Large Cache of Embalming Materials Discovered in Egypt A team of Egyptologists from Charles University in Prague made the discovery in the western part of the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Abusir in the spring of last year when exploring a group of large shaft tombs located there. The collection of large ceramic vessels, containing residues …

Egypt: a 4,200-year-old funerary temple for a queen discovered Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has revealed details of the latest landmark discoveries to emerge from the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The vast burial grounds sit in what was once Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to more than …

The cache of embalming materials unearthed in Abu Sir The archaeological mission of the Czech Insтιтute of Egyptology discovered a cache of mummification materials during archaeological excavations inside a group of burial wells dating back to the 26th Dynasty and located in the western part of the Abu Sir cemetery. Secretary-General of the Supreme Council …

Hieroglyphic Texts Discovered on Coffins Believed to Contain Mummies of Birds and Guts Three burial shafts believed to contain mummified birds were discovered near Cairo. The coffins, which are covered in ancient hieroglyphic texts, were found in the Abusir necropolis, a large cemetery. The discovery was made after authorities received reports of illegal excavations in …

Archaeologists Identify Mummified Legs as Queen Nefertari’s A team of international archaeologists believe a pair of mummified legs on display in an Italian museum may belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari — the favourite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II. The team, which included Dr Stephen Buckley and Professor Joann Fletcher from the University of York’s …

Egypt Archaeologists Discover 18,000 Notes Describing Lives of Ancient Civilisation Archaeologists from the Insтιтute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Tübingen and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities have unearthed a collection of more than 18,000 ostraca (inscribed pottery fragments) in the ancient Egyptian town of Athribis, near to the modern …

Autopsy Unmasks King Tut’s True Face, and It Isn’t Pretty King Tutankhamun was a hobbled, weak teenager with a cleft palate and club foot. And he probably has his parents to blame. The mother and father of the legendary boy pharaoh were actually brother and sister. The startling discovery was revealed today by a team …

Ancient Egyptian bird mummy turns out to be human A group of UK-based researchers discovered the remains of a stillborn human fetus with an unusual condition in a 2,100-year-old Egyptian mummy long thought to be that of a hawk. The mummy of an ancient bird was found at the Maidstone Museum in the United Kingdom. …

Fossils that “clearly foreshadow” modern humans are 30,000 years older than we thought The Omo I and Herto fossils, found in East Africa, are the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils yet discovered in the region — but a new study shows they are tens of thousands of years older than we thought. Older studies had dated the …