Egypt
- Work Commences On Prehistoric Sites In The Faiyum
Fayum Dig Diaries Excellent news! With photos. One to watch. Today we officially began work on the north shore. At the moment our team is split into three different groups. One group will excavate at Kom W, one group will excavate hearths and the NZ team...
- Book News: Paperback Release Of Silent Images
drhawass.com Hawass has announced on his website that his book Silent Images has been re-released by the AUC in paperback. Here is what he says about it: I am very happy to announce that my book Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt has just been re-released...
- 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...
- Book Review: Daughters Of Gaia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Christina A. Clark) Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. Table of Contents In her preface to Daughters of Gaia, Vivante declares that...
- Daily Photo - Faiyum Neolithic At The Petrie
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has put its entire collection online so that anyone with an Internet connection can find specifc artefacts or search for general categories. The photographs shown here are all held at the Petrie, and are copied...
Egypt
Book review: Singled Out
The Guardian (review by Lynn Knight)
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson 312pp, Viking.
It is impossible to tell from this review how much coverage is given to Gertrude Caton-Thompson, whose book, Mixed Memoirs, I keep meaning to read. I have her two volume Desert Fayoum on my shelves, and it is a masterpiece of archaeological and geoarchaeological work for its time.
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson 312pp, Viking.
Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out salutes the intrepid women whose dreams of marriage were destroyed by war . . . . .Singled Out is rich in stories of determined, intrepid women (including Egyptologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson, who shared one camp with a family of cobras). Its final chapter reaches a crescendo with a roll call of achievers.
It is impossible to tell from this review how much coverage is given to Gertrude Caton-Thompson, whose book, Mixed Memoirs, I keep meaning to read. I have her two volume Desert Fayoum on my shelves, and it is a masterpiece of archaeological and geoarchaeological work for its time.
- Work Commences On Prehistoric Sites In The Faiyum
Fayum Dig Diaries Excellent news! With photos. One to watch. Today we officially began work on the north shore. At the moment our team is split into three different groups. One group will excavate at Kom W, one group will excavate hearths and the NZ team...
- Book News: Paperback Release Of Silent Images
drhawass.com Hawass has announced on his website that his book Silent Images has been re-released by the AUC in paperback. Here is what he says about it: I am very happy to announce that my book Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt has just been re-released...
- 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...
- Book Review: Daughters Of Gaia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Christina A. Clark) Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. Table of Contents In her preface to Daughters of Gaia, Vivante declares that...
- Daily Photo - Faiyum Neolithic At The Petrie
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology has put its entire collection online so that anyone with an Internet connection can find specifc artefacts or search for general categories. The photographs shown here are all held at the Petrie, and are copied...