Egypt
- Exhibition: Mummified At The Walters Art Museum
The John Hopkins Newsletter (Alec Meacham) Mummified!, a current exhibit at The Walters Art Museum, is interesting, somewhat educational, and a great weekend venture for anyone looking for a nerdy good time. The Walters Art Museum, located a block away...
- Resources: Various
Thanks to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for these. Archaeology of Ancient Beer Delwen Samuel http://ancientgrains.org/samuel1996beer.pdf Palaeoepidemiology, literacy, and medical tradition among necropolis workmen in New Kingdom Egypt. R L Miller www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1036267/pdf/medhist00052-0005.pdf...
- Horst Dornbusch On Beer And Civilization #7 (egypt)
Beer Advocate This post is dedicated to Francis :-)When Meketre died (around 1975 B.C.), he was mummified and put to rest in a tomb in western Thebes, opposite present-day Luxor. Fortunate for us, his contemporaries placed a large collection of miniature...
- Team Helps Save Egypt Tomb Mural
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061028a6.html"A Japanese research team has successfully removed a mural in an ancient Egyptian tomb at the World Heritage site of Saqqara, using a technique used on Japanese murals, so that preservation work...
- Egyptian Puzzle Of A Silent Embrace
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/21/healthscience/snembrace.phpAn article about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, two men sharing a single tomb: "Though not of the nobility, they were highly esteemed in the palace as the chief manicurists of the king, sometime...
Egypt
Brewing processes reproduced
Thanks to the EEF newsletter (which will be uploaded on Sunday) for highlighting the following article in PDF format, entitled Two Ancient Egyptian Mural Paintings", from the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, Technical Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4 . 2005 . pp. 273-282 (799 kB):
http://www.mbaa.com/TechQuarterly/Articles/2005/TQ-42-0273.pdf
"We attempted the faithful reproduction of the brewing processes depicted on the mural paintings in the tombs of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep of the Old Kingdom and in the tomb of Kenamun of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt using a common pathway. After multiple reproductions, we succeeded in brewing stable beer using both of the above processes. Surprisingly, the two processes were proven to be completely different."
http://www.mbaa.com/TechQuarterly/Articles/2005/TQ-42-0273.pdf
"We attempted the faithful reproduction of the brewing processes depicted on the mural paintings in the tombs of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep of the Old Kingdom and in the tomb of Kenamun of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt using a common pathway. After multiple reproductions, we succeeded in brewing stable beer using both of the above processes. Surprisingly, the two processes were proven to be completely different."
See the above URL for the abstract and article (10 pages).
- Exhibition: Mummified At The Walters Art Museum
The John Hopkins Newsletter (Alec Meacham) Mummified!, a current exhibit at The Walters Art Museum, is interesting, somewhat educational, and a great weekend venture for anyone looking for a nerdy good time. The Walters Art Museum, located a block away...
- Resources: Various
Thanks to Tony Cagle's ArchaeoBlog for these. Archaeology of Ancient Beer Delwen Samuel http://ancientgrains.org/samuel1996beer.pdf Palaeoepidemiology, literacy, and medical tradition among necropolis workmen in New Kingdom Egypt. R L Miller www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1036267/pdf/medhist00052-0005.pdf...
- Horst Dornbusch On Beer And Civilization #7 (egypt)
Beer Advocate This post is dedicated to Francis :-)When Meketre died (around 1975 B.C.), he was mummified and put to rest in a tomb in western Thebes, opposite present-day Luxor. Fortunate for us, his contemporaries placed a large collection of miniature...
- Team Helps Save Egypt Tomb Mural
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061028a6.html"A Japanese research team has successfully removed a mural in an ancient Egyptian tomb at the World Heritage site of Saqqara, using a technique used on Japanese murals, so that preservation work...
- Egyptian Puzzle Of A Silent Embrace
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/21/healthscience/snembrace.phpAn article about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, two men sharing a single tomb: "Though not of the nobility, they were highly esteemed in the palace as the chief manicurists of the king, sometime...