New Ticket Prices 1st November 2017

Ticket prices for Egyptians went up 1st October but ticket prices for foreigners go up 1st November thanks to Hussein Omar and Mohamed A Fahmy for confirming that. I have not got all the prices but this is my best guess. Especial thanks to Mohamed for going through them and correcting my errors where he could

I just phoned Ahmed Khalifa at the Luxor Pass office and he said there is no change to the Luxor Pass

Just received this flyer in Arabic via EEF http://www.egyptologyforum.org/MOA/Ticket_Price_Nov._2017.pdf

		Current	Nov-17	Student
	Site	Old	New
Abydos Road	Abydos	40	80
Abydos Road	Dendera Temple	40	80
Alexandra	Catacombs (Kom Al Shokafa)	40	60
Alexandra	Bibloteca Of Alexandria	70	120
Alexandra	Montazah Garden	7	15
Alexandra	Pompay's Pillar	30	60	30
Alexandra	Roman Museum	40	60	Closed
Alexandra	National Museum		80
Alexandra	Roman Theatre	50	80	40
Alexandra	Qaitbay Citadel Day	30	40	20
Alexandra	Qaitbay Citadel Night		50	25
Alexandra	Birds’ Villa At Kom El Dekka	20
Alexandra	Catacombs (Kom El Shokafa)	40	60
Alexandra	El Anfoushy Archaeological Site	25	40
Alexandra	El Shatby Site	24	40
Assuit	El Hamameya	30 - 15	40	20
Assuit	Meir Tomb	30	40	20
Aswan	High Dam	30	?	not confirmed yet as the high dam as it belongs to a different ministry
Aswan	Philae Temple	60	100
Aswan	Sound and Light Philae Temple	75	150
Aswan	Unfinished Obelisque	40	60
Aswan	Abu Simbel	115	160
Aswan	Special Sunrise Feb Oct		240
Aswan	Aswan Museum	40	80
Aswan	Botanical Garden of Kitchener	10		not confirmed yet as the high dam as it belongs to a different ministry
Aswan	Nubian Art Museum	?60	100	50
Aswan	Temple Of Kalabsha	?45	60
Aswan	Unfinished Obelisk	40	80
Aswan	El Sebouaa Area<	50	70
Aswan	Princes Tombs	40	60
Aswan	Anba Samaan Monastery	?30	40
Aswan Road	Edfu Temple	60	100
Aswan Road	El Kab Tombs	40	60
Aswan Road	Esna Temple	30	40
Aswan Road	Gebel Silsila Temple Of Hor-Moheb	30	40
Aswan Road	Kom Ombo Temple And Crocodiles Museum	40	80
Aswan Road	Moalla El Mamela Tomb At Esna	20	40
Aswan Road	Tod Temple El Towed Temple	30	40
Bubastis	Tel Basta Archaeological Site	30	60
Cairo	Coptic Museum	60	100	50
Cairo	Abu Seir Pyramids	60-30 st	80	40
Cairo	Citadel Mahka	30- 15 st	40	20
Cairo	Citadel Of Saladin In Cairo	60	100	50
Cairo	Dahshur Pyramid	40	80
Cairo	Gayer Anderson Museum	40-20 st	60	30
Cairo	Meidoum Pyramid	40- 20 st	60	30
Cairo	Tree Of The Virgin At Matareyah	20	40	20
Cairo	Coptic Museum	60	100
Cairo	El Harawy House	15	30
Cairo	Fostat City	10	20
Cairo	Islamic Art Museum	50	100
Cairo	Manial Palace Museum	100	100
Cairo	Nilometer At Rodah Island	15	20
Cairo Giza	Sound and Light at Pyramids	75	150	175 VIP
Cairo Giza	Giza Pyramids Archeological Site	80	120
Cairo Giza	Giza great pyramid+ pyramids archeological area+ solar boat		400	200
Cairo Giza	Great Pyramid	200	300	150
Cairo Giza	Mencaura Pyramid (rd Pyramid)	40	80
Cairo Giza	Second Pyramid	40	80
Cairo Giza	Solar Boat Museum	50	80
Cairo Museum	Egyptian Museum	75	120
Cairo Museum	Mummy Room	100	150
Cairo Sakkara	Memphis	40	80
Cairo Sakkara	Causeway Of Unas Pyramid	5
Cairo Sakkara	Horemheb, Maya, OK tombs	30	50	25
Cairo Sakkara	Imhotep Museum	30
Cairo Sakkara	Mereuka	50	80
Cairo Sakkara	New Tombs At Sakkara	40	80
Cairo Sakkara	Princes	40	80
Cairo Sakkara	Sakkara Archaeological Site	80	120
Cairo Sakkara	Serapium	100	160
Citadel cairo	Beir Yousef	?30	40
