Resource Manager Posted August 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Archaeology in Egypt What Lies Beneath? A tantalising clue to the location of a long-sought pharaonic tomb Aug 8th 2015 | From the print edition "NOTHING has inspired generations of archaeologists like the discovery in 1922 of the treasure-packed tomb of Tutankhamun. What if another untouched Egyptian trove lies buried, not in a distant patch of desert, nor even nearby amid the overlapping tomb-shafts of Luxor’s Valley of the Kings, but instead just a millimetre’s distance from plain view?"Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 ARCHAEOLOGY Ancient Egyptian Mummies Embalmed With Unusual Recipes AUG 7, 2015 04:04 PM ET // BY ROSSELLA LORENZI "Unusual embalming recipes have been identified on two ancient Egyptian mummies, according to new international research. The study investigated the 18th Dynasty mummies of the royal architect Kha and his wife Merit, a couple who were believed to have undergone a short and poor mummification - if no mummification at all - despite their relative wealth at death. Indeed, their internal organs were not removed and placed in canopic jars, as generally occurs in classical royal 18th Dynasty artificial mummification." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2015 Roman Glass-Making Furnaces Discovered in Egypt’s Delta Aug. 15, 2015 13:12 CAIRO: "Glass-making furnaces dating back to the Roman Egypt period (30B.C.-395A.D.,) have been unearthed in Egypt’s Delta archaeological site of Tell Mutubis, the Antiquities Ministry stated Friday. The discovery was made during a magnetic gradient survey carried out by a joint mission of the UK’s Durham University, directed by Dr. Penny Wilson, and Egypt’s Mansoura University."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2015 Issue No.1259, 20 August, 2015 18-08-2015 09:26PM ET Looking for Queen Nefertiti Does the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti rest in the tomb of the Boy King Tutankhamun, as a British Egyptologist has claimed, asks Nevine El-Aref "The beautiful Queen Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic King Akhenaten and her son-in-law the golden Boy King Tutankhamun, has always perplexed archaeologists. Nefertiti acquired unprecedented power during the first 12 years of the reign of her husband Akhenaten. She occupied the throne alongside her husband and appeared nearly twice as often in reliefs as Akhenaten during the first five years of his reign. She continued to appear in reliefs even when, in the twelfth year of Akhenaten’s reign, she disappeared from the scene and her name vanished from the pages of history."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Resource Manager Posted August 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 Vol. 19 Summer 2015 - Print the Summer 2015 Issue Summer 2015, Cover Stories, Daily News Unusual Use of Blue Pigment Found in Ancient Mummy Portraits Thu, Aug 27, 2015 "Mostly untouched for 100 years, 15 Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits and panel paintings were literally dusted off by scientists and art conservators from Northwestern University and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology as they set out to investigate the materials the painters used nearly 2,000 years ago." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 ARCHAEOLOGY Ancient Egyptians Forced Open Mouths During Mummification AUG 27, 2015 11:00 AM ET // BY ROSSELLA LORENZI "Ancient Egyptians were likely to lose some of their front teeth before they could become mummies, says a new research debated at the International Congress of Egyptologists in Florence. Taking place after excerebration (brain removal) and evisceration (body organ removal) and before final wrapping, the procedure would force open the mouths of the deceased with a knife and iron chisel, breaking and dislocating teeth in the process."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 ARCHAEOLOGY Oldest Case Of Heart Failure Found In Ancient Mummy AUG 28, 2015 09:47 AM ET // BY ROSSELLA LORENZI "The oldest case of acute decompensated heart failure has been found in 3,500-year-old mummified remains, a research team announced at the international congress of Egyptology in Florence. Consisting of just a head and canopic jars containing internal organs, the remains were found in a plundered tomb by the Italian Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1904 in the Valley of the Queens, Luxor, and are now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Turin. They belong to an Egyptian dignitary named Nebiri, a “Chief of Stables” who lived under the reign of 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmoses III (1479-1424 BC)."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 The Tomb of the 26th Dynasty Ruler of Upper Egypt Uncovered in Assassif, Luxor The tomb of the 26th dynasty vizier of Upper Egypt discovered in South Assassif on Luxor's west bank Nevine El-Aref , Sunday 30 Aug 2015 "Within the framework of the South Assassif Conservation Project on Luxor's west bank, an Egyptian-American stumbled upon a 26th dynasty tomb that belongs to the vizier of Upper Egypt, Padibastet. Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department, explained that the tomb was found inside the tomb of Karabasken, who was Thebes' ruler and the fourth priest of Amun during the 25th dynasty (TT 391)."