Ancient Egypt

The mummification workshop dates to the Saite-Persian Period (c.664-404 BC) Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online  Archaeology Magazine is featuring the gilded silver mask found in Saqqara this year on the cover of its January/February 2019 issue, after the mummification workshop where it was found was selected as one of the magazine’s …

Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online  A Swedish archaeological mission has discovered an ancient tomb dating back to the 18th Dynasty in Upper Egypt’s Aswan governorate, a Ministry of Antiquities statement said on Thursday. The mission, operating in Gabal Al-Selsela area in Kom Ombo, Aswan, announced that the tomb was located five …

The Saite Period of ancient Egyptian history was a late glorious episode in the country’s millennia-long civilisation, writes Hussein Bassir Hussein Bassir  The Saite Period was one of the last glorious periods of ancient Egyptian history and lasted for 138 years (664-526 BC). The dynasty came to rule Egypt due to various …

Egypt Independent  The Central Administration of Restoration, alongside the Ministry of Antiquities, has completed the restoration of the Badi An Est and Psamtik tombs in the area known as the Persian Well, in the Saqqara archeological site. The restoration project took place in cooperation with a German mission from the …

During the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, Egypt was the most powerful and wealthiest empire of the ancient world, and the ancient Egyptian civilisation was at its zenith, writes Zahi Hawass   Zahi Hawass   Even before Egypt was ruled by the Pharaohs, during a time called the Pre-Dynastic Period cultures rose …

Mummies with anthropoid painted cartonnage have been unearthed in Dahshour Necropolis, about 40 kilometres south of the Giza Plateau   Nevine El-Aref – Al-Ahram Weekly   During excavation work in the area to the northeastern side of King Amenemhat II’s tomb in the Dahshour necropolis in Giza, an Egyptian archaeological …

The tomb of the overseer of the mummification shrine has been unearthed in Luxor with its funerary collection   Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online  An Egyptian archaeological mission uncovered in El-Assasif, Luxor, a Ramesside period tomb of Thaw-Rakht-If, the overseer of the mummification shrine at the Precinct of Mut, and …

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is celebrating its 116th anniversary with a comprehensive redesign, writes Nevine El-Aref   Nevine El-Aref   The neo-classical Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was buzzing with people on Monday, as the Ministry of Antiquities celebrated the Downtown landmark’s 116th birthday. To the strains of classical …

  Farah Tawfeek – Egypt Independent   Two limestone formations in the northern part of the Ra’a monastery were uncovered by the Ein Shams Egyptian excavation team, operating in the Mataryia area. The two formations have carvings that prove they were part of a structure built by Amenmut; Ramses II’s …

Egypt Independent   Egyptian Ambassador to Switzerland Hesham Seif Eddin received word from Swiss authorities that 26 small artifacts dating back to ancient Egypt will be returned. The Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that the antiquities included a statue of the god Anubis, an Ushabti statue, …