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Egypt’s antiquities ministry on Thursday revealed what it called conclusive evidence that revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten shared power with his father.
Scholars had long debated whether Akhenaten,...
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Alot of people don't know but the Aten interest began before Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV
Keep in mind this is just the public areas on the ground floor. As you can see, there is little left. No word yet on the vast majority of the collection kept on the...
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Ditto - very sad. In fact, totally and terribly tragic whenever history is lost forever.
The investigations carried on the DNA of the royal mummies, published in February 2010, have provided material for a new genealogical tree for the royal family of the late XVIIInth dynasty. After...
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What about this then
Sima de los Huesos, a cave in northern Spain, contains one of the largest collections of hominin fossils ever discovered. Now, this so-called “pit of bones” has also yielded the...
Director General of Fayoum Antiquities Ahmed Abdel Aal said that Fayoum will witness next Saturday the astronomical phenomenon of the sunlight's alignment on the holy area of the temple of Qasr Qarun...
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I love the way they built temples and the like to do that type of thing. Acknowledging the effect the sun or moon or seasons has on on our energy or spiritual being.
Wish they would do that type of...
The Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission unearthed on Thursday a large granite head of a statue of an unidentified New Kingdom king during routine excavation at King Thutmose III’s funerary temple...
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Well, I try not to overcomplicate things... :up But Why would a .... ???
The Malawi Museum in the Upper Egyptian city of Al-Minya is regaining its original appearance four months after it was looted.
In a closed meeting Monday with the governor of Al-Minya, Minister of...
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Good news, but what proportion of tourists to Upper Egypt have ever ventured to Malawi? I don't think that there has ever been much tourism in this part of Middle Egypt, except for students and those...
Years ago when I used to lecture on esoteric sh** these three reprobates came to dinner on The Pilgrims Way in a grand old house owned by a bird who married into the 'fray bentos family, who divorced...
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What, no James, Morkot or Rohl? I assume that Velikovsky was past by then!
In collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and members of the French archaeological mission in Egypt, the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) was able to track five stolen Ptolemaic...
Just had a visit a 'relation of somebody who's 'mother is……...bought by a local kid who knows me.
Chai, assier & a Cleopatra later……………………..
Here we go again, he works on the mountain, so I wait for...
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Yes Brian, I always tell the people that they are all fakes stuck on my wall 'only some of us know! the difference and some of us don't really give a flying fu**just get your self a shovel and get...
Egypt's ministry of antiquities has decided to impose penalties on two German amateur archaeologists who stole samples of King Khufu's cartouche from a small compartment above his burial chamber in...
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It's been rumoured for ages that Vyse was responsible for the cartouche, as no-one had reported it before his lone visit to the relieving chamber. Maybe they were taking a sample of the pigment for...
ARCE are to employ around 700 people, many from old Qurna to 'clean up' the site of the demolition of Qurna, amongst other things including possible excavations. Take a look at their plans at
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Now here is The Cat with the Hat, who won't be invited for a photo opportunity as his ego is just too big…. :cool:
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