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- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
- Egyptology Suffering In Israel
Haaretz.com Israel currently has a great many professors of law and business administration, but very few professors of Egyptology. The few students who want to learn about hieroglyphics or the history of Pharaonic Egypt are often forced to make do with...
- Was A 'mistress Of The Lionesses' A King In Ancient Canaan?
Lab Spaces A female Canaanite ruler known from the Amarna letters as "mistress of the lionesses" may have been identified on a plaque discovered at Tel Beit Shemesh: Tel Aviv University archaeologists Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman of the...
- Amheida: Director's Report 2006
http://tinyurl.com/hockb (learn.columbia.edu)The Roman period site of Amheida lies to the south of the modern Dakhleh Oasis town of El Qasr. Poart of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the work at Amheida is carried out by Columbia University. After preliminary...
- Who's Collection?
The recent coming to light of six ancient Egyptian artifacts at Christie's auction house has raised a whole host of questions. The red granite sunk relief of a Nubian prisoner is likely stolen from an excavation in 2000 says Archaeologists Dr. Hourig...
Egypt
In the field: Evidence for Relations with Egypt’s First Dynasty at Tel Bet Yerah
Archaeology Excavation Blog
A fragment of a carved stone plaque bearing archaic Egyptian signs was the highlight of the second season of excavations at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak). The site lies in northern Israel, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, along an ancient highway which connected Egypt to the wider world of the ancient Near East. Work was completed there last week by a joint team from Tel Aviv University and University College London.
Excavation director Raphael Greenberg of Tel Aviv and David Wengrow, who headed the UCL contingent, noted that the four cm long fragment was the first artifact of its type ever found in an archaeological context outside Egypt. It depicts an arm and hand grasping a scepter and an early form of the ‘ankh sign, and can be attributed to the period of Egypt’s First Dynasty, at around 3000 BCE or shortly after.
- More Re Akkadian Tablet Found In Jerusalem
Science Daily The fragment found at the Ophel is believed to be contemporary with the some 380 tablets discovered in the 19th century at Amarna in Egypt in the archives of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), who lived in the 14th century B.C.E. The archives...
- Egyptology Suffering In Israel
Haaretz.com Israel currently has a great many professors of law and business administration, but very few professors of Egyptology. The few students who want to learn about hieroglyphics or the history of Pharaonic Egypt are often forced to make do with...
- Was A 'mistress Of The Lionesses' A King In Ancient Canaan?
Lab Spaces A female Canaanite ruler known from the Amarna letters as "mistress of the lionesses" may have been identified on a plaque discovered at Tel Beit Shemesh: Tel Aviv University archaeologists Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman of the...
- Amheida: Director's Report 2006
http://tinyurl.com/hockb (learn.columbia.edu)The Roman period site of Amheida lies to the south of the modern Dakhleh Oasis town of El Qasr. Poart of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, the work at Amheida is carried out by Columbia University. After preliminary...
- Who's Collection?
The recent coming to light of six ancient Egyptian artifacts at Christie's auction house has raised a whole host of questions. The red granite sunk relief of a Nubian prisoner is likely stolen from an excavation in 2000 says Archaeologists Dr. Hourig...