Mar 09 2010
Centuries-Old Shipwrecks Found in Baltic Sea
A gas company building an underwater pipeline stumbled upon several wrecks, some dating back 800 years.
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Mar 05 2010
Egyptian Queen Offered Bread, Jug of Beer at Funeral
Click on image to zoom in. Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) One loaf of bread and one jug of beer: that's what Egypt's Queen Behenu was offered during her funeral, according to a translation of hieroglyphics engraved on white stone ...
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Mar 03 2010
Ancient Egyptian Queen’s Burial Chamber Discovered
French archaeologists working at Saqqara have unearthed the burial chamber of a 4,000-year-old queen, Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), announced today. Badly destroyed, the 33-by 16-foot burial chamber belonged to Queen Behenu, wife ...
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Mar 01 2010
Colossal Head Statue of King Tut’s Grandfather Dug Out in Luxor
The colossal head, after its excavation. Courtesy: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) A colossal head statue of King Tut's grandfather has been dug out in Luxor, Farouk Hosni, Egypt's Culture Minister, said Sunday. Smoothly polished and perfectly preserved, the ...
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Feb 26 2010
Ancient Bible Manuscript Fragments Reunited
Only a handful of Hebrew biblical manuscripts have survived the era in which they were written.
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Feb 25 2010
Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience
Visitors to Pompeii will be able to experience a live dig next month in the ancient Roman town that was buried in Mount Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D. The site of the open-door excavation is the so-called House of ...
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Feb 22 2010
Jerusalem City Wall Possibly Built by Solomon Discovered
An ancient street was uncovered in Jerusalem earlier this month, revealing what commercial life was like in the Old City 1,500 years ago, and now archaeologists have hit a wall. In a very good way. A section of Jerusalem's city ...
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Feb 22 2010
U.S. to Return 3,000-Year-Old Pharaonic Sarcophagus to Egypt
U.S. authorities will return a beautifully painted 3,000-year-old coffin to Egypt, Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said on Monday. Decorated with colorful religious scenes, the ornamented coffin contains the remains of a man called Imesy. Zahi Hawass, the secretary general ...
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Feb 19 2010
African Society Revealed in Early Animal, Human Figures
Eighty clay figures depicting both animals and humans have just been excavated in Northern Ghana, according to information provided to Discovery News by the University of Manchester. Tim Insoll of the university, along with Ghana's Benjamin Kankpeyeng, led the project. ...
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Feb 18 2010
Controversy Arises Over King Tut Findings
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, unveiled new evidence for King Tut's lineage and cause of death at a packed press conference on Wednesday. Hawass confirmed the principal conclusions made in a paper published in ...
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