Merneith: a digitally enhanced photograph confirms a woman ruled Egypt 5,000 years ago
A digitally reprocessed photograph reveals that Merneith, a figure of Egypt's First Dynasty, did indeed bear the royal serekh title. She ma…
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A digitally reprocessed photograph reveals that Merneith, a figure of Egypt's First Dynasty, did indeed bear the royal serekh title. She ma…
Read →At Saqqarah, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Sekhentio-Ptah, an Old Kingdom official bearing the title "keeper of the se…
Read →An Egyptian mission at Tell Abu Seifi has uncovered a 3,200-year-old inscription mentioning Horus as "Lord of the City of Mesen", identifyi…
Read →The tomb of royal scribe Nisemro, created under Thutmose III, was continuously reused for seven centuries by at least twelve distinct indiv…
Read →The discovery of 225 faience funerary figurines bearing pharaoh Sheshonq III's titulary formally identifies his tomb at Tanis, ending decad…
Read →A conjurer named Djedi decapitates and revives animals before pharaoh Khufu: the Westcar Papyrus contains the first written record of a con…
Read →A study published in MicrobiologyOpen reveals that honey recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs retains remarkable antibacterial properties,…
Read →A Franco-Egyptian IEASM mission has mapped 43 monumental blocks of the Lighthouse of Alexandria lying on the floor of the eastern harbour, …
Read →Spanish and Egyptian archaeologists confirmed in 2025 the identification of tomb C4 as belonging to Pharaoh Thutmosis II (c. 1493-1479 BCE)…
Read →An Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission has uncovered a previously unknown Old Kingdom necropolis at Gabal El Tier in Upper Egypt, compr…
Read →Long attributed to Ramesses II, a painted sandstone block at thé Metropolitan Muséum 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, thé trilobate grey schist Sabu Disk remains one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic…
Read →At Tell Nabasha, site of ancient Imet in thé Nile Delta, Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered thé fragments of a colossal pink granite st…
Read →At Héliopolis, thé spiritual heart of ancient Egypt now engulfed by Cairo, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered thé relief-decorated tom…
Read →In thé Nile Delta, thé 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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