Egypt
A Swiss museum in Basel is returning an old kingdom stela to Egypt, it is the first piece returned by the Swiss since the ouster of Egypt,s former dictator Mubarak. The stela dated to Egypt's 5th dynasty shows it's owner hunting and is more than 4000 years old.
- Photo For Today - The Deity Henut-mestjet, Brussels
Offering to Henut-Mestjet Third Intermediate Period. Necropolis north of Abydos Limestone with some paint remaining Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire E.6251 Text from: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=995 Thanks to Kat...
- Egypt To Restore "eye Of Amenhotep Iii"
Egypt State Information Service The Swiss President Pascal Couchepin and Culture Minster Farouk Hosni singed Wednesday 9/1/2007 a memo of understanding on the protection and retrieving monuments which illegally went out of Egypt. Especially as Switzerland...
- Daily Photo - More Lovely Bits From The British Museum
Funerary Stela of Renefseneb (shown with two relatives) Limestone, Late Middle Kingdom c.1800BC Traditional offering formula Tomb slab of Neferseshempepy, Denderah Limestone. Late Old Kingdom, c.2150BC Limestone stela of Khnumhotep 5th Dynasty,...
- Karnak Stela Reveals New Information Re 20th Dynasty
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/hr1.htm Nevine el-Aref provides more information about the Twentieth Dynasty stela found at Karnak last year: "For more than three centuries, since historians and Egyptologists began to write the first history in modern...
- The Raising Of Amenhotep Iii
The Egyptian antiquities service has re-erected 2 statues on their original site in the memorial temple of Amenhotep III at Luxor. Amenhotep III was known as "the magnificent" because he reigned at the epoch of the Egyptian empire in the middle of the...
Egypt
Swiss Return 5th Dynasty Stela
A Swiss museum in Basel is returning an old kingdom stela to Egypt, it is the first piece returned by the Swiss since the ouster of Egypt,s former dictator Mubarak. The stela dated to Egypt's 5th dynasty shows it's owner hunting and is more than 4000 years old.
- Photo For Today - The Deity Henut-mestjet, Brussels
Offering to Henut-Mestjet Third Intermediate Period. Necropolis north of Abydos Limestone with some paint remaining Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire E.6251 Text from: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=995 Thanks to Kat...
- Egypt To Restore "eye Of Amenhotep Iii"
Egypt State Information Service The Swiss President Pascal Couchepin and Culture Minster Farouk Hosni singed Wednesday 9/1/2007 a memo of understanding on the protection and retrieving monuments which illegally went out of Egypt. Especially as Switzerland...
- Daily Photo - More Lovely Bits From The British Museum
Funerary Stela of Renefseneb (shown with two relatives) Limestone, Late Middle Kingdom c.1800BC Traditional offering formula Tomb slab of Neferseshempepy, Denderah Limestone. Late Old Kingdom, c.2150BC Limestone stela of Khnumhotep 5th Dynasty,...
- Karnak Stela Reveals New Information Re 20th Dynasty
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/hr1.htm Nevine el-Aref provides more information about the Twentieth Dynasty stela found at Karnak last year: "For more than three centuries, since historians and Egyptologists began to write the first history in modern...
- The Raising Of Amenhotep Iii
The Egyptian antiquities service has re-erected 2 statues on their original site in the memorial temple of Amenhotep III at Luxor. Amenhotep III was known as "the magnificent" because he reigned at the epoch of the Egyptian empire in the middle of the...