Dakhla Oasis	Deir El Hagar Temple	30	40
Dakhla Oasis	Doush Temple	30	40	20
Dakhla Oasis	Ein Aseil	?30	40
Dakhla Oasis	Ezbet Bashandy	?30	40
El Kharga	El Ghoueita	?30	40
Fayum	El Lahoun Pyramid	40	60
Fayum	Hawara Pyramid	40	60
Fayum	Karaneis Area	40	60
Fayum	Karoun Temple	40	60
Fayum	Kom Osheim Museum At Fayoum	20	40
Kharga Oasis	El Zayan Temple	?30	40
Luxor	Assasif Tomb	40	60
Luxor	Ay Tomb	30	40
Luxor	Benji, Khonsu, Userhet	30	40
Luxor	Carter House	50	80
Luxor	Colossus	free	free
Luxor	Deir El Bahary Temple	50	80
Luxor	Deir El Medina Tombs	40	80
Luxor	Isis Temple	40	80
Luxor	Karnak Temples	80	120
Luxor	Khokha El Khoukha Area	30	40
Luxor	Luxor Museum	100	160
Luxor	Luxor Temple	60	100
Luxor	Medinet Habu Temple	40	60
Luxor	Menna And Nakht	30	60
Luxor	Merenptah Temple	20	40
Luxor	Mut Temple	40	80
Luxor	Mummification Museum At Luxor	60	80
Luxor	Open Air Museum At Karnak	40	80
Luxor	Pabasa Babaza Tomb	30	40
Luxor	Pashedu	30	40
Luxor	Qurnet Marie	40	40
Luxor	Rameses Vi At Valley Of Kings	50	90
Luxor	Ramesseum Temple	40	60
Luxor	Ramouze Tomb	40	60
Luxor	Roy & Sheroy	20	40
Luxor	Sennefer & Rekhmire	30	40
Luxor	Seti I Temple Of Seti The First	30	60
Luxor	Seti Tomb	1000	1000
Luxor	Taftaf	4	4
Luxor	Tomb Of Nefertari	1000	1000
Luxor	Tutankhamun	100	200
Luxor	User Hat , Khonsu & Benya	40	80
Luxor	Valley Of The Kings	100	160
Luxor	Valley Of The Queens	50	80
Luxor	Elwet Abd El Gorna	?30	40
Minya	Akhenaton Tomb	30 - 15st	40 - 20 st
Minya	Beni Hassan Tombs	40	60
Minya	Beni Soueif Museum	20	40
Minya	Freizar Tomb	30	40	20
Minya	Tel El Amarna	40	60
Minya	Tona El Gebel & Ashmounin	30	60	30
Minya	Malawy Museum	20	40
Mo'az street	Ashraf Barespay School (Medressah)	10	20
Mo'az street	Bashtak Palace	10	20
Mo'az street	El Darb El Asfar	25	40
Mo'az street	El Ghoury Collection	15	30
Mo'az street	El Nasr & El Foutouh Gates	15	30
Mo'az street	El Seheimy House	35	50
Mo'az street	El Sennary House	30	40
Mo'az street	El Set Wasila	15	30
Mo'az street	House Of Gamal El Din El Zahaby	15	30
Mo'az street	Nafisa Al Bayda	10	20
Mo'az street	Wekalet Al Ghoury	15	30
Mo'az street	Wekalet Bazaraa	25	40
Mo'az street	Zeinab Khatoun House	15	30
Mo'az street	Zewiela Gate	15	30
New Valley	El Mozawaka	?30	40
Red Sea	El Kousair Fortress	15	30
Sohag	Merit Amoun Statue	30	40
Sohag	El Araba El Madfouna At Abydos	40	80
Western Oasis	Bahareia Oasis	60	100
Western Oasis	El Bagawat Area At Oasis	40	60
Western Oasis	Gebel El Mawta (Mountain Of Dead) At Siwa	?30	40
Western Oasis	Heibes Temple	40	80
Western Oasis	Temple Of Oracle Of Amun At Siwa	?30	40
	Egyptian Treasures Exhibition	20
	Graves Of The Royal Family Of Mohamed Ali	25	40
	Greco-Roman Museum	50	100	closed
	Ismaelia Museum	30	40
	Jewelry Museum	50	80
	Mariet Razna Museum At Zagazig Governorate	10
	Matareyah Obelisk	30	60
	Meir Metkal School (Medressah)	10
	Mohamed Bek Abu El Zahaby Collection
	Museum Of Meit Rehyna ( Memphis Museum )
	Mustafa Kamel Archaeological Site
	New Valley Museum(Al Wadi El Gedid	35	60
	Port Said Museum
	Rashid Archaeological Area	15	40
	Rashid National Museum	30	40
	Refaei Mosque	40	60
	Romel Cave Museum	10	40
	Royal Chariots Museum	30	60
	Saladin Fortress At Taba ( In Usd)  $ Usd	12$	12$
	San El Hagar Museum	20	40
	Sebil Ali Bek Al Kebeir In Tanta Free
	Sebil And Kottab Of Sultan Queitbay	30	40
	Sebil Island
	Sultan Hassan Mosque	40	60
	Taba Museum
	Tanta Museum

