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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 consists of a vaulted mud brick structure with a staircase leading to the entrance and...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 secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, explains that the coffins were transported from Luxor...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 El-Assaif area in Mount Qurna, west of Luxor. The sarcophaguses will be placed in a...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, they worshipped a Cat Goddess, often represented as half feline, half woman, whom they called...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 discovered in the Valley of the Kings. “Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh” exhibition in...Read More