Egypt
Monsters and Critics
- Huge Canaanite Jewelry Hoard Unearthed In Megiddo
The MidEast News Source (Arieh O’Sullivan) With photo. Archaeologists digging at Tel Megiddo in northern Israel have unearthed what turns out to be one of the largest troves of Canaanite treasures ever found, buried in rubble from destruction 3,100...
- Ancient Mouse Offers Clues To Royal Shipwreck
New Scientist Tenuous (the Nefertiti scarab is mentioned) but fun: REMAINS of a long dead house mouse have been found in the wreck of a Bronze Age royal ship. That makes it the earliest rodent stowaway ever recorded, and proof of how house mice spread...
- 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...
- Review: Tutankhamun Exhibition
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13879870.htmA late review of the Golden Age of Pharaohs exhibition, showing at Fort Lauderdale until the end of April: "The most exciting gallery is the one dedicated to five gleaming treasures Carter found on Tut's...
- Tragedy In Greed
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Egypt
Gold diggers dream of riches
Monsters and Critics
In the depths of the earth in Aswan and the surrounding villages in southern Egypt, impoverished locals dig illegally for what they fervently hope will be treasure in the shape of gold - ancient gold.
The treasure hunters also seek out the abilities of 'sheikhs' who allegedly have an uncanny power to pinpoint the locations of the buried ancient treasures.
'One of the sheikhs is invited to the digger's house where the sheikh will inform him whether he should continue digging or not,' says Mohamed Bashir, an Aswan resident.
Although Egypt has its own sheikhs, help is often sought from Moroccan clerics who have a good reputation in this regard, according to Bashir.
Bashir, who runs a small souvenir ship for low-budget tourists told dpa that 'people pay the sheikh around 5,000 Egyptian pounds (840 dollars). Some have even paid as much as 30,000 pounds and never found anything under their houses.'
- Huge Canaanite Jewelry Hoard Unearthed In Megiddo
The MidEast News Source (Arieh O’Sullivan) With photo. Archaeologists digging at Tel Megiddo in northern Israel have unearthed what turns out to be one of the largest troves of Canaanite treasures ever found, buried in rubble from destruction 3,100...
- Ancient Mouse Offers Clues To Royal Shipwreck
New Scientist Tenuous (the Nefertiti scarab is mentioned) but fun: REMAINS of a long dead house mouse have been found in the wreck of a Bronze Age royal ship. That makes it the earliest rodent stowaway ever recorded, and proof of how house mice spread...
- 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...
- Review: Tutankhamun Exhibition
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13879870.htmA late review of the Golden Age of Pharaohs exhibition, showing at Fort Lauderdale until the end of April: "The most exciting gallery is the one dedicated to five gleaming treasures Carter found on Tut's...
- Tragedy In Greed
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