Ministry of Antiques Newsletter

MoA_Newsletter_15_English.pdf

POW - Pop up Walks in Luxor,...

Come join us on the first Pow! Walk of winter 2017
We're going Bananas with a walk on the wild side!!
Meeting
On the East Bank in front of the mummification museum at 7:50am
And
On the West Bank in front of the Nile Valley Hotel at 8am
We look forward to seeing you all there!

Kebash Road inauguration anticipated beginning of 2018 - Egypt Independent

Kebash Road inauguration anticipated beginning of 2018 - Egypt Independent

KV8 Merenptah Snippet

Lyla Pinch Brock is finishing up Ted Brocks work in the Valley of the Kings, we very privileged that she is staying at Flats in Luxor

When Ted sadly died he was still in the middle on things in the tomb. As his wife Lyla is a well known archeologist in her own right she is the perfect person to complete his work

Exclusive photos from the new Kampp 390 tomb by Lyla Pinch Brock

Official Press Release on new tomb Kampp 390

Today at Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor west bank, Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Khaled El-Enany announces the discovery of a New Kingdom tomb that belongs to god Amun’s Goldsmith, Amenemhat (Kampp 390) and a burial shaft housing the mummy of a lady and her two children.

Luxor Governor, Mohamed Badr attended the announcement ceremony as well as Members of Parliament and a group of foreign ambassadors to Egypt, heads of foreign archaeological institutes in Cairo and top officials from the Ministry of Antiquities.

The discovery was carried out by an Egyptian archaeological mission led by Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Director General of Luxor who said that the newly discovered tomb includes of an entrance located in the courtyard of another Middle Kingdom tomb number Kampp150. The entrance leads to a squared chamber where a niche is found at its end. Inside it a partly damaged duo sandstone statue depicting the tomb’s owner and his is found. The statue shows Amenemhat sitting on a high back chair beside his wife who wears a long dress and a wig. Between their legs stands, in a smaller scale, a little figure of one of their sons.

Dr. Waziri pointed that the tomb has two burial shafts. The first one is located to the right of the chamber and probably had been dug to bury the mummy of the diseased and his wife. It is of seven meters deep where a collection of mummies, sarcophagi and funerary masks carved in wood along with a collection of statuettes of the tomb's owner and his wife.
The second shaft was uncovered to the left where a collection of 21st and 22nd dynasties sarcophagi was discovered but regretfully was subjected to deterioration during the Late Period.

In the courtyard, the mission stumbled upon a group of burial shafts which probably date to the Middle Kingdom. In one of them, the mission unearthed a family burial of a woman and her two children. It includes of two wooden coffins and a collection of head rests. The mummies of the children were found inside one the coffins while the second has the mother's mummy.

Sherine Ahmed Shawqi, Egyptologists who is specialized in bones said that early studies on these mummies show that the woman died at the age of 50-year-old and during her life she was suffering from several diseases. She suffered of cavities that led to an abscesses in her jaws; a bacterial disease in her bones.

