Egypt staged an elaborate procession on Saturday to celebrate the transport of 22 of its ancient royal mummies from a historic museum in central Cairo to a newly built facility in the national capital.
CAIRO — Egypt is trying to halt an auction of a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun at Christie’s in London.
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed several mummies, colorful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the city of Luxor, hailing an “important discovery.”
TEL AVIV – Remains of animals found in Gath prove that the ancient Canaanites residing there were not using their own livestock for sacrificial offerings but imported animals from neighboring Egypt, Haaretz reported.
The Jerusalem Post reports: In a sign of improving relations with Egypt, Israel is set to return to Cairo stolen antiquities estimated to be almost 3,000 years old.
TEL AVIV – The claim that the Pharaoh mentioned during the Passover holiday’s retelling of the Exodus story is Egyptian is a lie made up by Jews, a senior Egyptian archaeologist declared.
An Israeli amateur birdwatcher accidentally discovered an ancient Egyptian scarab seal roughly 3,700-years-old.
Of the tens of thousands of people who have sifted through the dirt at the Temple Mount, a young girl was one of the lucky ones, finding an ancient Egyptian amulet dating back more than 3,000 years.
TEL AVIV – The discovery of thousands of artifacts in an excavation led by the British Museum reveals a major Greek trading city in Egypt, the Guardian reported. Naukratis, dubbed “the Hong Kong of its era” by Dr Ross Thomas,
Egypt’s antiquities minister has opened the tomb of King Tutankhamun’s wet nurse to the public for the first time since it was discovered in 1996. Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said Sunday the tomb included scenes of the wet nurse, Maya,
(AFP) Egyptian curator Medhat Abdallah laughs when reminded of the “curse of Tutankhamun” as he cleans an ancient gilded bed found in the boy king’s burial chamber nearly a century ago.
Hiding a hangover in ancient Egypt would’ve taken some work. Rather than popping an ibuprofen for a pounding drunken headache, people in Egypt may have worn a leafy necklace.
