Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Causeway Discovered in Ancient Aswan Tomb The causeway leads to the tomb of the first Middle Kingdom provincial governor of Elephantine Island Nevine El-Aref , Tuesday 8 Nov 2016 "During excavation work at Aswan's Qubbet El-Hawa necropolis, a British mission from Birmingham University and the Egypt Exploration Society uncovered a causeway leading to the tomb of Sarenput I, the first Middle Kingdom nomarch (provincial governor) of Aswan's Elephantine Island."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 New Discovery At Thutmose III's Temple In Luxor 11/13/2016 06:00:00 PM "During the ninth archaeological field season, which started in September, the joint Spanish-Egyptian mission at the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmose III, at Al-Deir Al-Bahari on Luxor's west bank, stumbled upon the tomb of the servant of the king’s house, Amenrenef." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Fall 2016, Cover Stories, Daily News Egyptian Giant Crocodile Mummy is Full of Surprises Tue, Nov 15, 2016 "A three-metre-long mummified Egyptian 'giant crocodile', one of the finest animal mummies in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden), turns out to be literally filled with surprises. Examination of detailed new 3D CT scans has led to the conclusion that, besides the two crocodiles previously spotted inside the wrappings, the mummy also contains dozens of individually wrapped baby crocodiles. This is an exceptional discovery: there are only a few known crocodile mummies of this kind anywhere in the world. Starting on 18 November, museum visitors can perform a virtual autopsy on the 3,000-year-old mummy, using an interactive visualisation exhibit in the new Egyptian galleries."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Ancient Residential City, Cemetery Discovered in Abydos On Wed, 23/11/2016 - 15:36 Al-Masry Al-Youm "The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Mahmoud Afify, announced Wednesday the discovery of a cemetery and a residential city dating back to 5,316 BCE, the beginning of an important dynastic period. The discovery was made during excavations conducted by an Egyptian archaeological mission belonging to the Ministry of Antiquities, 400 meters south of King Seti I Temple at Abydos city in Sohag governorate. The cemetery and residential city most probably belonged to senior officials who were responsible for building the cemeteries of the royal family in Abydos city."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Glassmaking May Have Begun in Egypt, Not Mesopotamia Artifacts from Iraq site show less sophisticated technique, color palette BY BRUCE BOWER 12:00PM, NOVEMBER 22, 2016 SAN ANTONIO — "Ancient Mesopotamians have traditionally been credited with inventing glassmaking around 3,600 years ago. But Mesopotamians may have created second-rate knock-offs of glass objects from Egypt, where this complex craft actually originated, researchers reported November 19 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Divers Uncover World's Oldest Harbor, in Red Sea Archaeologists find monumental harbor built by King Cheops 4,600 years ago at Wadi el-Jarf to import stuffs to build the Great Pyramid of Giza. By Philippe Bohstrom Nov 23, 2016 "The oldest known harbor in the world has been discovered by archaeologists diving off Egypt's Red Sea coast at Wadi el-Jarf. The site was found near a huge archive of papyri – which is also the oldest known to date, and which describe how the harbor was built and used by the great King Cheops to import materials to build his flagship monument, the Great Pyramid of Giza." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Mummified Knees are Queen Nefertari's, Archaeologists Conclude Nicola Davis Saturday 3 December 2016 02.18 AEDT "A pair of mummified knees are most likely those of the famously beautiful spouse of Pharoah Ramses II, who died around 1250BC, say scientists" Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Egyptian Mummies Virtually Unwrapped in Australia AFP December 8, 2016 Sydney (AFP) - "The hidden secrets of Egyptian mummies up to 3,000 years old have been virtually unwrapped and reconstructed for the first time using cutting-edge scanning technology in a joint British-Australian exhibition. Three-dimensional images of six mummies aged between 900BC and 140-180AD from ancient Egypt, which have been held at the British Museum but never physically unwrapped, give an insight into what it was like to live along the Nile river thousands of years ago." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Statues of Lioness Goddess Sekhmet Unearthed in Luxor's Kom El-Hettan Excavation Nevine El-Aref , Friday 9 Dec 2016 "Egyptian archaeologists excavating the Mortuary Temple of King Amenhotep III in Luxor have unearthed a number of statues of the goddess Sekhmet, daughter of the ancient Egyptian sun god Re, project director Hourig Sourouzian told Ahram Online on Thursday. "They are of great artistic quality" Sourouzian said of the statues, which were found in four parts, including three busts and one headless torso, in the Kom El-Hettan archaeological area on Luxor's west bank."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Pharaonic Tomb Aged Over 4,200 Years Discovered in Aswan On Wed, 21/12/2016 - 16:44 "Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said Wednesday that archaeologists found compelling evidence for new tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa in Aswan. The head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities department at the ministry, Mahmoud Afify, announced the discovery of a two-meter high ancient encroachment wall below the visitors’ pathway in the northern part of the West Aswan cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Bull Fat, Bats Blood, And Lizard Poop Were The Drugs Of Choice In Ancient Egypt 12/24/2016 06:00:00 PM “Bull fat, bat blood… donkey blood… what looks like the heart of a lizard. And a little pulverised pottery and a dash of honey.” "Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt traces her forefinger over the hieroglyphs as she reads aloud. We are in the papyrus reading room at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This bizarre recipe is not a mystical incantation but it is believed to be a recipe for a treatment against trichiasis--ingrown eyelashes." