Egypt
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o310125m.htm
Copied from the Egytian State Information Service website: "The Spanish archaeological mission under the National Antiquities Museum in Madrid has unearthed about eleven tombs built with unburnt bricks inside a cemetery dating back to 2061- 2190 BC", Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni said adding that the mission found fake gates, religious paintings and courban tables. For his part the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawas said that the mission has unearthed 12 chambers built with unburnt bricks with arch ceilings. The mission also found chains and necklaces made of precious stones with the shape of sea shells, added Hawas.
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- Spanish Team Discovers Antiquities Of 1st Intermediate Period
Egypt State Information Service A Spanish team conducting excavations in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Sweif has stumbled upon antiquities that date back to the first intermediate Period (2190-2061 BC). This was in Ehansia, where the mission of Madrid's...
- Excavation Team Formed
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- Mummies From Graeco Roman Period In Fayyoum
Egypt State Information Service The Egyptian antiquities mission has discovered several well preserved mummies covered with cartonage in Fayyoum that date back to the Greco-Roman period. One of the caskets contained a badly decayed mummy with a golden...
- Prehistoric Tombs In Sinai
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=8911_0_1_0_MThis is a frustratingly brief piece, but I will try to find some more information: "An archaeological mission belonging to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced the discovery of 36 tombs...
Egypt
11 tombs excavated at Ahansia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o310125m.htm
Copied from the Egytian State Information Service website: "The Spanish archaeological mission under the National Antiquities Museum in Madrid has unearthed about eleven tombs built with unburnt bricks inside a cemetery dating back to 2061- 2190 BC", Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni said adding that the mission found fake gates, religious paintings and courban tables. For his part the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawas said that the mission has unearthed 12 chambers built with unburnt bricks with arch ceilings. The mission also found chains and necklaces made of precious stones with the shape of sea shells, added Hawas.
- News: Hammurabi Seal Discovered
drhawass.com With photo. The Austrian Archaeological mission from the Austrian Archaeological Centre in Egypt unearthed a fragment of a cuneiform seal impression dating to the last decades of the Babylonian Kingdom. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni made...
- Spanish Team Discovers Antiquities Of 1st Intermediate Period
Egypt State Information Service A Spanish team conducting excavations in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Sweif has stumbled upon antiquities that date back to the first intermediate Period (2190-2061 BC). This was in Ehansia, where the mission of Madrid's...
- Excavation Team Formed
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni named the first antiquities excavation team under Dr. Zahi Hawas Secretary General of the Antiquities Supreme Council to operate in Valley of the Kings in Luxor to unearth a number of tombs...
- Mummies From Graeco Roman Period In Fayyoum
Egypt State Information Service The Egyptian antiquities mission has discovered several well preserved mummies covered with cartonage in Fayyoum that date back to the Greco-Roman period. One of the caskets contained a badly decayed mummy with a golden...
- Prehistoric Tombs In Sinai
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=8911_0_1_0_MThis is a frustratingly brief piece, but I will try to find some more information: "An archaeological mission belonging to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced the discovery of 36 tombs...