Category: CULTURE
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3,800-Year-Old ‘Tableau’ of Egyptian Boats Discovered
More than 120 images of ancient Egyptian boats have been discovered adorning the inside of a building in Abydos, Egypt. The building dates back more than 3,800 years and was built near the tomb of pharaoh Senwosret III, archaeologists reported. The tableau, as the series of images is called, would have looked upon a real wooden…
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The Alexandria International Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
Egypt has provided humanity with a majestic concrete civilization that continued for thousands of years since the break of dawn. Historians and archaeologists have been interested in studying this civilization and its endlessly creative, accomplished legacy. Marine archaeology is considered one of the new sciences that studies the Ancient Egyptian Civilization throughout its different ages…
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Tuthmosis II shrine in Karnak temple ready to open after restoration
The Centre Franco-Egyptien d’Etude des Temples de Karnak (CFEETK) (French- Egyptian Centre for Karnak Temples Studies) has finally completed the restoration work on the barque shrine of King Tuthmosis III, which was reconstructed in 2010 at the Open Air Museum of Karnak Temple. Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the ancient Egyptian Antiquities Section at the…
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Ancient Greeks may have built China’s famous Terracotta Army – 1,500 years before Marco Polo
Ancient Greeks artists could have travelled to China 1,500 years before Marco Polo’s historic trip to the east and helped design the famous Terracotta Army, according to new research. The startling claim is based on two key pieces of evidence: European DNA discovered at sites in China’s Xinjiang province from the time of the First…