Egypt
Archaeology Magazine (review by Mark Rose)
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- Book Review: When The Pyramids Were Built
Egyptians (Tim Reid) When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom Dorothea Arnold, 1999 Rizzoli International Publications This lovely book was written by Dorothea Arnold in conjunction with the exhibition "Egyptian Art in the Age of...
- Khasm El Raqaba Fossils Under Analysis
Wake Forest University Wake Forest University anthropologist Ellen Miller is among the scientists deciphering the secrets of a trove of small mammal fossils discovered in a quarry in Egypt. The 20-million-year-old bones and teeth found in the Egyptian...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Weekly Websites
Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy - A beginner's guide to writing hierogplyphs http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/fischer_eg_calligraphy.pdf Lovely book, in PDF format, which gives you detailed guidelines on how to draw each hieroglyph, stroke by...
- Mummies Myth And Magic In Ancient Egypt
Christine El Mahdy Thames & Hudson New York 1989 Library of Congress Catalogue No. 89-50542 This 1989 book by author Christine El Mahdy was appointed with a number of nice images gracing its 192 pages though there was interesting details I also...
Egypt
Book Review: Eternal Egypt
Archaeology Magazine (review by Mark Rose)At the End of Days, when all the coffee-table books on ancient Egypt rise up to be judged, where will The Eternal Light of Egypt stand? The book, a Thames & Hudson offering, features 126 images by modern-day photographer Sarite Sanders. An introductory essay by Egyptologist Dorothea Arnold of the Metropolitan Museum of Art places Sanders's images in historical context by summarizing the work of photographic pioneers such as Maxime du Camp, Francis Frith, and Félix Teynard, as well as later practitioners, such as Harry Burton, who documented the Tut excavation.
Sanders's images are introduced by quotes from ancient texts and early tourists, from Mark Twain to Florence Nightingale, presumably selected by Sanders. These are nice overall, though neither Arnold, in her introduction, nor Sanders could resist dragging out Shelley's old saw "Ozymandias" in conjunction with a photo of a fallen colossus.
As for the images themselves, all were taken using infrared black-and-white film, which creates unusual effects. Close-ups of reliefs are almost unnaturally sharp, but in larger scenes, monuments seem grainy and skies spectral. At times the effects, combined with Sanders's point of view, go awry.
See the above page for the full review.
- Book Review: When The Pyramids Were Built
Egyptians (Tim Reid) When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom Dorothea Arnold, 1999 Rizzoli International Publications This lovely book was written by Dorothea Arnold in conjunction with the exhibition "Egyptian Art in the Age of...
- Khasm El Raqaba Fossils Under Analysis
Wake Forest University Wake Forest University anthropologist Ellen Miller is among the scientists deciphering the secrets of a trove of small mammal fossils discovered in a quarry in Egypt. The 20-million-year-old bones and teeth found in the Egyptian...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Weekly Websites
Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy - A beginner's guide to writing hierogplyphs http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/fischer_eg_calligraphy.pdf Lovely book, in PDF format, which gives you detailed guidelines on how to draw each hieroglyph, stroke by...
- Mummies Myth And Magic In Ancient Egypt
Christine El Mahdy Thames & Hudson New York 1989 Library of Congress Catalogue No. 89-50542 This 1989 book by author Christine El Mahdy was appointed with a number of nice images gracing its 192 pages though there was interesting details I also...