Egypt’s antiquities authority has announced that archaeologists pieced together a wooden embalming bed from fragments found in a room in KV-63. “We believe this was a room used for embalming because we found some embalming materials, including herbs, oils, and pottery vessels,” said Luxor antiquities director Mansour Bouriq. This article in Al-Ahram Weekly tells the […]

In Yemen, archaeologists have reportedly uncovered a statue of a queen sitting on a throne. Construction workers digging near the Washington Museum of Natural History in Missouri unearthed some 800-year-old American Indian artifacts.   Plans to reconstruct the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus in the nearby Turkish town of Selçuk are still on the books. The […]