Ancient Egypt

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online Few hours before the official opening of the ‘Kings of the Sun’ exhibition in the Czech Republiccapital Prague, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled el-Enany embarked on an inspection tour at the exhibition. The tour was followed by a press conference at the ‘Prague …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online Around 20 items, from the ‘Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh’ exhibition’s 166 pieces, will be displayed at Hurghada Museum and Sharm El-Sheikh Museum. The exhibition has been touring abroad for the past two years. Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has embarked on a new project targeting the preservation of pulpits in archaeological mosques and protecting them against theft. The pulpits will be covered with transparent shields. The ministry took the first step by covering the pulpit of Sultan …

Angy Essam – Egypt Today As The Cairo’s Royal Chariots Museum is nearing inauguration, Braille cards explaining the story of all exhibits, for the visually impaired. An explanatory map of the museum halls will be available at the entrance, paved corridors and ramps were constructed to facilitate the movement of …

Egypt Independent CNN International has released a documentary film on the Grand Egyptian Museum, as part of a partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, represented by the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority. Titled “Inside The Grand Egyptian Museum”, the documentary was produced and filmed under a contract with the …

Egypt Independent An excavation mission run by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities discovered a statue of a priest of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor in the Mit Rahina area in Giza. The salvage excavation in the area began in July on a privately-owned plot of land, where officials suspected containing …

Mustafa Marie – Egypt Today Archaeologists of the Supreme Council of Antiquities have unearthed a number of carved stone blocks and statues, during rescue excavations that the council started on a private land, about 2 km southeast of Mit-Rahina. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said …

Times of Egypt Google astonished the world when it launched ‘Fabricius’, a digital learning machine that translates ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern languages. The tool uses artificial intelligence to identify and translate the images into Arabic and English. Fabricius analyses hieroglyphic images uploaded by users and compares them to more …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online A study carried out by renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and Sahar Saleem, professor of radiology at Cairo University who specialises in scanning mummies, has solved the mystery of “the mummy of the screaming woman” from the Royal Cachette in Deir El-Bahari. Hawass told Ahram Online …

Nevine el-Aref – Ahram Online The Egyptian archaeological survey team, led by Mohammed Abd al-Badea, which has been documenting evidence of human activity from prehistoric times through modern periods. The team located an extensive number of mysterious openings cut high in a cliff inside the sacred valley South of the …