Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/6/2020 6:40:35 PM
Almost six dozen intact, sealed, and painted coffins were unveiled at the Saqqara Necropolis this week
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/3/2020 4:12:58 PM
All the unearthed coffins are in a very good conservation condition and still bear their original colours
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/1/2020 9:47:39 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/22/2020 10:12:53 PM
A cachette of more than four dozen anthropoid wooden coffins will soon be unveiled at the Saqqara Necropolis
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/20/2020 1:05:43 PM
The coffins are 2,500 years old and still retain some of their original colours
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
4/24/2020 2:22:41 PM
The mummy was that of a teenage girl
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
4/8/2020 2:38:14 PM
The best-preserved tombs in Beni Hassan are those of Khnumhotep II, Amenemhat, Baqet III, and Kheti, the walls of which bear beautifully decorated colourful scenes
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/5/2020 7:08:00 PM
The Step Pyramid, the first stone building in history and the oldest pyramid in the world, consists of six stacked terraces to a height of around 63 metres
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
11/26/2019 6:12:42 PM
Rare discoveries at the Saqqara Necropolis including mummified lion cubs and statuettes of crocodiles, cobras, mongooses, and dozens of cats shed light on the ancient Egyptian use of animals in worship, reports Nevine El-Aref
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
11/23/2019 2:26:23 PM
During a press conference, the antiquities minister said Saturday's was not the last discovery of the year, but that there will be another one next month before Christmas celebrations
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
11/12/2019 4:33:57 PM
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
11/11/2019 12:38:14 PM
The coffins, which contained mummies, were found by an Egyptian archaeological mission in October in Asasif Necropolis on Luxor’s west bank
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/22/2019 10:47:03 PM
The Asasif coffins cachette uncovered this week in Luxor is the biggest find of its kind to be made in over a century, reports Nevine El-Aref
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/19/2019 4:34:01 PM
The cachette, unearthed in Asasif necropolis, contained 30 coffins of priests and priestesses
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/15/2019 3:16:43 PM
The find includes more than 20 painted wooden coffins
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/8/2019 7:39:02 PM
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
7/13/2019 4:41:35 PM
The Senefru Bent Pyramid is now open to the public for the first time ever
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
4/18/2019 8:14:23 PM
'It is the biggest 'saff' tomb to be ever discovered in the Theban necropolis,' said a senior official
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
11/28/2018 12:54:17 PM
Mummies with anthropoid painted cartonnage have been unearthed in Dahshour Necropolis, about 40 kilometres south of the Giza Plateau
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
9/8/2018 8:08:17 PM
Minister of Antiquities El-Enany, Minister of Immigration Nabila Makram, Egyptologist Zahi Hawwas, and a number of foreign ambassadors to Cairo, toured the tomb and funery complexes in Saqqara
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