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Roman-Era Pyramid Tomb in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis Reveals a 19-Line Greek Poem
Fourteen steps descend to a stone doorway in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis. Its carvings draw on ancient Egyptian beliefs about protection after death. Deeper inside the newly discovered tomb, archaeologists found a farewell written in another language: a 19-line funerary poem in Greek. An Egyptian team from the Supreme Council of Antiquities uncovered the Roman-era tomb…
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A Roman-Era Ceremonial Barge Resurfaces in Alexandria’s Sunken Royal Harbor
The waters off Alexandria’s ancient Portus Magnus have yielded an extraordinary surprise: the remarkably preserved hull of a luxurious thalamagos, a pleasure-and-ritual barge once used in the early Roman period. Resting beneath the silt of the submerged island of Antirhodos—once home to palaces and temples of the Ptolemies—the vessel has re-emerged as one of the…