Science: Archaeology: Regional: Africa: Egypt

Excavation in 1996 by Dr. Scott Carroll and Dr. Bas Van Elderen of the Monastery of St. John the Little (founded c.300 CE) at Wadi Natun. Includes diary, photographs and QuickTime videos.

Discoveries of the excavation by the University of Michigan (1924-1935) of this village that existed from the mid-3rd century BCE to the end of the 5th century CE.

A comprehensive academic website covering the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods of Egypt, hominid evolution, and exposing the vacuum of pseudoscience. Includes: summaries of current academic thinking, research projects and debates.

New investigations into the earliest Egyptian measuring systems. Includes: the Saqqara Ostraca and Petrie's 1883 book in online version.

Popular Science reports that archaeologists have unearthed at Berenike on the Red Sea the most extensive remains to date from sea trade between India and Egypt during the Roman Empire.

A database of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Egypt in the collection of the Griffith Institute, Oxford.

The Columbia University digging of a settlement in the Dakhleh Oasis from the 3rd millennium BCE Old Kingdom to the 6th century CE early Christian period. Plans, views, reports and bibliography.

From Al-Ahram, Greek Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world.

From Arabic News Hungarian archaeological team in Abu Sir, west Alexandria, recently unearthed five gold coins and a gold bracelet dating back to the Byzantine age, 4th century CE.

From Al-Ahram Weekly, Alexandria's state-of-the-art and long-awaited National Museum is open.

From Al-Ahram Weekly, Christie's and Sotheby's are just two of the most famous halls where antiquities are auctioned off every day.

From the Capital-Journal, a senior Egyptian official and six other government employees have been arrested for trying to sell a mummy to an undercover officer, police said Friday

Egypt's government and major museums collaborate with IBM to present high-resolution views of artifacts, interactive maps and timelines, and a collection of articles.

From Expatica, Frenchman was arrested at Cairo airport in August 2003 after customs officers found several terracotta figurines and 158 coins in his luggage.

From al Jazeera, the ringleader of an Egyptian antiquities smuggling ring that shipped at least 300 pharaonic and other artefacts to Europe has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Eastern Desert Ware (EDW) refers to a rather recently identified corpus of relatively small, hand-made vessels with a remarkable surface treatment, mostly dating from the 4th-6th centuries AD and found in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red Sea.