The Egyptian Museum, Cairo opened a new temporary exhibit entitled: Coins through the Ages on August 10. Over the past eight years the Egyptian Museum has hosted a series of temporary exhibitions, the most recent of which focused on five artifacts which were repatriated to Egypt. The temporary exhibition space (Hall 44) has also hosted a series of exhibits on excavations under the direction of foreign teams. This includes teams...Read More
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed the most ancient written document ever found in the Holy City a tiny fragment of a letter thought to be addressed to Akhenaten, the “heretic” pharaoh who ruled Egypt during the 14th century B.C. Discovered outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, the document consists of a minuscule clay fragment — about one square inch — covered with cuneiform script in ancient Akkadian. Thought to date back...Read More
The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt Announced that the Egyptian archaeological mission discovered two tombs in Saqqara, located about 40 km south of Cairo, belonged to the Chief Clerk of the King and his son for nearly 4300 years. The head of the mission, Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Council on Wednesday said that the cemetery that owner’s name is “sn dwa”, who occupied the important posts during...Read More
As part of the Ministry of Culture’s initiative to refurbish and develop museums around Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is reorganizing the layout of the Beni-Suef museum in Upper Egypt. Coffin in the collection of the Beni Suef Museum, Cultural Minister Farouk Hosni explained that the museum refurbishment involved extending the museum’s display area and transferring the administrative offices into the basement. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of...Read More
The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced that a tunnel in the tomb of King Seti I (1314-1304 BC) has been discovered by Dr. Zahi Hawass and his team in the Valley of the Kings. They’ve been searching for this tunnel for over twenty years in the West Bank necropolis. Dr. Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the head of the mission, finally succeeded in completely...Read More
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