“It’s a smallish club, but gaining converts,” University of California, Santa Barbara, archaeologist Stuart Tyson Smith said of the Egyptologists who are excavating urban settlements along the Nile River, in this article in The New York Times.  A Neolithic house that had a central passage and two main rooms has been uncovered at Kingsmead Quarry, […]

A slab of basalt engraved with an Egyptian hieroglyph was uncovered near Damascus. Archaeologists estimate the carving to date to around 1,300 years B.C., from the reign of Rameses II. [Editor’s note: Title of linked article is incorrect. It should read, “Syria unearths 3,300-year-old pharaonic engraving.”] Egyptian authorities recovered a second carving, but this one […]