Broken pieces of clay pottery have revealed the names of dozens of Egyptian priests who served at the temple of a crocodile god, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced.
Engraved with text dating back to the Roman period, the small potsherds have been found by Italian archaeologists on the west side of the temple dedicated to the crocodile god Soknopaios in Soknopaiou Nesos, an Egyptian village in the Fayoum oasis.
Read more: Discovery News
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Thursday, 25 November 2010
Two hundred Ancient Egyptian artifacts recovered from bank vault
A carved wooden hand and a marble head of a Greco-Roman god are just two of the 200 artifacts that had been stored away in the national bank of Egypt. The ancient pieces were just sent to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) this week, according to Farouk Hosny, the minister of culture.
The recovered collection was likely in the possession of foreigners who lived in Egypt during the late 19th and 20th centuries. These antiquities collectors had stored their collection inside boxes in the vaults of the Al-Ahly Bank, according to Tarek Amer, chairman of the bank. Since the early 20th century nobody had asked about the objects, so they remained under the bank's care until the executive board of the bank decided to offer the pieces to the SCA.
Read more: Live Science
The recovered collection was likely in the possession of foreigners who lived in Egypt during the late 19th and 20th centuries. These antiquities collectors had stored their collection inside boxes in the vaults of the Al-Ahly Bank, according to Tarek Amer, chairman of the bank. Since the early 20th century nobody had asked about the objects, so they remained under the bank's care until the executive board of the bank decided to offer the pieces to the SCA.
Read more: Live Science
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Robot could open door to Great Pyramid secrets
A tiny robot could help unlock the mysteries of the queen's chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Nobody knows where two unexplored air shafts leading from that ancient room lead. The hope is that the remote-controlled robotic tunnel explorer--which can fit through holes less than one inch in diameter--can drill through the secret door blocking the shafts and gather evidence that determines their purpose.
Leeds University in the UK is teaming with the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt and a team of international engineers to construct the bot, which is also known as the Djedi project after the magician consulted by Egypt's King Khufu as he planned the layout of his pyramid. The structure was built over a 20-year period thought to end around 2560 BC.
Read more: CNET News
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Sunday, 6 June 2010
Mummies galore: 57 ancient Egyptian tombs discovered in secret underground network
Archaeologists have unearthed a labyrinth of rich Egyptian tombs that had been hidden under the ground for thousands of years. Most of the 57 ancient tombs contained an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said.
Source: The Daily Mail, San Francisco Chronicle, Global Arab Network, NPR:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1280801/Ancient-Egyptian-mummies-discovered-Lahoun.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/29/MN911DJBJV.DTL
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201005235965/Travel/archaeologists-discovers-45-egyptian-mummies.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127069688
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