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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

ancient Egypt

A display showcases a stele and multiple artifacts during a media event to announce new discoveries by an Egyptian archaeological mission at Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor on January 8, 2025. (Khaled Desouk/AFP)
January 8, 2025, 9:07 pm
Egypt unveils new discoveries near Luxor, including 3,600-year-old burial shafts
Archaeologists find sealed coffin, archery bows in Queen Hatshepsut’s Valley Temple, dating back to 16th century BCE, coins from 3rd century CE with image of Alexander the Great
By AP
Assembly of finds from a new discovery of 11 sealed Middle Kingdom burials in Luxor. Here, shown from Burial 2: a copper or copper alloy mirror with an ivory handle displaying the rather rare design of a four-faced Hathor presenting her as a woman with austere features. (South Asasif Conservation Project)
November 2, 2024, 8:12 pm
Joint US-Egypt archaeology team unearths 4,000-year-old tomb in Luxor
11 coffins for men, women and children found inside necropolis, suggesting it was a family tomb
By AP and ToI Staff
Egyptian New Kingdom-era sword engraved with the name Ramses II that was discovered in the Nile Delta, in an undated photo. (Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities)
September 26, 2024, 11:34 am
Ancient sword engraved with the name Ramses II unearthed in the Nile Delta
Weapon was likely a ceremonial item belonging to a high-ranking figure; Ramses II is commonly thought to have been the pharaoh of the biblical Israelite exodus from Egypt
By Gavriel Fiske
The "Screaming Woman," discovered in 1935 near Luxor, Egypt. (Sahar Saleem/Frontiers in Medicine)
August 2, 2024, 1:53 pm
Researchers say ancient ‘screaming’ mummy may have died with agonizing spasms
Scientists say woman, who was found in 1935 with expression resembling Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ may have suffered rare cadaveric spasm
By Will Dunham
This handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on June 24, 2024 shows the top fragment of a sarcophagus discovered at the site of a discovery of 33 ancient tombs in Egypt's southern city of Aswan. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP)
June 29, 2024, 9:20 am
Egyptian tomb find may shed light on ancient diseases
Initial archaeological study shows evidence of conditions including infectious diseases, bone disorders, women with signs of pelvic bone trauma, anemia, malnutrition, tuberculosis
By AFP
File - this undated handout image provided on January 26, 2022 by astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, with a star icon (at R-placed by source) marking the position of a mysterious repeating transient in space. (Natasha Hurley-Walker/AFP)
April 15, 2024, 12:31 pm
Study uses Egyptian mythology as blueprint for ancient heavens
Astrophysicist Or Gruar uses observatory simulators to map the galaxy onto sky-goddess Nut’s body in potential Egyptology breakthrough
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Canopic jars from Egypt, which were used to bury mummified organs, are displayed at the Field Museum on March 13, 2018 in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)
September 1, 2023, 6:11 pm
Scientists recreate ‘scent of eternity’ used in embalming Egyptian mummies
Taking samples from jars containing lungs and liver of ancient noblewoman, scientists reproduce smell of balms used in mummification
By ToI Staff
An Egyptian archeologist points at a colored painting showing a sacrifice offering at a recently uncovered tomb that was said to belong to a top official of the fifth Dynasty named 'Ne Hesut Ba' (2,400 BCE), at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
May 27, 2023, 6:26 pm
Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis
Site at ancient capital of Memphis used to mummify humans and animals nearly 2,500 years ago
By AP
An ancient Egyptian sarcophagus undergoing a CT scan at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Shaare Zedek Medical Center)
May 22, 2023, 1:00 am
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi undergo CT scans in Jerusalem hospital to reveal craft
Israel Museum expert says CT scans offer best way to examine how coffins, including one almost 3,000 years old, were made and decorated
By ToI Staff
Egypt's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa gives a news conference in front of the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) at the Giza Pyramids necropolis on the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, on March 2, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
March 2, 2023, 8:28 pm
‘What’s behind these stones?’ Egypt unveils newly discovered Great Pyramid chamber
Using modern scanning technology, scientists discover sealed-off corridor 9 meters in length and 2 meters wide, perched above main entrance of pyramid
By MOHAMED WAGDY
A collection of pharaoh statues is on display during a press conference at the Saqqara necropolis, where a gold-laced mummy and four tombs including of an ancient king's 'secret keeper' were discovered, south of Cairo on January 26, 2023. (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
January 29, 2023, 11:13 am
Egypt unveils ancient tombs of ‘secret keeper’ tomb, gold-leaf-covered mummy
Finds in Saqqara necropolis date back to 25th to 22nd centuries BCE, include sarcophagus that was still sealed, statues, and amulets
By Agencies
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, center, standing in front of an ancient wooden sarcophagus, speaks during a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, January 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohamed Salah)
January 2, 2023, 3:39 pm
2,500-year-old looted sarcophagus returned to Egypt from US
Three-meter-tall coffin, which may have belonged to priest named Ankhenmaat, was stolen and smuggled via Germany into US in 2008; returned in official Cairo ceremony
By AP
A scarab seal found in Azor in November 2022, showing a seated figure on the right and a standing figure with a raised arm on the left, possibly symbolizing an ancient Egyptian pharaoh imparting authority on a local Canaanite ruler. (Gilad Stern, Israel Antiquities Authority)
November 30, 2022, 9:01 am
School field trip near Tel Aviv leads to discovery of 3,000-year-old scarab seal
Tour guide for eighth-grade pupils in Azor comes up with find, which likely depicts an ancient Egyptian pharaoh bestowing authority on a local Canaanite ruler
By Michael Bachner
This photo taken on September 29, 2015, shows the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in his burial chamber at the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor, 500 kilometers south of Cairo. (AFP / Khaled DESOUKI)
September 28, 2022, 10:41 am
Tutankhamun’s tomb may conceal fabled beauty Nefertiti, says archaeologist
Researcher says hidden hieroglyphics indicate that Egyptian boy king had buried his stepmother years earlier in adjacent chamber of tomb, behind false wall
By ToI Staff
A couple walk along a road at the Giza pyramids necropolis on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo on December 29, 2018, with the pyramid of Menkaure (or Menkheres) seen in the background. (Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP)
September 7, 2022, 7:23 pm
Study: Giza pyramids were built with help of a now dried-up arm of the Nile
Researchers believe ancient Egyptians used the river’s Khufu branch to move supplies in order to build the towering structures
By ToI Staff
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