Ancient Egypt

A team of researchers recently studied paintings in the Theban Necropolis near the Nile River using X-ray fluorescence imaging and discovered never-before-seen details of the painting process.Egypt Wants Its Rosetta Stone Back From the British MuseumUnder X-ray light, the 3,100-year-old paintings glowed with their artists’ first drafts, hidden to the naked eye for millennia. The team’s research was published this week in PLoS ONE.“Documentation remains a problem in 2023 and thus what we are trying to do is basic…

Egyptian Queen Cleopatra has captivated the attention of historians for centuries, many of whom say she was descended from Macedonian Greek kings, and claim that very little of her background was steeped in non-Greek ancestry. The new Netflix docuseries, African Queens, is changing the narrative and has received some backlash for casting a biracial actress as Queen Cleopatra.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksAdele James, known for her role as Tina Mollett in the TV series,…

CT scans of the mummy revealed the boy’s skeleton and amuluts (white spots on rightmost scan).Image: SN Saleem, SA Seddik, M el-HalwagyOver a century ago, the mummy of a teenage boy was found in Nag el-Hassay, Egypt. The body remains wrapped to this day, but a team of researchers just used CT scanning to peer through the linens to find 49 amulets on and inside the boy’s body.The mummy was in a Ptolemaic cemetery about 500 miles south of Cairo, making the remains about 2,300 years old. The CT scans the team conducted also…

The Rosetta Stone has been housed at the British Museum since 1802.Photo: Daniel Kalker (AP)Nearly 200 years after the Rosetta Stone was deciphered, unlocking the key to understanding Ancient Egyptian heritage, the iconic slab sits far from where it originated. But a group of Egyptian archeologists is hoping to change that, renewing a plea to return the Rosetta Stone back to its birthplace.The group launched a petition to call on country officials to submit a formal request to England for the return of the Rosetta Stone,…

Some 250 painted sarcophagi were put on the makeshift exhibit. Photo: Amr Nabil (AP)An impressive collection of 2,500-year-old ancient Egyptian artifacts was showcased today atthe famous Saqqara necropolis. The makeshift exhibit was located at the foot of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, according to the Associated Press. All relics shown today at the media event date back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt (around 664 to 332 BCE) and were excavated at Saqqara, the necropolis (cemetery) associated with the ancient…