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| Pyramids’ Cave World Discovered At Giza
Huge natural cave world full of bats has been found close to the Great Pyramid on Giza’s famous plateau, leading archaeologists now confirm. // FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 02, 2010 – A vast natural cave system has been discovered beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramid, and now it’s official. That [...] |
| New settlement discovered in Kharga Oasis
The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has stumbled upon what appears to be the remains of a substantial settlement. The city is a thousand years earlier than the major surviving ancient remains at the Umm Mawagir area in Kharga Oasis. The settlement is dated to the Second Intermediate Period (ca.1650-1550 BC) and was discovered during excavation [...] |
| Stolen artifact returned to Egypt
Egypt recovered a Greco-Roman bust from Canada. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the bust had been illegally smuggled out of Egypt but that the Canadian authorities were giving their full cooperation to repatriate the artifact. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the [...] |
| Robot to explore shafts in Great Pyramid
Image via Wikipedia For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid at Giza has enthralled, fascinated and ultimately frustrated everyone who has attempted to penetrate its secrets. Now a robotics team from Leeds University, working with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, is preparing a machine which they hope will solve one of its enduring mysteries. At its heart are two [...] |
| 19th Century manuscript found may lead to discovery of lost tomb
An unpublished manuscript, written by 19th century Egypt explorer Frédéric Caillaud, has been discovered – and it points the way to a 3,500 year old tomb of (Neferhotep) an Egyptian official. It is called Arts and Crafts of the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians and Ethiopians. It is written in French and illustrated with drawings. The American Research [...] |
| The Art of Counting
The Art of Counting is dedicated to capturing art (regardless of style, medium, or era) via a scientific process that tracks a vast range of variables. This allows for the discovery of patterns, trends, and messages contained in visual media through statistical analysis. The method for translating a body of images into their most basic elements [...] |
| Howard Carter’s archive on Tutankhamun to go online
Image via Wikipedia One of the most prized collections of the Griffith Institute – arguably the best Egyptology library in the world, incorporates the notes, photographs and diaries of the English archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun’s resting place in 1922. Now, this remarkable archive of pictures and notes can be viewed online. The only intact pharaoh’s tomb [...] |
| Cheryl Ward receives grant to conserve ancient Egyptian artifacts
Professor Cheryl Ward, director of CCU’S Center for Archaeology and Anthropology, has received a $25,000 grant from the Antiquities Endowment Fund of the American Research Center in Egypt to document and conserve the remains of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian ship. The artifacts, which include wooden planks and the largest amount of ancient rope ever discovered (with the [...] |
| Ramses II temple unearthed in Upper Egypt
Dr. Sabri Abdel Aziz, Head of the Pharaonic Sector in the SCA, said that excavations at Ehnasia, an archaeological area in Beni-Sueif, recently uncovered remains of a temple that can be dated to the reign of king Ramses II (1279-1213 BC). Inside the remains of this temple, excavators uncovered ten cartouches of Ramses II and [...] |
| Ancient Letter to Akhenaten found in Palestine
Image via Wikipedia A one square inch fragment of a clay tablet believed to be a letter written by Abdi-Heba, the Canaanite ruler of Jerusalem to pharaoh Akhenaten has been found outside the old walls of the ancient city. Thought to date back some 3,400 years, this would make it the most ancient written document ever found [...] |
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