Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Archaeologists unearth statue of Queen Tiye in Egypt's Luxor The discovery of the statue was made by the European-Egyptian mission, working under the umbrella of the German Archaeological Institute Nevine El-Aref , Thursday 23 Mar 2017 "A unique statue, possibly of Queen Tiye, the wife of King Amenhotep III and grandmother of King Tutankhamun, has been unearthed at her husband's funerary temple in Kom El-Hittan on Luxor's west bank."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 6 Archeological Missions to Resume Underwater Excavations in Egypt On Tue, 21/03/2017 - 16:26 Al-Masry Al-Youm"Six local and international excavation missions have obtained the necessary approvals to resume their underwater archeological excavations for antiquities along the shores of Alexandria and Red Sea governorates, according to the Department of Underwater Antiquities in the Ministry of Antiquities." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Intact 12th Dynasty Tomb Uncovered In Aswan 3/23/2017 07:00:00 PM "The Spanish Archaeological Mission in Qubbet El-Hawa, west Aswan, has discovered an intact structure where the brother of one of the most important governors of the 12th Dynasty, Sarenput II, was buried." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Mummy Shroud Found After 80 Years in Museum Collection 9 March 2017 - From the section Edinburgh, Fife & East Scotland "A unique, full-length mummy shroud which is over 2,000 years old has been discovered after about 80 years in a museum collection. It will be displayed for the first time in The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland on 31 March. The shroud, which dates to about 9BC, was found during "an in-depth assessment" of Egyptian collections."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 2nd Pyramid Bearing Pharaoh Ameny Qemau's Name Is Found By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | April 4, 2017 01:11pm ET "A 3,800-year-old pyramid found with an alabaster block bearing the name of pharaoh Ameny Qemau has been discovered at the site of Dahshur in Egypt. Another pyramid containing artifacts bearing the name of Ameny Qemau (also spelled Qemaw) was discovered in 1957 in Dahshur, a royal necropolis in the desert on the Nile River's west bank. The finding has left Egyptologists with a mystery as to why the same pharaoh seemingly has two pyramids to his name." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Mummified CAT Scan: New Technologies And Ancient Objects 3/31/2017 09:00:00 PM A mummified, ancient, Egyptian cat is among a host of artefacts from the University of Aberdeen museums' collections that have been captured using 3-D imaging software so they can be shared around the world. Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Mummies Discovered In Ancient Tomb Near Egypt's Luxor 4/18/2017 06:00:00 PM Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed several mummies, colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the city of Luxor, hailing an "important discovery". Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 ISIS Targets St. Catherine's Monastery In Sinai, Egypt 4/19/2017 07:00:00 PM "Gunmen attacked security forces near St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's south Sinai on Tuesday, killing at least one police officer and injuring four others, the Health Ministry said, just a week after two deadly church bombings killed 45." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Ramses II Colossus Restored and Re-Rected at Luxor Temple After almost six decades, a colossus of Ramses II that once decorated Luxor Temple's first pylon has been returned to its original position Nevine El-Aref , Thursday 20 Apr 2017 "Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities re-erected on Tuesday a colossus of King Ramses II that once decorated the façade of the first pylon of Luxor Temple, after concluding comprehensive restoration and reconstruction work upon it. Head of Luxor Antiquities Mostafa Waziri told Ahram Online that restoration began on the statue in November 2016." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2017 Unique Funerary Garden Unearthed in Thebes For the first time, an almost 4000 year-old funerary garden is uncovered in Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor’s west bank Nevine El-Aref , Wednesday 3 May 2017 "During excavation work in the area around the early 18th Dynasty rock-cut tombs of Djehuty and Hery (ca 1500‐1450 BCE) in Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis, a Spanish archaeological mission unearthed a unique funerary garden."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2017 More on: A First-Ever Find in Egypt: A Funeral Garden Fri, May 05, 2017 SPANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (CSIC)—"The Djehuty Project, led by research professor, José Manuel Galán, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden- the first such garden ever to be found- on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt. The discovery comes during the 16th year of archaeological excavations which are sponsored this year by Técnicas Reunidas and Indra."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Tomb Drawing Shows Mongoose on a Leash, Puzzling Archaeologists By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | May 9, 2017 06:31am ET "A mongoose on a leash, a colorful pelican and various bats are just a few of the rare animal drawings revealed in a new survey of a group of 4,000-year-old tombs in Egypt. The tombs are located at the Beni Hassan cemetery and were excavated and detailed in a publication over a century ago by archaeologist Percy Newberry and his colleagues, wrote Linda Evans, a senior lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia, in an article published recently in the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 Burial Chamber of Princess Possibly Found in Ancient Egypt Pyramid By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | May 11, 2017 11:03am ET "Inside a 3,800-year-old pyramid at the site of Dahshur in Egypt, archaeologists have discovered a burial chamber that may have held the mummy of a princess named Hatshepset. A wooden box inscribed with hieroglyphs was also found within the chamber. The discoveries provide clues that may help archaeologists determine why a pharaoh named Ameny Qemau has two pyramids at Dahshur."