antiquities

Last June, the US-Israel-Turkey-Saudia funded Syrian rebels used a explosive-laden car to attack the shrine of Syedina Zainab (as) daughter of Hazarat Ali ibn Talib, the fourth righteous Khalifa of Islam, near city of Damascus. The suicidal attack injured 14 Shia pilgrims and damaged a portion...

Iraq’s al-Maliki government has rejected Washington’s offer to return half of Iraq’s Jewish archives stolen by the US occupation forces in 2003. Liwa Samaism, Iraqi Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, in an interview with daily Azzaman early this month, accused the United States of violating...

The secret gates at the heart of the Great Pyramid may be opened for the first time in 2012, a British robot company believes - solving a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists since 1872.Scoutek UK had already begun exploring behind the gates earlier this year - and produced the first-ever...

There have been many discussions going on recently about a conspiracy with the supposed discovery of one of the fabled Hall of Records in Egypt. Many researchers are claiming that both the Egyptian government and Zahi Hawass are covering up the discovery. Rumors are circulating throughout...

Written in red paint, the symbols may help Egyptologists figure out why mysterious shafts were built into the pyramids. •A robot was sent through the Great Pyramid of Giza and transmitted images showing hieroglyphs behind a mysterious door. •Archaeologists hope the symbols might help them...

Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings. Initial excavations have already confirmed some of the...

Egypt's antiquities ministry opened seven new tombs to tourism Monday (May 23), including the final resting place of King Tut's head bean counter and a tomb built for a general who would become king. Zahi Hawass, the Minister of State for Antiquities in Egypt, announced the opening on his...

Egypt's chief antiquities official, Zahi Hawass, has confirmed his resignation late this week from his post, amid political turmoil and the looting of antiquities... more here: http://content.usatoday.com/communit...wass-resigns/1

A full inventory of the Egyptian Museum has found that looters escaped with 18 items during the anti-government unrest, including two gilded wooden statues of famed boy king Tutankhamun, the antiquities chief said Sunday. The 18-day uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak engulfed the...

The Brooklyn Museum is preparing to give about 5,000 pre-Columbian artifacts in its collection to Costa Rica as part of a housekeeping move to trim its vast holdings. The museum will initially give the National Museum of Costa Rica 983 ceramic vessels and figurines that were legally acquired by...

One of the world's great museums resembled a military camp on Thursday, with soldiers patrolling behind its wrought iron gates and armored vehicles parked nearby. Inside, workers with white coats and latex gloves delicately handled artifacts that were damaged in the chaos sweeping Egypt. The...

HIRBET MADRAS, Israel – Israeli archaeologists presented a newly uncovered 1,500-year-old church in the Judean hills on Wednesday, including an unusually well-preserved mosaic floor with images of lions, foxes, fish and peacocks. The Byzantine church located southwest of Jerusalem, excavated...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/30/bpr.hawass.museum.damage.cnn Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the ground in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities chief said Sunday. But the group of about nine people did not manage to steal anything...

PARIS (AFP) – A French architect campaigning for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza said on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal furniture. Jean-Pierre Houdin -- who was rebuffed three years ago by Egypt in his appeal for a probe into...

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said Friday that Germany would not send the bust of an ancient Egyptian queen to modern-day Egypt because it was obtained nearly a century ago. Wowereit defended a German foundation's possession of Nefertiti's bust that has been in Berlin since 1913 after a dispute...

Associated Press Diaa Hadid And Maggie Michael, Associated Press – 2 hrs 16 mins ago CAIRO – The Egyptian army secured Cairo's famed antiquities museum early Saturday, protecting thousands of priceless artifacts, including the gold mask of King Tutankhamun, from looters. The greatest threat...

CAIRO – Archaeologists have unearthed six missing pieces from a 3,400-year-old colossal double statue of a powerful pharaoh and his queen. The Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Sunday the fragments of the statue of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye were discovered on the west bank...

An Egyptian archaeologist has chided New York City over the condition of Cleopatra's Needle, an ancient column in Central Park. Supreme Council of Antiquities secretary general Zahi Hawass (ZAH'-hee ha-WAS') wrote to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg complaining his city isn't taking care of the...

Since 1881, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle has stood in New York's Central Park, but a letter from the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities indicates that this may change if the monument is not taken better care of. Recently, Zahi Hawass, the aforementioned...

By Joseph Krauss (AFP) – Oct 19, 2010 JERUSALEM — The Dead Sea scrolls, containing some of the oldest-known surviving biblical texts, are to go online as part of a collaboration between Israeli antiquities authorities and Google, developers said on Tuesday. The 3.5 million dollar (2.5 million...