Egypt
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
- More Re Dynasty 0 Engraving
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With two photographs. Following the relocation of the artefacts, a team from Yale University, the University of Bologna and the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Belgium, has completed the first epigraphic and digital record...
- Visualising Giza Project
Visualising Giza (Paulalorla) Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image...
- Women In Pharaonic Egypt
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) When we talk about the grand history of [Egypt] which extends more than fifty centuries into the past, we find ourselves continually speaking about the ancient Egyptian man, whether this is ancient Egyptian engineers who built...
- Antiquity Archaeological Photography Prize
Antiquity Journal Antiquity invites the submission of high-quality archaeological photographs for publication in the journal. Two photographs will be selected and published each quarter. A judging panel will decide the best photograph published each year...
- Don't Trust Wives Or Laugh At Cats
Times Online More from George Hart on hieroglyphs, this time looking at some of the tales they weave: Scenes of daily life on tomb walls with accompanying hieroglyphs (such as the man carrying an offering, right), and vivid stories and letters provide...
Egypt
Caricature: A Pure Egyptian Industry
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
Ancient Egyptian antiquities have preserved images and illustrations for us that reflect the humour of the ancient Egyptians and their tendency of caricaturing their circumstances, whether they represent their political, economic, or social circumstances. Ancient Egyptian artists utilized the walls of tombs to carve silent caricatures and convey highly expressive scenes to the viewer. Examples of this can be seen in the image of an extremely skinny shepherd whose ribs can be seen under his skin herding a group of fat cows, or an image of a guard sleeping outside of the warehouse that he is supposed to be protecting. There is also the image of a monkey attacking a young boy who stole fruit from the market.
In addition to these images and scenes etched on to the walls of tombs, the laborers and artists also carved images and exchanged drawings and caricatures.
- More Re Dynasty 0 Engraving
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With two photographs. Following the relocation of the artefacts, a team from Yale University, the University of Bologna and the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Belgium, has completed the first epigraphic and digital record...
- Visualising Giza Project
Visualising Giza (Paulalorla) Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image...
- Women In Pharaonic Egypt
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) When we talk about the grand history of [Egypt] which extends more than fifty centuries into the past, we find ourselves continually speaking about the ancient Egyptian man, whether this is ancient Egyptian engineers who built...
- Antiquity Archaeological Photography Prize
Antiquity Journal Antiquity invites the submission of high-quality archaeological photographs for publication in the journal. Two photographs will be selected and published each quarter. A judging panel will decide the best photograph published each year...
- Don't Trust Wives Or Laugh At Cats
Times Online More from George Hart on hieroglyphs, this time looking at some of the tales they weave: Scenes of daily life on tomb walls with accompanying hieroglyphs (such as the man carrying an offering, right), and vivid stories and letters provide...