Egypt
BBC News
- Egyptian Enigma: The Starving Of Saqqara
World Archaeology (Caitlin McCall) Standing 67cm high, the limestone figures are intriguing and haunting, with their elongated skulls, their slack mouths, and their painfully thin limbs. Squatting naked opposite each other, one rests a hand on the arm...
- Exhibition: Nefrina's World
The Pottstown Mercury (Jan Feighner) With photos. Eerie heads line Dr. Jonathan Elias' office. Like a scene from a bad B science fiction flick, skulls and sculptures watch the Egyptologist's every move. As director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies...
- Murder On The Nile In 2000 Bc?
http://tinyurl.com/dx5s6 Four Egyptian skulls which form part of an ongoing study into the Hancock Museum's historic Egyptian Collections are going to be studied by a team of scientists at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. They will be using...
- Sarcophagus Dating To Ramesses Ii Found (updated)
The SCA have apparently announced the discovery of a giant granite sarcophagus dating to dating to the the reign of Ramesses II in Saqqara. I haven't managed to track down the original SCA statement yet, but the following summarize the main points...
- A Reconstructed Fable
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Egypt
Ancient skulls returned to Egypt
BBC News
Two ancient Egyptian skulls which were found buried in a back garden in Manchester have been returned to Egypt.
Matthew McClelland, 28, unearthed the skulls while digging at his home on Ivygreen Road, Chorlton, last June.
The skulls were confiscated by police and analysed by forensic experts at Oxford University, and have now been found to be genuine Egyptian artefacts.
Greater Manchester Police said the skulls, which are about 2,000 years old, had now been returned to Egypt.
An Egyptian Embassy spokesman said: "These skulls were taken back to Cairo a few weeks ago.
- Egyptian Enigma: The Starving Of Saqqara
World Archaeology (Caitlin McCall) Standing 67cm high, the limestone figures are intriguing and haunting, with their elongated skulls, their slack mouths, and their painfully thin limbs. Squatting naked opposite each other, one rests a hand on the arm...
- Exhibition: Nefrina's World
The Pottstown Mercury (Jan Feighner) With photos. Eerie heads line Dr. Jonathan Elias' office. Like a scene from a bad B science fiction flick, skulls and sculptures watch the Egyptologist's every move. As director of the Akhmim Mummy Studies...
- Murder On The Nile In 2000 Bc?
http://tinyurl.com/dx5s6 Four Egyptian skulls which form part of an ongoing study into the Hancock Museum's historic Egyptian Collections are going to be studied by a team of scientists at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. They will be using...
- Sarcophagus Dating To Ramesses Ii Found (updated)
The SCA have apparently announced the discovery of a giant granite sarcophagus dating to dating to the the reign of Ramesses II in Saqqara. I haven't managed to track down the original SCA statement yet, but the following summarize the main points...
- A Reconstructed Fable
...