Egypt
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass)
- In The Field: Saqqara Tombs Press Release From Sca
drhawass.com Two large 26th Dynasty tombs have been found in Saqqara by an Egyptian excavation mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced today. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA and the...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Search For The 3rd Cache
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Thanks to Jane for her ongoing efforts on our behalf. Here's an extract from her lecture notes: Mummfication Museum lecture - Search for the 3rd cache – Prof, dr hab. Andrezej Niwinski Search for the 3rd cache – Prof,...
- Egyptian Mastaba Had Its Own Afterlife
LA Times (Thomas H Maugh II) In Egypt, apparently even pyramids can be recycled. Archaeologists from the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities said this week that they had discovered a cache of 30 mummies dating from the country's 26th Dynasty...
- Kv-63 And Other Luxor Caches
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/Egyptian Gazette writer Hassan Saadallah on the subject of KV63 and the other Luxor caches. "The recently discovered catacomb in Luxor is the first intact tomb to be discovered in over 80 years. The tomb, unearthed...
- Interview With Hawass (part 2 Of 2)
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=7770_0_1_0_M "In the Valley of the Kings some 35 years ago, I met a young man from the Abdul Rasul family who told me he knew about the secrets of the valley.The man in his 70s took me to a secret path and led me...
Egypt
Story of the Deir el Bahri Cache
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass)
I recently visited the Deir el-Bahari cache, which is a very difficult tomb to enter. It is down a 15-meter deep shaft, and you must be lowered down by rope into the shaft. From the vertical shaft is the entrance into the tomb: a few stairs down into a roughly cut passage through the rock, which leads to more stairs and ends in a large room where the royal mummies were hidden by priests in the 21st Dynasty. Now we close up the entrance to the tomb so that no one may enter, although there is nothing left inside. The reason for this is to show the importance of this tomb, because inside was found one of the most important discoveries, which is, in my opinion, even more important than the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
The story of the discovery of this cache is amazing. A young man named Ahmed, a member of the famous Abdel Rassul family was leading his goats in the hills near the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, when one of them escaped.
- In The Field: Saqqara Tombs Press Release From Sca
drhawass.com Two large 26th Dynasty tombs have been found in Saqqara by an Egyptian excavation mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced today. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA and the...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Search For The 3rd Cache
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Thanks to Jane for her ongoing efforts on our behalf. Here's an extract from her lecture notes: Mummfication Museum lecture - Search for the 3rd cache – Prof, dr hab. Andrezej Niwinski Search for the 3rd cache – Prof,...
- Egyptian Mastaba Had Its Own Afterlife
LA Times (Thomas H Maugh II) In Egypt, apparently even pyramids can be recycled. Archaeologists from the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities said this week that they had discovered a cache of 30 mummies dating from the country's 26th Dynasty...
- Kv-63 And Other Luxor Caches
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/Egyptian Gazette writer Hassan Saadallah on the subject of KV63 and the other Luxor caches. "The recently discovered catacomb in Luxor is the first intact tomb to be discovered in over 80 years. The tomb, unearthed...
- Interview With Hawass (part 2 Of 2)
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=7770_0_1_0_M "In the Valley of the Kings some 35 years ago, I met a young man from the Abdul Rasul family who told me he knew about the secrets of the valley.The man in his 70s took me to a secret path and led me...