Archaeologists have found evidence of a visitor from India in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
“A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be” (gift link).
A new study suggests that the destruction of the Jewish temple on Elephantine Island was caused by the same Hananiah, a descendant of Sanballat, who had been the governor of Samaria. The underlying journal article is here.
“An American archaeological mission from New York University has completed the restoration of a granite head of Ramesses II at his temple in Abydos.”
“The restoration of the gateway of King Ramesses III at the Karnak Temples has been completed, alongside the discovery of a rare stone stela dating to the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.”
The exhibition “Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold” is now on display in London.
A special exhibition entitled “A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia”opens next month at the ISAC Museum.
“Iranian archaeologists have launched an interactive map that geolocates cultural sites in the country that have been damaged during the war.”
New release: Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period, by Abbas Alizadeh (ISAC Museum Publications 3; $30 print; open-access)
Expedition Bible’s latest video goes looking for the traditional location where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea.
HT: Agade, Explorator