Ancient Egypt

Mohamed Raouf Badran* This is Hussein Abdel-Rassoul. He was a water boy who helped Howard Carter and his team by running back and forth with pales of water to keep the members well quenched and hydrated. They were looking for the tomb of Tutankhamun. While he was moving about the …

Egypt Independent The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a residential and commercial suburb dating back to the Greco-Roman era in the Shatby district of Alexandria on Thursday. “The team found resting places for travellers and visitors to the city while they waited for entry permits. …

Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled al-Enany, US Ambassador in Cairo, Jonathan Cohen and Luxor Governor Mostafa Alham inaugurated the recently restored and developed Wakalet Al-Geddawy on Sunday. The venue is a caravansary, which was built in 1792 to store trade goods and lodge traveling …

Egypt Independent “A team of Egyptian palaeontologists have named a new species of amphibious whale. The fossil was discovered by an Egyptian expedition”, Professor of Palaeontology at Mansoura University, Hesham Sallam, announced on Wednesday. Professor Sallam explained, “palaeontologists discovered the fossils in 2008, during an expedition in the Fayoum Depression, South …

Egypt Today The National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) launched, Tuesday, a summer training programme dubbed ‘NMEC Summer School’. The training programme is tailored for students and graduates of the faculties of archaeology with its various departments including Egyptian antiquities, Islamic antiquities, and restoration. The program provides archaeology students with …

Egypt Today “Visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum will see the restoration work of the second Khufu Solar Ship in action. The boat will not be assembled before the opening of the Grand Museum, as it requires a very long time to completely assemble it”, said al-Tayeb Abbas, Assistant Minister …

Egypt Today An Egyptian archaeological mission working in the area of Tel Kom Aziza in Al-Beheira Governorate discovered (West of the delta), Wednesday. The remains of a huge pottery workshop, date back to the Greco-Roman era. “This workshop consists of buildings dating back to the period between the third century …

Ahram Online “Egypt’s Ambassador to London Tarek Adel managed to recover three artefacts, dating back to the Pharaonic and Greek eras, before being sold at an auction hall in London”, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read on Thursday. Ambassador Adel lauded the fruitful cooperation between the Egyptian …

Al-Sayed Gamal al-Din – Ahram Online Egyptian Prosecutor-General Hamda al-Sawy retrieved 114 Egyptian artefacts at the Egyptian embassy in Paris on Wednesday. The recovered artefacts were illegally smuggled into France. “The Egyptian prosecution’s investigations, in cooperation with the French judicial authorities, succeeded in stopping all attempts to put the artefacts …

The majority of the objects on view come from Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, which houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of Egypt. Ahram Online The Queens of Egypt are ready to rule the Canadian Museum of History exhibition opening on Saturday 5 June and running until 22 …