In a remarkable discovery that underscores the far-reaching connections of the ancient world, archaeologists unearthed a marble statue of the Buddha at the ancient seaport of Berenice on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. Found within the forecourt of a Roman-era temple dedicated to the goddess Isis, the statue reveals tangible evidence of contact between Egypt and...
A team at the British Museum and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), have led a pioneering study into 2500-year-old ancient Egyptian lizard mummies. The team used an innovative technique called neutron imaging to ‘look’ inside a group of six sealed first millennium BC animal coffins from...
An archaeological mission from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO) and the Egyptian Museum of Turin (Museo Egizio) unearthed the remains of the tomb of Panehsy, Steward of the Temple of Amun during early Ramesside period, along with a collection of smaller chapels in the Saqqara Necropolis. “The new discovery sheds new light...
More than 2,000 mummified ram heads and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered by archaeologists at the Temple of Ramesses II of Abydos. The finds, located roughly 270 miles (435 kilometers) south of Cairo, come from a period of over 1,000 years, from the 6th Dynasty to the Heroic Age, making some of...
Archaeologists have unearthed the first full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in more than a century. The excavation at Gerzeh archaeological site in Faiyum revealed a huge funerary building, also turned up papyri, pottery, and coffins from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerzeh, 75 miles southwest of...
On the 100-year anniversary of unearthing King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologists discover hundreds of tombs and mummies buried in Saqqara. Egyptian archaeologists rewrite history with the discovery of a tomb of a previously unknown queen. The New Kingdom Tomb of Queen Neith, along with a cache of 300 coffins and 100 mummies, was unearthed at the...
