Egypt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3539284.stm
Very unusually for the BBC, this is not a very well written article. However, the main content is that a researcher has published a paper about the looting of the tomb of King Sobekemsaf, during the New Kingdom era. The article says that the thieves were caught and tried in the Thebes, but that the senior officials who were found to be involved were let off and these details of the case was hushed up, while the robbers themselves were punished. For those of you with any Arabic, you may get more sense from the original article in the newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yaoum. The researcher is named in the BBC article as Ahmad Saleh.
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Egypt
Fraud exposed - after 3,000 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3539284.stm
Very unusually for the BBC, this is not a very well written article. However, the main content is that a researcher has published a paper about the looting of the tomb of King Sobekemsaf, during the New Kingdom era. The article says that the thieves were caught and tried in the Thebes, but that the senior officials who were found to be involved were let off and these details of the case was hushed up, while the robbers themselves were punished. For those of you with any Arabic, you may get more sense from the original article in the newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yaoum. The researcher is named in the BBC article as Ahmad Saleh.
- Mummy's False Toe May Be The World's Oldest Known Prosthetic Device
JS Online (Journal Sentinel) A University of Manchester researcher believes two artificial big toes, one of which was found on the foot of an Egyptian mummy, may represent the earliest prosthetic devices. The toes, which predate 600 B.C., would be several...
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- Egytpological Conflicts In Modern Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3383 "Ahmed Saleh, the director of SCA’s Abu Simbel antiquities department watched with the rest of the world as Hawass made his discoveries in Bahareya on December 13th, 2004. 'That was a real joke....
- Classic: Intact Old Kingdom Tomb
...
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The web is abuzz over the possibility that a tomb has been found in the Valley of Kings on the path leading to the tomb of Tuthmosis III. The reports are as yet unconfirmed though this article claims a Swiss mission lead by Dr. Gross is saying...