"This woman probably cried extensively as the size of her carbuncular are abnormally enlarged," Shawqi said adding that inside the coffin the head-rest of the deceased woman was found as well as a group of pottery vessels.

The second coffin, she continued, has the mummies of her two children and early studies on them show that they belong to two adult males of age ranging between 20 to 30 year-old. Both mummies are in a very good mummification condition as the mummification liquids could be shown on their bones.

One of the male mummies shows that he was suffering from cavities during his life while the second mummy shows that it was probably put later in the same coffin because it was randomly installed and the bones were bare.

Archaeologist Mohamed Baabash said that during excavations, the mission stumbled upon several funerary objects, which some belongs to the tomb’s owner. Among the discovered artifacts are limestone remains of an offering table; 4 wooden sarcophagi partly damaged and decorated with hieroglyphic texts and scenes of different ancient Egyptian deities, and a sandstone duo statue of a trader in king Tuthmose III’s temple named “Mah,”.

A collection of 150 ushabti figurines carved in faience, wood, burned clay, limestone and mud brick was also unearthed.

The mission has also unearthed a collection of 50 funerary cones, 40 of which are evidence of the presence of other tombs belonging to four officials. The exact location of the later has not been yet found.

These officials are Maati; Bengy, Rourou and vizier Ptahmes.

The other stamps belong to Neb-Amun, the grains’ harvester and the supervisor of god Amun grain storehouses, whose tomb probably TT145 and Nebsenu, the High Priest of god Amun whose tomb probably Kampp 143.

Amun-re goldsmith tomb uncovered in Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor's west bank - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online

Amun-re goldsmith tomb uncovered in Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor's west bank - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online

New Tomb in Luxor Kampp 390

Our exclusive special reporter Lyla Pinch Brock reports from
the new tomb

                                          
Antiquities Minister announces, 2017
to be, "The Year of Discoveries"

The opening of tomb Kampp 390 took place this morning in Dra abu el
Naga at 10:00. An introduction in Arabic, English and French was given by
Minister of Antiquities Dr. Mohamed Khalil. The Minister called 2017,
"The Year of Excavations, the Year of Discoveries," and hinted that
this was only the beginning, and that more tombs might be found in the area.

Further details about the present discovery were provided by Dr.
Mostafa Waziri, head of Luxor Antiquities, and director of the mission. Dr.
Waziri congratulated the team of Egyptian workmen, led by Reis Ali Farouk, who
discovered the tomb five months ago. "They continued working in the
blazing heat and over the holiday to bring the find to light," he said.

The 18th Dynasty tomb is located at almost the highest level of
the Theban Necropolis which contains seven cemeteries, the burial places for
the nobility who served the King.

For the occasion of the packed opening, a number of cases
containing local finds were displayed; these included cartonnage mummy-cases, a
substantial amount of almost-intact pottery vessels, a wooden coffin with a
mummy, and funerary cones, and many shabtis constructed from different
materials.

The tomb was known and numbered by Dr. Frederika Kamp in her
survey of Theban Tombs late in the past century, but it was apparently not
excavated. The tomb owner is one Amenemhat, a goldsmith; a son and wife (Lady
of the House) are mentioned in the inscriptions as well as man called Mehi, who
could be a relative. Their tombs are not known, but antiquities officials are
optimistic that they might be discovered nearby.

The tomb's layout is unusual, as a boating scene (men unloading
very large pottery storage jars), normally located on the interior walls, is,
in this case, painted on the east reveal of the doorway. However, the door jamb
is in place, so in its final stage of construction this was definitely meant to
be the entrance to the tomb. The artwork is obviously that of a master painter,
indicating that the tomb owner must have been a favorite of the Pharaoh.

Also found in the tomb were a stele and a pair statue.

The tomb is on two levels, with an offering-chapel on the first
level and the burial chamber much lower down. It is not yet open for tourists.

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I was very lucky to get this report, Lyla had offered to
take me with her but due to my stupid inability to stand this was not an option
she then volunteered to give me a report from the scene. So nice of her.

The Dra Abu Naga area is a fascinating one, it is the
location of the tomb of Roy one of my favourite nobles tombs, very small but
exquisite. It is in a direct line and has wonderful views of Karnak temple and
was popular with people that worked at the temple. It was also overlooking the
route of the Beautiful Feast of the Valley. So quite a prestigious location.

There are some photos on facebook

(3) Em Hotep BBS