Egypt News » Faiyum News Egypt » Faiyum » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: Paintings: Myopic Tribute
One of the most cosmopolitan outposts of the Roman Empire during the 1st to 4th centuries A.D. was Egypt’s Faiyum region, about 60 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. A fertile farming and business ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: ‘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 » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: 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 » Commerce: The ancient whale from my Egyptian home town
If you pick up any book about the palaeontology of whales, there’s a strong chance that you’ll see ‘Faiyum Depression’ somewhere in there. Faiyum, Egypt, is a desert now, but it was once teeming with ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » Commerce: At the Met, A Faiyum Portrait Preserves Greatness
Last week, the Daily Pic visited the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to take in the Dan Graham installation. In case any of its readers decide to follow, I thought I’d point to ...