Egypt
- Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
WM-EG018 Woman with Lotus Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Date (Period): ca. 2170-2020 BC (First Intermediate) Medium: limestone with traces of paint Measurements: 17 11/16 x 18 5/16 in. (45 x 46.5 cm); framed: 20 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 2 15/16 in....
- More Re Saqqara Tombs Discovery
drhawass.com Press Release with photographs Two rock-hewn painted tombs considered as two of the most distinguished tombs ever found from the Old Kingdom were discovered last week at Saqqara necropolis. Cultural Minister, Mr. Farouk Hosni, announced today...
- More Re Saqqara Mummy Discovery
Al Ahram Weekly () Intact wooden and limestone sarcophagi housing dozens of mummies have been discovered inside the Sixth-Dynasty tomb of Sennedjem in the Saqqara necropolis, reports Nevine El-Aref On Wednesday of last week, the Gisr Al-Mudir area located...
- More Re Sesheshet Mummy
National Geographic Seshseshet's pyramid was discovered last November in Saqqara, the vast burial ground near modern-day Cairo that was part of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Two other previously known pyramids were for his principal wives,...
- 27th Dynasty Tomb Of Sekhemet-nefret Found In Saqqara
National Geographic News (Dan Morrison) This is a significant elucidation of yesterday's State Information Service offering: An ancient Egyptian noblewoman's large stone coffin has been found in a tomb near the pyramid of Unas, experts announced...
Egypt
More re 6th Dynasty physician Qar
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/823/he3.htm
"Archaeologists are sizing up a splendid painted anthropoid wooden sarcophagus found by chance at the Saqqara necropolis last week..
The sarcophagus was found by an Egyptian archaeological mission engaged in cleaning the burial shaft of the sixth- dynasty royal physician Qar, which neighbours King Djoser's pyramid complex at Saqqara almost 35km south of the Giza Plateau.
The team, which is led by Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), was taken by surprise when they stumbled upon the beautifully-painted anthropoid coffin. The covering featured a bearded man with a reddish brown face and large, open eyes lined with black kohl, thick eyebrows and red lips. His garment is painted dark blue and embellished by a collar with three rows of blue, green and yellow cylindrical beads and a pendant adorned with a figure of Maat, the goddess of justice, stretching her wings in a way that enables her to hold both sides of the lid."
The sarcophagus was found by an Egyptian archaeological mission engaged in cleaning the burial shaft of the sixth- dynasty royal physician Qar, which neighbours King Djoser's pyramid complex at Saqqara almost 35km south of the Giza Plateau.
The team, which is led by Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), was taken by surprise when they stumbled upon the beautifully-painted anthropoid coffin. The covering featured a bearded man with a reddish brown face and large, open eyes lined with black kohl, thick eyebrows and red lips. His garment is painted dark blue and embellished by a collar with three rows of blue, green and yellow cylindrical beads and a pendant adorned with a figure of Maat, the goddess of justice, stretching her wings in a way that enables her to hold both sides of the lid."
See the above page for the full story and a lovely photograph.
- Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
WM-EG018 Woman with Lotus Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Date (Period): ca. 2170-2020 BC (First Intermediate) Medium: limestone with traces of paint Measurements: 17 11/16 x 18 5/16 in. (45 x 46.5 cm); framed: 20 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 2 15/16 in....
- More Re Saqqara Tombs Discovery
drhawass.com Press Release with photographs Two rock-hewn painted tombs considered as two of the most distinguished tombs ever found from the Old Kingdom were discovered last week at Saqqara necropolis. Cultural Minister, Mr. Farouk Hosni, announced today...
- More Re Saqqara Mummy Discovery
Al Ahram Weekly () Intact wooden and limestone sarcophagi housing dozens of mummies have been discovered inside the Sixth-Dynasty tomb of Sennedjem in the Saqqara necropolis, reports Nevine El-Aref On Wednesday of last week, the Gisr Al-Mudir area located...
- More Re Sesheshet Mummy
National Geographic Seshseshet's pyramid was discovered last November in Saqqara, the vast burial ground near modern-day Cairo that was part of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Two other previously known pyramids were for his principal wives,...
- 27th Dynasty Tomb Of Sekhemet-nefret Found In Saqqara
National Geographic News (Dan Morrison) This is a significant elucidation of yesterday's State Information Service offering: An ancient Egyptian noblewoman's large stone coffin has been found in a tomb near the pyramid of Unas, experts announced...