Britain has sent some 25,000 ancient artefacts back to Egypt. They include a stone axe that dates back 200,000 years as well as pottery from the seventh millennium BC which bears the finger prints of its producers. Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said the artefacts “will constitute the foundation for a collection from the (pre-dynastic) Naqada period.” The... »
Ancient Egyptian queen’s burial chamber discovered at Saqqara
French archaeologists working at Saqqara have unearthed the burial chamber of a 4,000-year-old queen. Badly destroyed, the 33-by 16-foot burial chamber belonged to Queen Behenu, wife of either King Pepi I or Pepi II of the Sixth Dynasty. It was discovered as sand was removed from Behenu’s pyramid in South Saqqara, west of the pyramid of... »
Peter D. Manuelian to be appointed Harvard’s first Egyptology professor in decades
Image via Wikipedia After years dedicated to shedding light on the work of the late Harvard Egyptology Professor George A. Reisner, Class of 1889, Peter D. Manuelian ’81 will become the first Egyptology professor at Harvard since his predecessor’s death 68 years ago. Manuelian, currently an Egyptology lecturer at Tufts, will be the first person to... »
Stunning discovery in Luxor
A massive red granite sculpted head of pharaoh Amenhotep III has been unearthed behind the famous Colossi of Memnon in Luxor. Not only huge in dimensions, the 2.5m (8ft) head is one of the best preserved and finely carved image of the king, recently identified as the grandfather of Tutankhamen thru DNA and CT scan... »
Rare storm hits Egypt
Four people were killed and more than 50 hurt as bad weather wreaked havoc across Egypt, pelting the capital with a freak hail storm and smashing a luxury liner into a pier, officials and media said Friday. In the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, waves as high as a two-storey building pounded the coast, media... »
