Egypt
New York Times (Alida Becker)
- Ees Magazine: Egyptian Archaeology 40
Egypt Exploration Society EA 40 will be published in February/March 2012. The EES news pages include a progress report by Chris Naunton on the rehousing of the Society's Lucy Gura Archive, and accounts of two recent trips made by groups of EES members...
- Early Archeology An Adventure In Plunder
Hi-Desert Star (Rebecca Unger) “Archeological Discoveries” were on the menu for the Hi-Desert Nature Museum’s November Brown Bag Lunch lecture. Museum Supervisor Lynne Richardson introduced an assortment of characters, from the “antiquarians”...
- Antiquities Market: Celtic Armadillos, Nilotic Fish, And A Bright Blue Shabti
Maine Antique Digest (Ian McKay) The market in antiquities is one that continues to hold up strongly in the face of what remain difficult economic times for some markets, not to mention stricter export laws and regulations on what can and cannot be sold....
- Belzoni
Suite 101 (Lito Apostolakou) If you're interested in the explorer and treasure hunter Belzoni then this new article on the Suite101 website may be of interest. Giovanni Belzoni, the 19th-century explorer and Egyptian archaeologist, started out on...
- Foreign Teams On Missions In Egypt
Egyptian Gazette As ever with the Egyptian Gazette this story will only be available for a few days. More than one hundred foreign archaeological teams are currently working in Egypt and all are hoping to discover new monuments and artefacts that might...
Egypt
Book Review: Belzoni - The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate
New York Times (Alida Becker)
His introduction to the wonders of the ancient world could hardly have been less auspicious. While in Cairo in the summer of 1815, awaiting an audience with Mohammed Ali Pasha, Turkish viceroy of Egypt, the Italian monk-turned-peddler-turned-hydrologist-turned-circus impresario Giovanni Belzoni paid a visit to the Great Pyramid and became so tightly wedged in one of its internal passages that his guides had to forcibly extract him. It was merely the first of many indignities endured by this 6-foot-6 “giant,” whose adventures in the Nile Valley would yield some of the most imposing treasures in the British Museum. They would also earn him the undying enmity of his successors in a field that only later acquired the polish of a professional discipline — archaeology.
While granting that Belzoni may be what a colleague has called “the most notorious tomb robber Egypt has ever known,” Ivor Noël Hume, the former director of Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological research program, also admits to a fondness for this indefatigable entrepreneur.
- Ees Magazine: Egyptian Archaeology 40
Egypt Exploration Society EA 40 will be published in February/March 2012. The EES news pages include a progress report by Chris Naunton on the rehousing of the Society's Lucy Gura Archive, and accounts of two recent trips made by groups of EES members...
- Early Archeology An Adventure In Plunder
Hi-Desert Star (Rebecca Unger) “Archeological Discoveries” were on the menu for the Hi-Desert Nature Museum’s November Brown Bag Lunch lecture. Museum Supervisor Lynne Richardson introduced an assortment of characters, from the “antiquarians”...
- Antiquities Market: Celtic Armadillos, Nilotic Fish, And A Bright Blue Shabti
Maine Antique Digest (Ian McKay) The market in antiquities is one that continues to hold up strongly in the face of what remain difficult economic times for some markets, not to mention stricter export laws and regulations on what can and cannot be sold....
- Belzoni
Suite 101 (Lito Apostolakou) If you're interested in the explorer and treasure hunter Belzoni then this new article on the Suite101 website may be of interest. Giovanni Belzoni, the 19th-century explorer and Egyptian archaeologist, started out on...
- Foreign Teams On Missions In Egypt
Egyptian Gazette As ever with the Egyptian Gazette this story will only be available for a few days. More than one hundred foreign archaeological teams are currently working in Egypt and all are hoping to discover new monuments and artefacts that might...