Egypt 
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
1/21/2021
Archaeologists Unearth Egyptian Queen’s Tomb, 13-Foot ‘Book of the Dead’ Scroll
For the first time, archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis have excavated coffins, estimated at 3,000 years old.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/15/2020
Egypt Unearths New Mummies Dating Back 2,500 Years
A recent excavation has produced the largest discovery of artifacts of the year at the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.
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SOURCE: UC Santa Cruz
3/4/2020
Elaine Sullivan Uses 3D Technologies to Peel way the Layers of History
Professor Elaine Sullivan's publication is among the first to include interactive 3D models that can be navigated both spatially and temporally.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/23/20
A Bittersweet Homecoming for Egypt’s Jews
A rare ceremony at an ancient synagogue brought 180 Jews back to Egypt, decades after they were pressured to leave. But few Egyptians knew about it, highlighting government ambivalence.
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11/26/19
The History Behind the Rocket Used in the Latest Attack Against Israel
by Gideon Remez
Israel wielded a similar "mega-rocket" against Egypt 50 years ago. How Soviet advisers dealt with it.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/9/19
Woodrow Wilson and ‘the Ugliest of Treacheries’
by Erez Manela
After World War I, America was supposed to lead the fight against colonialism. What happened?
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2/24/19
What Can One Ecologist Teach Historians?
by John Gaudet
Ecology can help substantiate historical changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/4/19
Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies
Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a tomb that consisted of a number of chambers that dated from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C. that were accessible through a corridor and sloping set of stairs.
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SOURCE: NYT
9-25-18
The Newest Curse of the Mummy: Bad Drainage
Engineers and archaeologists working together to save an ancient riverside temple in Egypt have discovered rare treasures, including a sphinx.
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SOURCE: Press Release
4/6/18
Historian tells the forgotten story of America’s first female Egyptologist
Missouri University's Kathleen Sheppard painstakingly spent two years transcribing the scholar's letters.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
2-3-18
Ancient Egypt: Mysterious 4,400-Year-Old Tomb Reveals Rare Paintings in New Excavation
The tomb is thought to have belonged to “Hetpet,” a high-ranking female official.
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SOURCE: CBS News
12-9-17
Egypt discovers 3,500-year-old tombs in ancient city of Luxor
The tombs, located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery for noblemen and top officials, are the latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs spanning different dynasties of ancient Egyptian history.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
10-5-17
Ancient Egypt: 1,800 Years-old Pet Cemetery Filled With 100 Skeletons Discovered
The cemetery, dating from the first and second centuries A.D., was discovered in the Roman port town of Berenike, established in Ptolemaic Egypt between 285-246 B.C.
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SOURCE: ynetnews.com
9-13-17
Textbook featuring Israeli flag raises ire in Egypt
Study book for eight graders shows the Israeli flag instead of the Palestinian one on a map of the Middle East, causing the Education Ministry in the country to order the removal of the controversial page from the book and bar it from further distribution while it investigates the matter.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
6-22-17
Ancient Egyptian Writing: New Symbols Reveal Development Of Hieroglyphics
A new discovery may hold some clues as to how carved images evolved into a formal writing system.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
5-30-17
Egyptian Mummy Study Suggests Close Ties to Near East
The study found that the genetic material within the mummies was more similar to ancient peoples of the Near East and the Levant (an area of the eastern Mediterranean including Israel and Palestine) than it is to modern Egyptians.
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4-10-17
The Mummies Are Back, Directly from the Grave
by Bruce Chadwick
"Mummies," a new exhibit at New York's Museum of Natural History, is a sprawling tribute to the mummies of Egypt and Peru.
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SOURCE: CBS News
4-2-17
2,000-year-old mummy shroud found in museum storage
Museum curators in Scotland have discovered a piece of Egyptian history -- and they found it inside a crumpled up paper bag.
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SOURCE: BBC
3-16-17
Egypt Pharaoh statue 'not Ramses II but different ruler'
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC.
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SOURCE: The Telegraph
3-10-17
Archaeologists hail 'big discovery' in Egypt as statue 'depicting Ramses II' unearthed
The quartzite statue was found broken into several pieces in the Matariyyah neighborhood of Cairo by a German-Egyptian archaeological team.
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