Remains of Ancient City in Ain Sohkna

An Egyptian-French archaeological team headed by French archaeologist George Castel uncovered the remains of an ancient city dating back to the Middle Kingdom (1665-2061 BC) in Ain Sokhna about 120 km north of Cairo, announced Culture Minister Farouk Hosni..........

Daily News Egypt

Mummy of Egyptian Queen Unearthed

Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday..........

The Star

Pair of Tombs Discovered in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists say they have discovered a pair of 4,300-year-old tombs that indicate a burial site south of Cairo is bigger than expected..........

BBC News

King Tut's Father Confirmed

An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's
greatest mysteries -- who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut. "We can
now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass,
chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News..........

Discovery News

Rare first century coin found in Temple Mount soil

A rare half shekel coin, first minted in 66 or 67 C.E., was
discovered by 14 year-old Omri Ya'ari as volunteers sifted through
mounds of dirt from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The coin is the
first one found to originate from the Temple Mount. The half shekel
coin was first minted during the Great Revolt against the Romans..........

Haaretz

First Temple Era Water Tunnel Revealed in Jerusalem

A tunnel built thousands of years ago – and which may even have been used during King David's conquest of Jerusalem – has been uncovered in the ancient City of David, just outside the Old City and across the street from the Dung Gate..........

Arutz Sheva

Oldest Hebrew script found

Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says.

The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a dig about 20km (12 miles) south-west of Jerusalem.

Experts at Hebrew University said dating showed it was written 3,000 years ago - about 1,000 years earlier than the Dead Sea Scrolls..........

BBC News

King Solomon's Mines?

Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Led by Thomas Levy of UC San Diego and Mohammad Najjar of Jordan's Friends of Archaeology, an international team of archaeologists has excavated an ancient copper-production center at Khirbat en-Nahas down to virgin soil, through more than 20 feet of industrial smelting debris, or slag. The 2006 dig has brought up new artifacts and with them a new suite of radiocarbon dates placing the bulk of industrial-scale production at Khirbat en-Nahas in the 10th century BCE – in line with biblical narrative on the legendary rule of David and Solomon. The new data pushes back the archaeological chronology some three centuries earlier than the current scholarly consensus..........

EurekAlert