Egypt
- Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies Database Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods...
- Improve Your Knowledge On Alexander The Great
702 ABC Sydney This is rather a fun idea - a series of online "self improvement" lessons, each available in MP3 or Real Media formats, and delivered by a specialist in a specific field. There's a recommended reading list if you want to pursue the...
- Menagerie Of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989 New Scientist article about a new collection of animal mummies being studied by the Natural History Museum in London, UK. X-ray analysis of the skeletons of some of the animals, particularly cats, suggests...
- Twenty 5000 Year Old Tombs Found At Helwan
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9837177%255E1702,00.html Dr Christiana Kohler's Australian Mission has found a necropolis at Helwan containing a relief showing early hieroglyphic text and 20 tombs. The necropolis also...
- Facility For Archaeological Research At Helwan (farah)
http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/macnews/showitem.asp?ItemID=278 This page describes Australia’s first permanent archaeological research facility established in Egypt, and gives an overview of their activities at Helwan - which is helping to clarify the situation...
Egypt
Animal behaviour in ancient Egypt
http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/macnews/ShowItem.asp?ItemID=482
And another one from EEF. This is a report about research being carried out on animal depictions from ancient Egypt: "Linda Evans is a research assistant at Macquarie University's animal behaviour laboratory. In addition to a passion for animals, she is also passionate about archaeology and her PhD study at the Australian Centre for Egyptology has enabled her to combine these two interests.Evans is currently writing her thesis after eight and a half years' part-time work examining 8208 images of animals in 291 tombs and tomb fragments from cemeteries from the Old Kingdom period at Giza and Saqqara."
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- Online: Egyptian Animal Mummies Database
Egyptian Animal Mummies Database Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods...
- Improve Your Knowledge On Alexander The Great
702 ABC Sydney This is rather a fun idea - a series of online "self improvement" lessons, each available in MP3 or Real Media formats, and delivered by a specialist in a specific field. There's a recommended reading list if you want to pursue the...
- Menagerie Of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989 New Scientist article about a new collection of animal mummies being studied by the Natural History Museum in London, UK. X-ray analysis of the skeletons of some of the animals, particularly cats, suggests...
- Twenty 5000 Year Old Tombs Found At Helwan
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9837177%255E1702,00.html Dr Christiana Kohler's Australian Mission has found a necropolis at Helwan containing a relief showing early hieroglyphic text and 20 tombs. The necropolis also...
- Facility For Archaeological Research At Helwan (farah)
http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/macnews/showitem.asp?ItemID=278 This page describes Australia’s first permanent archaeological research facility established in Egypt, and gives an overview of their activities at Helwan - which is helping to clarify the situation...