A new geoarchaeological study has uncovered how Egypt’s Karnak Temple, one of the world’s largest and most iconic ancient religious sites, evolved from a small river island into the grand temple complex that became the spiritual center of Thebes. Published in Antiquity, the study provides the most accurate environmental reconstruction of the temple so far, […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Archaeologists have made a breathtaking find at Saqqara that is transforming the study of artistic traditions in ancient Egypt. A 2021 discovery at Gisr el-Mudir, a limestone statue, shows a nobleman and his family presented in a form that combines traditional three-dimensional carving with groundbreaking relief work, an approach previously unknown in Old Kingdom sculpture. […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis have uncovered mollusc shells that shed light on aspects of life in ancient Egypt, from everyday existence to religious rituals. The discovery comes from the Saqqara West mission, a project led by Polish archaeologists that has been conducting excavations since the late 1980s. Saqqara, about 30 to 40 kilometers south […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Discovery of a submerged port near Taposiris Magna may reveal clues to Cleopatra’s tomb and Egypt’s Ptolemaic past.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
In a breakthrough find, an Egyptian archaeological team has unearthed a previously unknown and intact copy of the Canopus Decree, which dates back to 238 BCE. The stela was discovered at the Tell El-Fara’in site, in the city of El-Husseiniya, in the Sharqia Governorate, in the eastern Nile Delta, a place long renowned for its […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Colossal statues of Ramesses II and others recovered from Abu Qir revive interest in Egypt’s lost city of Canopus.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
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
