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Egypt unveils tombs and sarcophagus in new excavation

January 26, 20231094 Views

Egypt on Thursday unveiled dozens of new archaeological discoveries, including two ancient tombs, at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside of the capital Cairo. The artefacts, unearthed during a year-long excavation, were found beneath an ancient stone enclosure near the Saqqara pyramids and date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, spanning from roughly 2500 B.C to 2100 B.C., the excavation team said. Egyptian antiquities workers dig at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) One of the uncovered tombs belonged to a priest from the fifth dynasty known as Khnumdjedef, while the other tomb belonged to an official named Meri, a palace official who held the...

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Egypt says ancient royal tomb unearthed in Luxor

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January 15, 2023563 Views

Archaeologists unearthed an ancient tomb in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, known for its treasures dating back to the pharaohs, authorities said Saturday. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said an Egyptian-British mission found the royal tomb in an ancient site on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor, 650 kilometers (400 miles) south of the capital of Cairo. He said initial examinations show that the tomb apparently belongs to the 18th Dynasty of Pharaonic Egypt, which spanned from 1550 B.C. to 1292 B.C. The tomb is the latest in a series of ancient discoveries Egypt has touted in recent years in hopes of attracting more tourists. Egypt has been trying to revive its tourism sector, a major source of foreign currency. The ...

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Looted ancient sarcophagus returned to Egypt from US

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January 2, 2023159 Views

An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities determined it was looted years ago, Egyptian officials said Monday. The repatriation is part of Egyptian government efforts to stop the trafficking of its stolen antiquities. In 2021, authorities in Cairo succeeded in getting 5,300 stolen artifacts returned to Egypt from across the world. An ancient wooden sarcophagus is displayed during a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohamed Salah) Mostafa Waziri, the top official at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the sarcophagus dates back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, an era that spanned the last of the Pharaonic rulers from...

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Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta stone

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December 1, 2022607 Views

The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: The Rosetta stone. The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after it was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801. Now, as Britain’s largest museum marks the 200-year anniversary of the decipherment of hieroglyphics, thousands of Egyptians are demanding the stone’s return. ’’The British Museum’s holding of the stone is a symbol of Western cultural violence against Egypt,” said Monica Hanna, dean at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, and organizer of one of two p...

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Saving Egypt’s coral reefs is necessary to preserve oceans’ ecosystems

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November 12, 2022815 Views

Marine scientists’ letter in the journal Science urges preservation of one of the last coral refuges from climate change An international group of marine scientists led by Karine Kleinhaus, of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), has published a letter in Science that is a call to action for policy makers, government agencies and ocean conservation groups to take major steps to preserve Egypt’s 1800 km of coral reefs– a massive section of the Red Sea’s reef system. Egypt’s reefs generate billions of dollars annually from tourism and tourism-related commerce. The reefs of the northern Red Sea are especially valuable as they constitute one of the world’s few marine refuges from climate change. Almost the entire western coastline of this ref...

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Red Sea coral reefs resilient but under stress

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October 28, 2022950 Views

Egypt hosts next month's COP27 climate summit at a Red Sea resort, where climate change and human activity are threatening one of the world's most prized coral reefs. A key attraction for tourists and habitat for fish nurseries, Egypt's corals fringe coastal towns including Hurghada, Marsa Alam, and Sharm el-Sheikh - where the U.N. conference takes place Nov. 6-18. These Red Sea reefs, which make up about 5% of the global reef cover, contain the most diversity of species outside of Southeast Asia. But many of the world's reefs now face an "existential crisis", with 14% lost between 2009 and 2018 as climate change warms the ocean's surface and increases acidification while human development drives tourism, overfishing and coastal construction that can foul waters, according to...

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Grand Egyptian Museum to display burial hoard of Tutankhamun

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October 20, 2022915 Views

ATELIER BRÜCKNER designs project of the century The soon-to-be-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is the world's largest archaeological museum. Over an exhibition area of 40,000 square metres, more than 50,000 exhibits dating from the time of Egyptian high culture will be on show, including the burial hoard of Tutankhamun, which was discovered in 1922. The plans for the design of the exhibition gallery come from ATELIER BRÜCKNER in Stuttgart The legendary tomb of the child-king Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings exactly 100 years ago on 4 November 1922. In the Grand Egyptian Museum, the complete burial hoard will be exhibited for the first time. The exhibition design comes from ATELIER BRÜCKNER. "Truly a project of the century!", says CEO Shirin Brückner. Tut...

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Egypt calls for return of Rosetta Stone 200 years after it was deciphered

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October 6, 2022726 Views

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphic script and marked the birth of Egyptology. The archaeologists' online campaign has gathered 2,500 signatures so far and aims to "tell Egyptians what has been taken from them", said Monica Hanna, acting Dean of the College of Archaeology in the Egyptian city of Aswan. The Rosetta Stone dates to 196 BC and was unearthed by Napoleon's army in northern Egypt in 1799. It became British property after Napoleon's defeat under the terms of the 1801 Treaty of Alexandria, along with other antiquities found by the French, and was shipped to Britain. It has been housed at the British Museu...

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Missing Ukrainian and Russian tourists: From Sharm el-Sheikh to Adriatic coast

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June 23, 2022473 Views

On Sharm el-Sheikh's sandy beaches many of the sun loungers lie empty. At a central promenade packed with shops, cafes and nightclubs, crowds are thinner than usual. The resort on the southern tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is reeling from the impact of the war in Ukraine, which has seen Ukrainians and Russians - previously among the town's top visitors - virtually disappear, tourism sector workers say. A general view of a pool at a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, June 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Similarly, the once ubiquitous Russian signs along Montenegro's picturesque Adriatic coast have all but disappeared as the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia keep tourists from those countries away from one of their favourite destinations. Adriat...

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Archaeologists uncover trove of ancient Egyptian mummies

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May 30, 2022421 Views

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities. The discovery at a cemetery in Saqqara contained statues of the gods Anubis, Amun, Min, Osiris, Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and Hathor along with a headless statue of the architect Imhotep, who built the Saqqara pyramid, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Monday. Sarcophaguses that are around 2500 years old, from the newly discovered burial site near Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, are displayed during a presentation in Giza, Egypt May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany The 250 coffins, 150 bronze statues and other objects dated to the Late Period, about 500 BC, the ministry said. They were accompanied by a musical instrument known as a sistrum and a...