Egypt
ANSA
Pier, I hope that this time there is an Italian version of the ANSA story :-)
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- Recent Excavations And Restoration In Beni Suef
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photo. As part of the Ministry of Culture’s initiative to refurbish and develop museums around Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is reorganizing the layout of the Beni-Suef museum in Upper Egypt. Cultural...
- In The Field: More Re Temple Of The Cat Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During routine excavations near the Roman theatre at Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria, an archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the remains of a temple built by Queen Berenike, wife...
- In The Field: More Re Raising Pylon In Alexandria
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Last Thursday, I went to Alexandria in order to remove an important artifact from the water of the harbor. This was the tower of the pylon, likely from the Ptolemaic temple of Isis in the area known as Chatby. I had been convinced...
- Archaeologists Discover An Ancient Egyptian Temple Near Pomorie
news.bg (Diana Stoykova) Remains of a temple complex dedicated to the cult of Isis and Osiris were discovered in the Paleokastro region in Pomorie. The temple dates back from the second century A.C., announced Burgasinfo The building was built on the...
- The Inventory Stelea
This stelea was found by August Mariette during his clearance around the sphinx in the little temple of Isis east of the great pyramid sometime between ca. 1853-58 ce. He made for his mother, Isis, Divine mother; Hathor, mistress of Nun. The record was...
Egypt
Remains of Temple of Isis found in Florence, Italy
ANSA
Pier, I hope that this time there is an Italian version of the ANSA story :-)
Florence, May 28 - Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.
Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole, barely four metres deep, for a new water cistern for the courthouse's anti-incendiary system.
''These finds are of extraordinary importance,'' said Alessandro Palchetti, the archaeologist charged with overseeing the works in the courthouse by Florence's archaeology superintendency, who suspected something interesting might be uncovered because of the area's historic relevance.
Palchetti said the remains were ''comparable'' to others found over the last three centuries in the immediate area that have also been attributed to the temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and fertility who was later adopted by the Greeks and Romans.
See the above page for more.
- Recent Excavations And Restoration In Beni Suef
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photo. As part of the Ministry of Culture’s initiative to refurbish and develop museums around Egypt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is reorganizing the layout of the Beni-Suef museum in Upper Egypt. Cultural...
- In The Field: More Re Temple Of The Cat Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During routine excavations near the Roman theatre at Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria, an archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the remains of a temple built by Queen Berenike, wife...
- In The Field: More Re Raising Pylon In Alexandria
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Last Thursday, I went to Alexandria in order to remove an important artifact from the water of the harbor. This was the tower of the pylon, likely from the Ptolemaic temple of Isis in the area known as Chatby. I had been convinced...
- Archaeologists Discover An Ancient Egyptian Temple Near Pomorie
news.bg (Diana Stoykova) Remains of a temple complex dedicated to the cult of Isis and Osiris were discovered in the Paleokastro region in Pomorie. The temple dates back from the second century A.C., announced Burgasinfo The building was built on the...
- The Inventory Stelea
This stelea was found by August Mariette during his clearance around the sphinx in the little temple of Isis east of the great pyramid sometime between ca. 1853-58 ce. He made for his mother, Isis, Divine mother; Hathor, mistress of Nun. The record was...