Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
- Two New Monuments Discovered At Karnak
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With 2 photos This week, during their routine excavation work, the French-Egyptian archaeological team working at the Karnak Temple in Luxor uncovered two major monuments. The first is the wall that once enclosed the New...
- Discoveries At Tanis, And A Need For Sponsorship
Tanis/ San el-Hagar website From Charlotte Lejeune [email protected] I have some news from the new lake of Mut, in Tanis (San el-hagar, Egypt). I belong to the Tanis French mission (MFFT). After many years looking for the lake at the Mut temple,...
- News: Four Wells Discovered
Egypt State Information Service Egyptian -French archaeologists have unearthed in El Sharqiya governorate four ancient wells that date back to the 25th and 26th pharaonic dynasties. The wells are part of a newly-discovered Sacred Lake in a temple to the...
- Travel: A Trip To Tanis
Egyptian Gazette Navigate to the Tourism page, to the right. This story will only be available for a few days on the above page so I have reproduced it in full below. Thanks to Kat for this story. I have stopped checking the Egyptian Gazette website so...
- Blocks Of Osorkon Ii
Archaeologists have found more than one hundred painted limestone blocks which originally came from a temple constructed for the 22nd dynasty king Osorkon II. The blocks were reused as fill in a enclosed wall surrounding the lake of the goddess Mut during...
Egypt
More re San Al-Hagar
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
French archaeologists have made a major discovery at the San Al-Hagar archaeological site, 70 kilometres north of the town of Zagazig. San Al-Hagar, site of the ancient city known to the ancient Egyptians as Djanet and the Greeks as Tanis, contains the ruins of a number of temples that can be seen in what during the Third Intermediate Period was an important royal necropolis, and is now an outdoor museum.
The French archaeologists were conducting routine excavations in search of the sacred lake of the temple to the goddess Mut. During the course of their work, which commenced last year, the team early this month stumbled upon what are believed to be some of the blocks that once formed the lake's enclosure wall. Of the 120 blocks that the French team has cleaned so far, two thirds bear inscriptions. They expect that further excavations will reveal more blocks.
The minister of state for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said that early on-site studies revealed that the blocks were engraved with coloured decorations depicting royal figures, which indicated that they dated to the reign of the 22nd (Libyan)-Dynasty Pharaoh Osorkon II.
- Two New Monuments Discovered At Karnak
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With 2 photos This week, during their routine excavation work, the French-Egyptian archaeological team working at the Karnak Temple in Luxor uncovered two major monuments. The first is the wall that once enclosed the New...
- Discoveries At Tanis, And A Need For Sponsorship
Tanis/ San el-Hagar website From Charlotte Lejeune [email protected] I have some news from the new lake of Mut, in Tanis (San el-hagar, Egypt). I belong to the Tanis French mission (MFFT). After many years looking for the lake at the Mut temple,...
- News: Four Wells Discovered
Egypt State Information Service Egyptian -French archaeologists have unearthed in El Sharqiya governorate four ancient wells that date back to the 25th and 26th pharaonic dynasties. The wells are part of a newly-discovered Sacred Lake in a temple to the...
- Travel: A Trip To Tanis
Egyptian Gazette Navigate to the Tourism page, to the right. This story will only be available for a few days on the above page so I have reproduced it in full below. Thanks to Kat for this story. I have stopped checking the Egyptian Gazette website so...
- Blocks Of Osorkon Ii
Archaeologists have found more than one hundred painted limestone blocks which originally came from a temple constructed for the 22nd dynasty king Osorkon II. The blocks were reused as fill in a enclosed wall surrounding the lake of the goddess Mut during...