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Egyptian Mummies Digitally Unwrapped in Brisbane
By Amy Mitchell-Whittington15 March 2018 — 4:40pm
The body of Tamut, an Egyptian priestess born more than 2900 years ago and buried with a winged...
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The British Museum has stayed away from Egypt, particularly under Hawass, which shows good judgement. Imagine if the BM tried to teach museum management to the Supreme Antiques. Imagine if they...
Egypt debates bill to toughen penalties on artefact theft, smuggling
There are 72 antiquities warehouses in Egypt, all of which are owned and supervised by the Ministry of Antiquities.
March 11,...
Video made by CNN at the Museu Egizio in Turin (Italy) previewing a special exhibit on women in ancient Egypt. The video shows the museum's director Christian Greco and other experts talking about...
The long-awaited Giza Plateau Development Project is to be inaugurated in April, reports Nevine El-Aref
The Giza Plateau, which houses the Great Pyramid of...
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On my travels I see that there are an ever increasing number of concrete mushrooms magically sprouting up all over Luxor. Perhaps it is the governments thought that it may enhance the tourists...
Some of you may remember the winter MM lecture series a few years ago.
An attempt is being made to rekindle interest at a new venue. They are being facilitated by Ibrahim Soliman who many might...
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Been busy so missed the questions. Yes as Carrie said you turn left from the checkpoint and go along the road towards Luxor bridge. Go past the messy petrol station on the right and the sign to the...
Tel Basta Museum inaugurated in Egypt's Zagazig
After eight years in limbo, the site museum of Tel Basta in Zagazig, Sharqiya, was inaugurated Saturday
Nevine El-Aref , Saturday 3 Mar 2018
Egypt's...
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Busy time for museum inaugurations!
The Matrouh Archaeological Museum has opened its doors for visitors after being officially inaugurated today by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
The...
'Oldest tattoo' found on 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies
By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News
This young man was one of the first people in the world to have a figurative tattoo. It...
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There's some evidence of tools which may have been used in tattooing from the upper paleolithic period ....50,000 - 10,000 BCE..... but this mummy is one of he earliest examples of direct evidence of...
Archaeologists discover 40 MUMMIES inside body-shaped stone coffins in Egypt including one with the inscription 'happy new year' in hieroglyphics as they excavate tomb for priests
Although the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking Giza Plateau will celebrate a soft opening in December, it is the Egyptian Museum which will remain one of Egypt’s archaeological icons.
To highlight...
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An interesting rebuttal of the identification of the screaming man by the redoubtable Dylan Bickerstaffe.
26th Dynasty cemetery uncovered in Egypt's Minya
The new discovery has yielded a large cache of figurines and a fully preserved mummy
Nevine El-Aref , Saturday 24 Feb 2018
Egypt
In the middle of...
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Thank you WI. A fascinating area (at least for those with a keen interest in egyptology). It's even made it to the BBc News which is having a bit of an Egypt-fest this weekend.....although the other...
An interesting article by the Daily Mail (for once) regarding a trip down The Nile by The Duke of Devonshire back in the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Amazon site has 17 copies, various on Ebay have a combined total of 18.
So here's a topic that I want to throw out there. It is my Theory that the Sphinx is not really Egyptian it was only adopted by them years later from a previous civilization.
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Anyhow we don't know who built the sphinx. So many theories yet no definitive.
On the erosion on the Sphinx. I'm wondering if the great flood did occur but not in a biblical sense but via the Ice...
A recent post by Frater got me thinking, the sphinx at Giza has the head of a pharaoh, not going to get into which man but it is a human head. The avenue of the sphinx at Karnak and Luxor have the...
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Oops...just realised.
Luxor temple sphinxes bear head of Nectanebo I (not II as erroneously stated above). Mea culpa.
The Giza plateau must be riddled with tombs...many yet to be discovered. This latest announcement even reached BBC TV although it's unlikely to excite anyone but egyptologists.....unlike a possible...
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I've seen reference to artifacts bearing Hetpet's name elsewhere.......items which came to light over a century ago.
Few of the tombs discovered in recent years - whether at Giza, Sakkara,...
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