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  • Pakistan unearths the city defeated by Alexander the Great

    Pakistan has unearthed the city defeated by Alexander the Great. The ruins that Italian archaeologists have unearthed in modern-day Barikot, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, once belonged to Bazira, the city conquered by Alexander the Great. In short, Italian archaeologists working in the Italian-Pakistani excavations in the Swat valley did not go on vacation this summer.…

  • We should give the Olympics back to Greece, permanently

    In a spirit of international cooperation and common sense I think we should promote the idea of just giving the Summer Olympics to Greece. Permanently. By all accounts they made a reasonable fist of it when they last had them and could do so time and time again. It has a nice historical touch ……

  • Grand Egyptian Museum construction to be completed by the end of 2016

    The Ministry of Antiquities is planning to finish construction of the first phase of the Grand Egyptian Museum before 2016’s end. The ministry aims to have the museum partially-opened by mid-2017, keeping in mind several suggestions to increase its resources. According to dailynewsegypt.com, the Minister of Antiquities, Khaled El-Anany has discussed new sources of revenue for the ministry, such as offering…

  • Archaeo Delta Photography Exhibition

    The exhibition is curated by the BA Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies in collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities and Padua University and it will take place from 8 September until 30 September. The exhibition aims to document archaeological expeditions in various sites located in the Egyptian Delta in a rather unprecedented manner. The exhibition…