The objects include an alabaster vase inscribed with King Ramses II's cartouche, and 13 amulets of different shapes, sizes and materials The Egyptian embassy in Cyprus is set to receive a ...

The team found several fragments of an alabaster vase with an inscription that included King Thutmose II’s name and referred to him as the deceased king, officials said.

From microscopic surface analysis to scanning imitation alabaster vases, the research raises new questions about Egypt’s earliest artisans and their sophisticated techniques.

These pieces include a part of a statue of a lady made of alabaster, a stone piece with a carving representing a part of the god Bes, a cover for a canopic jar of stone shaped like a human figure, a ...

According to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, alabaster vase fragments spelled out not only Thutmose II’s name, but his final status as a “deceased king.” ...

Archaeologists have discovered long-lost ancient Egyptian tombs that were hiding beneath a stone well for more than 4,000 years. Working at a site outside of Cairo, they uncovered four ancient ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into ...

King Thutmose II's tomb was the last lost tomb of Egypt's 18th Dynasty kings and the first royal tomb discovered since King Tutankhamen in 1922.

Egypt has announced that a team of European archaeologists have found a nearly 2-meter- (6 ½-foot-) tall alabaster statue of a pharoanic princess, dating from approximately 1350 B.C., outside the ...

The objects include an alabaster vase inscribed with King Ramses IIs cartouche, and 13 amulets of different shapes, sizes and materials ...