# egyptian (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover egyptian. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Lament for Inanna, Written in Two Dead Languages](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/a-lament-for-inanna-written-in-two) _2026-08-22 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ The tablet is clay, about ten centimeters by eight and two and a half thick. ## [The Pottery That Was Never Midianite](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-pottery-that-was-never-midianite) _2026-08-22 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A team led by Marta Luciani at the University of Vienna has analyzed several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the oasis of Qurayyah in northwest Arabia and established, for the first time, that the pottery known as Qurayyah Painted Ware was actually made there. ## [Layers of history: Egypt unearths 6,000-year cemetery spanning Predynastic to Ptolemaic eras](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-906200) _2026-08-22 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ The finds confirm that the area had been settled during the Hyksos’ reign during the 15th Dynasty given its proximity to Avaris, which had served as the capital city at the time. ## [The Oldest Love Spell Was Not a Love Song](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-oldest-love-spell-was-not-a-love) _2026-08-21 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A small clay tablet in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, catalogued by Assyriologists as MAD 5, 8, carries roughly forty lines of Old Akkadian text. ## [The Oldest City Map in the World](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-oldest-city-map-in-the-world) _2026-08-21 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A clay tablet roughly the size of a hand, incised more than three thousand years ago, carries a plan of the Mesopotamian city of Nippur. ## [New Study of a Hunnic-Era Grave in Kazakhstan](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/new-study-of-a-hunnic-era-grave-in) _2026-08-20 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A young woman was buried on the Mangyshlak Peninsula in western Kazakhstan sometime in the second half of the fifth century or the first half of the sixth. ## [The Egyptian Army Myth-Making](https://barracks.substack.com/p/the-egyptian-army-myth-making) _2026-08-20 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ How Cinema Made the Military Intimate ## [A Painted Slab From Wetar Island](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/a-painted-slab-from-wetar-island) _2026-08-20 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A limestone slab painted with red concentric circles and radiating lines has been excavated at the Huknaur rock shelter on Wetar Island, in eastern Indonesia. ## [The King Who Ruled for 28,800 Years](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-king-who-ruled-for-28800-years) _2026-08-19 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Watch now | Eight kings ruled 241,200 years before the flood. Then the numbers started shrinking. What the Sumerian King List was really built to do, and the one king on it archaeology has confirmed. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211885675/11405b9f2c889a8be5971557cbc3cd2a.mp3) ## [A Royal Kushan Seal Found in Tajikistan](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/a-royal-kushan-seal-found-in-tajikistan) _2026-08-18 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Archaeologists from the National Museum of Tajikistan have recovered a fired clay seal at Sayyod, in the Abdurahmoni Jomi district of Khatlon province. ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5THIzn7PE2TD) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Two Denisovan Leg Bones From the Taiwan Strait](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/two-denisovan-leg-bones-from-the) _2026-08-17 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A femur and a partial tibia dredged from the seafloor of the Penghu Channel have been identified as Denisovan from their collagen proteins, and they are among the largest leg bones known from Pleistocene Homo. ## [Strategic Weightlessness](https://barracks.substack.com/p/strategic-weightlessness) _2026-08-17 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ Egypt Security Sector Report ## [WATCH: Archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old ‘shopping hub’ beneath stadium in central Israel](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-905656) _2026-08-16 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ However, IAA researchers have proposed two main theories about what the site served as: either a major trade and industrial station or part of a currently undiscovered nearby settlement. ## [‘Smoking gun evidence’: Bronze Age shaman long thought to be male revealed to be female goldworker](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-905539) _2026-08-16 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ “It completely tears up previous assumptions,” Wiltshire Museum Director David Dawson told The Guardian. “It’s a fantastic revelation of the position of women in society.” ## [Second Fortress Found on Egypt's Way of Horus](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/second-fortress-found-on-egypts-way) _2026-08-15 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt has announced a second fortress at Tell el-Kharouba in North Sinai, along with a granite block bearing the cartouches of Ramesses II and the remains of a mudbrick temple. ## [These Paintings Were Made With Human Blood](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/these-paintings-were-made-with-human) _2026-08-15 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Red figures cover the limestone cliffs above the Zuojiang river in Guangxi, in southern China near the Vietnamese border. ## [Ancient Egyptian princesses were skilled archers, trained with weapons, controversial study claims](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-905542) _2026-08-15 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ The six, four of whom are believed to be daughters of Pharaoh Amenemhat II, were rediscovered in 2020 in the Egyptian Museum after being lost for decades. ## [Deity-inscribed tombstones, sarcophagi unearthed at ancient Egyptian burial site](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-905544) _2026-08-15 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ The appearance of the two dieties on the tombstones points to joint Greek and Roman influence on ancient Egyptian heritage and funerary practices. ## [Mystery donor leaves gold coins under altar, saving a medieval English church from closure - report](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-905399) _2026-08-15 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ A week after the coins were found, the Times of London learned that the mystery benefactor is believed to be a leather-clad biker. ## [Five Hundred Pieces of Egyptian Blue From Iron Age Iran](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/five-hundred-pieces-of-egyptian-blue) _2026-08-14 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Around five hundred objects made of moulded Egyptian blue paste have been identified in the Penn Museum's collections from Hasanlu and Dinkha Tepe, two Iron Age II sites in northwestern Iran. ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/my6WVdxMkM85) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [Homeric details and other influences in Nolan's The Odyssey (2026)](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/08/nolan.html) _2026-08-14 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ There are already tons of reviews of The Odyssey (2026) out there, including many by classical scholars. I’m no movie expert, so this isn’t a review. But I can sometimes spot little details and recognise where they’ve come from. Nolan’s film diverges from Homer in major respects, but there are also points of detail that it treats more carefully than it needs to. And the film doesn’t just draw on ## [The Nippur Medical Tablet](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-nippur-medical-tablet) _2026-08-14 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Penn Museum object CBS 14221 is a clay tablet from Nippur, 15.4 by 9.3 centimeters and 2.8 thick, ruled into three columns and written in Sumerian. ## [Göbekli Tepe: the north side of the mound is being excavated for the first time](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/gobekli-tepe-the-north-side-of-the) _2026-08-13 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Türkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that the 2026 season at Göbekli Tepe has moved into ground that has never been dug before. ## [The Farmer Behind the Tank Hunter](https://barracks.substack.com/p/the-farmer-behind-the-tank-hunter) _2026-08-13 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ A Conscript, a Village, the Making of a War Hero ## [Three Tombs at Sheikh Soby in the Bahariya Oasis](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/three-tombs-at-sheikh-soby-in-the) _2026-08-13 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ An Egyptian mission working at Sheikh Soby, in the Bahariya Oasis some three hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, has excavated three tombs holding mummies, limestone and pottery coffins, and a range of grave goods. ## [The Ancient “H”: Symbol, Script, or Coincidence?](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-ancient-h-symbol-script-or-coincidence) _2026-08-12 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Watch now | Across distant civilizations, strikingly similar “H” carvings appear in ancient stonework. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210966515/3f5de5c2b9f00f9e66bfbfb3f6c96d87.mp3) ## [Six Copper Bells in a Bolivian Storehouse](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/six-copper-bells-in-a-bolivian-storehouse) _2026-08-12 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ A bundle of six pyramid-shaped copper bells was found inside a circular stone storehouse at Yoroma, a Yampara settlement in the Oroncota Valley of southern Bolivia. ## [The Living Goddess](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-living-goddess) _2026-08-12 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Watch now | Cleopatra didn't just worship Isis. She put on the robe and became her. How Egypt's last pharaoh made herself a goddess.. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210855292/36f566dfa47e25314ebbf23021c89b20.mp3) ## [Severe heatwaves in Bulgaria reveal ancient Rome's Constantine Bridge hidden under Danube's waters](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-905212) _2026-08-11 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ The bridge, commissioned by Emperor Constantine I and inaugurated in 328 CE, linked the ancient city of Ulpia Oescus with Sucidava in what is now Romania. ## [A Roman Wine Vat Found on the Seabed off Elba](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/a-roman-wine-vat-found-on-the-seabed) _2026-08-11 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Two finds have come out of the seabed around Elba during monitoring work by the Soprintendenza for Pisa and Livorno. ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/17Zo5jW8j2Wn) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [Transport General Presides Over Debt and Disaster](https://barracks.substack.com/p/transport-general-presides-over-debt) _2026-08-10 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ Egypt Security Sector Report ## [Buried Face Down: The King Assyria Tried to Erase](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/buried-face-down-the-king-assyria) _2026-08-09 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Watch now | A colossal Neo-Hittite king, buried face down by Assyria in 738 BC and found again in 2012 with his stone eyes still open. