Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
- Earliest Ever Civil Roman Basilica Found Outside Alexandria
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With three photos. At Al-Baron area in Semouha district, south of Alexandria, an Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered several significant monuments and artefacts that will help in the writing of the history of the...
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- News Summary: Update From Luxor
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A new entrance for Luxor Temple and the reopening of Howard Carter's dig house as a museum are the main events commemorating the 87th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, says Nevine El-Aref Waset...
- Recent Discoveries In Alexandria And Faiyum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) An incomplete Graeco-Roman statue of an athlete in Alexandria and an enormous collection of prehistoric artefacts in Fayoum are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the Shallalat Gardens next...
- More Re Latest Discoveries At Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photograph A 250-METRE-long embankment, a quay and some Ptolemaic baths are the most recent discoveries at Karnak Temples, Nevine El-Aref reports. Coincidence always makes for important discoveries. It led to Tutankhamun's...
Egypt
Recent discoveries help to clarify Egyptian past
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
Monuments and artefacts uncovered during the past archaeological season in Aswan, Luxor and Alexandria have led to significant breakthroughs in understanding Egypt's ancient history, Nevine El-Aref reports.
Almost 700,000 years ago, early humans began leaving traces of their wanderings in the land that is now Egypt. Much later Egypt, alongside its neighbour Mesopotamia, became the first cradle of human civilisation. Over the course of its history it witnessed the rise and fall of the kingdoms of ancient Egypt, the rise of the Greek and Roman empires, the establishment of the Coptic and Islamic periods and the colonial era first under France, then Great Britain until it finally regained independence.
Although discoveries over the length and breadth of Egypt have helped write the country's ancient history, several pieces of the jigsaw are still missing.
During this archaeological season from January to May, major discoveries carried out in the Hamdulab area on Aswan's west bank, Karnak temples in Luxor and Al-Baron in the Semouha district of Alexandria have helped fit missing pieces into the puzzle.
- Earliest Ever Civil Roman Basilica Found Outside Alexandria
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With three photos. At Al-Baron area in Semouha district, south of Alexandria, an Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered several significant monuments and artefacts that will help in the writing of the history of the...
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
- News Summary: Update From Luxor
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A new entrance for Luxor Temple and the reopening of Howard Carter's dig house as a museum are the main events commemorating the 87th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, says Nevine El-Aref Waset...
- Recent Discoveries In Alexandria And Faiyum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) An incomplete Graeco-Roman statue of an athlete in Alexandria and an enormous collection of prehistoric artefacts in Fayoum are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the Shallalat Gardens next...
- More Re Latest Discoveries At Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photograph A 250-METRE-long embankment, a quay and some Ptolemaic baths are the most recent discoveries at Karnak Temples, Nevine El-Aref reports. Coincidence always makes for important discoveries. It led to Tutankhamun's...