Egypt
Hi to All
Andie
- Photo For Today - Medinet Habu
Apologies for the late post, nearly a week after my previous one. I've been running around like a headless chicken for the last few days, partly with the launch of Egyptological and partly with making preparations for coming up to Wales for a couple...
- Blog Update
I'm away again as from tomorrow. going home for a visit to my father in north Wales. I'll be away for a week or so. I'm also collecting a new car and I may stay with a friend for a few days on the way back to London, so I'm not quite sure...
- Blog Suspended Until Further Notice
Apologies to all visitors but I am temporarily moving from London to north Wales due to the illness of my mother, and will not be in a position to udpate the blog for the forseeable future. I will of course begin to update it again at some point in the...
- Blog Update
It is so very typical that the KV63 website should have been updated whilst I was in Wales. I have checked it every day since the last update, and it really is one of those laws of life that new photos were added whilst I was away. Anyway, I'm back...
- Rhind Papyrus & Vr Book Of The Dead
http://tinyurl.com/bdzde "An ancient Egyptian mathematical scroll believed to be more than 3,500 years old will go on display in Wales on Thursday. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus has been lent to the University of Swansea from the British Museum for a...
Egypt
Blog Update
Hi to All I'm back in London again. The blog has been backdated from last Wednesday (see below).
North Wales was about as unlike Egypt as possible - very cold, very wet, very green and very hilly. I wore about 5 layers of clothing under a ski jacket and I was still cold when outside. London, wet and miserable, is less beautiful but a lot warmer than north Wales at this time of year.
A completely off-topic aside - if anyone based in the southern UK is interested in the Welsh prehistoric past, there is currently an exhibition in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff entitled Origins: In Search of Early Wales. I excavated at Pontnewydd in the 1980s, so I'll almost certainly find the time to head to south Wales to see the exhibition at some point.
There are a couple of articles littered around the Web about it. Here are two of them:
IC Wales
BBC News
Jonathan Jones, on the Guardian Unlimited, has an article about the possibilities of finding rock art in Britain (a suggestion apparently made by the exhibition), which also takes a tour around some of the French rock art examples.
All the best North Wales was about as unlike Egypt as possible - very cold, very wet, very green and very hilly. I wore about 5 layers of clothing under a ski jacket and I was still cold when outside. London, wet and miserable, is less beautiful but a lot warmer than north Wales at this time of year.
A completely off-topic aside - if anyone based in the southern UK is interested in the Welsh prehistoric past, there is currently an exhibition in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff entitled Origins: In Search of Early Wales. I excavated at Pontnewydd in the 1980s, so I'll almost certainly find the time to head to south Wales to see the exhibition at some point.
There are a couple of articles littered around the Web about it. Here are two of them:
IC Wales
BBC News
Jonathan Jones, on the Guardian Unlimited, has an article about the possibilities of finding rock art in Britain (a suggestion apparently made by the exhibition), which also takes a tour around some of the French rock art examples.
Andie
- Photo For Today - Medinet Habu
Apologies for the late post, nearly a week after my previous one. I've been running around like a headless chicken for the last few days, partly with the launch of Egyptological and partly with making preparations for coming up to Wales for a couple...
- Blog Update
I'm away again as from tomorrow. going home for a visit to my father in north Wales. I'll be away for a week or so. I'm also collecting a new car and I may stay with a friend for a few days on the way back to London, so I'm not quite sure...
- Blog Suspended Until Further Notice
Apologies to all visitors but I am temporarily moving from London to north Wales due to the illness of my mother, and will not be in a position to udpate the blog for the forseeable future. I will of course begin to update it again at some point in the...
- Blog Update
It is so very typical that the KV63 website should have been updated whilst I was in Wales. I have checked it every day since the last update, and it really is one of those laws of life that new photos were added whilst I was away. Anyway, I'm back...
- Rhind Papyrus & Vr Book Of The Dead
http://tinyurl.com/bdzde "An ancient Egyptian mathematical scroll believed to be more than 3,500 years old will go on display in Wales on Thursday. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus has been lent to the University of Swansea from the British Museum for a...