Egypt
- Update From The Gurob Harem Palace Project 2013
With thanks to Ian Shaw for emailing this to GHPP members this afternoon: Dear GHPP members Usually by now we would have been halfway through the season and you would have been receiving our daily blogs from the Gurob Harem Palace Project. ...
- Ramesses Ii Mark Found At Trojan Site
http://tinyurl.com/m3pbn "Greek archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient palace associated with Ajax the Great, a legendary warrior-king cited by Homer as a key participant in the Trojan War . . . . Among the discoveries were part of a...
- United Nations - Commemorative Stamps
http://www.un.org/Depts/UNPA/additional/egypt/index.htm Tomorrow, the United Nations will be printing a commemorative edition of stamps celebrating Egyptian heriated as part of their World Heritage series: "On 4 August 2005, the United Nations Postal...
- Sarcophagus Dating To Ramesses Ii Found (updated)
The SCA have apparently announced the discovery of a giant granite sarcophagus dating to dating to the the reign of Ramesses II in Saqqara. I haven't managed to track down the original SCA statement yet, but the following summarize the main points...
- Ancient Building Uncovered At Meroe
The site of the ancient city of Meroe in the Sudan was originally discovered before world war one by famous archaeologist John Garstang who unfortunately never published his findings. Now archaeologist working on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum have...
Egypt
More on the Ajax Palace site
http://tinyurl.com/k985a
An update re the Ajax Palace, from a press report by archaeologist Yiannis Lolos who found the site while hiking on the island of Salamis in 1999, and has excavated there for the last six years, with a little more about the Ramesses II stamp: "Lolos is particularly pleased with a piece of a copper mail shirt stamped with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279-1213 B.C. 'This is a unique find, which may have belonged to a Mycenaean mercenary soldier serving with the Egyptians,' he said. 'It could have been a souvenir, a mark of honor or even some kind of a medal.' Excavations will continue in September, while future targets include the settlement's cemetery, which Lolos has located nearby."
Thanks to Aayko Eyma from EEF for the following URL, which has an image of the stamp:
An update re the Ajax Palace, from a press report by archaeologist Yiannis Lolos who found the site while hiking on the island of Salamis in 1999, and has excavated there for the last six years, with a little more about the Ramesses II stamp: "Lolos is particularly pleased with a piece of a copper mail shirt stamped with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279-1213 B.C. 'This is a unique find, which may have belonged to a Mycenaean mercenary soldier serving with the Egyptians,' he said. 'It could have been a souvenir, a mark of honor or even some kind of a medal.' Excavations will continue in September, while future targets include the settlement's cemetery, which Lolos has located nearby."
Thanks to Aayko Eyma from EEF for the following URL, which has an image of the stamp:
http://snipurl.com/ofdy
- Update From The Gurob Harem Palace Project 2013
With thanks to Ian Shaw for emailing this to GHPP members this afternoon: Dear GHPP members Usually by now we would have been halfway through the season and you would have been receiving our daily blogs from the Gurob Harem Palace Project. ...
- Ramesses Ii Mark Found At Trojan Site
http://tinyurl.com/m3pbn "Greek archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient palace associated with Ajax the Great, a legendary warrior-king cited by Homer as a key participant in the Trojan War . . . . Among the discoveries were part of a...
- United Nations - Commemorative Stamps
http://www.un.org/Depts/UNPA/additional/egypt/index.htm Tomorrow, the United Nations will be printing a commemorative edition of stamps celebrating Egyptian heriated as part of their World Heritage series: "On 4 August 2005, the United Nations Postal...
- Sarcophagus Dating To Ramesses Ii Found (updated)
The SCA have apparently announced the discovery of a giant granite sarcophagus dating to dating to the the reign of Ramesses II in Saqqara. I haven't managed to track down the original SCA statement yet, but the following summarize the main points...
- Ancient Building Uncovered At Meroe
The site of the ancient city of Meroe in the Sudan was originally discovered before world war one by famous archaeologist John Garstang who unfortunately never published his findings. Now archaeologist working on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum have...