by TESSA-Admin | Oct 4, 2012 | Shemu Articles
By Dr Per Stormyr In 2006 one of the most important recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt were made in Wadi Abu Subeira near Aswan. A team led by Adel Kelany of the MSA [Ministry of State for Antiquities] found a stunning assemblage of petroglyphs dating to...
by TESSA-Admin | Apr 6, 2012 | Shemu Articles
Dr. Stephen Buckley Following the first part of this article by Jo giving the background to our work on the royal mummies of the Amarna Period, it is now possible to discuss our recent mummification project, the science involved and the wider implications for mummy...
by TESSA-Admin | Apr 6, 2012 | Shemu Articles
Dr. Joann Fletcher Exactly a year ago in September 2010, Dr. Stephen Buckley and I were invited to Cape Town as guests of the Egyptian Society of South Africa. During our stay we gave lectures about ‘the Search for Nefertiti’ and ‘Recent DNA studies of Tutankhamen and...
by TESSA-Admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
By Colin Reader, January 2011 Introduction The landscape of Egypt is the product of a long and often tortured geological evolution which reaches back almost to the origins of the planet. In some of Egypt’s more remote areas, such as the high mountains of the...
by TESSA-Admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Shemu Articles
By Dr Maria Nilsson QUEEN Arsinoë II Philadelphos has been a topic of scholarly discussion for many generations, primarily focusing on her socio-political role as the wife of Ptolemy II. The academic world is divided as one part argues for and the other against a...
by TESSA-Admin | Oct 1, 2010 | Shemu Articles
By Dr. Zahi Hawass The discovery of more than one hundred Greaco-Roman mummies in Bahariya Oasis has swept the media worldwide with a force not seen since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis is the final...
by TESSA-Admin | Mar 20, 2010 | Shemu Articles
By Jil Kamil EGYPTOLOGY is constantly enriched as new evidence comes to light, and every discovery provides food for thought One of the most important finds of recent years has been a cache of statues found in 2003 by the Universityof Geneva’s archaeological mission...
by TESSA-Admin | Nov 24, 2008 | Shemu Articles
By Keith Grenville The famous painting The Subsiding of the Nile – Frederick Goodall 1822 – 1904 held in Cape Town The Subsiding of the Nile shows the Giza Plateau from the south-east, with the Great Pyramid of Khufu on the right, and the Pyramid of Khafra on the left...
by TESSA-Admin | Nov 19, 2008 | Shemu Articles
A review by Eucalyptus In the words of H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, wife of the President of Egypt and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bibliotheca Alexandrina: “The goal of this enormous project is to honour the past, to celebrate the present and to invent the Future...
by TESSA-Admin | Nov 19, 2008 | Shemu Articles
As the guest of The Egyptian Society of South Africa marking the society’s 10th anniversary The Society hosted Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities in South Africa on a short lecture tour – visiting Johannesburg where he...
