More than 100 sarcophagi from the Ptolemaic period have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt.
“More than 200 years after the rediscovery of an Egyptian temple [at Esna], a German-Egyptian research team has uncovered the original colors of inscriptions that are around 2,000 years old.”
CT scans are providing new information about two Egyptian mummies buried in the Roman period.
The American Research Center in Egypt has released two new virtual tours: the C-Ware Vessel and the KV 55 Coffin.
A 17 million euro renovation at the Giza Pyramids includes a new visitor center, an electric bus, and a restaurant.
Archaeologists working in southern Turkey have dubbed a newly discovered mosaic “the Mona Lisa of Kadirli.”
Mathematical models to determine the missing lengths of ancient scrolls are untrustworthy. The underlying journal article is here.
On this week’s The Book and the Spade, Jeffrey Kloha provides a virtual tour of the revised Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Museum of the Bible.
Logos has released an audio version of the Hebrew Bible, read by Abraham Shmuelof, available for free.
Ferrell Jenkins shares a map and photographs illustrating the island of Patmos, the place of John’s exile when he wrote the book of Revelation.
HT: Agade, Joseph Lauer, Ted Weis