Egypt
- More Re Nehmes Bastet
BBC News Nothing much new here, apart from the confirmation that an intact mummy was found within the coffin as predicted. A useful round-up. Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb...
- Tt391 Karabasken Photos By Richard Sellicks
Luxor News Blog Thanks to Jane Akshar for posting more of Richard's photographs, this time of TT391, the tomb of Karbasken (Mayor of Thebes and Fourth Priest of Amun) who lived during the reign of Shabaka of the 25th Dynasty. The tomb was first discovered...
- New Tomb Opens At Deir El Medina
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) Jane reports that TT290, the tomb of Irynefer ("Servant in the Place of Truth on the West"), has now opened for tourists. At the same time the tomb of Sennedjem has closed. Jane has provided a good description of the tomb, so...
- Egyptian Archaeologists Discover 3,500-year-old Tomb
Al Ahram Weekly (With photo) During excavation work at the Tombs of the Nobles on Luxor's West Bank an Egyptian archaeological mission has stumbled upon what it believes is the tomb of Amen-Em-Epet, Supervisor of Hunters during the reign of the monotheistic...
- New Mummy Found?
Yahoo News There are various oddities in this article. For a start Tomb 99 (Sennefer) is in the Valley of the Nobles (not the Valley of the Kings), and and the excavations lead by Cambridge University's Nigel Strudwick, and reported in detail on his...
Egypt
New tomb discovered in Luxor?
There have been rumours floating around that a new tomb has been found on the Luxor West Bank. I have seen nothing official, but Jane Akshar seems fairly confident that there is something in it. In a short post on her Luxor News Blog she says that more details will be available this evening, but that at 22nd Dynasty (Libyan rule) tomb has been found by the University of Basel tomb belonging to the a daughter of a priest of Amun Ra, Nekhmet Bastet .
- More Re Nehmes Bastet
BBC News Nothing much new here, apart from the confirmation that an intact mummy was found within the coffin as predicted. A useful round-up. Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb...
- Tt391 Karabasken Photos By Richard Sellicks
Luxor News Blog Thanks to Jane Akshar for posting more of Richard's photographs, this time of TT391, the tomb of Karbasken (Mayor of Thebes and Fourth Priest of Amun) who lived during the reign of Shabaka of the 25th Dynasty. The tomb was first discovered...
- New Tomb Opens At Deir El Medina
Luxor News (Jane Akshar) Jane reports that TT290, the tomb of Irynefer ("Servant in the Place of Truth on the West"), has now opened for tourists. At the same time the tomb of Sennedjem has closed. Jane has provided a good description of the tomb, so...
- Egyptian Archaeologists Discover 3,500-year-old Tomb
Al Ahram Weekly (With photo) During excavation work at the Tombs of the Nobles on Luxor's West Bank an Egyptian archaeological mission has stumbled upon what it believes is the tomb of Amen-Em-Epet, Supervisor of Hunters during the reign of the monotheistic...
- New Mummy Found?
Yahoo News There are various oddities in this article. For a start Tomb 99 (Sennefer) is in the Valley of the Nobles (not the Valley of the Kings), and and the excavations lead by Cambridge University's Nigel Strudwick, and reported in detail on his...