Egypt
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass)
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With photos.
- Two New Monuments Discovered At Karnak
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With 2 photos This week, during their routine excavation work, the French-Egyptian archaeological team working at the Karnak Temple in Luxor uncovered two major monuments. The first is the wall that once enclosed the New...
- Statuary Fragments Uncovered In Luxor
drhawass.com With photo. Two red granite statuary fragments of King Amenhotep III were unearthed this week at Amenhotep III’s (1410 – 1372 BC) mortuary temple on the west bank of Luxor. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced that these objects...
- More Re Discoveries On Avenues Of Sphinxes
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The remins of a fifth-century church and a Nilometer have been uncovered this week by an Egyptian mission carrying out routine excavations at the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Nevine El-Aref reports. The excavations came...
- Discoveries At Tanis, And A Need For Sponsorship
Tanis/ San el-Hagar website From Charlotte Lejeune [email protected] I have some news from the new lake of Mut, in Tanis (San el-hagar, Egypt). I belong to the Tanis French mission (MFFT). After many years looking for the lake at the Mut temple,...
- Blocks Of Osorkon Ii
Archaeologists have found more than one hundred painted limestone blocks which originally came from a temple constructed for the 22nd dynasty king Osorkon II. The blocks were reused as fill in a enclosed wall surrounding the lake of the goddess Mut during...
Egypt
Artefacts discovered in North Egypt's San El-Hagar
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass)
French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut.
The limestone blocks may have belonged to King Osorkon II of the 22nd Dynasty and used for either a temple or chapel, announced Dr. Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities today. The stone may have also been reused in the late period and the Ptolemaic era. Dr. Hawass added that following a complete excavation and study of the blocks, the French mission would reconstruct the original arrangement to determine if they are from a temple or chapel.
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With photos.
During routine excavation work, French excavators working at the San El-Hagar archaeological site unearthed hundreds of painted limestone blocks that were once used in the construction of the temple of the XXII dynasty king Osorkon II.
Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said that early studies on site revealed that these blocks were dismantled and reused in the construction of edifices during the Late Ancient Egyptian period and the Ptolemaic era.
He promised that after unearthing all the blocks the archaeological team would study and reconstruct the blocks into their original shape in order to discover whether they formed a temple or a chapel.
- Two New Monuments Discovered At Karnak
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With 2 photos This week, during their routine excavation work, the French-Egyptian archaeological team working at the Karnak Temple in Luxor uncovered two major monuments. The first is the wall that once enclosed the New...
- Statuary Fragments Uncovered In Luxor
drhawass.com With photo. Two red granite statuary fragments of King Amenhotep III were unearthed this week at Amenhotep III’s (1410 – 1372 BC) mortuary temple on the west bank of Luxor. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced that these objects...
- More Re Discoveries On Avenues Of Sphinxes
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The remins of a fifth-century church and a Nilometer have been uncovered this week by an Egyptian mission carrying out routine excavations at the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Nevine El-Aref reports. The excavations came...
- Discoveries At Tanis, And A Need For Sponsorship
Tanis/ San el-Hagar website From Charlotte Lejeune [email protected] I have some news from the new lake of Mut, in Tanis (San el-hagar, Egypt). I belong to the Tanis French mission (MFFT). After many years looking for the lake at the Mut temple,...
- Blocks Of Osorkon Ii
Archaeologists have found more than one hundred painted limestone blocks which originally came from a temple constructed for the 22nd dynasty king Osorkon II. The blocks were reused as fill in a enclosed wall surrounding the lake of the goddess Mut during...