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Discoveries
Egyptian team uncovers Graeco-Roman burials at Tell Kom Aziza in the Delta
An Egyptian mission excavating the multi-period cemetery at Tell Kom Aziza in Beheira has uncovered a Graeco-Roman section with diverse human funerary practices, The Past reports. The find adds to knowledge of burial customs in the Nile Delta during the centuries of Ptolemaic and Roman rule.
Source: The Past
Discoveries
Egyptian mission uncovers 18 tombs at Marina el-Alamein
An Egyptian mission has discovered 18 tombs at Marina el-Alamein, the site of the Graeco-Roman city of Leukaspis on Egypt's north coast. The find includes 11 deep rock-cut tombs and 7 limestone surface tombs, many still sealed, The Past reports.
Source: The Past
Discoveries
Almost complete funerary assemblage found at ancient Heliopolis
Archaeologists at ancient Heliopolis, in the Matariya district of Cairo, have uncovered an almost complete funerary assemblage beneath a mud-brick burial structure. The Past reports that the group of personal and ritual objects includes an item of copper.
Source: The Past
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Egyptian mission documents unusual burials at Tell Quesna in the Delta
An Egyptian mission has documented an unusual funerary practice in a newly discovered tomb at the Tell Quesna necropolis in Menoufia Governorate, in the central Nile Delta. The team found several burials accompanied by pottery, according to The Past.
Source: The Past
Research
New book surveys ancient Egyptian textiles in northern English museums
A new book, Weaving for Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Textiles, surveys significant collections of ancient Egyptian cloth held in museums across the north of England. The Past's review notes that these often-overlooked artefacts offer insights into technology, economics, religion, and dress.
Source: The Past
Discoveries
The Collector lists seven objects it argues museums should return to Egypt
The Collector has published a feature naming seven ancient Egyptian objects held in overseas museums that it argues should be returned to Egypt, using the November 2025 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum to renew the repatriation debate.
Source: The Collector
Discoveries
A new account revisits the reconstruction of Queen Hetepheres I's furniture
The Past revisits the reconstruction of Queen Hetepheres I's funerary furniture, including her carrying-chair, following George Reisner's discovery of her tomb at Giza in 1925 and the work of William Arnold Stewart. Hetepheres I was the mother of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid.
Source: The Past
Research
Cleopatra VII gains a volume in Bloomsbury's Significant Figures series
Cleopatra VII has become the latest subject in Bloomsbury's Significant Figures in World History series, joining Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and Henry VIII. The new reference guide gathers her life and works into a single accessible volume, according to a review in The Past.
Source: The Past
Research
Ancient Egypt Magazine issue 156 published, spanning Tutankhamun galleries to the Osirion at Abydos
Issue 156 of Ancient Egypt Magazine has been published, with features on the Tutankhamun galleries at the Grand Egyptian Museum, the origins of carnelian, ancient pain relief, the Litany of Ra, women's literacy, John Gardner Wilkinson and the Osirion at Abydos. The line-up was listed by The Past.
Source: The Past
Research
The Past reviews a new book on religion in Egypt from pharaonic times to today
The Past has reviewed a new book tracing religious ideas in Egypt from the pharaonic period through the Christian and Islamic eras. Taking Herodotus's description of the Egyptians as the most religious of peoples as its cue, the book explores continuity and change across thousands of years.
Source: The Past
Exhibitions
Elephantine papyri unseen since 1916 to feature in exhibition on the origins of writing
An exhibition on the origins of writing in ancient Egypt will feature papyri from Elephantine that have been held in the Brooklyn Museum since 1916 and never before displayed, according to listings from The Past.
Source: The Past
Discoveries
Three rock-cut tombs of early New Kingdom officials found at Saqqara
An Egyptian team has discovered three rock-cut tombs of high officials from the early New Kingdom in the Bubasteion necropolis at Saqqara. The tombs are inscribed with the biographies of the men buried within them.
Source: The Past
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