Egypt & Sudan

The world-famous Egyptian necropolis at Giza is located to the west of Cairo. It contains unique monuments of the III-I millennia BC preserved under the patronage of UNESCO. The Russian Archaeological Mission has been excavating the rock-cut tombs of the...

Publication of the funerary temple and its architectural, archaeological, and statuary context In 1900, Émile Chassinat initiated excavations of the pyramid complex of King Radjedef (Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2560 BCE) at Abu Rawash (30.0323° N, 31...

The temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak (Luxor, Egypt) preserves exceptional traces of the royal cult established by Amenhotep I (c. 1525–1504 BC), second pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Among the earliest New Kingdom monuments at Karnak, a series of chapels...

Heliopolis, the “City of the Sun,” was known in ancient times as Iunu , the capital of the 13° nome of Lower Egypt. The archaeological site is currently located on the northeastern periphery of Cairo, lying beneath the modern districts of Matariya, Arab...

Bet Khallaf is a Third Egyptian Dynasty (2686-2613 BC ca.) necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at 26° 19’ North, 31° 47’ East in the desert zone bordering on the crop cultivations, 20 km north of Abydos necropolis (Umm el-Qa’ab), site of the...

A new scholarly volume, Survey of Wadi el-Hudi, Volume 1 , authored by Kate Liszka (recipient of this White Levy Program grant), Meredith Brand , Bryan Kraemer and their team, will soon offer the first modern look into the rich and complex archaeological...

Whereas the North Saqqara plateau is arguably one of the most important sites for the early history of Egypt, its understanding has been hindered by the limited available documentation. Various unfortunate circumstances prevented the archaeologists who...

Excavations at Saqqara, Egypt (WSG84 29.875278,31.221667), conducted in 1996 by a joint mission of the Australian Centre for Egyptology and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, found a stratified cemetery of modest burials north-east of the pyramid of 6th...

Adaima is located on the west bank of the Nile River, 8 km south of the modern city of Esna in Upper-Egypt. The site was inhabited from the Early Predynastic to the 3 rd Dynasty, i.e., 3800 to 2700 BCE. It covers 12 ha on the edge of the flood plain and...

Nelson Island is located in the Mediterranean Sea, in the bay of Aboukir, 4 km off Aboukir Cape and 18 km from the centre of Alexandria. After the Battle of the Nile (1798), the British Navy occupied “Abukir Island”, which the soldiers re-named “Nelson...