Investigating ancient Egypt's unresolved questions from the primary sources, one case file at a time, plus the latest finds from Egyptian archaeology.
KU Leuven says a coffin bottom from Dayr al-Barsha, dated to about 2040 BC, carries the oldest published Book of Two Ways. Its excavator doubts it was a map for the dead.
26 Oct 2026Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reopened the tomb of Amenhotep III on 4 October 2025, after a restoration project that ran in three phases between 2001 and 2024.
26 Oct 2026Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities says a rescue excavation in Gharbia, begun after a villager reported an inscribed block, found a Ramesses II head, a probable second statue of the king and a granite block.
25 Oct 2026Egypt's antiquities ministry says a mud-brick, pyramid-shaped Roman-era tomb at Bir al-Shaghala in Dakhla Oasis carries Egyptian funerary spells on its entrance and a 19-line Greek elegy.
25 Oct 2026On 22 October 2026 the sun again lit the statues in the inner chamber of Ramesses II's Great Temple at Abu Simbel. Reports differ on how many came.
23 Oct 2026A new study in Cedrus examines a small bronze figurine of the child god Harpocrates in the Hierapolis Archaeology Museum. It reads Egyptian, Greek and Roman influences in one object and dates it stylistically to the 1st–3rd centuries CE.
22 Oct 2026In 2025 a team lifted 22 of the Lighthouse of Alexandria's largest blocks from the harbour seabed. The aim, the project says, is a scientific digital twin of the lost tower.
22 Oct 2026A 2024 PLOS ONE paper proposes that a dam, a water-treatment system and a shaft lift helped raise Djoser's Step Pyramid. Several experts who commented are sceptical.
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