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Russian archaeologists excavate ‘White Walls’ of ancient Egypt...
Russian archaeologists excavate ‘White Walls’ of ancient Egyptian capital Memphis
A Russian archaeological expedition spanning more than a decade has unearthed the enclosure walls of the first capital of Egypt – the legendary city of Memphis that was the heart of Egyptian civilization for over 2,000 years.
Scientists from the Egyptology Studies Center of Russian Academy of Sciences (CESRAS) have excavated the foundation of what they believe once were huge walls that used to surround the ancient Egyptian capital currently known under its Greek name, Memphis.
The success of the Russian effort to bring to light part of the 5,200 year-old walls was confirmed by Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty.
“Several white limestone fragments of the ancient capital’s wall were discovered during excavation work carried out by an archaeology team of the Russian Institute of Egyptology at Kom Tuman, south of Giza Pyramids,” said Damaty.
“We hope this finding will enhance our knowledge of one the most important cities of Ancient Egypt. Memphis played a significant political, religious and economic role in the history of the country. One of its names was Inbu-Hedj, or the White Walls,”the minister said.
Excavations on the new wall in Memphis will last for unknown time as the occupation layer reached 15 meters, as was revealed during control drilling on the site, CESRAS director Galina Belova told RT.
“Conceptually, this archaeological site is inexhaustible,” Belova said. “If only we had...better financing, we would made the excavation site much larger, but unfortunately, under-financing narrows our research a great deal,” she said.
Fifteen years ago, when Russian Egyptologists first obtained a concession from the Egyptian government, they were looking at three sites that used to be the highest hills once hosting the city in the ancient Nile’s delta.
Parts of the walls which were unearthed at the Kom Tuman archaeological site are very rich in handicraft findings, as the
Interview with Nicholas Reeves An archaeologist 'on brink' of ...
Interview with Nicholas Reeves An archaeologist 'on brink' of solving mystery of Queen Nefertiti's burial
Could the long lost burial place of Queen Nefertiti be located inside King Tutankhamun's tomb? Al-Ahram Daily Interviews British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves
Rana Gohar, Sunday 16 Aug 2015
Queen Nefertiti, whose name means, "the beauty has come," is one of ancient Egypt's most powerful women.
She was the mother of King Tutankhamun and the wife of the monotheistic King Akhenaten, who is considered one of the most important and controversial kings in ancient Egypt and one of the greatest thinkers of his era.
Akhenaten was the first king to abandon the traditional Egyptian polytheism, introducing worship centered on one god, Aten.
The location of Queen Nefertiti’s final resting place has long perplexed scholars and has never been found. Within the last few days, however, British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves revealed in an academic report that he may have found the long sought-after burial place hidden behind the walls of the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.
Reeves claims to have found a 'ghost' doorway hiding beneath the plaster on one of the walls of the burial chamber, while studying digital scans of the walls that were carried out by the Factum Arte (the Madrid-based company) who produced a replica of the Tutankhamun tomb.
Reeves says that the validity of his theory can easily and safely be checked using radar. Al-Ahram Daily spoke to Reeves, who is located in London, to learn more about the steps that may have led him to find the resting place of the ancient queen.
You examined photos of laser scans of the walls of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, without inspecting the tomb itself. Could you elaborate on how this was sufficient for you to determine that there were traces of a doorway, and behind that Queen Nefertiti’s tomb?
Before answering any question, I would like to explain that my study is not about personal ego and speculation
Archaeological storehouses of Ramesside Age discovered in Shar...
Archaeological storehouses of Ramesside Age discovered in Sharqiya
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el Damaty announced that archaeological storehouses that go back to the Ramesside Age (19th and 20th Dynasties) were discovered in Sharqiya.
The storehouses, which grouped clay potteries, were discovered by the archaeological mission of Egypt Exploration Society in cooperation with the Antiquities Ministry.
In statements on Friday, the Minister said that the mission managed to discover circle-shaped clay structures which might be used as silos to store grains. MENA
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Polish archaeologists find relic of Cleopatra's Pharaoh father
Polish archaeologists find relic of Cleopatra's Pharaoh father
Polish archaeologists working amid the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes have found a relic with hieroglyphic text that was apparently bequeathed to a temple by the father of Cleopatra VII.
The linen relic was part of a cloth that covered a holy image, in this case in the nearby temple of Hathor.
The cloth was one of various items discovered in an unexplored shaft at a 2000 BC tomb in the so-called Valley of the Nobles (Sheikh Abd el-Qurna), a necropolis in today's Western Luxor.
Other treasures discovered include faience beads and amulets, as well as several ushebti clay figurines – talismanic figures that were believed to aid the deceased in the afterlife.
However, it is the fragment of linen cloth that has most intrigued the archaeologists.
Dr Andrzej Ćwiek has noted that the site was taken over by Christian monks in the 6th century.
“Probably the monks living in the hermitage, who were bringing everything they could use from the surrounding area, found the canvas in the ruins of a nearby temple and took it with a practical use in mind,” he told the Polish Press Agency.
“We were lucky to discover this unique object,” he added.
The fragment has two columns of cartouches, painted in ink, as ornamental borders surrounding the name of the Pharaoh, Ptolemy XII Auletes (80-51 BC) , the father of the legendary Cleopatra VII. (nh)
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Ancient Egyptian child mummies and their secrets unwrapped in ...
Ancient Egyptian child mummies and their secrets unwrapped in Germany
The stories of two mummified children are being unwrapped as researchers perform CT scans to determine the secret lives of the ancient Egyptians.
Research is being done at the St. Bernward hospital in Hildesheim, Germany, for an exhibit at the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim.
The exhibit is scheduled for August 12-18, 2016, according to a museum press release.
It will showcase mummies and the traditions of mummification in different cultural areas, such as Egypt, China, Peru, Spain and Hungary.
Researchers hope that the scans will provide insight into preservation techniques, ways of embalming bodies, diseases and possibly even the exact age of the children.
"The interpretation of this data has made it possible to reconstruct the individual life story of the deceased as well the life conditions in the society they were living in," the hospital said.
The embalmed remains paint a picture of the children's lives and the era in which they lived. Their genders have not yet been publicly identified.
One dates back to the Greek-Roman occupation of Egypt and was missing an arm until it was reconstructed during the embalming process. Researchers found treatments on the face that could indicate someone corrected an imperfection or damage.
The other mummy was buried at about 2,000 B.C. -- during the period of ancient Egyptian history known as the Middle Kingdom -- and was deemed highly unusual due to it being buried in a mummy case. The body is in bad condition and researchers want to know why it was so badly decomposed before being buried, according to the release.
Whatever researchers may find, they are being led to new "findings which will extend our knowledge of Egyptian mummification traditions which go beyond this particular exhibit."
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