Egypt News » Faiyum News Egypt » Faiyum » Trade: 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
News channel or source: https://www.nature.com/articles/128287a0
Published on: Thursday 21 August 2025
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 » Trade: Paintings: Myopic Tribute
News channel or source: https://time.com/archive/6630824/paintings-myopic-tribute/
Published on: Wednesday 25 February 2026
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 » Trade: Mummy Discovered in Egypt’s Faiyum Oasis
News channel or source: https://archaeology.org/news/2017/11/14/171114-egypt-mummy-faiyum2/
Published on: Tuesday 14 November 2017
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, ...