Such lamps often depicted various scenes of daily life, animal images, and altered plant motifs. The lamps are made of different materials, and pottery is probably the most common, he said.Īccording to Amer, lamps are dishes filled with oil and salt, on which a wick floats. Other recent discoveries under the Tawfik Pasha Andraos Palace, Amer said, include a set of Roman bronze coins, a part of a wall from the Roman era, and an old storehouse. All the antiquities that are discovered boost both science and tourism, he said, and many archaeological discoveries are scientifically examined but not presented to tourists. He mentioned a large and varied amount of antiquities that have been discovered in the Saqqara region, south of Cairo, in recent years.Īlso, in the city of Luxor was found the lost city or the “ Golden City,” Amer added. The recent finds, he said, offer new details about the life of the ancient Egyptians, both religious and secular. The Roman monument, according to Shammaa, was built in 126 AD.Īhmed Amer, an archaeological researcher at the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, said that the discoveries mark a new stage for archeology. The most famous monument belongs to Emperor Hadrian and is dedicated to the god Serapis, a statue of which is located in the northwest corner of the courtyard of the Luxor Temple, very close to the Andraos Palace. Shammaa added that the palace in Luxor was located steps away from famous Roman monuments in front of the first western edifice of the Luxor Temple. It is just unthinkable to demolish an antiquity because there is another one below it.” "Nothing justifies destroying an antiquity for the sake of another, especially considering that Egypt has witnessed successive historical civilizations. “Even the Louvre Museum has monuments below it and was never demolished," Bassam al-Shammaa, an Egyptologist and a tourist guide, told Al-Monitor. In 2009, the Mubarak government tore down the nearby palace of Yassa Andraos, the brother of Tawfik, as part of a plan to turn Luxor into an open museum.īut the move was controversial. The palace of Andraos, who was a member of the House of Representatives for Luxor from 1921-1935, is not the first to be demolished by Egyptian authorities. In 2013, the bodies of Andraos' two daughters, who were killed under mysterious circumstances, were found inside the palace. It contained many rare artifacts and a gold-plated car, among other valuables. The palace hosted Saad Zaghloul, leader of the 1919 revolution, after English authorities issued a restriction on his movement. In August, Egyptian authorities demolished the 120-year-old Tawfiq Pasha Andraos Palace, located near the Luxor Temple and overlooking the Nile River, based on a decision by the Ministry of Antiquities that archeological sites were under it. He said that excavations are being completed on the site. 17 that this discovery is one of a series in the city of Luxor in southern Egypt. Mustafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said on Oct. Leiden: Sidestone Press.CAIRO - An Egyptian archaeological mission working at the site of the Tawfiq Pasha Andraos Palace - which was recently torn down - has unveiled a number of amphorae and lamps dating from the Byzantine era. Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley and Kate Welham. A detailed analysis of the single artefacts, accompanied for the first time by full colour photographic records and drawings, and their network of relations gives vivid new life to the Ramesseum assemblage, more than a century after its discovery. Gianluca Miniaci attempts thoroughly to reconstruct the archaeological context of the tomb: the exact find spot (forgotten shortly after its discovery), its architecture, the identity of its owner(s) and recipient(s) of the assemblage of artefacts. The tomb is most famous for having held the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri – also known as the Ramesseum Papyri – found in a single spot, along with a number of distinctive objects such as carved ivory tusks and miniature figurines in various materials dated around the eighteenth century bce. In 1895–96 William Matthew Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below the ‘Ramesseum’, the funerary temple of Ramses II at Thebes, Egypt.
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