Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- Changes At The Sca / Antiquities Ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Twenty-four hours after his appointment as Egypt’s new antiquities minister, Mohamed Ibrahim Aly unveils his strategy to spruce up archaeology In a closed meeting, the new secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- More Protests, This Time By Gem Employees
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Approximately 40 Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) employees have staged a sit-in outside their administrative headquarters at Al-Remaya Square, saying they would go on strike if the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) did not...
- Inventory Of Artefacts In Cairo University Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) An archaeological committee from the ministry of state for antiquities (MSA) embarked today on an inspection tour of the collection of the faculty of archaeology museum, Cairo University, which was robbed a month ago. Zahi...
- Pirated Skulls Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
- Kv63 News - Three More Mummies Found
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/"As has been widely reported in the local dailies, five mummies were discovered a few days ago in a catacomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the Nile. But now the number has risen to eight,...
Egypt
26th Dynasty Tomb discovered
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
According to Atef Abul Dahab, head of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities, the tomb was found during routine digging work in Mansheyet Al-Tahrir Street in Ain Shams to lay the foundations of a residential house.
Workers stumbled upon what is believed to be a stony wall engraved with hieroglyphic text.
An archaeological committee from the Supreme Council of Antiquities embarked on an inspection tour and found that the wall is a part of a 26th Dynasty tomb.
Early investigations, said Abul Dahab, reveal that the tomb is empty of any treasured artefacts and inscriptions, which indicate that it had been robbed in antiquity.
- Changes At The Sca / Antiquities Ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Twenty-four hours after his appointment as Egypt’s new antiquities minister, Mohamed Ibrahim Aly unveils his strategy to spruce up archaeology In a closed meeting, the new secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- More Protests, This Time By Gem Employees
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Approximately 40 Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) employees have staged a sit-in outside their administrative headquarters at Al-Remaya Square, saying they would go on strike if the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) did not...
- Inventory Of Artefacts In Cairo University Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) An archaeological committee from the ministry of state for antiquities (MSA) embarked today on an inspection tour of the collection of the faculty of archaeology museum, Cairo University, which was robbed a month ago. Zahi...
- Pirated Skulls Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
- Kv63 News - Three More Mummies Found
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/"As has been widely reported in the local dailies, five mummies were discovered a few days ago in a catacomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the Nile. But now the number has risen to eight,...