Egypt
1. The most interesting news of the year must be the DNA results on the mummies believed related to king Tutankhamun and the mummies of Yuya and Thuya. Not surprisingly the human remains from Valley of kings tomb 55 still just as mysterious even if the foils inside said mummies coffin do give a name for the body found there in.
2. South of the workers cemetery at Giza a new tomb was found which may be the discovery of a new necropolis of the royal court.
3. An international convention was held with more than a dozen countries in attendance in an effort to discuss ways of repatriating cultural property in foreign collections though the countries in possession of many of the most important of these objects did not attend.
4. Then must come the issue of the value of repatriating objects to historically vulnerable countries like Egypt or Greece and whether in the long run such objects could be better cared for by their current international institutions than by those countries who's culture they represent.
5. Luxor is all abuzz over the ongoing unprofessional digging up of the avenue of rams to help create an outdoor museum/theme park.
6. After decades of an unspoken scandal the Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to return 19 different objects that have come to that institution through Howard Carter and believed to have come from king Tutankhamun's tomb.
7. A painting by Vincent Van Gogh known as "Poppy flowers" was easily stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil museum in Cairo. The museums alarms and cameras were not working.
8. The year also solved the mystery of whether a pharaoh of Egypt had been buried at Vergina in northern Greece?
9. We find at Mit Rahina a temple to the god Ptah built by Ramesses the great (1279-1212bce)and now littered with garbage and sewage.
10. Certainly 2010 dispelled a centuries old curiosity with the final exploration of the tunnel in the tomb of the Pharaoh Seti I (KV17)in the valley of kings by Dr. Zahi Hawass and alas some funerary trinkets were found but the long suspected burial chamber was not there.
- Video: Join Hawass In The Tomb Of Seti I
drhawass.com Join Zahi Hawass Inside the Mysterious Tunnel in the Tomb of Seti I For the last two years, Zahi Hawass has led an all-Egyptian team that is excavating and restoring the mysterious tunnel leading from the burial chamber of King Seti I deep...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
The Eye of Re on the Mummy of Pharaoh Seti I By the time Pharaoh Seti I was buried in 1279 BC he had restored Egypt to the former glory lost during the Amarna period of a half century earlier. Seti left as tribute to his reign temples such as at Abydos...
- Metropolitan Returns Tutankhamun Objects To Egypt
This article on the return of objects from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art back to Egypt. The artifacts are believed to have been taken by Howard Carter from the tomb of Tutankhamun. The objects removed by Carter were termed by the late Thomas...
- The Carter/carnarvon Connection
At the heart of the Golden age of Egyptology stands archaeologist Howard Carter a talented artist with a keen eye for beautiful objects and the good fortune to excavate the tombs of a number of kings in the Valley of Kings including the semi-intact...
- The Golden King: The World Of Tutankhamun
Zahi Hawass National Geographic Cairo 2004 ISBN 977 424 836 8 This thankfully small and beautiful book is by the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. The book is an excellent read for a younger audience in...
Egypt
Ten Events Concerning Egyptology
2. South of the workers cemetery at Giza a new tomb was found which may be the discovery of a new necropolis of the royal court.
3. An international convention was held with more than a dozen countries in attendance in an effort to discuss ways of repatriating cultural property in foreign collections though the countries in possession of many of the most important of these objects did not attend.
4. Then must come the issue of the value of repatriating objects to historically vulnerable countries like Egypt or Greece and whether in the long run such objects could be better cared for by their current international institutions than by those countries who's culture they represent.
5. Luxor is all abuzz over the ongoing unprofessional digging up of the avenue of rams to help create an outdoor museum/theme park.
6. After decades of an unspoken scandal the Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to return 19 different objects that have come to that institution through Howard Carter and believed to have come from king Tutankhamun's tomb.
7. A painting by Vincent Van Gogh known as "Poppy flowers" was easily stolen from the Mahmoud Khalil museum in Cairo. The museums alarms and cameras were not working.
8. The year also solved the mystery of whether a pharaoh of Egypt had been buried at Vergina in northern Greece?
9. We find at Mit Rahina a temple to the god Ptah built by Ramesses the great (1279-1212bce)and now littered with garbage and sewage.
10. Certainly 2010 dispelled a centuries old curiosity with the final exploration of the tunnel in the tomb of the Pharaoh Seti I (KV17)in the valley of kings by Dr. Zahi Hawass and alas some funerary trinkets were found but the long suspected burial chamber was not there.
- Video: Join Hawass In The Tomb Of Seti I
drhawass.com Join Zahi Hawass Inside the Mysterious Tunnel in the Tomb of Seti I For the last two years, Zahi Hawass has led an all-Egyptian team that is excavating and restoring the mysterious tunnel leading from the burial chamber of King Seti I deep...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
The Eye of Re on the Mummy of Pharaoh Seti I By the time Pharaoh Seti I was buried in 1279 BC he had restored Egypt to the former glory lost during the Amarna period of a half century earlier. Seti left as tribute to his reign temples such as at Abydos...
- Metropolitan Returns Tutankhamun Objects To Egypt
This article on the return of objects from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art back to Egypt. The artifacts are believed to have been taken by Howard Carter from the tomb of Tutankhamun. The objects removed by Carter were termed by the late Thomas...
- The Carter/carnarvon Connection
At the heart of the Golden age of Egyptology stands archaeologist Howard Carter a talented artist with a keen eye for beautiful objects and the good fortune to excavate the tombs of a number of kings in the Valley of Kings including the semi-intact...
- The Golden King: The World Of Tutankhamun
Zahi Hawass National Geographic Cairo 2004 ISBN 977 424 836 8 This thankfully small and beautiful book is by the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass. The book is an excellent read for a younger audience in...