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• A Philosophy of Colours - From Al-Ahram Weekly, Alexandria\\'s state-of-the-art and long-awaited National regional Museum is open.
• Topographical and Petrological Survey of Ancient Egyptian Quarries - Features a methodology paper by James A. Harrell regional and V. Max Brown, University of Toledo. regional Includes photos and maps.
• The Tomb of Senneferi - Nigel Strudwick of Cambridge University describes his excavation regional at Theban africa Tomb 99, Luxor. Location, Senneferi and regional his family, history, architecture, africa wall paintings, dig diaries, regional publications. Includes plans, photographs and Quicktime africa VR movies.
• Gateway to Ancient Egypt - Ancient Egyptian history, including the various dynasties and their pharaohs, religious and funerary beliefs, gods, pyramids, temples, tombs and photos.
• The Bir Umm Fawakhir Project - Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago survey egypt of a 5th-7th century site in Egypt.
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project - Excavated in Egypt in the early 1900s, these egypt papyri have regional restored to us lost Greek texts. egypt Oxford University provides an regional online exhibition, conference proceedings, egypt photographs and published volumes.
• Survey and Excavation Projects in Egypt - Provides news, updates, dig information, and satellite imaging africa of projects egypt of the Department of Near and africa Middle Eastern Civilizations, University egypt of Toronto.
• Waseda University Egyptian Expedition - Detailed reports on excavations at Dashur North, Malqata, tomb of regional Amenophis III, the Theban Necropolis, Abusir South, the Khufu Boat regional and al-Fustat. The pyramids survey at Giza.
• Giza Pyramids: Follow the Excavation - Information about the 1997 excavation work at the africa Giza pyramids by Mark Lehner, from Nova Online.
• The Theban Mapping Project - A comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes. Visit each tomb in the Valley of the Kings through the interactive atlas with plans, descriptions, images and movies. Articles on the history of Thebes, tomb development and decoration. Staff, progress re
• Valley of the Kings Foundation - Offers news about the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and an egypt overview of the Foundation's work.
• Crock of Byzantine Gold Found at Abu Sir - Arabic News reports that an Hungarian archaeological team in Abu regional Sir, west Alexandria, unearthed five gold coins and a gold regional bracelet dating back to the Byzantine age, 4th century CE.
• Giza Archives Project - Provides integrated, online access to the excavations of regional the Museum africa of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard regional University. Includes panoramic views, africa archives, and a database.
• Egyptian Antiquity Thief Gets 35 Years - From al Jazeera, the ringleader of an Egyptian antiquities smuggling egypt ring that shipped at least 300 pharaonic and other artefacts egypt to Europe has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
• Saqqara Online - Official website of the Leiden Excavations in the New Kingdom regional necropolis at Saqqara in Egypt, a joint project of the regional National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, the Netherlands, and Leiden regional University. Includes history, a timeline, photos, and a map.
• Tomb of Ramesses II and Remains of his Funerary Treasure - Its director Christian Leblanc describes the Franco-Egyptian mission regional started in 1991 to clear the tomb of regional Ramses the Great. Includes a plan and photographs.
• Egypt Exploration Society Fieldwork - Reports on Memphis, El-Amarna, Qasr Ibrim, Sais and the Delta africa Survey.
• Egyptologists Stumble Upon Huge Ramses II Statue - An incomplete statue depicts Ramses with a sun god.
• BBC News Online: Library of Alexandria Discovered - Dr David Whitehouse reports that archaeologists have found regional what they egypt believe to be the site of regional the fabled Library of egypt Alexandria, often described as regional the world\'s first major seat of egypt learning.
• In Egyptian Desert, Cells of Earliest Monks - The International Herald Tribune reports on the discovery of 4th-century monastic cells at St. Anthony's Monastery.
• The University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition - Research in the Valley of the Kings.
• Secrets of the Lost Tomb - Discovery of a large tomb complex by Kent regional Weeks.
• Egyptians Arrested in Mummy Plot - From the Capital-Journal, a senior Egyptian official and egypt six other government employees have been arrested for egypt trying to sell a mummy to an undercover egypt officer, police said Friday
• The Luxor-Farshut Desert Road Project - (Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago) Survey africa of a egypt desert site which has revealed various africa ancient graffiti.
