عرف المصريون القدماء كتابة الخطابات بل وكانت هناك مكاتبات رسمية موجهة للمالك المجاورة ومنها مملكة الحيثيين كما هو واضح في رسائل العمارنة المتواجد بعض منها في المتحف البريطاني والمسجلة باللغة الأكادية المسمارية وهو أغرب ما في هذه المسألة إذ لم تكتب (...)
خلال اليوم الاول لتطبيق منظومة التذاكر الإلكترونية، شهدت عدد من المناطق الاثرية بمحافظة المنيا، توافد المئات من الزائرين المصريين، لزيارة المعالم السياحية خاصة لمنطقة تونا الجبل جنوب المنيا .
وقام مفتشو الاثار بدور شاق فى تنظيم الزيارة ومساعدة (...)
Zahi Hawass — renowned Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities — said that hosting the UN Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27) will create much publicity for Egypt.
He added that Egypt has a great history in which it was able to (...)
Egypt is working to continue dazzling the world with major archaeological openings expected in 2022, crowned by the eagerly awaited opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).
The country managed to captivate the world with global events last year, (...)
This year, Egypt is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the exceptional discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, and the 200th anniversary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone that enabled the world to understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The (...)
The Archaeology Magazine has named the "Lost Golden City" in Luxor as the most important archaeological discovery in 2021.
An Egyptian excavation mission headed by Zahi Hawass discovered the ancient city, "The Rise of the Aten", which dates back to (...)
To continue the magic of the Pharaohs, let us go to the popular mastaba (tomb) of Ti of the Fifth Dynasty at the site of Saqqara. Ti was a nobleman who was the overseer of the sun temples of the Pharaoh. The entry to his tomb is down a sloping area (...)
On the west bank of the Nile at Luxor in the area located between king Ramses III's temple at Medinet Habu and king Amenhotep III's temple at Memnon, archaeologists armoured with hats and gloves were digging in the sand searching for king (...)
An Egyptian archaeological mission, led by famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass, has unearthed the 3000-year-old "Golden City", also called, The Rise of Aten.
The ancient city was built during the reign of Amenhotep III, the ninth king of the 18th (...)
A new season of exhibitions is offering some brilliant fare in the wake of the lockdown. Within one week, over ten shows opened in Zamalek, including the second round of the annual group exhibition of caricature at the Ubuntu Gallery (6 December-2 (...)
“There is a famous saying that every Egyptian knows — Egypt is the gift of the Nile. However, the point of my book is that it goes both ways because I want to argue that the Nile is also the gift of Egypt,” says Nezar AlSayyad, author of The Nile: (...)
ليس هناك أى صلة بين الملكة كيا والملك توت عنخ آمون. وهذا ما كتبته فى أوبرا توت عنخ آمون، حيث قلنا إنه وُلد من الزوجة الثانية للملك أخناتون. وقد وجد علماء الDNA الذين عملوا معى فى المشروع المصرى لدراسة المومياوات الملكية، وعلى رأسهم العالم المصرى د. (...)
When boredom began to peak during the third week of quarantine I managed to arrange a private gallery visit – including a meeting with the artist – to make up for what I had missed when there had been too much art to see. Hassan Kamel's sculpture (...)
I recently went with my dear friend Khaled El-Enany, the minister of antiquities, to open the exhibition on the ancient Egyptian golden boy-king Tutankhamun in London entitled Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh.
I told him on the way to (...)
The buried treasures of Luxor's valleys have been lying for years waiting to be unearthed to fascinate the world with their captivating details and stunning beauty. Veteran Egyptologist Zahi Hawas revealed two of Luxor's biggest discoveries last (...)
This was one of my great adventures — searching for the mummies of the boy-king Tutankhamun's family.
We did not know who the father of the boy-king was. Was it Akhenaten? Or was it Amenhotep III? After all, there is an inscription that says that (...)
A head statue of the world's most famous pharaoh, Tutankhamun, is to dazzle antiquarians next month when it goes under the hammer in London's Christie's auction house on July 4.
The unique, 3,000-year-old stone statue is expected to be sold for (...)
After I had left the city of São Paulo and travelled to another city for my third lecture in Brazil, I landed in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná State. About 11 million people live in this state, and as is commonly known the country of Brazil is (...)
The beautiful queen Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic king Akhenaten, has always perplexed archaeologists.
Nefertiti acquired unprecedented power during the first 12 years of the reign of her husband, and she occupied the throne alongside him and (...)
There are more than 20,000 Syrians live under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights in four neighbouring villages in the highlands of Mount Hermon, among them Majdal Shams, Masaade, Buqaata, and Ain Qiniyye.
The residents are Druze, primarily (...)
More than 20,000 Syrians live under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights in four neighbouring villages in the highlands of Mount Hermon, among them Majdal Shams, Masaade, Buqaata and Ain Qiniyye.
The residents are Druze, primarily farmers, who (...)
More than 20,000 Syrians live under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights in four neighbouring villages in the highlands of Mount Hermon, among them Majdal Shams, Masaade, Buqaata and Ain Qiniyye. The residents are Druze, primarily farmers, who (...)
The ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III had been a boy king, coming to the throne at around the age of ten. His wife, queen Tiye, was a commoner whom he loved greatly. She remained extremely influential, and together they had two sons.
Prince (...)
It was recently announced that a Russian project called “Isis” under the supervision of the KGB had found a mummy of a space creature 13,000 years old and mummified it using the same mummification techniques used by the ancient Egyptians during the (...)
The Upper Egyptian city of Minya was in the limelight last weekend, when Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Tourism Rania Al-Mashat, and Governor of Minya Kassem Hussein, as well as ambassadors and cultural attachés from Malta, (...)
