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Rare 2,200-Year-Old Ring Bearing Portrait of Egyptian Queen Arsinoe III Found in Russia
A rare 2,200-year-old bronze ring found near Anapa, in southern Russia, bears the engraved profile of a woman identified by researchers as Arsinoe III, queen of Ptolemaic Egypt between 220 and 204 BC. The ring was recovered at Voskresenskoye 6, a Hellenistic-period estate group near ancient Gorgippia, in the wider Bosporan world. It was not…
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Traces of Earlier Settlement and Rare Wild Boar Burials Found Beneath Greco-Roman Cemetery in Egypt
Archaeologists at Tell Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Beheira Governorate have uncovered part of a Greco-Roman cemetery built above much older settlement layers, revealing a site that was used and reused for thousands of years in the Nile Delta. The excavation, carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, revealed graves,…
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First Complete Copy of the Canopus Decree in 150 Years Unearthed in Egypt
Archaeologists excavating at Tell el-Pharaeen in Egypt’s Sharqia governorate have discovered a sandstone stele bearing a complete copy of the Canopus Decree (238 B.C.)—the first such find in over a century. Unlike the famous Rosetta Stone, this example is inscribed solely in hieroglyphs, making it unique among the seven known copies of the decree. In…