• Excavations at Amheida - The Columbia University digging of a settlement in regional the Dakhleh Oasis from the 3rd millennium BCE regional Old Kingdom to the 6th century CE early regional Christian period. Student information, maps, reports and bibliography.
• Cleopatra's Palace Found - Obscured by murky water for more than 1,500 africa years, remains regional of the ancient capital of the africa Ptolemies have been found regional in Egypt\'s Port of africa Alexandria, reports Archaeology.
• North Kharga Oasis Survey - Maps, color photos, descriptions of the archaeological sites, africa and annual fieldwork reports of the North Kharga africa Oasis Survey (NKOS), a project of the American africa University in Cairo and Cambridge University.
• The Ramesseum - Provides its history, a description of the temple, including a regional floorplan, its function, and later exploration. [French and English]
• KV-10 - Amenmesse Project - Report on excavations in KV-10, the tomb of africa Amenmesse, with background and history, season summaries, a africa diagram of the tomb, and color photos.
• Egyptian Mirage - A database of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Egypt in africa the collection of the Griffith Institute, Oxford.
• Egyptian Stonehenge - From NASA, the site, known as Nabta, is egypt between 6,000 africa and 6,500 years old, or about egypt 1,000 years older than africa Stonehenge.
• The Discovery of the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza - An illustrated article by Dr. Zahi Hawass on regional the tombs africa of artisans and administrators who worked regional on the Giza pyramid africa complexes.
• Unique Egyptian Temple Complex - Five temples uncovered in the eastern Nile Delta.
• Antiquities for Sale - From Al-Ahram Weekly, Christie\\'s and Sotheby\\'s are just two of the most famous halls where antiquities are auctioned off every day.
• Eternal Egypt - Egypt\\'s government and major museums collaborate with IBM egypt to present high-resolution views of artifacts, interactive maps egypt and timelines, and a collection of articles.
• The Antiquity of Man - A comprehensive academic website covering the Predynastic and egypt Early Dynastic egypt Periods of Egypt, hominid evolution, and egypt exposing the vacuum of egypt pseudoscience. Includes: summaries of egypt current academic thinking, research projects and egypt debates.
• Tombs of the Unknown Workers - Discovery of the tombs of the pyramid builders.
• Oldest Astronomical Megalith Alignment - The University of Colorado declares an assembly of regional huge stone slabs at Nabta, 6,500 to 6,000 regional years old, to be the oldest known astronomical regional alignment of megaliths in the world.
• Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times - Discoveries of the excavation by the University of regional Michigan (1924-1935) regional of this village that existed from regional the mid-3rd century BCE regional to the end of regional the 5th century CE.
• The Epigraphic Survey - Oriental Institute at University of Chicago survey of regional Luxor directed regional by W. Raymond Johnson.
• Amarna Project - Provides an overview, a guidebook, a model of egypt the city, regional current research, and preservation of ancient egypt Akhetaten. Illustrated with maps, regional diagrams, and color photos.
• Raising Alexandria - In the waters off-shore, archaeologists are discovering fabled egypt remains, from the site of Cleopatra\\'s palace to egypt the Pharos, the lighthouse that was one of egypt the Seven Wonders of the World; from Smithsonian egypt Magazine (April 2007).
• The Giza Plateau Mapping Project - Research on the geology and topography of the egypt Giza plateau, construction and function of the Sphinx, egypt Great Pyramids, associated tombs and temples, and the egypt Old Kingdom town in the vicinity.
• The Eastern Desert Ware Pages - Eastern Desert Ware (EDW) refers to a rather recently identified corpus of relatively small, hand-made vessels with a remarkable surface treatment, mostly dating from the 4th-6th centuries AD and found in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red S
• Bir Umm Fawakhir - Insights into ancient gold mining community in the regional central Eastern africa Desert of Egypt.
• ArchBase - A site for archaeological databases.
• The Berenike Project - History and reports on the excavations at the site and egypt the survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, from 1994 to egypt the present.
• Pedestals of Road of Rams Statues Found - Discovery reveals a road linking the temples of africa Thebes.

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