Ancient Egypt News

Edition 5 of Egyptological Magazine is published.  See my comprehensive editorial for full details.  Enjoy.  The next edition - Edition 6 - is tentatively planned for 31st May because we are aiming for every two to three months, although this one was less than six weeks.  If you have any material for that or Edition 7 (mid-August?) then please do get in touch.  Anyway, back to Edition 5 which is available now.  For fans of Ancient Egypt there is a lot in it.  We don't want to just write about tombs and temples so the content is very diverse.  For the subject area of this blog, there is another set of photos of the Valley of the Kings from Heidi Kontkanen, a review of a guide book for the West Bank tombs and temples, and a review of two books of Harry Burton photos.  Sometime I really ought to write a biography of the man - although hopefully Gary Beuk will beat me to it. This time he has offered the second half of his piece on Arthur Weigall.  Oh and Akhenaten crops up in a surprising place in this edition.  He isn't in the title of any article but he is in there somewhere if you look ... PS  I have promised to review Memphis and the Ptolemies for Edition 6 and write an article about one of the less well known pyramids.  So for me that is great - a lot of Memphis and stretching across the Dynastic period.   This article from News from the Valley of the Kings © Kate Phizackerley is offered on a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Licence 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Please visit the blog to join the discussion. You may reproduce articles if this notice is included unaltered and there are no adverts on your page. Comments © individual authors may not be reproduced. - 6 weeks ago

An inscription of an (almost) unknown king of the 17th Dynasty has been found in the Temple of Karnak by a team working in the Temple of Ptah.  His name is  Senakht-en-Re and this is the first mention of him found in Egypt, although there were some Greek mentions of him apparently.  This has implications for the chronology. For a king to be unknown also suggests his tomb remains to be discovered. My thanks to Andrea Byrnes for a better link that Luxor Times.   This article from News from the Valley of the Kings © Kate Phizackerley is offered on a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Licence 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Please visit the blog to join the discussion. You may reproduce articles if this notice is included unaltered and there are no adverts on your page. Comments © individual authors may not be reproduced. - 2 months ago

We now know the height of the new mummy found in the Valley of the Kings from a news report (my thanks to Andre Byrnes) was 1.55m including wrappings.  She was buried in an oversize coffin of 2m. The only other new details is that the tomb was found by accident ("stumbled upon" to use a phrase I was criticised for using when the tomb was first announced) when the University of Basel was building a low wall to protect KV40 from flash floods.  The announcement also repeats that Nehemes Bastet is the first woman without an obvious connection to the royal family found in the Valley of the Kings.    This article from News from the Valley of the Kings © Kate Phizackerley is offered on a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Licence 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Please visit the blog to join the discussion. You may reproduce articles if this notice is included unaltered and there are no adverts on your page. Comments © individual authors may not be reproduced. - 2 months ago

The Seattle Times (Hamza Hendawi) Taking advantage of Egypt's political upheaval, thieves have gone on a treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging, preying on the country's ancient Pharaonic heritage.

Egypt Exploration Society Great news.

IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world.

Read more On the 16t of March the Lions Club of Cairo met on the occasion of Mother’s Day. - 8 weeks ago

Click here to read more During his term as an attaché at the Italian Embassy, I met Bartolomeo Cuccia, who has lived in Egypt now for the last 10 years. - 4 months ago

Read more  This is a sad day for all of us who love Egypt. - 4 months ago