Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass)
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- Travel: Luxor - An Open-air Museum
ANBA (Randa Achmawi) Little over 700 kilometres south of Cairo, on the banks of the Nile, is a paradise of monuments of humanity. Also known as Thebes in ancient times, Luxor, in Egypt, is currently an interesting combination between the past and present....
- Questions About The Tiy Statue
http://tinyurl.com/d45jz (Forbes.com) In this item Bryan says that the identification of the statue as Tiy may not be secure, but that it certainly represents "a major queen of Amenhotep III, which would limit the subject of the statue to Tiye, Amenhotep's...
- More Secrets From Karnak
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/747/he1.htm As usual, Nevine El-Aref does justice to a new discovery in a detailed and articulate feature in Al Ahram Weekly: "Last week, during the annual inspection tour carried out by the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- The Largest Seated Statue Of The 19th-dynasty Pharaoh Ramses Ii So Far
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/703/fr1.htm "The remains of a colossal seated statue of Ramses II, thought to be about 13 metres tall and weighing 700 tons, have been discovered in a shanty area of the Upper Egyptian city of Akhmim, adjacent to the open-air...
- Akhmim's Collosal Head Put In Storage
The colossal head of Ramesses II found a few years back in a modern cemetery in the city of Akhmim along with the sculptures from the temple have been removed from the site and placed in storage for their protection. The temple on the site was...
Egypt
Hawass Dig Days - The Temple of Min, Akhmim
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass)
When people think of Egyptian temples, they usually focus on the temples of Karnak, Luxor and Abu Simbel. For this reason, I was happy to see that Atlantic Productions, a TV production company in the United Kingdom, had chosen the town of Akhmim and its little-known temple to the god Min as one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries in Egypt. I was doubly happy because I participated in this discovery, and I even published a scientific article about the temple, one of the largest in Egypt, which is dedicated to Min, the god of fertility.
Akhmim was the capital of the ninth nome of Upper Egypt. Its ancient monuments are buried under the ground, and modern houses have been built on top of them. Today, people dig in the courtyards of their homes and sometimes discover major artefacts. With the help of the FBI in New York City we were able to recover two stelae that had been excavated illegally from Akhmim and smuggled by antiquities dealers. The Arab travellers who visited the site in the ninth century AD said it took from sunrise to sunset to view the temple of Akhmim, and even remarked that it was larger than the temple at Karnak. When the Sohag governorate built a post office more than 20 years ago part of a temple erected by Ramses II's was found underneath the construction site.
One of the discoveries was a beautiful statue of Merit-Amun, the daughter and wife of Ramses II. This statue may be the largest female statue ever found in Egypt. I saw the statue for the first time when I went to discuss a young lady's master's thesis with my late friend Gamal Mokhtar and Ahmed El-Sawy.
See the above page for more.
- Travel: Luxor - An Open-air Museum
ANBA (Randa Achmawi) Little over 700 kilometres south of Cairo, on the banks of the Nile, is a paradise of monuments of humanity. Also known as Thebes in ancient times, Luxor, in Egypt, is currently an interesting combination between the past and present....
- Questions About The Tiy Statue
http://tinyurl.com/d45jz (Forbes.com) In this item Bryan says that the identification of the statue as Tiy may not be secure, but that it certainly represents "a major queen of Amenhotep III, which would limit the subject of the statue to Tiye, Amenhotep's...
- More Secrets From Karnak
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/747/he1.htm As usual, Nevine El-Aref does justice to a new discovery in a detailed and articulate feature in Al Ahram Weekly: "Last week, during the annual inspection tour carried out by the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- The Largest Seated Statue Of The 19th-dynasty Pharaoh Ramses Ii So Far
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/703/fr1.htm "The remains of a colossal seated statue of Ramses II, thought to be about 13 metres tall and weighing 700 tons, have been discovered in a shanty area of the Upper Egyptian city of Akhmim, adjacent to the open-air...
- Akhmim's Collosal Head Put In Storage
The colossal head of Ramesses II found a few years back in a modern cemetery in the city of Akhmim along with the sculptures from the temple have been removed from the site and placed in storage for their protection. The temple on the site was...