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 Kestrel Mummy Hints at Raptor Breeding in Ancient Egypt SEP 3, 2015 04:25 PM ET // BY RICHARD FARRELL"The last meal of a mummified kestrel has much to tell scientists about how the ancient Egyptians handled raptors, and why so many mummies of the birds of prey have been found. So suggests a study just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, which presents 3D imaging evidence and analysis of a European kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) mummy. Researchers from the American University in Cairo, Stellenbosch University and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies say the bird died from being forced to eat too much: Its stomach contained evidence of a house mouse on which the bird had likely choked to death."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 Sinai's St. Catherine's Starves, Monastery Shuts Down AUTHOR Mohannad Sabry POSTED September 4, 2013 ST. CATHERINE'S — "In the Sinai city of St. Catherine, a few thousand people and around 800 camels have been left struggling since the first week of August, when Egyptian security authorities ordered the total shutdown of the town's 1,500-year-old monastery. Bedouin residents of the mountainous area were forced to sell their camels, which they cannot feed, to feed their families." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 ARCHAEOLOGY Oldest, Longest Ancient Egyptian Leather Manuscript Found SEP 14, 2015 09:10 AM ET // BY ROSSELLA LORENZI "The oldest Egyptian leather manuscript has been found in the shelves of the Egyptian museum in Cairo, where it was stored and forgotten for more than 70 years. Dating from the late Old Kingdom to the early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000 B.C.), the roll measures about 2.5 meters(8.2 feet) and is filled with texts and colorful drawings of the finest quality. “Taking into account that it was written on both sides, we have more than 5 meters (16.4 feet) of texts and drawings, making this the longest leather roll from ancient Egypt,” Wael Sherbiny, the Belgium-based independent scholar who made the finding, told Discovery News."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 The Saint Catherine Foundation "The Saint Catherine Foundation and its associated organisations in New York and Geneva support conservation work at Saint Catherine's Monastery." Sinaiticus (Newsletter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Egypt approves Radar for Nefertiti Tomb Quest Tue, 09/22/2015 - 11:21am Maram Mazen, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — "An Egyptian official says the Antiquities Ministry has given initial approval for the use of non-invasive radar to verify a theory that Queen Nefertiti's crypt may be hidden behind King Tutankhamun's 3,300-year-old tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings. Mouchira Moussa, media consultant to the antiquities minister, said September 22, 2015, that final security clearance will probably be obtained within a month. "It's not going to cause any damage to the monument," says Moussa."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 The World's Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids Ancient Egyptians leveraged a massive shipping, mining and farming economy to propel their civilization forward By Alexander Stille; Photographs by David Degner Smithsonian Magazine October 2015 "Following notes written by an English traveler in the early 19th century and two French pilots in the 1950s, Pierre Tallet made a stunning discovery: a set of 30 caves honeycombed into limestone hills but sealed up and hidden from view in a remote part of the Egyptian desert, a few miles inland from the Red Sea, far from any city, ancient or modern. During his first digging season, in 2011, he established that the caves had served as a kind of boat storage depot during the fourth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, about 4,600 years ago." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 First Kidney of Ancient Egyptian Mummy Was Found Because the Man Was Diseased 27 SEPTEMBER, 2015 - 00:34 MARK MILLER "Over the years, scientists have found evidence of cancers, heart disease, starvation, ulcers, smallpox, tuberculosis and other infections in ancient remains from all over the world. Now, for the first time ever, researchers using CT scans have detected a diseased kidney in an ancient Egyptian mummy. A kidney normally would decay long before the 2,800 years that have elapsed since the man named Irtieru was embalmed, but it appears he had a kidney disease called renal tuberculosis that calcified (hardened) the organ." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Search for Nefertiti's Burial Chamber in Tutankhamun Tomb From the section Middle East 02 October, 2015 "The Egyptian pharaoh queen Nefertiti could be buried in King Tutankhamun's tomb, says to a British archaeologist. Nicholas Reeves says he believes there may be two hidden doorways behind the Tutankhamun's burial chamber, leading to two undiscovered rooms. Egyptian officials plan to use radar equipment to test Mr Reeves' theory that Nefertiti's remains were placed in one of them. She was queen of Egypt during the 14th Century BC."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 Ruins of Ancient Egyptian Temple Unearthed Under Modern Cairo Oct. 05, 2015 13:30 By Rany Mostafa CAIRO: "Ruins of a 2,400 year-old shrine were unearthed from beneath Cairo’s modern district of Mataria, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty announced Monday. “The finds were discovered during the ongoing excavation work carried out by an Egyptian-German archaeology mission. The shrine belonged to the 30th Dynasty Pharaoh Nectanebo I (379 B.C.-360 B.C.,)” said Damaty. The mission also unearthed remains of limestone colonnade and a “well-preserved” ceiling that are strongly believed to have been a part of an ancient Egyptian temple, Damaty said, adding that ruins of the mud brick outer enclosure wall surrounded the temple, along with royal bust belonged to the New Kingdom (1580 B.C.