Egypt
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus)
- Ancient Coptic Graffiti Adorns Walls Of 3,200 Year-old Egyptian Temple
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) A new research project led by Professor Jennifer Westerfeld, of the University of Louisville, is taking a look at a unique set of graffiti scribbled onto the walls of a 3,200 year old Egyptian temple. The temple was...
- New Research Shows 3,500 Year Old Tomb Contained Infants Who Suffered From Disease, Valley Of The Kings
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) It certainly wasn’t a tomb for a pharaoh. New research presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) shows that a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV 44, contained the...
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Unreported Heritage News
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus, whose name many readers will remember from Heritage Key articles, has started up a new website called Unreported Heritage News. The aim of the site, as you will have guessed, is to report on stories which...
- Grim Secrets Of Pharaoh's City
BBC News (John Hayes-Fisher) A review of last night's programme on UK's BBC 2 television channel, which I saw and enjoyed very much. There is also a video on the above page. Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build...
Egypt
A poor boy’s grave – How did a teenage Egyptian weaver end up with a “very nice” coffin?
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus)
About 3,200 years ago, at a time when Egypt was recovering from civil war, a boy named Nakht worked as a weaver for a funerary chapel.
His diet was poor, he suffered from malaria and ultimately he died in his teenage years, likely not much older than 14.
His occupation may have contributed to his poor health. . . .
But now new research suggests that Nakht`s story is quite a bit more complex.
- Ancient Coptic Graffiti Adorns Walls Of 3,200 Year-old Egyptian Temple
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) A new research project led by Professor Jennifer Westerfeld, of the University of Louisville, is taking a look at a unique set of graffiti scribbled onto the walls of a 3,200 year old Egyptian temple. The temple was...
- New Research Shows 3,500 Year Old Tomb Contained Infants Who Suffered From Disease, Valley Of The Kings
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) It certainly wasn’t a tomb for a pharaoh. New research presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) shows that a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV 44, contained the...
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Unreported Heritage News
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus, whose name many readers will remember from Heritage Key articles, has started up a new website called Unreported Heritage News. The aim of the site, as you will have guessed, is to report on stories which...
- Grim Secrets Of Pharaoh's City
BBC News (John Hayes-Fisher) A review of last night's programme on UK's BBC 2 television channel, which I saw and enjoyed very much. There is also a video on the above page. Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build...