Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil)
- Egyptian Archaeology (ees) No.38, Spring 2011
Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology 38 EA 38 (spring 2011) was published in February. In addition to articles, it contains reports on the EES Centenary Awards, recent EES events and details of a new edited film of the Society's work at...
- New Issue Of Kmt Fall 2010
KMT Magazine Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 2010 Includes Six Feature Articles: Laser Cleaning Tomb Paintings at Luxor (TT49) by Birte Graue, Violeta Maria Pereyra, Susanne Brinkman & Christina Verbeek The Enigma of Kings Valley Tomb 58 by Dylan Bickerstaffe...
- Book Review: Dame Kathleen Kenyon
Archaeology Magazine (Review by Hana Koriech) I've shoe-horned this review into the blog mainly because it interested me, but if you want to hear the most tenuous of excuses the review says that Kenyon's initial inspiration was Gertrude Caton-Thompson,...
- Unbroken Story Of Human Progress
Al-Ahram Book Review: A History of Egypt: From earliest times to the present, Jason Thompson, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008. pp383, 2 maps, 80 b/w photos Here's an extract from Jill Kamil 's review: With his new book, Jason...
- The Indefatigable Mr Lane
SaudiAramco World Late one September afternoon in 1825, an apprehensive 24-year-old Englishman arrived in the Eastern Harbor of Alexandria, Egypt. “As I approached the shore,” he wrote, “I felt like an Eastern bridegroom, about to lift up the veil...
Egypt
Book Review: Edward William Lane
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil)
Jason Thompson's Edward William Lane, "is no mere biography", he explains. "It is a collective biography, in the sense that it is about the clusters of people around Lane. He was a central figure, a planner. They tended to share sources and observations, giving in order to get. But Lane was not like that at all. He was a taker not a giver. Moreover, he was extremely authoritative".
Research can be endlessly seducing. It is certainly so for historian Jason Thompson. Even before his biography on Sir Alan Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle (published by AUC Press in 1992) had reached page-proof stage, the focus of his interest had already honed in on Edward William Lane, a member of the same circle whose fascinating and multi- faceted Description of Egypt had never been published. This massive work, which combines history, geography, city life, village communities, and antiquities between Alexandria and the Second Cataract, was rescued by Thompson from certain oblivion when he located files of unpublished material in the Griffiths Institute. Realising its value and aware that the material was known to only a handful of scholars, he decided to undertake to edit the material and provide an appropriate introduction.
- Egyptian Archaeology (ees) No.38, Spring 2011
Egypt Exploration Society Egyptian Archaeology 38 EA 38 (spring 2011) was published in February. In addition to articles, it contains reports on the EES Centenary Awards, recent EES events and details of a new edited film of the Society's work at...
- New Issue Of Kmt Fall 2010
KMT Magazine Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 2010 Includes Six Feature Articles: Laser Cleaning Tomb Paintings at Luxor (TT49) by Birte Graue, Violeta Maria Pereyra, Susanne Brinkman & Christina Verbeek The Enigma of Kings Valley Tomb 58 by Dylan Bickerstaffe...
- Book Review: Dame Kathleen Kenyon
Archaeology Magazine (Review by Hana Koriech) I've shoe-horned this review into the blog mainly because it interested me, but if you want to hear the most tenuous of excuses the review says that Kenyon's initial inspiration was Gertrude Caton-Thompson,...
- Unbroken Story Of Human Progress
Al-Ahram Book Review: A History of Egypt: From earliest times to the present, Jason Thompson, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008. pp383, 2 maps, 80 b/w photos Here's an extract from Jill Kamil 's review: With his new book, Jason...
- The Indefatigable Mr Lane
SaudiAramco World Late one September afternoon in 1825, an apprehensive 24-year-old Englishman arrived in the Eastern Harbor of Alexandria, Egypt. “As I approached the shore,” he wrote, “I felt like an Eastern bridegroom, about to lift up the veil...