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December 11, 2009
Egypt Starts King Tut’s Tomb Restoration and Other News about Antiquities in Egypt
Egypt has started implementing the tomb of Tutankhamen restoration project, Culture Minister Farouq Hosni said on Tuesday 10/11/2009. The Tutankhamen project will undertake detailed planning for the conservation and management of the tomb and its wall paintings.
“I always see the tomb of King Tut and wonder about those spots, which no scientist has been able to explain. I was worried about these, and have asked experts to examine the scenes,” Dr. Zahi Hawas [he has since been sacked], Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) pointed out.
By comparison with other tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamen’s tomb is relatively simple. Of the tomb’s four rooms, only the walls of the burial chamber are decorated.
The wall paintings in this chamber, as well as some of the
tomb’s other surfaces, are marred by disfiguring brown spots, which were noted by Carter’s excavation team.
The nature and origin of the spots have never been fully ascertained, and they are among the technical conservation challenges presented by the tomb.
Four archaic wells discovered in Egypt
Egyptian -French archaeologists have unearthed in El- Sharqiya province four ancient wells that date back to the 25th and 26th pharaonic dynasties. The wells are part of a newly-discovered Sacred Lake in a temple to the Egyptian goddess Mut in the ruins of ancient Tanis.
Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General Zahi Hawwas said on Sunday 8/11/2009 the wells vary in shape and size.
Two of them have circular shapes with a 210-220 cm diameter, while the other two are square.
They are believed to have been used by the people for daily purposes, he added.
The Sacred Lake was uncovered in October. It was found 12 meters below ground at the San al-Hagar archaeological site in Egypt’s eastern Nile Delta and was 15 meters long and 12 meters wide and built out of limestone blocks. It was in good condition. It was the second sacred lake found at Tanis, which became the northern capital of ancient Egypt in the 21st pharaonic dynasty, over 3,000 years ago.
The first lake at the site was found in 1928. The goddess Mut, sometimes depicted as a vulture, was the wife of Amun, god of wind and the breath of life. She was also mother of the moon god Khonsu.
Discoveries of Polish archaeologists in a Byzantine basilica in Egypt
Polish archaeologists discovered an unknown baptistery, and a few hundred bronze coins during the tenth archaeological season in Marea, a town situated 45 kilometers southeast of Alexandria.
Whilst excavating the floors in the basilicas main nave and its northern side nave the scientists discovered a baptistery. Its dimension is 4.5 by 2.5 meters and is 1.5 meters high. It is built from large stone blocks.
The archaeologists also discovered a well attached to the baptistery with special holes in its walls for the people who where to clean it. , that was attached to the baptistery, It hasn’t been established whether water from the well,
Two giant structures were discovered in the southern cave. They were probably built there to create a small area next to the side entrance to the basilica. Archaeologists discovered fragments of a marble bowl for holy water between them. In the northeastern corner of the basilica archaeologists discovered a camouflaged cellar made up of two rooms, partially rock-hewn. The cellar was full of almost one hundred small water vessels and olive lamps. They also discovered a few hundred bronze coins. Two ditches above the cellar served to ventilate it.
Egyptian, Hungarian culture ministers inaugurate archaeological cultural celebration in Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni and his Hungarian counterpart Istvan Hiller opened Saturday 7/11/2009 an exhibition showcasing 140 artifacts discovered by the Hungarian archaeological mission in Egypt.
Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawwas was present.
The exhibition, which was held at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, is organized to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Hungarian archaeological mission operating in Egypt.
Members of the Hungarian archeological mission and several
Egyptian archaeologists attended the event, at which the Egyptian and Hungarian culture ministers hailed bilateral cooperation in the cultural and archaeological fields.
The Hungarian mission operated in and around Thebes 102 years ago, Hawwas said.
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