Ancient Egypt

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online An Egyptian excavation mission has uncovered the remains of a Roman fort, an early Coptic church and a Ptolemaic temple at the Shiha Fort in Aswan, Upper Egypt. Mohamed Abdel-Badie, director of the Upper Egypt Antiquities Department, explained that “excavation work revealed the plan of the …

Ahram Online A statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced, on Saturday, the discovery of a large number of burial shafts and artefacts dating back to the New Kingdom period in the Saqqara Necropolis area. Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who heads the Egyptian archaeological mission operating at …

Egypt Today Khaled el-Enany, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities and Major General Ashraf Attia, Governor of Aswan, inaugurated the Isis Temple on Friday. Restoration works were completed to develop and raise the efficiency of the temple’s tourism services. The reopening coincides with the celebration of the National Day of Aswan, …

Egypt Today Antiquities experts from the Egyptian and British museums are currently restoring a recently discovered colourful mural at Kom El-Ahmar excavation site in Qena governorate, Upper Egypt. Sabah Abdel Razek, director of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir said, “the restoration of the 6,000-year-old mural comes as part of the …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online A collection of 100 intact 26th Dynasty anthropoid coffins, sealed and painted, were unearthed by an Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Saqqara Necropolis. The discovery includes golden funerary masks and a collection of 40 wooden statues of Saqqara goddess Ptah Soker, some of which …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online The Egyptian-Russian archaeological mission has unearthed a collection of 28 gold dinars and five small coins at the archaeological site of Deir Al-Banat in Fayoum. The coins were found wrapped in a linen roll tied to a clay seal bearing unclear symbols. Osama Talaat, Head …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will announce the biggest archaeological discovery in 2020 at a press conference in the Saqqara Necropolis in the coming days, sources said in Cairo. According to the authoritative sources, “an Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Saqqara Necropolis, discovered …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online After almost two years, Egypt has received a part of a sarcophagus from Italy. The artefact was stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country. Egypt’s Ambassador to Italy Hisham Badr received the artefact on Thursday at the headquarters of the anti-cultural property unit of …

Mustafa Marie – Egypt Today A group of Danish and French scholars discovered the formation of red and black inks on ancient Egyptian papyri, which led to a number of hypotheses about writing practices in that ancient era. The analysis, based on synchrotron techniques, was conducted by researchers in Grenoble, …

Egypt Independent An Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed an ancient tomb of a royal treasury supervisor named ‘Badi Est’, at the ​​al-Ghuraifah area in Minya Governorate. Stone statues and other archaeological findings within indicated that the tomb was well-preserved. “The tomb consists of a burial well that is 10 metres deep, …