Egypt
Rosetta (Reviewed by Marsia Sfakianou Bealby)
- Online Resource: Dating Pharaonic Egypt
Science Dating Pharaonic Egypt Hendrik J. Bruins Science June 18th 2010, Volume 328 Ancient literary sources of Pharaonic Egypt constitute the historical cornerstone of time in the eastern Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Iron Ages (the third...
- Feature: Minoan Artists In Egypt?
Heritage Link (Owen Jarus) One of the most perplexing mysteries that Egyptologists and Aegean experts are tackling is that of the frescoes of Tell el-Dab'a, also known as Avaris. This site was used as the capital of the Hyksos, at a time when they...
- The Universal Museum
Looting Matters (David Gill) The argument for displaying antiquities outside their country of origin is that these pieces are part of our shared, universal, cosmopolitan culture. Does it matter if archaic Athenian funerary sculptures are displayed in...
- Study Of Ancient Tsunami That Destroyed Alexandria
National Geographic Tsunamis like the the one that devastated ancient Alexandria in A.D. 365 may hit the Mediterranean relatively often, a new study argues. Scientists say they have pinpointed the geological fault—off the coast of the Greek island...
- Minoan Art At The Onassis Cultural Center
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 B.C. Onassis Cultural Center, March 13th 2008 - September 13th 2008. Crete's early civilization flourished in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia B.C. It produced settlements,...
Egypt
Book Review: Aegyptiaca on the Island of Crete in Their Chronological Context: A Critical Review
Rosetta (Reviewed by Marsia Sfakianou Bealby)
Jacqueline Phillips, Aegyptiaca on the Island of Crete in Their Chronological Context: A Critical Review. Volume I and II (Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean XVIII. Bietak, M. and H. Hunger [eds]). Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press). December 2008.
Nearly seventy years have passed since young and enthusiastic J. D. S. Pendlebury, pioneer in Aegean/Egyptian relations, first studied artefacts of Egyptian origin found in Minoan and Helladic contexts. Pendlebury’s Aegyptiaca was a catalogue of Egyptian finds discovered on mainland Greece, Crete and the Aegean Islands, dating to Dynasty XXVI and earlier.[1] Despite being quite concise in format, and in perpetual need of updating and re-evaluation of its material, this significant work has inspired generations of researchers.[2]
In terms of Aegeo-Egyptian connections, Pendlebury’s Aegyptiaca has been the spark to start a fire of archaeological research in the twentieth century. In its own turn, Jacqueline Phillips’s recently published book, Aegyptiaca on the Island of Crete in Their Chronological Context: A Critical Review, is meant to keep this fire alive and brighter than ever.
The present study, which consists of two volumes, is based on the re-visited and updated PhD thesis of the author, submitted in 1991 to the University of Toronto.[3] Developed with care and commitment, it provides a catalogue of all known Egyptian and indigenous ‘Egyptianising’ material found in Bronze Age Minoan contexts, and also those without archaeological context, dating to Dynasty XX and earlier.
- Online Resource: Dating Pharaonic Egypt
Science Dating Pharaonic Egypt Hendrik J. Bruins Science June 18th 2010, Volume 328 Ancient literary sources of Pharaonic Egypt constitute the historical cornerstone of time in the eastern Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Iron Ages (the third...
- Feature: Minoan Artists In Egypt?
Heritage Link (Owen Jarus) One of the most perplexing mysteries that Egyptologists and Aegean experts are tackling is that of the frescoes of Tell el-Dab'a, also known as Avaris. This site was used as the capital of the Hyksos, at a time when they...
- The Universal Museum
Looting Matters (David Gill) The argument for displaying antiquities outside their country of origin is that these pieces are part of our shared, universal, cosmopolitan culture. Does it matter if archaic Athenian funerary sculptures are displayed in...
- Study Of Ancient Tsunami That Destroyed Alexandria
National Geographic Tsunamis like the the one that devastated ancient Alexandria in A.D. 365 may hit the Mediterranean relatively often, a new study argues. Scientists say they have pinpointed the geological fault—off the coast of the Greek island...
- Minoan Art At The Onassis Cultural Center
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 B.C. Onassis Cultural Center, March 13th 2008 - September 13th 2008. Crete's early civilization flourished in the 3rd and 2nd Millennia B.C. It produced settlements,...