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210524771/a444e48f50280604b6473e3a84b47639.mp3) ## [The Judean Stone Masks](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-judean-stone-masks) _2026-08-09 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Fifteen Neolithic stone masks are known from the Judean Hills and the desert below them. ## [Six Thousand Years of Burials Found in the Nile Delta](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/six-thousand-years-of-burials-found) _2026-08-08 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced today that a mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has found a cemetery at Kafr al-Hattaba, in Dakahlia governorate in the eastern Nile Delta, with burials running from the Predynastic period through to Greek and Roman times. ## [A Ritual Well Found in the Sacred Area at Kainua](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/a-ritual-well-found-in-the-sacred) _2026-08-08 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Excavators at the Etruscan city of Kainua, near Marzabotto in Emilia-Romagna, have found a well in the sacred area dedicated to the goddess Uni. ## [Egypt uncovers first complete bath complex, ancient hydraulic system north of Suez Canal](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-904863) _2026-08-08 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ Leithy added that the layer is marked by remnants of ancient Cypriot pottery and Greek amphorae, confirming that settlement of the site began before the construction of the bathing complex. ## [An Asclepius and Telesphoros Group Found at Aspendos](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/an-asclepius-and-telesphoros-group) _2026-08-07 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Excavations in Turkey's Aspendos, located in the province of Antalya, have yielded an incredible 2.20-meter-tall marble group statue. ## [Yangshan: The Monument That Could Never Be Moved](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/yangshan-the-monument-that-could) _2026-08-06 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Listen now | Three colossal blocks of stone lie in a quarry outside Nanjing, cut in the early fifteenth century for a monument to the Yongle Emperor's father and never moved. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210098548/7071ef4be3fda431ead0944db789afb4.mp3) ## [The Assyrian Treatise on Diseases of the Ear](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-assyrian-treatise-on-diseases) _2026-08-06 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ Among the tablets recovered from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh is a single treatise devoted entirely to ailments of the ear. ## [Egypt unearths underground tombs, golden tongues ahead of construction in ancient coastal city](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-904538) _2026-08-06 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ An unfinished statue of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, a limestone gravestone depicting a seated man holding a bird, as well as the remains of a plaster sphinx statue were also found at the site. ## [Routine in the Desert](https://barracks.substack.com/p/routine-in-the-desert) _2026-08-06 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ Review of Sinai Field Mission (1978) ## [A Rock Crystal Scraper and What MacCurdy Made of It](https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/a-rock-crystal-scraper-and-what-maccurdy) _2026-08-05 · Ancient Content · Ancient Content_ France’s National Archaeological Museum featured a small transparent scraper as its Object of the Month in September 2025. ## [Second-century building found near Colosseum may have been ancient Rome's firefighter barracks](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-904689) _2026-08-05 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ The mosaic's design closely resembles one previously discovered in a firefighters' barracks in Ostia, the ancient port of Rome, about 30 km from the capital, the archaeological office said ## [Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future](https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-904608) _2026-08-05 · JPost.com - Archaeology | The Jerusalem Post_ Vilnius was a major center of Jewish thought, famed for both its religious tradition and modern secular Jewish culture. It was home to the 18th-century Vilna Gaon, a highly influential sage. ## [From Marassi to Bardawil: Who Owns Egypt’s Shores?](https://barracks.substack.com/p/from-marassi-to-bardawil-who-owns) _2026-08-03 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ Egypt Security Sector Report ## [The cave of the Nymphs: Odyssey 13.96–112](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/cave-of-nymphs.html) _2026-07-31 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ The Phaiakes deliver Odysseus to his home island, Ithake, leaving him asleep on the shore. When he wakes up, he hides their gifts to him in a nearby cave: At the head of the harbour is a long-leafed olive tree; and near it, a cave, lovely and shaded, sacred to Nymphs, who are called Naiads. In it there are jars and amphoras of stone; and bees store honey in them. And there are stone ## [When the Khedive Decorated Egypt’s Invaders](https://barracks.substack.com/p/when-the-khedive-decorated-egypts) _2026-07-30 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ A Bronze Star With a Very Dark Story ## [Odysseus’ wanderings](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/wanderings.html) _2026-07-27 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ Odysseus’ wanderings are the most famous sequence in Homer’s Odyssey. The Cyclops, the Lotus-eaters, and Circe are some of the epic’s most memorable parts, even though the wanderings as a whole occupy only one sixth of the poem. On one level, they’re pretty clearly envisaged as taking place in an Otherworld, like a portal fantasy or isekai. On another level, they have strong links to real ## [Army Economic Expansion Continues Unabated](https://barracks.substack.com/p/army-economic-expansion-continues) _2026-07-27 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ Egypt Security Sector Report ## [The Egyptian-Sudanese Battalion That Fought for the French in Mexico](https://barracks.substack.com/p/the-egyptian-sudanese-battalion-that) _2026-07-23 · Hossam el-Hamalawy · State & Barracks_ From the Nile to Veracruz