Egypt
- More Re 17th Dynasty Granary Gate At Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Luxor was in the spotlight this week. On its east bank, the French-Egyptian Centre for the study of the Karnak Temples (CFEETK) came across what is believed to be a 17th-Dynasty granary gate revealing the name of a new...
- 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...
- Artefacts Discovered In North Egypt's San El-hagar
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut. The limestone blocks...
- False Portal Discovered In Luxor
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo. Unfortunately not big enough to see the hieroglyphs. An Egyptian excavation team has unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in...
- More Secrets From Karnak
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/747/he1.htm As usual, Nevine El-Aref does justice to a new discovery in a detailed and articulate feature in Al Ahram Weekly: "Last week, during the annual inspection tour carried out by the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
Egypt
More re the new 17th Dynasty king
Discovery (Rossella Lorenzi)
If you didn't see the comments in response to my last post on the subject, also see:
http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/uk/index.php?page=senakhtenre
Also:
Ahram Online
A new king has been added to the long list of ancient pharaohs, the Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities, Mohamed Ibrahim, announced this week.
The king's name, Senakht-en-Re, emerged from the engraved remains of a limestone door found by a French-Egyptian team in the Temple of Karnak complex on Luxor’s east bank. Karnak 4
The archaeologists, led by French Egyptologist Christophe Thiers, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), unearthed a fragmented lintel and an imposing door jamb during routine excavation at the temple of Ptah.
Belonging to an administrative structure dating to the enigmatic 17th Dynasty (about 1634-1543 BC) the limestone remains featured hieroglyphics which indicated that the door was dedicated to Amun-Re.
"They also revealed who ordered the construction of this structure. It was the pharaoh Senakht-en-Re," said a CNRS statement.
If you didn't see the comments in response to my last post on the subject, also see:
http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/uk/index.php?page=senakhtenre
Also:
Ahram Online
- More Re 17th Dynasty Granary Gate At Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Luxor was in the spotlight this week. On its east bank, the French-Egyptian Centre for the study of the Karnak Temples (CFEETK) came across what is believed to be a 17th-Dynasty granary gate revealing the name of a new...
- 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...
- Artefacts Discovered In North Egypt's San El-hagar
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) French archaeologists in San El-Hagar have discovered hundreds of colored and inscribed limestone blocks, which they believe were used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut. The limestone blocks...
- False Portal Discovered In Luxor
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo. Unfortunately not big enough to see the hieroglyphs. An Egyptian excavation team has unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in...
- More Secrets From Karnak
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/747/he1.htm As usual, Nevine El-Aref does justice to a new discovery in a detailed and articulate feature in Al Ahram Weekly: "Last week, during the annual inspection tour carried out by the Supreme Council of Antiquities...