Tag Archives: Egyptian Artefacts

Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has recently unearthed the foundation blocks of the Temple of the Sun at the open-air museum of Matariya, in Cairo’s Heliopolis. The uncovered foundations date back to the reign of the pharaoh Khufu. “For the first-time fragments of the Fourth Dynasty …

Ahram Online Prosecutors from the US state of New York seized five Egyptian artefacts worth more than $3 Million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The decision is part of an investigation into international trafficking involving the Louvre Museum in France. “The artefacts include a group of painted linen fragments …

Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online An Egyptian archaeological mission at Bubastian Cemetery in Saqqara Necropolis unearthed a collection of 250 wooden painted coffins and 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities on Monday. Ancient Egyptian deities Bastet, Anubis, Osiris, Amunmeen, Isis, Nefertum, and Hathor are depicted in the statues. The …

Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) received a collection of gigantic colossi from the Egyptian museum in Tahrir on Monday. The collection includes a pair of statues of the Ancient Egyptian gods Amun-Re and Mut, a red granite column of king Ramses II, a limestone statue …

Egypt Independent “36 ancient Egyptian antiquity pieces had been smuggled to Madrid in 2014 were recovered from the Spanish authorities,”, The Egyptian Public Prosecution announced on Monday. The Egyptian ambassador to Spain Youssef Mekkawi was accompanied by a delegation from the Egyptian Public Prosecution office visited the National Heritage Museum …

Egypt Today Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry received 95 smuggled Egyptian artefacts from his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid at a meeting in Cairo on Thursday. “Shoukry received his Israeli counterpart this morning as part of Egypt’s role in the ongoing efforts to revive the peace process and discussed …

Egypt Today Visitors enjoyed the splendour of the great Egyptian antiquities with the enchanting harp melodies in the background at the ‘Ramses & The Gold of The Pharaohs’ exhibition in the American city of Houston. In the early days of its opening, the exhibition saw a huge turnout of visitors …

Egypt Independent Belgium sent back Egypt two ancient Egyptian artefacts smuggled out of the country. The artefacts were received by the Egyptian ambassador to Belgium, Khaled al-Baqly, in attendance with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Labour Pierre-Yves Dermagne, on Saturday. The recovered artefacts include a coloured …

Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a collection of ancient tools which were used in religious rituals from the Temple of the Pharaohs (Boto) in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate North of Cairo. The new discovery comes as part of archaeological excavations carried out by the Egyptian Supreme Council …

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 …