Egypt
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
With photographs,
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Features On Heritage Key
Another round up of the recent features on Heritage Key Article: The King and I(deology) by Garry Shaw Article: We are Not Pirates! by Sean Williams (re Hawass reaction to BM loan letter) Article with Video: How King Tut's Tomb Avoided Robbery by...
- Conference Report: Racy Poetry From The Amarna Period
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Short article about love and sex in Amarna poetry as presented by Vincent Tobin at the recent Toronto conference. One of the most unusual presentations on Egyptology that I’ve seen in awhile took place at the Egypt symposium...
- Conference News: Egyptian Symposium In Toronto
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus promises a detailed report on the symposium but in the meantime he has bullet pointed some of the key points of interest. There are several fascinating items but the one that most interested me were some of the results...
- More Re Fort Tharo Discovery, Sinai
All Headline News A few additional details that weren't covered in yesterday's posts are provided in the following post: Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced the discovery of a military fortress belonging to the 19th dynasty in Tal...
Egypt
Conference Report: Tell el-Borg and Akhenaten
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
With photographs,
It’s long been a common stereotype that Akhenaten was a pacifist, someone who avoided warfare when possible. If you read Heritage Key’s article on Nazi Egyptology you will see that the Nazis hate him for that precise reason.
But recent research, presented this weekend at an Egyptology symposium in Toronto, shows that the Amarna leaders – including Akhenaten, King Tut and Nefertiti - all supported a sizable fortress in the Sinai desert.
Located at Tell el-Borg it was a formidable bastion. It was 120 meters east-west by 80 meters north-south. The walls were four meters thick (at the base) and it was at least partially surrounded by a moat.
The research was presented by Professor James Hoffmeier of Trinity International University. His archaeological team finished excavations in 2007 and they are now in the process of publishing their results.
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Features On Heritage Key
Another round up of the recent features on Heritage Key Article: The King and I(deology) by Garry Shaw Article: We are Not Pirates! by Sean Williams (re Hawass reaction to BM loan letter) Article with Video: How King Tut's Tomb Avoided Robbery by...
- Conference Report: Racy Poetry From The Amarna Period
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Short article about love and sex in Amarna poetry as presented by Vincent Tobin at the recent Toronto conference. One of the most unusual presentations on Egyptology that I’ve seen in awhile took place at the Egypt symposium...
- Conference News: Egyptian Symposium In Toronto
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus promises a detailed report on the symposium but in the meantime he has bullet pointed some of the key points of interest. There are several fascinating items but the one that most interested me were some of the results...
- More Re Fort Tharo Discovery, Sinai
All Headline News A few additional details that weren't covered in yesterday's posts are provided in the following post: Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced the discovery of a military fortress belonging to the 19th dynasty in Tal...