Egypt News » Faiyum News Egypt » Faiyum: ‘Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum’ opens Sunday at Walters Art Museum
Henry Walters and J.P. Morgan were frenemies. Both were the sons of powerful fathers. They didn’t come into their own until they reached middle age, when they were widely acknowledged as two of the ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: Catacomb-style building re-emerges from the sand to reveal ancient Egyptian coffins
Archaeologists in Faiyum excavated a catacomb-style funeral building with several coffins from ancient Egyptian and Greek eras, photos show. Photo from Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: Mummy Discovered in Egypt’s Faiyum Oasis
CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a mummy has been discovered at the Deir Al-Banat archaeological site in the Faiyum Oasis by a joint Russian-Egyptian team of researchers. Mostafa Waziri, ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: VIDEO: Paragliding attempt in Egypt’s Faiyum ends in disaster
Two Egyptian female students were left with broken bones and bruises after a paragliding ride ended in disaster. The two college students - Amani and Nouran Yasser - were visiting the scenic desert ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: Ancient egypt: Secrets of mummy's portrait exposed under microscope after 1,800 years
The striking painting, known as The Portrait of a Bearded Man, hails from the second century AD when Egypt was under Roman control. Consequently, the painting does not resemble Egypt's two-dimensional ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: Feature: eye-catching Egyptian antiquities of Greco-Roman eras shine again as museum reopens in Faiyum
Amid the ruins of the Ptolemaic town of Karanis in Egypt's Faiyum governorate, a graceful museum that houses hundreds of priceless artifacts illustrating the daily life of the ancient inhabitants of ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia Vol 1: Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide; a Study of the Region during Pliocene and Pleistocene Times
THE Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago a few years ago began a prehistoric survey of Egypt and Western Asia under the direction of Dr. J. II. Breasted. It devoted attention first to the ...
News Egypt » Faiyum: Egyptian 4,000-year-old pyramid opened to visitors
Photo taken on June 28, 2019 shows relics unearthed from a tomb dating back to the Middle Kingdom era which is some 500 meters from the pyramid of Senusret II, the Pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty, in ...