A lost ancient Egyptian tomb has been rediscovered by archaeologists in the desert sands south of Cairo.

It has taken him more than a decade, but Italian-Israeli archeologist Prof. Emmanuel Anati now believes his controversial view that the biblical Mount Sinai is in Israel’s Negev desert rather than Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula will soon be adopted by the Vatican.

A team of archaeologists excavating at the site of Amenhotep III’s enormous funerary temple in Luxor have uncovered the 3,000-year-old head of a massive statue of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh, the king of Egyptian kings, whom DNA testing has recently proven was Tutankhamun’s grandfather.

Cats featured in the religious and domestic life of ancient Egyptians. The biggest and most renowned cat is undoubtedly the statue of the great sphinx at Giza with its 73 meter long body of a lion. The age of the sphinx is the subject of controversy; but although some consider the statue to be much older, conventional wisdom dates the sculpture to about 2,500BC. It was supposedly sculpted under the direction of king Khafra whose own face was carved on the human head. …

‘Egypt is the gift of the Nile’, wrote the Greek historian Herodotus. The Nile’s gift is a layer of fertile soil, replenished annually at the time of the inundation. The Blue Nile conveys the rich silt from the huge catchment area of Ethiopia; an enormous amphitheatre defined by 4,000 metre high mountain peaks. The turbid water churns through canyons and gorges, collecting tributes from the Rihad and Dinder Rivers. Urged northwards by heavy rains and melting snow it cascades over the cataracts of eastern Sudan. On reaching Khartoum the Blue …

The Egyptian mud-brick house of British archaeologist Howard Carter has been reopened as a museum.
Carter was living in the house 87 years ago when he made his most famous discovery, the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
He had been employed by collector Lord Carnarvon to search for the tomb of the then relatively unknown pharaoh.
The museum displays tools he used in excavations and a collection of photographs of him at work.
It was in November 1922 that the archaeologist made his extraordinary find.
It proved to be the most intact and best preserved …

Archaeologists carrying out excavations prior to road-widening near Hamovil junction in northern Israel discovered a weapons cache including submachine guns and ammunition on Monday.
Four submachine guns, made in Egypt and stamped in Arabic “Port Said” and the number “17,” were found inside a tire, wrapped in oiled cloth. With them were 50 submachine gun 9-millimeter bullets and a khaki shirt.
At first the archaeologists thought the guns had been used by Arab soldiers in the battles of 1948. About a year ago outposts were found in digs in the area, …

Egyptian coins carrying the name of Joseph, the biblical patriarch whose arrival in Egypt as a slave eventually provided salvation for his family during decades of drought across the Middle East, have been discovered in a cache of antique items shelved in boxes in a museum, according to a new report.
The report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said the coins with Joseph’s name and image were found in a pile of unsorted artifacts that had been stored at the Museum of Egypt.
MEMRI, which monitors and translates reports from …

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Tutankhamen, the golden pharaoh, continues to bedazzle the entire world. The discovery of King Tut’s tomb, which took place around 85 years ago, remains the most important archeological discovery of our time, not just in Egypt, but in the entire world.
This was the first time that a royal tomb of one of Egypt’s pharaohs was discovered untouched, and with the complete set of funeral furniture which was buried with the King. In addition to this, there was also the treasures and jewelry which blinded anybody who set …

The serenely beautiful likeness of Queen Nefertiti — whose name literally means “a beautiful woman has arrived” — has been the most celebrated exhibit in Berlin’s Altes Museum.Half a million visitors a year marvel at her delicate features, long graceful neck, and the vibrant colours of her necklace and tall, flat-top crown, which contrast with the sepia tone of her smooth skin. Her face is sculpted to perfection, the eyelids and brows outlined in black. She is beautiful, striking, stunning.
No adjectives are suffice to describe Nefertiti’s sublime countenance. And what …