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Ancient Egyptian Pot Burials Were Not Just for the Poor Interment in ceramic vessels may have symbolized a rebirth to afterlife BY EMILY DEMARCO 7:00AM, JANUARY 3, 2017 "New research is stirring the pot about an ancient Egyptian burial practice. Many ancient peoples, including Egyptians, buried some of their dead in ceramic pots or urns. Researchers have long thought these pot burials, which often recycled containers used for domestic purposes, were a common, make-do burial for poor children." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Twelve New Tombs Discovered in Gebel el Silsila, Egypt Date: January 12, 2017 Source: Lund University Summary: "The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers, niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Egypt To Restore Hundreds Of Pharaonic Era Coffins 1/18/2017 10:00:00 PM "Egypt will restore hundreds of coffins dating back thousands of years to the time of the pharaohs as part of a joint American-Egyptian project to document and preserve one of the world's oldest civilizations, a director of the project said on Tuesday." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Polish Researcher Investigates the Health of Children in Ancient Egypt 20.01.2017 "Anaemia, chronic sinusitis, tooth decay are among the most commonly recognized diseases in children whose burials Polish bioarchaeologist investigated in the Egyptian necropolis dating back more than two thousand years at Saqqara, near the oldest pyramid in the world. Excavations in the extensive Egyptian necropolis at Saqqara were conducted for nearly twenty years by Prof. Karol Myśliwiec of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS. Currently the project leader is Dr. Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz from the Department of Egyptology, University of Warsaw. Since the beginning, research at Saqqara is conducted under the auspices of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology UW."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Amenhotep II Box Fragments Found 1/28/2017 08:00:00 PM "Two fragments of a decorative wooden box made c1400BC, during the reign of King Amenhotep II, were held at the London-based dealer until Egyptologist Tom Hardwick made the connection to a piece in the National Museums Scotland’s collection last April." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Feb 2, 2017 06:52 AM ET Ancient Egyptian's Baboon Obsession Laid Hidden Within Luxor Tomb "A secret chamber inside a royal scribe's tomb shows that his muse was, apparently, a primate."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 'Monumental' Building Complex Discovered at Qantir in Egypt's Nile Delta A mortar pit with children's footprints still preserved was also uncovered at the site Nevine El-Aref , Tuesday 7 Feb 2017"At the ancient city of Piramesse, which was Egypt's capital during the reign of the King Ramses II, an excavation team from the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim in Germany has uncovered parts of a building complex as well as a mortar pit with children’s footprints."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Temple Culture In Ptolemaic Egypt Alive And Kicking 2/13/2017 09:00:00 PM "Egyptian temple culture was thought to be declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven. Temple culture was very much alive and kicking."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Egypt Begins Restoration Of Colossus Of Ramses II At Karnak Temples 2/22/2017 06:00:00 PM "Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities is conducting comprehensive restoration work on a colossus statue of king Ramsess II that once decorated the façade of the first pylon of the Karnak Temple Complex." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 INTRODUCTION TO GIZA "The Giza Plateau of Egypt, located about 15 miles southwest of modern Cairo, is one of the most important and famous archaeological sites in the world. It is home to the Great Pyramid, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. Built by King Khufu in the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom (around 2550 BCE), the Great Pyramid was the largest ever constructed in Egypt, originally reaching a height of 481 feet. Two of Khufu’s successors also built major monuments at Giza: Khafre, whose burial complex includes the second-largest pyramid as well as the Sphinx; and Menkaure, builder of the smallest of the three pyramids at Giza."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Trove Of Statues Of Lion Headed Goddess Sekhmet Found In Luxor 3/08/2017 07:00:00 PM "A team of German archaeologists have discovered 66 statues of the lion-headed goddess of war, Sekhmet, in an excavation of a temple near the Egyptian city of Luxor."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 New Discoveries In Egypt's Ancient Heliopolis 3/09/2017 06:00:00 PM "Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany witnessed on Thursday the lifting of two newly discovered 19th dynasty royal statues from a pit at the Souq Al-Khamis district in the Al-Matariya area of greater Cairo."Continued Also see:Egyptian Statue Recently Unearthed is not Ramses II March 16, 2017 by Hamza Hendawi andUnveiling a Pharaoh’s Torso The discovery of the torso of an ancient Egyptian colossus stirs a debate on the real identity and the manner in which it was retrieved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 MAGAZINE Ancient Parchments Reveal Old Texts Concealed by Newer OnesIn a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. By A. R. Williams| This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 PUBLIC RELEASE: 22-MAR-2017 Egyptian Ritual Images from the Neolithic Period Researchers at the University of Bonn discover spectacular rock art at a burial mound near Aswan UNIVERSITY OF BONN Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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