In the Sohag region, archaeologists have unearthed a unique collection of more than 15,000 ostraca, fragments of pottery bearing ancient texts. The largest Greco-Roman deposit ever unearthed in Egypt. Accounts of offerings in demotic, text with an alphabet of birds in hieratic, mathematical exerci
A German-Tunisian team co-led by LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) archaeologist Stefan Ritter has inspected the ancient city of Meninx southeast of the island of Jerba, near the modern city of Henchir El Kantara in Tunisia, and has rebuilt its trade links in ancient times. The port of
Saving ancient heritage is no mean feat in the Middle East. Geopolitical context, traffic, destruction of heritage and climate change pose major challenges to archaeologists. When the opportunity arises to carry out an excavation, it is therefore necessary to know how to seize it. As did a German-Ku
Serapis was a Greek-Egyptian syncretic god, made up of the Egyptian divinities Osiris and Apis (identified with Zeus and Hades) who emerged in Memphis among the descendants of the Greek mercenaries of Psammetichus and Amasis in the 7th-6th centuries BC. C., and whom Ptolemy I appointed as the main g