Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm (Review by Sara Elkamel)
- Online: Two Aspects Of Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture From Two Different Middle Egyptian Nomes
eTheses Repository Two aspects of Middle Kingdom Funerary culture from two different Middle Egyptian Nomes Billson, Bjorn Marc (2012) M.Phil. thesis, University of Birmingham. PDF (1109Kb) Abstract This thesis aims to further...
- Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose To Go On Display At The Brooklyn
Art Daily Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. One of the most important funerary...
- Rare Ancient Egyptian "book Of The Dead" To Go On View At Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum Press Release Final Section, Completing Rare Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, To Go on View September 28, 2011 Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of...
- Egyptian Archaeology 37
Egypt Exploration Society Mine turned up this morning. I haven't had the chance to do more than flip through it but the photographs from North Dashur and from the Book of the Dead exhibition are stunning. Egyptian Archaeology 37 (Autumn 2010) has...
- In The Field: Opening The Tomb Of Sa-iset
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Recently I went to Dashur to investigate the tomb of the vizier Sa-Iset and lift the huge sarcophagus lid to discover what it contained. This tomb was found by Jacques de Morgan in 1890, and the tomb was actually lost for many...
Egypt
Book Review: For the Living and the Dead
Al Masry Al Youm (Review by Sara Elkamel)
In For the Living and the Dead (The American University in Cairo Press, 2010) anthropologist and filmmaker Elizabeth Wickett explores Upper Egyptian funerary laments or idid, in pursuit of a deeper understanding of Egyptian folklore.
Wickett, who has spent 25 years delving into academic research and social development in the Middle East and North Africa, finds that, “lamentation is at the core of social, cultural, and religious customs performed for the dead in Upper Egypt.”
Echoed in the chants of modern-day lamenters is an elaborate history stretching back 5000 years. Through close observation of professional lamenters, Wickett deciphers chants in relation to myth, religion, and ancient Egyptian funerary texts. Evidence of ancient Egyptian lamentation is recorded on tomb walls around the country where paintings depict lamenters in conventional poses on walls, standing, kneeling, or crouched with arms poised overhead. Wickett also inspected ancient Pyramid texts for funerary spells, most of which are reflected in contemporary laments.
But Wickett’s text achieves much more than a mere depiction of surviving funerary laments and the convoluted rapport between life and death; using elaborate diction and sophisticated imagery, the writer provides a unique insight into the intricacies of Upper Egyptian life.
- Online: Two Aspects Of Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture From Two Different Middle Egyptian Nomes
eTheses Repository Two aspects of Middle Kingdom Funerary culture from two different Middle Egyptian Nomes Billson, Bjorn Marc (2012) M.Phil. thesis, University of Birmingham. PDF (1109Kb) Abstract This thesis aims to further...
- Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose To Go On Display At The Brooklyn
Art Daily Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose will go on long-term view on September 28. One of the most important funerary...
- Rare Ancient Egyptian "book Of The Dead" To Go On View At Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum Press Release Final Section, Completing Rare Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, To Go on View September 28, 2011 Following a three-year-long conservation project, the final section of the rare, thirty-five-centuries-old Egyptian Book of...
- Egyptian Archaeology 37
Egypt Exploration Society Mine turned up this morning. I haven't had the chance to do more than flip through it but the photographs from North Dashur and from the Book of the Dead exhibition are stunning. Egyptian Archaeology 37 (Autumn 2010) has...
- In The Field: Opening The Tomb Of Sa-iset
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Recently I went to Dashur to investigate the tomb of the vizier Sa-Iset and lift the huge sarcophagus lid to discover what it contained. This tomb was found by Jacques de Morgan in 1890, and the tomb was actually lost for many...