Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1,100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found in the Valley of the Kings, said Mansour Boraiq, the top government official for the Antiquities’... »
The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked-off a new groundwater lowering project at Temple Edfu. The project will construct a drainage system to lower the groundwater level that threatens antiquities in the Edfu Temple and will be carried out over approximately 20 months. The Government... »
The Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca Theater Company will launch its Emerging Playwright Series tonight with the premiere of “Hatshepsut, the Female Pharaoh,” a one-woman play written by Timothy Lawrence. The show stars Esosa Edosomwan as Hatshepsut. There will be three performances at Cornell University’s Risley Theatre: at 7:30 p.m. today, and 8 p.m. Friday and... »
After three years of construction, the Crocodiles Museum in Aswan will share the significance of crocodiles and the ancient Egyptian crocodile god Sobek with visitors by the end of January. Overlooking the Nile and across from the historic temple of Kom Ombo in the upper Egyptian City, the museum aims to become the next big... »
A nightmare dig among the secrets of archaeologists A golden horde of attackers disguised behind the masks of ancient Egypt’s gods and goddesses… ”Divine gate-crashers at a dinner party of the world’s top Egyptologists aboard a luxury Nile cruise boat… Suddenly a rich US entrepreneur and sponsor of archaeology, Thompson Rush, finds himself facing an intervention –... »
At the premises of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) overlooking Giza Plateau dozens of journalists and top antiquities officials will witness the signing of a contract between the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) and Belgium construction companies in Egypt, who have been selected according to technical requirements agreed in a bid held early... »
The Animal Mummy Database is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods associated with those animals. Some were extravagantly made with decorations and colorful wrappings to be sold at... »
