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A few days ago Mohammed Ibrahim said that an announcement would be made about a new discovery in the Valley of the Kings. Now a source is saying in one of the papers that the Swiss team working there...
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From the Press Association:-
Archaeologists have unearthed the 1,100-year-old tomb of a female singer in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, officials revealed.
It is the only tomb of a woman not related...
The Mummification Museum lecture this Sunday at 7pm will be given by Dr Donald Ryan.
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Democracy does not mean disrespecting and disturbing other attendees of the lecture as well as the speaker. Phones should be off or on vibration or silent. To take a call, someone should step...
I found these films more or less by accident when browsing for Luxor in YouTube. The first one is of Egypt in 1934, but much of it is around Luxor.
Hope you like them.
Cairo in the 1930s...
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If you enjoyed them Diana then the hour wasn't wasted :)
A week or so ago, I asked whether anyone had heard the rumour that the fallen colossus of Rameses at the Ramesseum was going to be reconstructed. Yesterday, I got the answer from the horse's mouth -...
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When he first found the statue back in 1993 or 1994, Christian Leblanc told me he planned to reconstruct it. I even wrote an article that appeared in Ahram Weekly about the plans.
In only 40 day time on Feb 9th, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have been The UK's monarch for 60 years and is the second longest reigning Monarch in the world to date.
Napoleon Bonaparte was an extraordinary and contradictory man: a warlord who saw himself as a champion of civilisation. One of his most ambitious attempts to prove himself a cultural as well as...
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Here is Zahi's blog post on the matter - no doubt some of us might find it a little hypocritical
This is a sad day for all of us who love Egypt. No one can believe that the Egyptian Scientific...
When a date is given here as to when anything is to open, what they mean is that it will not be open before that date, but will be open on some unspecified time after that date, and that could be...
There are several links about this, one with an unconfirmed photo so I will give you a few of the links.
With the unconfirmed photo:
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Most of the land that these finds are being made on were already acquired for the de-watering project pipeline. I was told over a year ago that most of the locations for these newly discovered...
The secret gates at the heart of the Great Pyramid may be opened for the first time in 2012, a British robot company believes - solving a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists since 1872.
Scoutek...
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The only 'flying pigs round here are in my freezer and their not flying anywhere, just yet.
'Many are Called, few are Chosen, So no-one is ringing my bell yet Stan!...
we wait.....'cocktails in the...
A long and interesting article in Nature weekly international journal of science titled: Archaeology meets politics: Spring comes to ancient Egypt
As the country struggles to refashion its...
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Zahi Zinfandel ... great name for a Californian wine. And maybe a more widely known Egyptian word than Obelisk!
The owner of this site is a friend of a friend of mine and came to stay with me with his wife whilst researching the Abydos dig-houses a couple of years ago. He usually comes to Egypt 2 or 3 times a...
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I have been in email contact with Marcel over the last month or so and we are arranging for him to give a lecture on the dig houses when he next visits in March or early April next year.
I will give...
This is a blog about all things ancient Egypt. It is in Spanish but Google translate does readable translation into English, some nice photos of sites etc.
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