Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
- 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...
- Did Queen Arsinoe Rule As Pharaoh?
Science Daily With photo. A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the basis for a re-interpretation of historical developments in Egypt in the period following the death of...
- Sister Of Cleopatra May Have Been Found
Times Online ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra’s younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on...
- Arsinoe Honours Rome With A Visit
The Roman Forum For the first time since the nineteenth century, Arsinoe exchanges her home in the Museo Civico del Palazzo Te di Mantova, Lombardia for the Capitoline museums of Rome where she will remain until 6 July. The loan of the serene bronze head...
- Buried At The Temple
This is a roundup of the recent excavations going on at the temple of Taposiris Magna by an Egyptian Dominican team including the discovery of a headless statue of a King with the cartouche of Ptolemy IV. The article also speculates about the burial of...
Egypt
Another report re proposal that Arsinoe was Pharaoh
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier, according to a new study into a unique Egyptian crown.
After analyzing details and symbols of the crown worn by Arsinoë and reinterpreting Egyptian reliefs, Swedish researchers are questioning Egypt's traditional male-dominated royal line. They suggest that Queen Arsinoë II (316-270 B.C.) was the first female pharaoh belonging to Ptolemy's family -- the dynasty that ruled Egypt for some 300 years until the Roman conquest of 30 B.C.
While researchers largely agree on Arsinoë's prominence -- she was deified during her lifetime and honored for 200 years after her death -- the new study suggests she was in fact an Egyptian pharaoh with a role similar to the more famous Hatshepsut and Cleopatra VII.
One of the great women of the ancient world, Arsinoë was the daughter of Ptolemy I (366–283 B.C.), a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who later became ruler of Egypt and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty to which Cleopatra belonged.
- 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...
- Did Queen Arsinoe Rule As Pharaoh?
Science Daily With photo. A unique queen's crown with ancient symbols combined with a new method of studying status in Egyptian reliefs forms the basis for a re-interpretation of historical developments in Egypt in the period following the death of...
- Sister Of Cleopatra May Have Been Found
Times Online ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra’s younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on...
- Arsinoe Honours Rome With A Visit
The Roman Forum For the first time since the nineteenth century, Arsinoe exchanges her home in the Museo Civico del Palazzo Te di Mantova, Lombardia for the Capitoline museums of Rome where she will remain until 6 July. The loan of the serene bronze head...
- Buried At The Temple
This is a roundup of the recent excavations going on at the temple of Taposiris Magna by an Egyptian Dominican team including the discovery of a headless statue of a King with the cartouche of Ptolemy IV. The article also speculates about the burial of...