Egypt
This is a round up from Al Ahram on recent discoveries in Egypt. These discoveries include still yet more sculptures from the site of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III including one colossal monstrosity of the baboon god Toth.
At Saqqara the recently rediscovered tomb of the Mayor of Memphis Ptah Mes and the ongoing search to rediscover the Mayor's mummy which was apparently seen back in 1885 though not collected.
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- New Discoveries At The Mortuary Temple Of Thutmosis Iii
There has been recent discoveries by those excavating the mortuary temple of Thutmosis III including Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities jointly with the Academy of Fine Arts, Seville. The discoveries include a fragment of a statue of Thutmosis...
- Raising Amenhotep
The northern of two colossal statues which stood in front of the mortuary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III who died in the middle of the 14th century bc has been stood up. It is a beastly piece of rubble with the exception that the great...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
- The Mayor Of Memphis
Recent excavations by archaeologists working for the archaeological faculty of the Cairo university have unearthed the tomb of Ptahmes a nineteenth dynasty Mayor of Memphis. The tomb was last seen by collectors in 1885 and a number of artifacts from it...
Egypt
And the Ugly Statue
This is a round up from Al Ahram on recent discoveries in Egypt. These discoveries include still yet more sculptures from the site of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III including one colossal monstrosity of the baboon god Toth.
At Saqqara the recently rediscovered tomb of the Mayor of Memphis Ptah Mes and the ongoing search to rediscover the Mayor's mummy which was apparently seen back in 1885 though not collected.
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- New Discoveries At The Mortuary Temple Of Thutmosis Iii
There has been recent discoveries by those excavating the mortuary temple of Thutmosis III including Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities jointly with the Academy of Fine Arts, Seville. The discoveries include a fragment of a statue of Thutmosis...
- Raising Amenhotep
The northern of two colossal statues which stood in front of the mortuary temple of the 18th dynasty king Amenhotep III who died in the middle of the 14th century bc has been stood up. It is a beastly piece of rubble with the exception that the great...
- Pieces Of Amenhotep And Tiye
Anyone who has ever visited the Cairo museum has seen and remembers well the colossal statue of Amenhotep III and his great wife Tiye. The statue is extremely rare in Egyptian art for it depicts Tiye on the same scale as king Amenhotep III. When originally...
- The Mayor Of Memphis
Recent excavations by archaeologists working for the archaeological faculty of the Cairo university have unearthed the tomb of Ptahmes a nineteenth dynasty Mayor of Memphis. The tomb was last seen by collectors in 1885 and a number of artifacts from it...