New Kingdom Pharaoh’s Royal Rest House Found

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Ahram Online reports that a fortified royal retreat has been uncovered at the Tel Hebwa site, which is located in North Sinai. Mohamed Ismail Khaled of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the mudbrick structure was likely used during the 18th Dynasty reign of Thutmose III (ca. 1479–1425 B.C.). The structure’s entrance, located on its northern side, led to a large hall with three columns, added Hisham Hussein of Sinai Antiquities. This room connected to a smaller hall with entrances flanked by columns. The thresholds of entrances to these rooms were also uncovered, along with the thresholds for small rooms that had been built adjacent to the main house. Hussein explained that the site was later used as a cemetery from about 1070 to 713 B.C.

To read about a memorial to an official under Thutmose III, go to "Egypt's Immigrant Elite."

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Two shrines at Gebel el-Silsila on the banks of the Nile River in southern Egypt—thought to have been completely destroyed by an earthquake and erosion—have been discovered largely intact. The shrines, located by a team from Lund University in Sweden led by Maria Nilsson, served as memorials to elite families. One includes statues of a man, his wife, and a son and daughter. Hieroglyphics identify the man as Neferkhewe, the "overseer of foreign lands" under pharaoh Thutmose III (r. 1479–1425 B.C.), and his wife as Ruiuresti. "The mother’s name is foreign and the part that we have of the daughter’s name is also foreign," says John Ward, the project’s associate director. "So it looks as if we have a Nubian family who have taken on the Egyptian religion and produced this shrine in order to gain immortality.

Egypt's Immigrant Elite | Daniel Weiss | May/June 2016 | Archaeology

Shrine dedicated to Neferkhewe and his family, Gebel el-Silsila, Egypt
© The Gebel el Silsila Survey Project

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