Egypt
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- Journal Of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Tables of Contents for this and other issues may be viewed online at: https://digitalcommons.library.arizona.edu/holdings/journal?r=uadc://azu_egypt/ The Editors of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections are pleased to announce the publication...
- Feature: Archaeologist Kathryn Bard
BU Today (Vicky Waltz) With video. Five years ago, Kathryn Bard made a remarkable discovery in the Egyptian desert. While digging with an archaeological team along the Red Sea coast, she reached into the opening of a wall — and felt nothing. Further...
- Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
Discovery News The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered...
- Marsa Gawasis, Safaga - Oldest Maritime Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/2kcmny (sis.gov.eg)A much more detailed account than usual, on the State Information Service website, about the ongoing excavations at the Pharaonic port of Marsa Gawasis in Safaga: "Late December last year, after more than three metres...
- Ancient Ship Remains At Red Sea Port
http://tinyurl.com/bae3l (Monsters and Critics)"The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea. The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area...
Egypt
Exhibition: Seafaring Expeditions to Punt
Ahram Online
At the entrance hall of the Supreme Council of Antiquities' (SCA) premises in Zamalek, a dozen of journalists, photographers and TV anchors gathered as well as archeologists and top governmental officials trying to have a glimpse of the “Seafaring Expeditions to Punt” exhibition.
The exhibition displays eighteen posters showing the treasured collection unearthed at Mersa Gawasis ancient Egyptian harbor, 23 kilometers south of Port Safaga, in the last ten years.
There is a collection of ropes of different sizes and cedar wooden beams used in the construction of ships. There are stone anchors, shreds of clay vessels derived from ancient Sudan and seals inscribed with the name of punt and stele.
- Journal Of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Tables of Contents for this and other issues may be viewed online at: https://digitalcommons.library.arizona.edu/holdings/journal?r=uadc://azu_egypt/ The Editors of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections are pleased to announce the publication...
- Feature: Archaeologist Kathryn Bard
BU Today (Vicky Waltz) With video. Five years ago, Kathryn Bard made a remarkable discovery in the Egyptian desert. While digging with an archaeological team along the Red Sea coast, she reached into the opening of a wall — and felt nothing. Further...
- Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
Discovery News The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered...
- Marsa Gawasis, Safaga - Oldest Maritime Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/2kcmny (sis.gov.eg)A much more detailed account than usual, on the State Information Service website, about the ongoing excavations at the Pharaonic port of Marsa Gawasis in Safaga: "Late December last year, after more than three metres...
- Ancient Ship Remains At Red Sea Port
http://tinyurl.com/bae3l (Monsters and Critics)"The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea. The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area...