Egypt
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- Audio Slideshow: Thesiger's Photographs
BBC Many thanks to Hans Barnard for this link. Sir Wilfred Thesiger took nearly 40,000 photographs during his eight decades of travels throughout Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Now, to mark 100 years since his birth, Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum...
- More Re Closure Of Ashmolean
BBC News Culture-seekers have one day left to visit the UK's oldest public museum - Oxford University's Ashmolean - before it closes its doors for nearly a year. The 325-year-old visitor attraction will be shut to the public from 23 December for...
- King Tut "authentic Reproductions" Go To Las Vegas Museum
Las Vegas Sun The Las Vegas Natural History Museum, a private, non-profit institution dedicated to educating children and families in the natural sciences, today announced that it is receiving a donation of "authentic reproductions" from the Tomb and...
- Tutankhamun Online
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1774854,00.html An update about the work of the Griffith Institute in Oxford, who have already published some of the original notes and diary extracts from the Tutankhamun excavation: "It was the most famous...
- Computer Technology To Provide Virtual Tour Of A Mummy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1186590,00.html Guardian Unlimited article about examining an Egyptian mummy without unwrapping it. “The technology allows researchers and visitors to study the coffin, the wrappings, the skin, bone,...
Egypt
Award for Oxford's Pitt-Rivers & Natural History Museum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1522009,00.html
Thanks to my mother, former Oxford resident and Guardian reader for sending me this item: "The Pitt Rivers and Natural History Museum in Oxford won the Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award the day before yesterday, in the first national museum competition judged entirely by children. This year, the second year of the competition, the adults gave way to children aged 8-16 who spent hours arguing the merits of the five shortlisted museums. They were seduced finally by the Oxford museums' backpacks, available to young visitors, which contain treasures such as real bones and shark's teeth".
- Audio Slideshow: Thesiger's Photographs
BBC Many thanks to Hans Barnard for this link. Sir Wilfred Thesiger took nearly 40,000 photographs during his eight decades of travels throughout Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Now, to mark 100 years since his birth, Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum...
- More Re Closure Of Ashmolean
BBC News Culture-seekers have one day left to visit the UK's oldest public museum - Oxford University's Ashmolean - before it closes its doors for nearly a year. The 325-year-old visitor attraction will be shut to the public from 23 December for...
- King Tut "authentic Reproductions" Go To Las Vegas Museum
Las Vegas Sun The Las Vegas Natural History Museum, a private, non-profit institution dedicated to educating children and families in the natural sciences, today announced that it is receiving a donation of "authentic reproductions" from the Tomb and...
- Tutankhamun Online
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1774854,00.html An update about the work of the Griffith Institute in Oxford, who have already published some of the original notes and diary extracts from the Tutankhamun excavation: "It was the most famous...
- Computer Technology To Provide Virtual Tour Of A Mummy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1186590,00.html Guardian Unlimited article about examining an Egyptian mummy without unwrapping it. “The technology allows researchers and visitors to study the coffin, the wrappings, the skin, bone,...