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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/14/2024 7:20:04 PM
Zahi Hawass continues his account of the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians by looking at evidence garnered through settlement archaeology and images and artefacts from mortuary contexts
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/7/2024 9:00:16 PM
The evidence garnered through settlement archaeology, taken in combination with scenes and artefacts from mortuary contexts, provide us with a picture of the idealised daily life of the ancient Egyptians, writes Zahi Hawass in the first of two articles
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Antiquities
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Museums
8/23/2023 8:29:01 PM
Under the title "The Nile is the Lifeline", the Prince Mohamed Ali Palace Museum in Manial presents a temporary archaeological exhibition on water, in celebration of Inundation Day, which falls on 15 August each year.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
6/11/2023 6:18:30 PM
Restoration work has commenced at the residential area and necropolis in the Marina Alamein archaeological site in Alexandria ahead of its imminent opening to the public, according to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/31/2023 8:35:37 PM
A new Paris exhibition is marking 100 years of heritage and archaeology in Afghanistan, writes David Tresilian
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Lectures
12/13/2022 8:48:01 PM
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
10/24/2022 8:03:35 PM
Three university students and a father of one of them have been arrested for stealing 59 artefacts from a museum affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology at Sohag University in Upper Egypt, the Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
9/28/2022 3:39:34 PM
Egypt is celebrating the 200th anniversary marking the deciphering of the hieroglyphic language.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/20/2022 5:09:41 PM
A burial site from ancient Egypt’s Ramses II era filled with dozens of pottery pieces and bronze artefacts has been unearthed on a beach in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Sunday according to AFP.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
9/19/2022 6:21:29 PM
Last week, Egyptologist Fatma Keshk gave a lecture at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on courtyards in ancient Egypt.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/19/2022 3:54:31 PM
To the south of the causeway of King Unas in Saqqara necropolis, the archaeological mission of the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, headed by Ola El-Aguizy, stumbled upon the sarcophagus of Ptahemwia from the reign of King Ramses II, whose tomb was discovered last year in Saqqara.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
2/2/2022 6:40:00 PM
Egypt signed two memoranda of understanding this week to enhance cooperation with Senegal and South Korea in the field of archaeology and museums
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World
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Region
2/1/2022 11:52:34 AM
Bulldozers digging for an Egyptian-funded housing project in the Gaza Strip unearthed the ruins of a tomb dating back to the Roman era, Hamas authorities said Monday.
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Heritage
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Photo Heritage
9/6/2021 12:50:02 PM
Excavations from the desert to the Nile are the subject of a book by the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo
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World
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Region
8/23/2021 3:36:51 PM
The item weighs just 70 grams (2.5 ounces) but bears traces of cuneiform writing -- the oldest recorded in the world -- and is listed as "Property of a West Sussex, UK, gentleman"
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
3/19/2021 12:00:00 PM
Nicholas Saunders, Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T E Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt, Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press, 2020, pp369
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Opinion
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2/23/2021 8:32:36 PM
Mutual knowledge-transfer at eye level helps German-Egyptian research teams achieve more comprehensive results and benefit from each other’s skills, writes Cyrill Jean Nunn
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
12/31/2020 9:39:00 AM
It’s been a busy year for archaeologists. Several discoveries made international headlines and major museums and sites were inaugurated in an effort to revivify tourism, the hardest-hit sector due to coronavirus
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Lectures
12/8/2020 10:20:36 PM
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World
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International
11/22/2020 2:49:45 PM
"Two skeletons of individuals caught in the fury of the eruption have been found," the officials at the Italian site near Naples said
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