Egypt
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Egypt
2,300 year old temple discovered at Thmuis
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus)
With several photographs.
A temple built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus has been discovered at the ancient city of Thmuis (also known at Tell Timai) on the Nile Delta in Egypt.
Ptolemy II was a king of Egypt and the son of one of Alexander the Great’s generals. During his reign Egypt had a vast navy and controlled harbours and territory throughout the eastern Mediterranean. He erected a stela (a stone carving) at Thmuis and inaugurated a building and restoration program in the city.
Archaeologists believe that the newly discovered temple may have been built as a memorial to his dead queen – Arsinoe II. She was held in such high regard that the king deified her after she died.
See the above page for more.
- Philae's Hathor Temple Gets Facelift In Advance Of Formal Inauguration
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) To the east of the famous Isis temple on the island of Philae in Upper Egypt, workers and archaeologists are busy at work. They are cleaning and restoring the massive stone blocks that once formed the temple of Hathor, which...
- Remains Of Anicent Palace Discovered In Meroe
LiveScience (Owen Jarus) Hidden beneath an ancient palace in what is now central Sudan, archaeologists have discovered the oldest building in the city of Meroë, a structure that also may have housed royalty. The capital of a vast empire that flourished...
- In The Field: More Re Temple Of The Cat Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During routine excavations near the Roman theatre at Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria, an archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the remains of a temple built by Queen Berenike, wife...
- News: Finds From Heracleion
USA Today The Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology released the monograph of a sunken stone stele discovered in the city of Heracleion dating to the reign of the Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy VIII before 116 B.C. The stele, inscribed in Greek and Hieroglyphs,...
- New Temple Found
A Ptolemaic temple has been found at Kom el Dikka area in Alexandria, the temple was discovered along with hundreds of statues. The temple is dedicated by queen Berenike wife of king Ptolemy III (246-222 bc). ...