Egyptology Blog

Rumours of another tomb found in the Valley of the Kings?

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:44:10 GMT

Jane Akshar mentions rumours of another tomb find near KV-8 (Merenptah) on her blog and I received an email from Lug Buergin last night pointing me to this story [Sensational Discovery in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings!, Luc Buergin, Legendary Times, March 11, 2008] (Jane has updated her blog post since I first looked to include this story) [read more]

Egyptians Protest Government Attempt to Raze Homes

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:17:17 GMT

Hundreds of residents of the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor clashed with riot police Friday during a protest against government attempts to move them to make room for an open-air museum free of modern buildings. [read more]

Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:12 GMT

New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the art records of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found. [read more]

Review: Monster Moves: Rescuing Ramesses

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:27:18 GMT

Monster Moves: Rescuing Ramesses was shown on Tuesday night (March 4th 2008) on channel Five in the UK. I was a bit apprehensive at first but the show turned out far better than I expected. [read more]

Nefertiti's Eyes

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:50:21 GMT

All eyes were on the Valley of the Kings the morning of February 5, 2006, when our expedition first looked into the chamber now known as KV63, the first tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since that of Tutankhamun (KV62) in 1922. [read more]

I, Obelisk

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:00:42 GMT

I the obelisk of Seti I and of his son Ramses II, was born and raised a devoted Egyptian in spite of my current address. At birth, I weighed more than 250 tons, and I measured more than 24 metres’ (78’) in length. It took an army of chanting men with chisels and heavy hammers to labour me out of the granite quarries near Elephantine. Workers swarmed over me for months, midwives on a mission, as the parent rock was cut away, and I was delivered, cut by cut, blow by blow. Great levers then lifted me to an embankment, where thousands pulled at straining ropes, dragging me, gently despite my great bulk, to the Nile. There, cradled in a special barge and the focus of a mobile ceremony, I journeyed down through history, from Thebes and Abydos to Memphis and Anu. [read more]

UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara's prehistoric art

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:39:18 GMT

Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal and human figures created up to 6,000 years ago on Western Saharan rocks have been vandalised by United Nations peacekeepers, The Times has learnt. [read more]

Desertification and Civilization

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:18:22 GMT

Three reddish-brown giraffe images watch over Nick Brooks as he struggles, hunched over, to shovel sand from the rock shelter’s floor. Some 150 meters (500’) above a sweeping, flat and desolate Western Sahara landscape, the burly environmental scientist is hoping these cliffs of Bou Dheir will reveal just when those animals roamed the plains. Three thousand years ago? Four thousand? Five thousand? [read more]

Grim secrets of Pharaoh's city on TV tonight

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:08:34 GMT

Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists. [read more]

Blogging update

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:44:16 GMT

With increases in family and work commitments I can no longer update this blog as frequently as I used to. I will endeavour to post interesting bits of news as I find them but cannot be as comprehensive as before. [read more]

Scientists to use NHS scan on mummy of Nesperennub

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:09:13 GMT

An Egyptian mummy nearly 3,000 years old is to be examined using the latest in NHS imaging technology. [read more]