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14.4.2009
Between the 21st and 24th March 2009, a conference entitled “Lower Nubia: Revisiting Memories of the Past, Envisaging Perspectives for the Future” was held at the Nubia Museum in Aswan. The conference was organised by the UNESCO Cairo Office, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture (Supreme Council of Antiquities and Office for the Salvage of the Monuments of Nubia) and the Sudanese Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan) on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the official appeal to UNESCO launched by the governments of Egypt and the Sudan to save the monuments of ancient Nubia to be flooded by the waters of the projected High Dam at Aswan.
16.3.2009 SCA
A Spanish mission working at Dra Abu El-Naga on the West Bank at Luxor has discovered a second, painted burial chamber in the tomb of Djehuty (TT11).
16.3.2009
Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced today that an archaeological team from the Vitelli Papyrological Institute of the University of Florence has discovered a talatat block from an Amarna Period monument reused in the construction of a Christian church at the site of Sheikh ‘Ibada (Antinoopolis).
5.3.2009 SCA
During routine excavations at northwest Saqqara, an archaeological mission from Japan’s Waseda University discovered a previously unknown tomb dating to the 19th Dynasty. Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced the find, noting that the tomb is located on the summit of a remote, rocky outcrop some 1.5 kilometers northwest of the Serapeum. It lies near the tomb of Khaemwaset, a son of Ramesses II. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that inside the tomb’s burial chamber the mission unearthed a limestone sarcophagus belonging to a noblewoman named Isisnofret, along with three human bodies and several fragmentary funerary objects.
5.3.2009 SCA
Four anthropoid wooden coffins, three wooden canopic jars, and four ushabti boxes have been unearthed inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta in the Dahshur Necropolis, south of Giza plateau.
18.2.2009 Maggie Michael, Associated Press
CAIRO – A storehouse of 30 Egyptians mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb, in a new round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo, archeologists said last Monday.
18.2.2009 SCA
During routine excavation work carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission in the front courtyard at Karnak, part of the Karnak Temples site management project for the area enclosed between the temples and the Nile, a 250-metre-long embankment used to protect Karnak from the Nile flood was discovered, along with a quay, baths and a settlement.
22.1.2009
A group of stone architectural remains dating to the First Intermediate Period (ca. 2190-2016 BC) have been uncovered at Ehnasya El-Medina in Beni Suef Governorate.
22.1.2009 SCA
Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced that a French-Egyptian mission has discovered a previously unknown structure in the area of Ain Sokhna, about 120 km southeast of Cairo. The rectangular building with an interior hall dates to the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2061-1665 BC).
12.1.2009
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered what are thought to be the mummified remains of Queen Seshseshet.
21.11.2008
A mission from the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology is currently carrying out a feasibility study to examine the best procedures for the construction of the first underwater museum for Egyptian antiquities on the Mediterranean coast at Alexandria.
21.11.2008 SCA
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), has been chosen to receive a 2008 World Tourism Award in recognition of his dynamic and committed leadership in developing and implementing innovative management plans to care for and protect Egypt’s world famous ancient attractions, including several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The UNESCO World Heritage Center as an organization will also receive a 2008 World Tourism.
12.11.2008 SCA
Dr.Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced today that he and his team have discovered the Pyramid of Queen Sesheshet the mother of King Teti the first King of 6th Dynasty Queen at Saqqara.
3.6.2008 SCA
H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that a section of the avenue of sphinxes, known among archaeologists as the avenue associated with the Anubieion, and the superstructure of an unidentified pyramid have been found at Saqqara during excavations carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission led by Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
2.6.2008 SCA
H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that three unidentified mummies from Luxor’s west bank will be transported tomorrow, under the supervision of an archaeological team, to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo in Tahrir Square in order to conduct scientific studies concerning their lineage.
2.6.2008 SCA
H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that an Egyptian archaeological team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the well-preserved remains of a limestone wine factory dated to the Byzantine era (sixth century AD), during routine work in the area of Sayl al-Tuhfah, west of Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai.
15.4.2008
H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that an Egyptian mission will run the first underwater survey project in the River Nile, the survey will take place in the area between Aswan and Luxor, in the coming few months.
15.4.2008 SCA
H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that a quartzite ushabti figure and the cartouche of King Seti I, second king of the 19th Dynasty (1314-1304 BC), were found inside the corridor of the tomb of Seti I (KV 17) in the Valley of the Kings on Luxor’s west bank.
15.4.2008 SCA
H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture, announced that two golden coins of the Byzantine emperor Valens (r. AD 364-378) were unearthed early this week in the Sayl al-Tuhfah area in Gebel Abbas, located west of Saint Catherine’s monastery in Sinai. He added that these coins were found during routine excavations carried out by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
3.4.2008
Announcing a one day symposium to celebrate Fifty Years of the Egyptian-Czech Collaboration in Archaeology. In conjunction with the symposium, there will be an exhibition in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Czech (formerly Czechoslovak) Institute of Egyptology. All objects on display are from the Czech excavation/concession in Abusir.
21.2.2008 SCA
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced that an intact 11th dynasty burial of a man called Iker has been unearthed in the Dra Abu el Naga area on Luxor's west bank.
2.2.2008 SCA
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), announced that the mission of the California University has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to 5000 B.C. at Kom Oshim, Fayoum, in the course of the survey of this historical area.
23.1.2008 SCA
Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced that a Russian-American archaeological mission has discovered a group of well-preserved Roman and Ptolemaic mummies covered with cartonage, during their routine excavation work at Deir El Banat necropolis in Fayoum.
17.1.2008 SCA
The University Museum at Southern Illinois University in the United States handed over a Ptolemaic bronze cat reliquary to the Egyptian Embassy in New York earlier this week.
16.1.2008 SCA
The World Travel Awards (WTA) chose the Giza pyramids as the world’s leading attraction in December 2007 during its fourteenth annual ceremony held at the Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort and Spa in the Caribbean. This award was announced by H.E. Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture.
11.1.2008
At the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, the members of the institute are, together with the heads of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, preparing several events in the Czech Republic as well as in Egypt to commemorate this anniversary. The first of four exhibitions was opened on November 27th, 2007.
6.11.2007 SCA
The face of King Tutankhamun has been revealed as Dr. Zahi Hawass secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) did remove the mummy of king Tutankhamun from its sarcophagus, now at his tomb in the Valley of the Kings to a plexi-glass showcase equipped with the state-of-the art equipment to control the rate of humidity and heat. Culture minister Farouk Hosni announced today.
28.6.2007 SCA
With the approval of the Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, an Egyptian archaeological mission led by Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), identified the mummy of queen Hatshepsut inside tomb KV 60 in the Valley of the Kings on Luxor’s west bank. It is a very important and significant discovery executed by an Egyptian scientific and archeological team.
22.5.2007 SCA
Farouk Hosni, Egypt’s Culture minister, announced that the Belgian archaeological team from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven discovered an intact tomb belonging to a certain Henu in Deir Al-Bersha necropolis in Minya during their excavation work.
9.4.2007 SCA
Egypt’s Culture minister Farouk Hosni announced that an Egyptian archeological expedition from the SCA unearthed remains of lava of the volcano of Thera – which erupted in the Mediterranean Sea around 1500 BC, destroying several cities along the Palestinian and Egyptian coastline – inside the ancient Egyptian fortress of Tharo at the Horus military road in Qantara East in North Sinai.