Investigating ancient Egypt's unresolved questions from the primary sources, one case file at a time, plus the latest finds from Egyptian archaeology.
A reassessment of 46 skulls from burials beside First Dynasty royal enclosures at Abydos reports potentially lethal trauma in 18, from a sample its author calls incomplete.
18 Oct 2026Bioarchaeologists re-examined six skeletons found at Dahshur in the 1890s. They report muscle wear consistent with archery in royal women buried with bows and daggers, and an outside Egyptologist notes that the evidence is indirect.
18 Oct 2026Egypt's tourism minister announced on 11 October that the Fayum tondo has been restored. It is due to leave Egypt for the first time, for Rome's Ara Pacis Museum.
15 Oct 2026Egypt's antiquities authorities say a mission has found a mud-brick, pyramid-shaped Roman-period tomb at Bir Al-Shaghala in Dakhla Oasis, with a 19-line Greek poem on a stele.
14 Oct 2026CT scans of a fossil skull from Egypt's Mokattam Formation show it was not close to the false gharial. It is now named Herugavialis cairensis, partly for a missing snout tip.
11 Oct 2026Underwater excavators on the submerged Royal Island of Antirhodos in Alexandria's eastern port report a bronze signet ring showing the city's lighthouse, which they describe as the first of its kind known.
9 Oct 2026Forty-six skulls from Petrie's excavations are now held in the Duckworth Collection at Cambridge. A bioarchaeologist re-examined them with modern forensic methods: 39% show perimortem trauma, injuries Petrie apparently took for postmortem damage.
7 Oct 2026A 1954 black-and-white photograph is all that survives of a seal impression that may name a woman in Egypt's highest royal symbol. New digital tools are reopening the case — and at least one outside scholar disputes the reading.
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