these metal artifacts with iron from outer space carried to Earth by meteorites. The finding upends the idea that a few artisans during the Bronze Age in the ancient Near East knew how to make iron by smelting it from Earth's crust."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 Strength of Egypt's Canal of the Pharaohs Re-Emerges CNR archaeologists discover another wall at Tell el-Maskhuta 15 DECEMBER, 16:14 (ANSAmed) - CAIRO, DECEMBER 15 - "The Italian archaeological mission undertaken by the National Research Council (CNR) has brought to light imposing walls from a fortress situated on Egypt's Canal of the Pharaohs, in Tell el-Maskhuta. That makes the site now one of the largest fortresses on the Nile Delta and most likely the best preserved from the age before that of ancient Rome. The discovery was made public recently by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Scan Technique Reveals Secret Writing in Mummy Cases By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News 31 December 2017 "Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from. These are the decorated boxes into which the wrapped body of the deceased was placed before it was put in a tomb."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Archaeologists Unveil Two Major Discoveries in Upper Egypt's Tel Edfu and Kom Ombo "A Fifth Dynasty royal administrative complex at Tel Edfu and two Ptolemaic era stelae at the Kom Ombo temple are among the finds" Nevine El-Aref , Thursday 11 Jan 2018 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 Winter 2018, Cover Stories, Daily News More on: "Cheops' Pyramid: Is there an Iron Throne in the Newly Discovered Chamber?" Thu, Jan 11, 2018 "POLITECNICO DI MILANO—In early November 2017, Nature published the results of the Scan Pyramids project, led by Mehdi Tayoubi (Hip Institute, Paris) and Kunihiro Morishima (University of Nagoya, Japan): there is a "huge void", at least 30 meters long, within the Pyramid of Cheops."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 DNA Solves the Mystery of How These Mummies Were Related The duo had the same mother, but different dads BY BRUCE BOWER 7:00AM, JANUARY 16, 2018 "A pair of ancient Egyptian mummies, known for more than a century as the Two Brothers, were actually half brothers, a new study of their DNA finds." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Archaeologists Begin Search for Tomb of King Tut's Wife By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | January 16, 2018 04:26pm ET "Excavations have begun in an area of the Valley of the Kings where the tomb of Tutankhamun's wife may be located, archaeologist Zahi Hawass announced today (Jan. 16). Archaeologists are digging in a spot called the West Valley, or the Valley of the Monkeys, near the tomb of the pharaoh Ay (reign: 1327 to 1323 B.C.), the successor to King Tut (reign: 1336 to 1327 B.C.). Though a few royal tombs have been found in the West Valley, the bulk of them have turned up in the East Valley of the Valley of the Kings."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | January 16, 2018 12:38pm ET "Using cosmic particles called muons, and possibly tiny robots, scientists hope to figure out what created two mysterious voids inside the Great Pyramid. Possibilities range from a new burial chamber to a sealed-off construction passage. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (whose reign started around 2551 B.C.), the Great Pyramid of Giza stands 455 feet (138 meters) tall and was the tallest human-made structure in the world until the Lincoln Cathedral was completed in England in the 14th century." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Stela Depicting Ramses II Making Offerings to Ancient Egyptian Deity Discovered at Neglected Site The upright red granite slab was unearthed at the San Al-Hagar archaeological site in the Sharqiya governorate. By Lara Rebello January 14, 2018 10:35 GMT "An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered a stela of one of the ancient world's most famous pharaohs — Ramses II. The Ministry of Antiquities announced last week that the artefact was found at the San Al-Hagar archaeological site in Sharqiya governorate." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 HISTORY STORIES The Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone BY EVAN ANDREWS // JANUARY 10, 2018 "In July 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s military invasion of Egypt, a group of French soldiers accidentally made a groundbreaking archaeological discovery. While working to strengthen the defenses of a sunbaked fort near the Nile Delta town of Rosetta (modern-day Rashid), they knocked down a wall and unearthed a 44-inch-long, 30-inch-wide chunk of black granodiorite."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 Rock-Hewn Burial Shaft Uncovered in Egypt's Abusir Necropolis Nevine El-Aref, Thursday 1 Feb 2018 "Three rock-hewn burial shafts filled with coffins and faience pots have been uncovered in Egypt's Abusir necropolis near Cairo. The discovery was made after authorities received reports of illegal excavations in the area."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 Three Burial Chambers Engraved with Hieroglyphics Discovered in Giza Egypt Independent February 1, 2018 - 4:48 pm "The antiquities ministry’s archaeological committee discovered on Thursday three burial wells carved into a rock containing funerary material, in Abu Sair, Giza, stated the ministry of antiquities." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 Egypt: Archaeologists Discover Priestess' 4,400-Year-Old Tomb Near Pyramids Outside Cairo 'This is a very promising area. We expect to find more' Caroline Mortimer - Saturday 3 February 2018 17:30 GMT Continued Also @:4,400-Year-Old Tomb of High-Ranking Priestess Found in Giza 2/04/2018 06:00:00 PM "An Egyptian archaeological mission led by Dr. Mostafa Wazir, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has discovered an Old Kingdom tomb of a lady called “Hetpet” who was a top official in the royal palace during the end of the fifth Dynasty." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2018 Newly Discovered Buildings Reveal Clues to Ancient Egyptian Dynasties 2/07/2018 07:00:00 PM "The archaeological excavation of an ancient Egyptian city at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt, led by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, has discovered well-preserved settlement remains dating to an important turning point in ancient Egyptian history, when the pharaohs began to renew interest in the provincial regions in the far south of their kingdom." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2018 More on: Ancient Buildings Used for Making Beer and Bread Discovered in Egypt's Tel Edfu Region The 4,000-year-old complex may have been used to house important officials visiting from the royal capital in Memphis. By Lara Rebello February 8, 2018 09:19 GMT Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Secret to Great Pyramid's Near-Perfect Alignment Possibly Found By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | February 19, 2018 08:23am ET "Though it's slightly lopsided, the towering Great Pyramid of Giza is an ancient feat of engineering, and now an archaeologist has figured out how the Egyptians may have aligned the monument almost perfectly along the cardinal points, north-south-east-west — they may have used the fall equinox." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Modern Tech Unravels Mysteries of Egyptian Mummy Portraits A new exhibit explores the science of ancient funeral paintings BY HOWARD WOLINSKY 8:00AM, FEBRUARY 19, 2018 Magazine issue: Vol. 193, No. 4, March 3, 2018, p. 28 "Everybody’s a critic. Even back in second century Egypt. While digging in Tebtunis in northern Egypt in the winter of 1899–1900, British archaeologists stumbled upon portraits of affluent Greco-Egyptians placed over the faces of mummies. One grave contained an ink and chalk sketch, a bit larger than a standard sheet of printer paper, of a woman from around the years A.D. 140 to 160. The sketch includes directions from an unidentified source to the artist to paint the “eyes softer.” Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2018 Egypt Uncovers Ancient Necropolis South of Cairo Reuters Feb. 24, 2018, 11:22 AM MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - "Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis containing 40 stone sarcophagi, about 1,000 small statues and a necklace charm bearing the hieroglyphic inscription "happy new year"."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2018 World's Oldest Tattoo Art Found on Egyptian Mummy that has been in British Museum for 100 years Pictures of animals daubed onto man's arm 5,200 years discovered after new infrared examination David Keys Archaeology Correspondent @davidmkeys 4 days ago Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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