4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (109+ words) Painted reliefs adorning the walls of the tomb. (MOTA) One of the well-preserved reliefs at the tomb depicting agricultural practices. (MOTA) The chapel of Ity consists of a false door and various colored offering scenes, while the majority of decorations…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (528+ words) An international team of scientists involved in the research examined 28 microscopic samples taken from 14 pieces of artwork including wooden coffins, paintings found in the tomb of Nebamun and Sobekhotep, painted limestone slabs, plaster pieces used in the mummification process, and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (385+ words) Some of the gold covering for the shoes found at the burial. (Astafyev and Bogdanov/Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia) Small embossed gold plaques from the elaborate headdress of the young woman buried at the Karakabak-10 cemetery in western Kazakhstan....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (263+ words) The researchers identified 16 human individuals in primary or partly primary positions, a mummified canid and a disturbed deposit containing at least four additional individuals. The remains span the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty through the Ptolemaic period, roughly the eighth century BC to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (165+ words) Falcon imagery and an inscribed relief recovered during excavations at Tell Abu Saifi. Archaeologists have uncovered fragments of basalt and limestone falcon statues among finds pointing to the site's religious importance and its association with Horus. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (499+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered an approximately 2,400-year-old cist tomb in Aspendos’ newly identified Eastern Necropolis. Wrestler-decorated Aspendos coins found among the burial goods have led researchers to suggest that the deceased may have had a connection with sport, although the finds…...