Restoration work at the Al-Tunbagha Al-Maridani Mosque in Cairo has started after years of negligence, reports Nevine El-Aref Nevine El-Aref – Al-Ahram Weekly In the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar area of Islamic Cairo within an area rich in Mameluke and Ottoman edifices stands the Al-Tunbagha Al-Maridani Mosque with its distinguished architectural …
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Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online An Italian-American archaeological mission working in Aswan’s Kom Ombo has uncovered the grave of a woman and her fetus dating back 3,700 years, general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri announced. Waziri explained that the grave is almost intact and was …
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Could science be about to reveal the true image of the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, asks Zahi Hawass Zahi Hawass In a few years on 4 November 2022, the whole world will celebrate the centennial of the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun. The …
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Dozens of mummified cats and meticulously mummified scarab beetles are the latest discoveries to be made at the Saqqara Necropolis, reports Nevine El-Aref Nevine El-Aref – Al-Ahram Weekly Some 30 Arab and foreign ambassadors and cultural attachés to Egypt as well as hundreds of Egyptian, Arab and foreign journalists …
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Zahi Hawass No archaeological discovery has enjoyed attention such as the discovery of the granite sarcophagus weighing about 30 tons found under a house in Alexandria. I would like to point out that hundreds of foreign and Egyptian journalists have spoken to me about this subject. Most of the …
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Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany announced on Saturday a new discovery made by an Egyptian archaeological mission during excavation work carried out since April at the area located on the stony edge of King Userkaf pyramid complex in the Saqqara Necropolis. Cairo governor Ahmed …
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Nahed Nasr discovered a pretty persuasive attempt at resurrecting ancient Egypt Nahed Nasr The fourth Thoth Festival opened on 26 October at New Hermopolis, a non-profit development founded by Mervat Abdel-Nasser in the town of Tuna Al-Gebel, the site of the necropolis of Khmun (aka Hermopolis Magna). This was …
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One of the inscriptions credits the creator God Atum as being responsible for the flood of the Nile, likely dating to the Late Period (664-332 BC) Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online A German-Egyptian archaeological mission working in Matariya, ancient Heliopolis, has uncovered a number of inscribed stone fragments from …
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Egypt Independent The French Institute for Oriental Archaeology’s mission has unearthed a sandstone panel and a wooden ark dated back to the 18th Dynasty of Pharaonic Egypt in the northern area of El-Assasif Necropolis in Luxor. The mission found the ark and the panel in good condition. It only lost …
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Dina Ezzat and photographer Sherif Sonbol explore 1,000 years of Cairo’s Islamic history Dina Ezzat – Al-Ahram Weekly “What is left of the rule of the Fatimid Dynasty that built this city back in the 10th century is essentially the buildings where religion was either observed or taught, such as mosques …
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