Egypt
- New Book: Tutankhamun's Footwear
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With slideshow. When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes. "It is the only evidence...
- Looting: Treasures The Color Of Blood
asharq alawsat (Zahi Hawass) The dream of finding treasure under one's house is something that has always existed across the length and breadth of Egypt. Every person in every village or city [in Egypt] imagines themselves finding the ancient treasures...
- New Book' Treasure Of Karnak
Hungry Tiger Press Not really a new book, but a newly released edition of a classic. Here's the press release: Sam Steele's Adventures : The Treasure of Karnak From the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, comes a Young Adult adventure...
- Dying For That Ancient Treasure
Egypt Daily Star News (Emad El-Sayed) Although prospecting for antiquities has been going on for several decades, recently monument trafficking in Egypt has been spreading like wildfire, with several big families in Upper Egypt in particular implicated...
- Dorak Part 3
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00120.htm Third and possibly final part of Mazur's research into the Dorak mystery.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
Egypt
Getting To The Bottom Of The Dorak Affair
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00224.htm
The name James Mellaart is normally associated with Catal Huyuk and Near Eastern archaeology, but this long article, which may of interest to some, looks at the Dorat treasure, for which Mellaart became well known: "celebrity for Mellaart came only after publication of his tale of the glitzy treasure of Dorak the following year. He wowed readers by claiming the treasure had been illegally dug up during the Turko-Greek war (1919-1922) from two royal tombs of the Yortans, neighbors of the Trojans. The significance of this Yortan find was its establishing that a major seafaring nation existed in northwest Anatolia, adjacent to Troy, around the time of the Egyptians. Mellaart said he was able to deduce this from a gold sheet in the collection, which he claimed was once attached to a wooden throne. It was embossed with Egyptian hieroglyphics bearing the name and titles of Pharaoh Sahure (2487-2473 BC) - thus a royal gift from the Egyptians". But the owner of the treaure, Anna Papastri, vanished taking the treaure with her. The article's conclusion, which it reaches via a long tale of investigative journalism, and descriptions of Mellaart's past work, is that the evidence suggests that there never was a Dorak treasure. A shame - it would be a cracker if it existed.
- New Book: Tutankhamun's Footwear
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With slideshow. When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes. "It is the only evidence...
- Looting: Treasures The Color Of Blood
asharq alawsat (Zahi Hawass) The dream of finding treasure under one's house is something that has always existed across the length and breadth of Egypt. Every person in every village or city [in Egypt] imagines themselves finding the ancient treasures...
- New Book' Treasure Of Karnak
Hungry Tiger Press Not really a new book, but a newly released edition of a classic. Here's the press release: Sam Steele's Adventures : The Treasure of Karnak From the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, comes a Young Adult adventure...
- Dying For That Ancient Treasure
Egypt Daily Star News (Emad El-Sayed) Although prospecting for antiquities has been going on for several decades, recently monument trafficking in Egypt has been spreading like wildfire, with several big families in Upper Egypt in particular implicated...
- Dorak Part 3
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00120.htm Third and possibly final part of Mazur's research into the Dorak mystery.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...