Egypt
- Book Review: Tutankhamen's Curse By Joyce Tyldesley
The Guardian, UK (Review by Toby Wilkinson) Among the manifold treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb, "the only thing missing", as Joyce Tyldesley notes in her new book, "was a library". The boy-king need not have worried: Egyptologists and others have...
- New Book: Tutankhamen’s Curse
The Bolton News () ANCIENT Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen holds as much fascination for us as Madonna or Angelina Jolie, according to egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley. The Bolton-based academic, who is regarded as a leading authority in the field, has just...
- Museums: Howard Carter's House Opens
It is great news that the mud-brick home of Howard Carter on the West Bank at Luxor has now opened to the public as a museum, on an anniversary of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen. Thanks to Jane Akshar for the pre-opening updates. Luxor News Blog...
- The Curse Of The Pharaohs: Truth, Myth Or Microbiology?
Firefox News (Tracy Morris) For only the second time since their discovery, some of the treasures of Tutankhamen are visiting United States Soil. Wherever they go, the treasures of Tutankhamen inspire wonder. But when they were first discovered in 1922...
- Nov 4th 1922 - Discovery Of Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/8fpurToday is the anniversary of the discovery of the entrance to the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun: "The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings where the English archaeologist Howard...
Egypt
Book Review: Tutankhamen’s Curse
The Lancet PDF (Andrew Robinson)
The opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt in 1922 by Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon is the most famous archaeological discovery of all time, with the possible exception of the excavation of Pompeii in the 18th century. On the 50th anniversary, in 1972, this discovery provided Britain’s fi rst “blockbuster” exhibition at the British Museum—visited by many of us as schoolchildren, including Joyce Tyldesley, author of Tutankhamen’s Curse. Although the queue that day was so long that she had to leave with only posters and postcards, the event nevertheless kindled her interest in Egyptology. Her fixation with ancient Egypt—she is a senior lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester—“may well be”, she writes, “my own, personal version of Tutankhamen’s curse”.
So much has been written on Tutankhamen that one might be excused for doubting the need for another book. But one would be wrong, given the developing scientifi c study of the objects from the tomb, including investigation of Tutankhamen’s mummy with x-rays, CT scans, and DNA analysis, alongside the increasing knowledge of the young pharaoh’s historical context generated by continuing excavations in such sites
as the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, and Amarna.
- Book Review: Tutankhamen's Curse By Joyce Tyldesley
The Guardian, UK (Review by Toby Wilkinson) Among the manifold treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb, "the only thing missing", as Joyce Tyldesley notes in her new book, "was a library". The boy-king need not have worried: Egyptologists and others have...
- New Book: Tutankhamen’s Curse
The Bolton News () ANCIENT Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen holds as much fascination for us as Madonna or Angelina Jolie, according to egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley. The Bolton-based academic, who is regarded as a leading authority in the field, has just...
- Museums: Howard Carter's House Opens
It is great news that the mud-brick home of Howard Carter on the West Bank at Luxor has now opened to the public as a museum, on an anniversary of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen. Thanks to Jane Akshar for the pre-opening updates. Luxor News Blog...
- The Curse Of The Pharaohs: Truth, Myth Or Microbiology?
Firefox News (Tracy Morris) For only the second time since their discovery, some of the treasures of Tutankhamen are visiting United States Soil. Wherever they go, the treasures of Tutankhamen inspire wonder. But when they were first discovered in 1922...
- Nov 4th 1922 - Discovery Of Tomb Of Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/8fpurToday is the anniversary of the discovery of the entrance to the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun: "The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt in the Valley of the Kings where the English archaeologist Howard...