Egypt
- Hawass And The Designer Clothing Line
Hawass again found himself under fire in the headlines, this time for selling his name to a clothes designer who launched a clothing line named after him, currently for sale in Harrods. Part of the furor was that seemed as though they had used the Egyptian...
- Life Of The Pharaohs. Festivals And Celebrations
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) Usually whenever we find a book published on Ancient Egypt, its subject will either always be on the pharaohs' tombs and their pyramids, or the religion of the pharaohs and their temples. There are very few books that...
- Blog Update
Hi to All I'm back in London again. The blog has been backdated from last Wednesday (see below). North Wales was about as unlike Egypt as possible - very cold, very wet, very green and very hilly. I wore about 5 layers of clothing under a ski jacket...
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
Fayetteville Observer (Melissa Clement) I always like to see traveling exhibitions receiving new plaudits. Here's another enthusiastic reaction to Temples and Tombs. The page is taking quite a long time to load, but it gets there in the end. There's...
- The Midnight Hour, And Tut's A Sellout
http://tinyurl.com/az3u8 "If the Los Angeles County Museum of Art threw its doors open around-the-clock to accommodate last-minute visitors to its pricey but popular King Tut show, who would show up at 2 a.m. on the last day? The answer: Robert Boggs,...
Egypt
Clothing in Ancient Egypt
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770523119
"What did the ancient Egyptians actually wear? Well, not what we thought. That’s what I learned at a presentation called “Style on the Nile” at the North Carolina Museum of Art on May 4. When I told people live models would display the clothes, the universal response was: 'Bare breasts at the museum?'
Well, no. It turns out the higher ranks wore clothes. Slaves and manual laborers wore nothing or almost nothing. But the middle and upper classes wore linen cloth.
But what about those bas reliefs of Pharoah’s wife wearing nothing but a see-through gown? Archaeologist Caroline Rocheleau explained that Egyptian art was not completely representational. The sculptors carved those naked bodies under clothes to indicate a female subject. Then they sketched outlines of dresses."
See the above page for more.
"What did the ancient Egyptians actually wear? Well, not what we thought. That’s what I learned at a presentation called “Style on the Nile” at the North Carolina Museum of Art on May 4. When I told people live models would display the clothes, the universal response was: 'Bare breasts at the museum?'
Well, no. It turns out the higher ranks wore clothes. Slaves and manual laborers wore nothing or almost nothing. But the middle and upper classes wore linen cloth.
But what about those bas reliefs of Pharoah’s wife wearing nothing but a see-through gown? Archaeologist Caroline Rocheleau explained that Egyptian art was not completely representational. The sculptors carved those naked bodies under clothes to indicate a female subject. Then they sketched outlines of dresses."
See the above page for more.
- Hawass And The Designer Clothing Line
Hawass again found himself under fire in the headlines, this time for selling his name to a clothes designer who launched a clothing line named after him, currently for sale in Harrods. Part of the furor was that seemed as though they had used the Egyptian...
- Life Of The Pharaohs. Festivals And Celebrations
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) Usually whenever we find a book published on Ancient Egypt, its subject will either always be on the pharaohs' tombs and their pyramids, or the religion of the pharaohs and their temples. There are very few books that...
- Blog Update
Hi to All I'm back in London again. The blog has been backdated from last Wednesday (see below). North Wales was about as unlike Egypt as possible - very cold, very wet, very green and very hilly. I wore about 5 layers of clothing under a ski jacket...
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
Fayetteville Observer (Melissa Clement) I always like to see traveling exhibitions receiving new plaudits. Here's another enthusiastic reaction to Temples and Tombs. The page is taking quite a long time to load, but it gets there in the end. There's...
- The Midnight Hour, And Tut's A Sellout
http://tinyurl.com/az3u8 "If the Los Angeles County Museum of Art threw its doors open around-the-clock to accommodate last-minute visitors to its pricey but popular King Tut show, who would show up at 2 a.m. on the last day? The answer: Robert Boggs,...