Egypt
- First Phase Of Aksum Obelisk Re-installation Successfully Completed
UNESCO Not exactly an Ancient Egypt news, but the report is about an obelisk stolen by the Italian government of Mussolini pre World War II, its return in 2005 and its final reinstallation in its original location after 70 years. The first phase of the...
- An Obelisk For Central Park
http://tinyurl.com/e3yul A fascinating article written by Edmund S. Whitman on the Travellers in Egypt website, telling the full story of the Egyptian obelisk that stands in New York's Central Park: "Shortly after the Suez Canal Inaugural of 1869,...
- Portents, Signs And Prophecy
Portents, Signs and Prophecy I'll be honest, I'm...
- Egyptian Art
J.R. Harris Spring Art Books London Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1966 ISBN: 0198219121 In the introduction J.R Harris talks about the enthusiasm for Egyptian art brought on by the Napoleon expedition at the start of the nineteenth century. The shattering of...
- The Cash Register In The Desert
"Even though we had allowed people to take pictures in the Valley, people continued to bribe the guards and take cameras into the tombs and use flash." ...
Egypt
Book fair produces fascinating discovery: Theatrum Italiae (1663)
Wired.com (Joan Blaeu)
Not much text, but some great pictures.
Not much text, but some great pictures.
Moving is never easy, and moving is especially difficult when you own a 327-ton Egyptian obelisk and you want it shifted 275 yards to sit right in front of the Vatican. Such was the task assigned to Italian engineer Domenico Fontana in 1586 and detailed in this illustration from Joan Blaeu’s Theatrum Italiae (see a high-res version here). Enlisting some 900 men and 75 horses, it took Fontana a year to move the 83-foot obelisk.
- First Phase Of Aksum Obelisk Re-installation Successfully Completed
UNESCO Not exactly an Ancient Egypt news, but the report is about an obelisk stolen by the Italian government of Mussolini pre World War II, its return in 2005 and its final reinstallation in its original location after 70 years. The first phase of the...
- An Obelisk For Central Park
http://tinyurl.com/e3yul A fascinating article written by Edmund S. Whitman on the Travellers in Egypt website, telling the full story of the Egyptian obelisk that stands in New York's Central Park: "Shortly after the Suez Canal Inaugural of 1869,...
- Portents, Signs And Prophecy
Portents, Signs and Prophecy I'll be honest, I'm...
- Egyptian Art
J.R. Harris Spring Art Books London Paul Hamlyn Ltd. 1966 ISBN: 0198219121 In the introduction J.R Harris talks about the enthusiasm for Egyptian art brought on by the Napoleon expedition at the start of the nineteenth century. The shattering of...
- The Cash Register In The Desert
"Even though we had allowed people to take pictures in the Valley, people continued to bribe the guards and take cameras into the tombs and use flash." ...