A 3,400-Year-Old Relief at the Met Rewrites the History of Pharaonic Propaganda
Long attributed to Ramesses II, a painted sandstone block at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been reattributed to Amenhotep II, c. 1400 …
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Long attributed to Ramesses II, a painted sandstone block at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been reattributed to Amenhotep II, c. 1400 …
Read →In the Wadi Khamila in the southern Sinai, a team from the University of Bonn has discovered the oldest known representation of an act of E…
Read →The University of Leiden archaeological mission discovered in July 2026 on the west bank of Luxor an intact Ramesside tomb dating to around…
Read →Two long stone embankments on the Dahshur plateau, attributed since 1897 to simple hauling ramps, have just been reinterpreted as water ret…
Read →Discovered in 1936 in a First Dynasty mastaba at Saqqara, the trilobate grey schist Sabu Disk remains one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic…
Read →At Tell Nabasha, site of ancient Imet in the Nile Delta, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the fragments of a colossal pink granite st…
Read →At Heliopolis, the spiritual heart of ancient Egypt now engulfed by Cairo, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the relief-decorated tom…
Read →In the Nile Delta, the Tell Kom Aziza site has yielded an exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman cemetery, with mummies adorned with pain…
Read →Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Liverpool have sequenced the oldest and most complete genome ever obtain…
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