An Japanese-Egyptian mission directed by professor Nozomu Kawai of Kanazawa University has discovered a Roman catacomb from the 1st or 2nd century AD during excavation on the eastern rock escarpment of the North Saqqara plateau. “This area had never been previously investigated by an archaeological mission,” Kawai told Ahram Online. Kawai explains that the catacomb...Read More

The coffins, which contained mummies, were found by an Egyptian archaeological mission in October in Asasif Necropolis on Luxor’s west bank Thirty painted, anthropoid wooden coffins uncovered last month in Asasif have arrived to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) to be put on display for its opening at the end of 2020. Mostafa Waziri, the...Read More

Part of the dazzling ancient Egyptian coffins discovered in El-Assasif – ET CAIRO – 11 November 2019: An official source in the Upper Egypt Antiquities Sector in Luxor Governorate revealed that 30 archaeological coffins have been transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum. The coffins were among the findings of the Egyptian archaeological mission working in...Read More

EGYPT archaeologists are currently probing a “very strange animal,” which might be “a lion or lioness,” Minister of Antiquities Dr Khaled El-Enany told us in an exclusive interview. Egypt minister says ‘very strange’ animal has been discovered The ancient Egyptians held cats in the highest esteem, with penalties for injuring or killing the feline animals and around 3,000BC,...Read More

Queen Nefertiti CAIRO – 6 November 2019: Acclaimed Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced in London on the side-lines of Tutankhamun exhibition that Queen Nefertiti could be one of the mummies discovered at the Valley of Kings. Hawass added that using the modern DNA techniques” we can now if Queen Nefertiti is one of the mummies...Read More

Abstract Mummies associated with the ancient city of Akhmim in Egypt provide an important portal for radiologic research concerning the ancient Egyptian population. As part of an ongoing investigation, a mummy of Akhmimic derivation owned by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was scanned with a 16–detector row computed tomographic scanner. The resultant...Read More

The man behind what’s been dubbed ‘the world’s most realistic VR’ is earning worldwide acclaim for his hyper-realistic VR cinematography. Now, Simon Che de Boer’s latest release, Nefertari: Journey to Eternity, takes viewers up close-and-personal in VR to an ancient civilisation that’s not experienced in many people’s lifetimes: Nefertari’s tomb in Egypt. This plays right...Read More