Lower Egyptian News Today

Why did the Egyptians turn their dead into mummies and inter their pharaohs in large tombs? How did famous movie figures like the Scorpion King and

Students create films to document the reimagining of the Penn Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries.

Major work by Patrick Clawson on the structure of Egyptian capitalism and the changes it has undergone throughout its history, arguing that these changes can be understood only as part of developments in international capitalism and the demands of advanced capitalist countries.

Researchers from the University of Warsaw, and the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, have found that powdered quartz for the production of faience vessels from the ancient city of Athribis in the Nile Delta in Egypt, came from tailing heaps that remained after gold mining. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Athribis (Tell Atrib), was an ancient city in Lower Egypt, just northeast of Benha on the hill of Kom Sidi Yusuf. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

A new archaeological discovery in the ancient cemetery of Quesna in Menoufia governorate raises questions about the reasons for using gold foil in the mummification process, as well as the reuse of tombs in different eras.

Excavations at Buto, Egypt have finally come to fruition, with artifacts and an entire temple pillar room dating to the 26th dynasty revealed by the dig.

German and Egyptian researchers have uncovered a series of colorful ceiling paintings in the temple of Esna in Upper Egypt. As Professor Christian Leitz from the University of Tübingen reported, the relief-like images of the middle section of the cei

NEW YORK, May 15 — She is without doubt the most famous woman of Antiquity. For centuries, archeologists have been trying to unravel the many mysteries surrounding Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Researchers at the University of Hawaii are trying to shed light on a very specific aspect of her...

Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead