From Kara Cooney's Facebook page: Many think this image - from the Egyptian tomb of Sennedjem, Theban Tomb 1 - is a full solar eclipse, with sun darkened and stars visible in the sky simultaneously. There was an eclipse on July 27th 1258 BCE @ Thebes; duration 3 min 12 secs, dated to year 22 of the 66 year reign of Ramses II. See this article.
Stolen artifacts retrieved by the police (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities yesterday announced the loss of around 33,600 archaeological artefacts over more than half a century.
The ministry said in a statement that 32,638 artefacts had been lost over more than 50 years, according to recent inventory works.
The handle of the cane
Egyptian authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle six 18th century artefacts at a port in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada.
Ahmed Al-Rawi, the head of the Central Administration of Seized Antiquities Unit at the antiquities ministry, says that the seized artefacts were in the possession of a Saudi citizen.
Remains of the residential area
Excavation work in Minya has uncovered an ancient settlement that might be a monks’ complex, the antiquities ministry have said.
Ayman Ashmawi, the head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department at the ministry, said that the settlement in the area besides the Al-Nassara necropolis in Al-Bahnasa includes a collection of rock-hewn tombs and a residential area, dating from the 5th century AD.
In August 2013 following the dispersal of Rabaa and Nahda sit-ins, pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters stormed the Malawi Museum, leaving it almost completely looted. But after three years of renovation Malawi National Museum managed to survive again to become even better than before.
One of the three tombs discovered in al-Kamin al-Sahrawi area, south of Cairo (AFP)
The tombs excavated in the Al-Kamin al-Sahrawi area in Minya province south of Cairo were in burial grounds constructed some time between the 27th Dynasty and the Greco-Roman period.
The team found "a collection of sarcophagi of different shapes and sizes, as well as clay fragments," the statement quoted Ayman Ashmawy, head of the ministry's Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector, as saying.
FIRST we had disco Barbie, then model Barbie .... now we have mummified Barbie.
The ancient Egyptian practice once used to bury the dead was put into practice using the popular children’s doll.
Barbie dolls were given a unique makeover on Saturday as part of a series of events at Bolton Library and Museum celebrating the forthcoming launch of its Egyptology gallery.
With The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial exhibition currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland, I wanted to take the opportunity to discuss the popular misconception that ancient Egyptian tombs all contain curses. This idea became widespread due to the sensationalist journalism that followed the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. The death of Lord Carnarvon in the months after the opening of the tomb fit well with the idea of a long dead Pharaoh wishing for retribution and of course produced great headlines.
.The General Manager of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square Sabah Abdel Razik said on Monday that the description of Merneptah Stele was changed from Israel Stele to the Victory Stele of Merneptah. . . The stela represents the earliest textual reference to Israel and the only reference from ancient Egypt.
Obituary: Tohfa Handoussa (1937-2017)
On 16 July this year, Tohfa Handoussa, often called the “mother of Egyptian archaeologists” and a distinguished emeritus professor of Egyptology at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University, passed away after a long illness.
Handoussa was one of the most important pillars of the middle generation of the Egyptian School of Egyptology, which also included important figures such as Abdel-Halim Noureddin, Ali Radwan, Faiza Heikal, Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Sayed Tawfik, Mohamed Ibrahim Moursi and others.On 16 July this year, Tohfa Handoussa, often called the “mother of Egyptian archaeologists” and a distinguished emeritus professor of Egyptology at the Faculty of Archaeology at Cairo University, passed away after a long illness.
Handoussa was one of the most important pillars of the middle generation of the Egyptian School of Egyptology, which also included important figures such as Abdel-Halim Noureddin, Ali Radwan, Faiza Heikal, Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Sayed Tawfik, Mohamed Ibrahim Moursi and others.
Picture of the week
The god Djehuty returning his eye to Horus after the God Set damaged it. Louvre Museum.
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