During the past quarter-century, three gigantic ancient monuments have been brought back from beneath the Mediterranean off Abu Qir, Egypt. Their recovery has reawakened global attention to the submerged city of Canopus—once the thriving Nile Delta port that sank beneath the waves more than a millennium ago. The recovery took place during the Underwater Cultural […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Rock inscriptions recently studied in the desert east of Aswan are shedding new light on how Egypt’s earliest rulers exercised authority over 5,000 years ago. The inscriptions, carved into stone surfaces in the Wadi el Malik region and its side valleys, contain hieroglyphs, animal symbols, and scenes of violence. Collectively, they demonstrate how pre-dynastic kings […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A tiny, but extremely rare, gold coin dating back more than 2,200 years has been unearthed during an excavation within Jerusalem’s City of David National Park at the Givati Parking Lot. This is the first time that this type of coin has been found in a controlled archaeological context. The quarter-drachma coin, made of nearly […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Geoffrey Lenox-Smith visits an isolated temple in the desert north of the Fayum.| The Past
A joint Egyptian–Italian archaeological mission (University of Milan) has discovered more rock-cut Graeco-Roman tombs in the necropolis surrounding the Aga Khan Mausoleum on Aswan’s West Bank (for previous finds, see AE 144).| The Past
by Zeta Xekalaki cover picture: Aerial view of the ancient city of Megiddo (Wikipedia) This post will focus on the period spanning from the Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) to the Iron Age (1200–586 BCE). Since the Chalcolithic period (4500–3500 BCE), populations from the Levant (modern-day Palestine/Israel, Lebanon, southern Syria, and Jordan) reached the Nile’s Eastern Delta, … Continue reading Egypt and the Levant: A long history of connections and exchanges – #EOPalestine 12→| Everyday Orientalism
A joint Egyptian-American archaeological team has uncovered a significant ancient tomb near Luxor, housing 11 sealed burials| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A take by Reeder = .. it is not coincidental that the Egyptian word muu, for the so-called muu dancers, … who were responsible for bringing the souls of the dead to the afterworld, referred to jesters, buffoons, and dwarfs (Budge, 1978; Faulkner, 1986), for these … Continue reading →| DIANABUJA'S BLOG: Africa, The Middle East, Agriculture, History and Culture