Egypt
Universe (Angela Berrett)
- Conference Report: Discoveries At Seilla Pyramid
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) With photographs. Thanks to Owen Jarus for pointing me at the above article about recent work carried out at the pyramid at Seila. Here's a short extract. A Brigham Young team excavated the pyramid in the 1980’s and 1990’s....
- More Re Recent Ct Scans
State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has said that CT-scan results have ruled out that one of the newly discovered mummies in Luxor was that of ancient queen Nefertiti. A team of Egyptian archaeologists and researchers suggested...
- Excavations In The Valley - The Tombs
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ The Egyptian Gazette website, which was last updated on Wednesday appears to be back up and running. They are running part 1 of a piece by Zahi Hawass, in his usual slot. As usual, the whole item is reproduced here:...
- Egyptian Museum To Open New Mummy Showroom
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/10/eng20050810_201328.htmlThe Cairo-based Egyptian Museum of Antiquities will open soon a second showroom for displaying more mummies to attract more visitors from the world, the Egyptian Gazette daily reported Tuesday....
- Animal Mummies And A Mysterious Statue
This past summer a team of archaeologists led by professor Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto found the tomb of a priest at Abydos and temple storerooms including the discovery of 85 animal mummies. The mummies appear to be mostly...
Egypt
BYU team digs up ancient Egyptian mummies
Universe (Angela Berrett)
BYU students and professors have been excavating a cemetery near the Seila pyramid in Egypt, containing more than one million mummies, most of which are likely Christian, according to BYU professor C. Wilfred Griggs.
"[The team has] been digging there for 30 years and we could dig there for a hundred more and still have only done a small percentage," BYU professor Kerry Muhlestein said.
The pyramid, built on a hill by Pharaoh Snefru 4,600 years ago, is part of the BYU team’s land concession, but no burials have been discovered there, Griggs said. The cemetery, with a million or more mummies, is about a mile and a half north of the pyramid and covers roughly 300 acres.
There are about two mummies per square yard, buried in shafts five or more mummies deep.
- Conference Report: Discoveries At Seilla Pyramid
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) With photographs. Thanks to Owen Jarus for pointing me at the above article about recent work carried out at the pyramid at Seila. Here's a short extract. A Brigham Young team excavated the pyramid in the 1980’s and 1990’s....
- More Re Recent Ct Scans
State Information Service Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has said that CT-scan results have ruled out that one of the newly discovered mummies in Luxor was that of ancient queen Nefertiti. A team of Egyptian archaeologists and researchers suggested...
- Excavations In The Valley - The Tombs
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ The Egyptian Gazette website, which was last updated on Wednesday appears to be back up and running. They are running part 1 of a piece by Zahi Hawass, in his usual slot. As usual, the whole item is reproduced here:...
- Egyptian Museum To Open New Mummy Showroom
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/10/eng20050810_201328.htmlThe Cairo-based Egyptian Museum of Antiquities will open soon a second showroom for displaying more mummies to attract more visitors from the world, the Egyptian Gazette daily reported Tuesday....
- Animal Mummies And A Mysterious Statue
This past summer a team of archaeologists led by professor Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto found the tomb of a priest at Abydos and temple storerooms including the discovery of 85 animal mummies. The mummies appear to be mostly...