Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Four ancient Egyptian artefacts that were illegally smuggled to Italy have found their way home. The artefacts were handed over to the Egyptian Embᴀssy in Rome some time ago and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt received them from the foreign ministry. Image credit: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Egypt has successfully recovered an ancient wooden coffin cover from a Houston museum in the US. The coffin cover was smuggled from Egypt several years ago. Egypt succeeded in recovering the coffin cover which was smuggled from Egypt several years ago. Image credit: Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Egypt’s Consul […]

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Pi-Ramesse (Piramesse) is an example of an ancient city of great importance, which archaeologists surprisingly identified in two locations. Reconstruction of the city of Pi-Ramesse in the early 13th-century BC, 2016. © artefacts-berlin.de. It took a long time for them to piece together artifacts from these two sites and create […]

Angela Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Djoser was possibly the founder of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. The Old Kingdom began with the third dynasty (2686 BC) and ended with the sixth, about 2333 BC). Pharaoh Djoser’s Ka Chamber. Image credit: Vincent Brown – source Djoser (also known as Zoser) was responsible […]

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Tanis, an ancient area in Egypt’s Nile Delta, was an early subject of the archaeologists’ interest. The city’s name was already well known as Soan (biblical Zoan). Among many Tanis tombs, one belonged to Psusennes I, the third Pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty who ruled from Tanis between 1047 – […]