Ancient Buddha Statue Discovered in Egypt A 1,900-year-old statue of the Buddha — discovered at the ancient Egyptian port city of Berenike, on the coast of the Red Sea — likely belonged to a transplant from South Asia, according to archaeologists.  The Buddha statue depicts Siddhartha Gautama, who lived in South Asia around 2,550 years …

Medieval Christian Paintings Unearthed in Sudan Archaeologists have uncovered a hidden complex of rooms covered with Christian paintings in Old Dongola, a deserted town in Sudan that was once the capital of medieval Makuria. A team from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology had been exploring houses dating from the later Funj period, 16th to …

An inscription containing 15 headless falcons and unknown ancient rituals found in an ancient Egyptian temple Archaeologists have discovered a shrine containing previously unknown ancient rituals during excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman port in Egypt’s eastern desert. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Sikait Project led by Professor Joan Oller Guzman at the …

Mummy of Egyptian pharaoh AmenH๏τep ‘unwrapped’ for the first time in 3,500 years! Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the 3,500-year-old mummy of pharaoh AmenH๏τep I. For the first time, a team in Egypt used CT scans to see inside the burial wrappings of Pharaoh AmenH๏τep I. The non-invasive research enabled scientists to reveal AmenH๏τep’s face and work …

Advanced imaging techniques reveal secrets of sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins Researchers from the British Museum have gained valuable insight into the contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins using cutting-edge neutron tomography. Lead researcher Daniel O’Flynn and his colleagues present the findings of their examination of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins, all …

Tomb of Amun Temple Steward Discovered in Saqqara An archaeological mission from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO) and the Egyptian Museum in Turin (Museo Egizio) uncovered the remains of Panehsy’s tomb, the steward of Amun Temple in the early Ramesside period, along with a collection of smaller chapels in the Saqqara Necropolis. …

Scientists Trace an Ore Source for the Benin Bronzes The Benin Bronzes — some roughly 3,000 stunning bronze artworks sculpted by African metalsmiths between the 16th and 19th centuries — were crafted from metal mined from Germany’s Rhineland region, a new study finds. Researchers had long suspected that the masterfully crafted sculptures — created by …

Ancient Wooden Tags Offer Clues to Egypt’s Climate Swiss scientists are reconstructing the climate of the ancient world using small wooden artefacts hung on mummified remains. Throughout history, the earth’s climate has undergone natural fluctuations. Although insignificant compared with the current crisis, these fluctuations would nevertheless have been enough to make and unmake empires. According …

What did Homo sapiens eat 170,000 years ago? Roasted, supersized land snails Slow-motion large land snails made for easy catching and good eating as early as 170,000 years ago. Until now, the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens eating land snails dated to roughly 49,000 years ago in Africa and 36,000 years ago in Europe. But tens of …