-1080 B.C.) Pharaoh Merenptah, were also excavated in the area."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs' at the British Museum Posted by TANNArchaeology, Breakingnews, Egypt, Exhibitions, More Stuff, Travel, UK 4:30 PM October 19, 2015 "This autumn the British Museum presents a major exhibition looking at an important transition in Egypt’s history never explored before in its entirety. Egypt: faith after the pharaohs explores 1,200 years of history, providing unparalleled insight into the lives of different religious communities. This exhibition of around 200 objects will show how Christian, Islamic and Jewish communities reinterpreted the pharaonic past of Egypt and interacted with one another. The transitions seen in this period have shaped the modern world we know today." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Fixing Tutankhamun's Beard: 'Unfortunately They Used Epoxy' Restorers give progress report as they attempt to rectify damage done when beard was broken by worker, then bodged back together with everyday glue Associated Press in Cairo Wednesday 21 October 2015 13.59 AEDT "Restorers have put their work on the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display in Cairo, over a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back on with epoxy. A German-Egyptian team of experts showed off the mask in a laboratory in the Egyptian Museum, detailing plans for how the epoxy will be scraped off and the beard carefully removed before being reattached by a method to be determined by a joint scientific committee."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Snake Unlikely to Have Killed Cleopatra October 21, 2015 by Mike Addelman Academics at The University of Manchester have dismissed the long-held argument that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite. Andrew Gray, curator of herpetology at Manchester Museum, says venomous snakes in Egypt—cobras or vipers—would have been too large to get unseen into the queen's palace. He was speaking to Egyptologist Dr Joyce Tyldesley in a new video which is part of a new online course introducing ancient Egyptian history, using six items from the Museum's collection. According to Dr Tyldesley, the ancient accounts say a snake hid in a basket of figs brought in from the countryside, and was also used to kill one or two of her serving maids. Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 The Earliest Known Abecedary October 22, 2015 This ancient Egyptian word list of the fifteenth century BC is the earliest known example of a list arranged according to their initial sounds. It gives a vital insight into the earliest known stages of the alphabet. "A flake of limestone (ostracon) inscribed with an ancient Egyptian word list of the fifteenth century BC turns out to be the world's oldest known abecedary. The words have been arranged according to their initial sounds, and the order followed here is one that is still known today. This discovery by Ben Haring (Leiden University) with funding from Free Competition Humanities has been published in the October issue of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 ‘ScanPyramids’ Project Hopes to Decipher Ancient Secrets The ScanPyramids project will detect hidden chambers, corridors, and doors inside the pyramids Nevine El-Aref , Monday 26 Oct 2015 "Starting November, the pyramids of Giza will be subject to a non-invasive survey in an attempt to unravel their secrets four millennia after their construction. “Several theories have been brought forward during the past century to understand the method that the ancient Egyptians used to construct the pyramids but all are still scientific hypotheses,” Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty told Ahram Online." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Polish Archaeologists Discovered An Unknown Temple of Hatshepsut 26.10.2015 HISTORY&CULTURE Cut in the rock and consisting of two rooms, the walls of which are covered with poorly preserved decoration and hieroglyphic inscriptions: a team of archaeologists working under the auspices of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw started research in the ancient temple at Gebelein in Upper Egypt. "This place was already known to the local authorities, but so far no archaeologist has studied it. Previous researchers could have been discouraged by the poor condition of the decorations. This year's results of Polish research were surprising. "This temple was dedicated to two gods. There is no doubt that one of them was Hathor, with the cult epithet Lady of Gebelein. The other deity could be Amun-Ra. Unfortunately, his depictions are not preserved and further studies are needed to verify this idea" - explained Daniel Takács, a member of the expedition."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Renovation Completed at Ancient Greco-Roman Kiman Faris: Minister Oct. 25, 2015 14:24 By Rany Mostafa CAIRO: "The conservation project of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Kiman Faris has been completed, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al Damaty announced in a statement Saturday. Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman statues and other architectural details found at the site have been under restoration by ARCHiNOS Architecture since 2012, said Damaty. The organization also was responsible for the presentation of the artifacts that came to the site from rescue excavations in preparation for turning it to an open-air museum, he added."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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