Egypt
- Exhibition: Seafaring Expeditions To Punt
Ahram Online At the entrance hall of the Supreme Council of Antiquities' (SCA) premises in Zamalek, a dozen of journalists, photographers and TV anchors gathered as well as archeologists and top governmental officials trying to have a glimpse of the...
- Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
Discovery News The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered...
- More Re Wadi Gawasis
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/fsu-wos030606.php Work by Cheryl Ward, who joined the Boston University and University of Naples l'Orientale team in December 2005, is to be published in the upcoming issue of the International Journal...
- More Statues Of Sekhmet Found
http://tinyurl.com/m7myk (iol.co.za) "Egyptologists have discovered three 400-year-old statues depicting the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Monday. Sekhmet embodied the destructive powers of the sun and...
- More Re Wadi Gawasis
http://www.physorg.com/news11247.htmlAnother item covering the find made by Boston University and the University of Naples l’Orientale, who uncovered remains of sea-faring ships and cargo boxes containing goods from the lost-land of Punt, in caves at...
Egypt
More on Ancient Ship
http://tinyurl.com/9qutt (Newsday)
Another article about yesterday's report on the Monsters and Critics website about the find of an ancient ship in Alexandria: "The ships' remains were found during a five-year excavation of five caves south of the Red Sea port of Safaga, about 300 miles southeast of Cairo, the chairman of the supreme council, Zahi Hawass, said in a statement late Thursday. The archaeologists, who came from Boston and East Naples universities, found Pharaonic seals from the era of Sankhkare Mentuhotep III, one of seven rulers of the 11th dynasty, which lasted from about 2133 B.C. to 1991 B.C.. They also found wooden boxes, covered with gypsum, bearing the inscription 'Wonders of the land of Punt'."
- Exhibition: Seafaring Expeditions To Punt
Ahram Online At the entrance hall of the Supreme Council of Antiquities' (SCA) premises in Zamalek, a dozen of journalists, photographers and TV anchors gathered as well as archeologists and top governmental officials trying to have a glimpse of the...
- Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
Discovery News The ancient Egyptian's secret to making the strongest of all rigging ropes lies in a tangle of cord coils in a cave found in a hand-hewn cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Safaga. Discovered...
- More Re Wadi Gawasis
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/fsu-wos030606.php Work by Cheryl Ward, who joined the Boston University and University of Naples l'Orientale team in December 2005, is to be published in the upcoming issue of the International Journal...
- More Statues Of Sekhmet Found
http://tinyurl.com/m7myk (iol.co.za) "Egyptologists have discovered three 400-year-old statues depicting the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Monday. Sekhmet embodied the destructive powers of the sun and...
- More Re Wadi Gawasis
http://www.physorg.com/news11247.htmlAnother item covering the find made by Boston University and the University of Naples l’Orientale, who uncovered remains of sea-faring ships and cargo boxes containing goods from the lost-land of Punt, in caves at...