Egypt
- Polish Achievements In Egypt And The Sudan
Serwis Nauka w Polsce In the beginning of this year several research projects had been completed. Dr Grzegorz Majcherek from the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, announced the completion of studies at a university complex from...
- Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled
BBC News The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures. The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven...
- Digital Recording Of St Catherine's Papyri
http://tinyurl.com/39jjbj (calendarlive.com) "St. Catherine's is entering the Age of Technology — with the help of Father Justin Sinaites, a 57-year-old American monk from El Paso, and Hemeid, the 23-year-old son of a Bedouin camel driver. They...
- Worlds Oldest Bible
An article on fragments of a parchment holy book dated too350 AD. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/fragment-from-worlds-oldest-bible-found-hidden-in-egyptian-monastery-1780274.html...
- Tragedy In Papyrus
New fragments of the papyrus known as the Turin Kings list have been found in the basement of the Turin museum in Italy. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/egyptian-papyrus.html...
Egypt
Ancient papyrus goes on display
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=682197
"It served first as a notebook for ancient painters and then as part of a mummy's wrapping. Now, a first century B.C. parchment believed to contain the earliest cartography of the Greek-Roman era will be on display next month in the northern city of Turin. The Papyrus of Artemidorus tells a tale of more than 2,000 years of art and culture. . . .The parchment's story begins around the mid-first century B.C., when a copyist in Alexandria, Egypt, began working on a blank parchment to copy the second of 11 books by Greek geographer Artemidorus of Ephesus . . . . The parchment surfaced again in the Nile Valley, where it was used as a wrapping for a mummy, lying in the ground for 1,800 years"
The parchment, which was purchased for $3,369,850 will be on display at the Bricherasio Palace (Turin, Italy) from February 8th for three months. It may be loaned out to other collections in the future. For the full story see the above page.
- Polish Achievements In Egypt And The Sudan
Serwis Nauka w Polsce In the beginning of this year several research projects had been completed. Dr Grzegorz Majcherek from the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, announced the completion of studies at a university complex from...
- Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled
BBC News The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures. The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven...
- Digital Recording Of St Catherine's Papyri
http://tinyurl.com/39jjbj (calendarlive.com) "St. Catherine's is entering the Age of Technology — with the help of Father Justin Sinaites, a 57-year-old American monk from El Paso, and Hemeid, the 23-year-old son of a Bedouin camel driver. They...
- Worlds Oldest Bible
An article on fragments of a parchment holy book dated too350 AD. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/fragment-from-worlds-oldest-bible-found-hidden-in-egyptian-monastery-1780274.html...
- Tragedy In Papyrus
New fragments of the papyrus known as the Turin Kings list have been found in the basement of the Turin museum in Italy. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/27/egyptian-papyrus.html...