An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities uncovered a new and complete version of King Ptolemy III’s Canopus Decree, one of the most significant royal texts from the ...

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Top: Greek temple remains, Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt. Clockwise from left (above): Byzantine jewelry, Canopus, Egypt, Byzantine gold coin, Canopus, 4th-century B.C. bronze coin, ...

The Indonesian Navy’s (TNI AL) new 105-metre ocean-going hydro-oceanographic support vessel, KRI Canopus (936), has successfully floated out at Neustädter Hafen in Bremen, Germany. The construction ...

Unlike earlier trilingual copies, the 1.27 metre 238 BC slab is inscribed solely in hieroglyphs, promising new insights into Ptolemaic rule and calendar reforms. Archaeologists working in Egypt’s ...

Over 150 years ago, archaeologists in Egypt discovered an ancient stone tablet called the Canopus Decree. Written in three different languages — Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Greek — it ...

Archaeologists have made an astonishing discovery in Egypt: a complete sandstone stela inscribed with the Canopus Decree, a royal proclamation dating back to 238 BCE. Unearthed at the renowned Tell El ...

The decree was originally issued by King Ptolemy III in 283 BC, when senior priests gathered in the city of Canopus (east of Alexandria) to venerate King Ptolemy III, his wife Berenice, and their ...

The Decree of Canopus was issued in 238 B.C.E. by the entire Egyptian priesthood. The inscription records the great assembly of priests that gathered in Canopus in 238 B.C.E. Photo: courtesy the ...

Archaeologists working in northern Egypt uncovered a tablet rivaling the Rosetta Stone in its importance to decoding ancient language. Trnava University via Unsplash When Napoleon’s army accidentally ...

Upper part of the stele discovered with the monolingual inscription of the Canopus decree. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt In a discovery described as transcendental, an Egyptian ...

A sandstone stela bearing the rare hieroglyphic Canopus Decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy III. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the rare hieroglyphic Canopus ...