Fridays – A Review of Recent Discoveries from Ancient Egypt

5/9 @ 11:00 AM/CH

Instructor: Stephen “Dr. Steve” Phillips, Ph.D.

Over the past few years, Egyptologists from Egypt, and from countries around the world, have made an array of exciting new discoveries, revealing that the sands of Egypt still hold many secrets.    The behind-the-scenes presentation continues to bring to light these new discoveries. This class features the tomb of a lost pharaoh discovered just five months ago by Dr. Josef Wegner, Curator in the Egyptian Section of the Penn Museum. Reports on Dr. Wegner’s find appeared in the New York Times and on CNN. Joe also discovered the tomb of a pharaoh named Senebkhay, in the same area – a tomb we will also see. There are even more discoveries that Egypt recently announced – for example, tombs were uncovered at Saqqara containing dozens of well-preserved coffins, mummies, and funerary artifacts!