Egypt
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- Secrets Of Daily Life Among The Great Pyramids Of Giza
Columbus Dispatch (Doug Caruso) The Egyptians who built the giant pyramids on the Giza Plateau 4,500 years ago ate dense bread, choice cuts of meat and preserved fish. They slept in military-style barracks and belonged to work gangs with names such as...
- More Re Newest Information From Lahun
BBC News An ancient Egyptian tomb near the mud-brick pyramid of Lahun shows the site was used 1,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought. The burial site, 130km (80 miles) south of Cairo, was previously dated to Pharaoh Senuseret II -...
- Museum, Cosi Plan Egypt Projects
The Columbus Dispatch (Tim Feran) The Columbus Museum of Art and COSI Columbus will showcase consecutive major exhibits next year: • "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From the Brooklyn Museum" -- to run from Feb. 13 to June 7 at the museum -- explores...
- Coming Exhibits To Move Beyond The Traditional
The Columbus Dispatch From quilts to Chihuly glass, the next two years of exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art will be packed with fare that goes beyond traditional paintings and sculptures. A schedule extending through March 2010 has been crafted...
- Qurta Rock Art
National Geographic (Dan Morrison) This story is actually several weeks old, but since as National Geographic have now picked up on it, here it is again, with a photograph. The team found several additional panels of artwork over a 1-mile-long (1.66...
Egypt
Ancient lifestyle may link art found in Egypt, Europe
The Columbus Dispatch (Bradley T. Lepper)
Short piece looking at the way in which similarities in art reflect similarties in ideas even over very long distances.National Geographic News reported last month that an international team of archaeologists had discovered the oldest known art in Egypt. The country is, of course, known for its pyramids and mummies, but the art in question is 10,000 years older than the dawn of Egyptian civilization. The art consists of petroglyphs, or engravings on stone, estimated to be 15,000 years old. Its style is closer to the art of Paleolithic France than to that of Pharonic Egypt. . . .
We share a common humanity, so our cultural expressions are bound to share some important elements -- regardless of where, or when, we live.
See the above page for the full story.
- Secrets Of Daily Life Among The Great Pyramids Of Giza
Columbus Dispatch (Doug Caruso) The Egyptians who built the giant pyramids on the Giza Plateau 4,500 years ago ate dense bread, choice cuts of meat and preserved fish. They slept in military-style barracks and belonged to work gangs with names such as...
- More Re Newest Information From Lahun
BBC News An ancient Egyptian tomb near the mud-brick pyramid of Lahun shows the site was used 1,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously thought. The burial site, 130km (80 miles) south of Cairo, was previously dated to Pharaoh Senuseret II -...
- Museum, Cosi Plan Egypt Projects
The Columbus Dispatch (Tim Feran) The Columbus Museum of Art and COSI Columbus will showcase consecutive major exhibits next year: • "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures From the Brooklyn Museum" -- to run from Feb. 13 to June 7 at the museum -- explores...
- Coming Exhibits To Move Beyond The Traditional
The Columbus Dispatch From quilts to Chihuly glass, the next two years of exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art will be packed with fare that goes beyond traditional paintings and sculptures. A schedule extending through March 2010 has been crafted...
- Qurta Rock Art
National Geographic (Dan Morrison) This story is actually several weeks old, but since as National Geographic have now picked up on it, here it is again, with a photograph. The team found several additional panels of artwork over a 1-mile-long (1.66...