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 APR 28, 2017 @ 07:58 AM Skeletons Of Two Possible Eunuchs Discovered In Ancient Egypt "Recent excavations at the Ptolemaic-Roman site of Quesna in Egypt have revealed two skeletons of individuals who might have been eunuchs. But these people’s above-average height and other skeletal irregularities might also reflect a congenital condition rather than castration. Presenting at last week’s American Association of Physical Anthropologists conference, archaeologists Scott Haddow (University of Bordeaux), Sonia Zakrzewski (University of Southampton), and Joanne Rowland (University of Edinburgh) highlighted the two unusual burials out of 151 total interments at Quesna, located in the Nile Delta region of the country."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Underground Catacomb Filled with Mummies Discovered in Egypt By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | May 13, 2017 09:44am ET "Archaeologists have discovered an underground catacomb containing numerous mummy-filled corridors at an ancient cemetery at the site of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt. The catacomb can be entered only through a narrow shaft which leads underground. At the bottom of the shaft, archaeologists found that "there are many corridors and many burial places for mummies," said Mohamed Salah bn Mohamed Ahmed El-Kholy, a professor at Cairo University, at a press conference held this morning (May 13) at Tuna el-Gebel. Archaeologists with Cairo University have been excavating at Tuna el-Gebel for about 80 years, El-Kholy said." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Archaeologist Wraps up Excavation in Tombos, Sudan in the Nile River Valley May 17, 2017 by Amy Patterson Neubert "A Purdue University bioarchaeologist finished another field season looking at immigration and colonization during the New Kingdom occupation of Nubia in about 1400 B.C. along the Nile River Valley. While most research focuses on Egyptians and their legacy, Michele Buzon, a professor of anthropology, is using health and cultural evidence from more than 3,000-year-old burial sites to understand the lives of Nubians and Egyptians during the New Kingdom Empire. This is when Egyptians colonized the area in about 1500 B.C. to gain access to trade routes on the Nile River." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Embalming Materials for Middle Kingdom Vizier Ipi Rediscovered on Luxor's West Bank "The embalming materials of Ipi, vizier and overseer of Thebes and member of the elite during the reign of King Amenemhat I in the early 12th Dynasty, have been rediscovered in his tomb at Deir Al-Bahari on Luxor's west bank." Nevine El-Aref , Sunday 21 May 2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Mummy DNA Reveals Surprising Clues ABC Science By Bianca Nogrady Posted Wednesday at 05:02 "Mummies from ancient Egypt have revealed another secret — some of them share very little of the sub-Saharan African ancestry that dominates the genetic heritage of modern Egyptians."Continued also @ Science Scientists Thought Ancient Egyptian Mummies Didn’t Have Any DNA Left. They Were Wrong By Lizzie WadeMay. 30, 2017 , 11:00 AM Continued and @ Popular Archaeology Spring 2017, Cover Stories, Daily News The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies Tue, May 30, 2017Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Lintel Bearing Middle Kingdom Cartouches Unearthed at Ihnasya Site in Egypt "A lintel inscribed with the cartouche of Sesostris II was unearthed at Heryshef temple in Ihnasya" Nevine El-Aref , Saturday 27 May 2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Ten Late Period Tombs Uncovered in Aswan The tombs were uncovered on Aswan's West Bank Nevine El-Aref , Thursday 1 Jun 2017 "During excavation work in the area neighbouring the Agha Khan mausoleum on Aswan’s west bank, an Egyptian mission from the Ministry of Antiquities stumbled upon ten rock-hewn tombs."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Heritage Documentation Work Begins "State-of-the-art technology is being used to document the Esna Temple south of Luxor and the Tanis archaeological site in the Delta" NEVINE EL-AREF Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2017 Did Children Build the Ancient Egyptian City of Amarna? New evidence from Akhenaten’s capital suggests that a ‘disposable’ workforce of children and teenagers provided much of the labour for the city’s construction Mary Shepperson Tuesday 6 June 2017 22.48 AEST "There’s a whiff of magic about the site of Tell el-Amarna that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. It’s partly down to the effort of imagination needed to conjure a great capital of ancient Egypt from the sea of low humps stretching between the cultivation and the desert cliffs, and partly the long shadows cast by its founders – the ‘heretic’ pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2017 Hellenistic Tomb with Pottery Vessels Discovered in Alexandria An archaeological mission from the Ministry of Antiquities discovered the rock-hewn tomb in the city's El-Shatby district Nevine El-Aref , Thursday 8 Jun 2017 Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 A Pharaoh’s Massive Tomb Unveiled By Julie Masis Wed, Jun 14, 2017 "For the first time, visitors to Egypt will be able to descend 45 meters underground into the ancient tomb of the most famous pharaoh of Abydos."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Ancient Tomb of Gold Worker Found Along Nile River By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | June 19, 2017 10:59am ET "A 3,400-year-old tomb holding the remains of more than a dozen possibly mummified people has been discovered on Sai Island, along the Nile River in northern Sudan. Archaeologists discovered the tomb in 2015, though it wasn't until 2017 that a team with the AcrossBorders archaeological research project fully excavated the site. The island is part of an ancient land known as Nubia that Egypt controlled 3,400 years ago. The Egyptians built settlements and fortifications throughout Nubia, including on Sai Island, which had a settlement and a gold mine. The tomb, which contains multiple chambers, appears to hold the remains of Egyptians who lived in or near that settlement and worked in gold production."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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