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Ancient road and more sphinxes uncovered in Luxor
Image via Wikipedia The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of twelve new sphinx statues located at the end of a newly discovered road from the reign of Nectanebo I (380-362 BC). This is the first time an ancient road that runs from east to west, toward the Nile, has been found. The most interesting... »
New Egypt Supreme Council of Antiquities website
The new SCA website details all activities of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, maintains a list of cultural property institutions and serves as the gateway for foreign missions seeking to establish concessions at prehistoric and historic sites in Egypt. The home page links to a general history of the organization and its current structure and... »
International Congress of Egyptologists
Image via Wikipedia The Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt (SCA) is proud to announce that it has been entrusted by the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) with the task of organizing the 11th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) 2012. The SCA hopes to build on the enormous success of the 2000 Congress, the last... »
Zahi Hawass: “My First Love…Ancient Egyptian Antiquities”
Image by vintagedept via Flickr When I speak of ancient Egypt, I am speaking about my first and greatest love, however this does not mean that I do not love anything else, as I appreciate the magnificence and beauty of Islamic art and the genius of the Muslim artists who were able... »
Egypt amends Antiquities law
The People’s Assembly amended Egypt’s antiquities law on Monday to bring in stiffer punishments for the theft and smuggling of relics while granting patent rights to the country’s antiquities council. The sale of antiquities is still banned and Egyptians who have antiquities must report their possessions to the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Relics can in the... »
What is an Egyptian antiquity and how to protect it?
At the heart of a “heated debate” in the Egyptian Parliament (People’s Assembly) was the question of what constitutes an Egyptian antiquity and whether the people are capable of identifying an object as such. Article 8 of the proposed law, supported by Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, would ban the trade or any other form... »
Largest tomb at Saqqara discovered
The Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced the discovery by Egyptian archaeologists of two tombs dating back to the 26th dynasty at the Saqqara necropolis, the site of a number of recent important findings. Both tombs are cut into the hills and, despite of being looted in the 5th Century AD, the excavators found coffins,... »
Nefertiti “Summit” held at Cairo
Image via Wikipedia A meeting was held today at the offices of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, where Dr. Friederike Seyfried, Director of the Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung in Berlin, presented Dr. Hawass with copies of all of the key documentation held by the Berlin Museum concerning the discovery and removal from Egypt of the... »
Egypt: World’s first international conference on repatriation of antiquities
Egypt will host an international conference next March for countries seeking the return of ancient indigenous treasures being kept in foreign museums. The secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said the conference would be a world first. ”We expect around 12 countries to participate, possibly several more,” Dr Hawass said. ”There is a moral... »
Press Release- Alleged finds in Western Desert
I need to inform the public that recent reports published in newspapers, news agencies and TV news announcing that “twin brothers Angelo and Alfredo Castiglioni have unearthed remains of the Persian army of Cambyses,” are unfounded and misleading. The brothers are not heading any archaeological mission in Berenike Panchrysos at the small Bahrin Oasis... »
