Egypt
Monsters and Critics
- Qatna
Archaeology Magazine What can you say about Qatna, Syria? It's produced one amazing find after another for the German-Syrian team of Michel al-Maqdissi, Directorate General of Antiquities, and Peter Pfälzner from the University of Tübingen. (See...
- Armchair Guide To Early Predynastic Egypt
Armchair Prehistory (Edward Pegler) An ultra swift guide to the early Predynastic of Egypt. The Nile valley is a fine thing. A narrow corridor straddling the great Sahara desert it is, strangely, a perfect place to farm. Until the construction of the...
- Excavations At Tel Hatzor In Israel
Haaretz.com About two weeks before the end of the last excavation season at Tel Hatzor, in July, a clay tablet with hieroglyphic was found. The tablet teaches how to forecast the future with an animal liver, a practice common in the ancient East. The...
- Hungarian Team To Excavate In Nile Delta
http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=237778"A team of ten Hungarian archeologists will soon begin excavations at two sites in northern Egypt's Nile river delta, the head of the expedition told MTI on Tuesday. Commissioned...
- Archaeological Find Links Syria And Egypt
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005269998 "An important archaeological dig in southern Syria found evidence of extensive trade between ancient Egypt and Syria during the middle and old Bronze Age. An excavation team at Tel al-Dibbeh in Sweida,...
Egypt
Discoveries in Syria reveal ancient trade routes to Nile
Monsters and Critics
An academic excavation team said Thursday it had uncovered artifacts which indicate that an ancient Bronze-Age kingdom in northern Syria had strong international trade relations with Nile river dynasties.
Peter Pfalzner, a professor at the University of Tuebingen and head of a joint German-Syrian archeology team, said that gifts originating from the Nile Valley and Mesopotamia were discovered in burial chambers at the ruins of a once royal city near what is now the Syrian city of Aleppo.
- Qatna
Archaeology Magazine What can you say about Qatna, Syria? It's produced one amazing find after another for the German-Syrian team of Michel al-Maqdissi, Directorate General of Antiquities, and Peter Pfälzner from the University of Tübingen. (See...
- Armchair Guide To Early Predynastic Egypt
Armchair Prehistory (Edward Pegler) An ultra swift guide to the early Predynastic of Egypt. The Nile valley is a fine thing. A narrow corridor straddling the great Sahara desert it is, strangely, a perfect place to farm. Until the construction of the...
- Excavations At Tel Hatzor In Israel
Haaretz.com About two weeks before the end of the last excavation season at Tel Hatzor, in July, a clay tablet with hieroglyphic was found. The tablet teaches how to forecast the future with an animal liver, a practice common in the ancient East. The...
- Hungarian Team To Excavate In Nile Delta
http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=237778"A team of ten Hungarian archeologists will soon begin excavations at two sites in northern Egypt's Nile river delta, the head of the expedition told MTI on Tuesday. Commissioned...
- Archaeological Find Links Syria And Egypt
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005269998 "An important archaeological dig in southern Syria found evidence of extensive trade between ancient Egypt and Syria during the middle and old Bronze Age. An excavation team at Tel al-Dibbeh in Sweida,...