New research confirms that a lost branch of the Nile River played a significant role in the construction of Giza’s pyramids.
“Egypt is celebrating the bicentenary of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the creation of Egyptology with a batch of new events and a social media campaign.”
The exhibition “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs” is now on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
An Italian team is set to return to excavations at Ebla, 12 years after war in Syria halted 47 years of uninterrupted digging. Though the archaeological site was not bombed, the ruins were seriously damaged by tunnels, trenches, and pillboxes. The Syrians for Heritage, however, are opposed to the University of Rome La Sapienza’s resumption of excavations at Ebla and Tell Ferzat. Ferrell Jenkins posts a couple photos from his visit to Ebla 20 years ago.
Archaeologists have identified more than 350 “kites” in northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq.
The scholars who deciphered Linear Elamite explain how they did it.
A new archaeological museum has opened in Isfahan, Iran.
New release: Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East, by Amanda H. Podany (Oxford, 2022; $35)
The Bible Mapper Blog continues to create and share free maps each week:
- Jehu Executes Judgment
- Deborah and Barak Defeat Sisera
- Places Referenced by Trees in the Bible
- Table of Nations: Ham’s Descendants
- Table of Nations: Shem’s Descendants
- Table of Nations: Japheth’s Descendants
- Elam and the City of Susa
- Jesus’ Final Journey to Jerusalem
I’ll have more stories in part three of this weekend’s roundup tomorrow.
HT: Agade, Arne Halbakken, Joseph Lauer, Charles Savelle, Alexander Schick, Explorator
