Egypt
- Exhibition: El Enigma Del Momia
Diario Informacion Thanks to Amigos de la Egiptologia for the link to the above story. COMO UNA SUCESIÓN de tesoros se ha organizado la exposición El enigma de la momia. El sarcófago exterior de Seramón, en la vitrina donde se expone. La momia de...
- Hatshepsut In Berlin A Fake?
Earth Times An Egyptian bust acquired at vast expense by a Berlin museum over two decades ago may be a forgery, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday. The bust in brown granite of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt for 22...
- Emplean Las últimas Tecnologías Para Localizar Momias En Egipto
Thanks to Jose Luis Toledo Perez for the post about this story to the Amanuense list. Here's the gist of it: IE University, which has its headquarters campus in Santa Cruz la Real (Segovia), announced today that it is participating in the fourth campaign...
- Hawass And Hosni On Official Visit To Cuba
Habana Patrimonial (Marjorie Peregrin) This article is actually more of a flying travelogue of Havana than anything. Zahi Hawass and Farouk Hosni are visiting Cuba and have been given a guided tour of restoration work taking place in Havana. Junto al...
- Review: Lagunilla Collection In Havana, Cuba
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/vier20/43lagunillas.html A review of the collection of the Dr. Joaquín Gumá, Count of Lagunilla (1909-1980), housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba, which includes a two large halls dedicated to the...
Egypt
Cuba's only mummy
http://www.jrebelde.cubaweb.cu/2006/enero-marzo/mar-8/index-momia-cuba.html
Thanks to EEF for their excellent newsletter, in which I found the following item which I had previously missed (in Spanish), looking at Cuba's only known Egyptian mummy, purchased in 1912:
Tal vez "Emilio Bacardí se rascó la cabeza e inquirió a su esposa, Doña Elvira Cape, cómo llevar a casa el “souvenir” que acababan de comprar en aquella tienda de antigüedades. . . . lo que es hoy la mayor atracción del más longevo de los museos cubanos: la única momia egipcia de que se tiene referencia en el país y en el área del Caribe. . . . Lo modesto del decorado y la técnica empleada en la confección del sarcófago que la acompaña, parecen dejar claro que no se trataba de una reina ni un personaje de la alta aristocracia, sino de una mujer de clase media."
Thanks to EEF for their excellent newsletter, in which I found the following item which I had previously missed (in Spanish), looking at Cuba's only known Egyptian mummy, purchased in 1912:
Tal vez "Emilio Bacardí se rascó la cabeza e inquirió a su esposa, Doña Elvira Cape, cómo llevar a casa el “souvenir” que acababan de comprar en aquella tienda de antigüedades. . . . lo que es hoy la mayor atracción del más longevo de los museos cubanos: la única momia egipcia de que se tiene referencia en el país y en el área del Caribe. . . . Lo modesto del decorado y la técnica empleada en la confección del sarcófago que la acompaña, parecen dejar claro que no se trataba de una reina ni un personaje de la alta aristocracia, sino de una mujer de clase media."
See the full article above.
Rough translation: Perhaps Emilio Bacardi scratched his head and asked his wife how they were going to take home the souvenir that they had just purchased from that antiquities shop, which is now the major attraction of the most longstanding of the Cuban museums: the only known Egyptian mummy in Cuba and the Carribean area. . . . The modesty of both the decoration and the skill employed in the manufacture of the sarcophagus imply that this was not a queen or a member of the high aristocracy, but a middle class lady. She probably dates to the Ptolemaic period.
Rough translation: Perhaps Emilio Bacardi scratched his head and asked his wife how they were going to take home the souvenir that they had just purchased from that antiquities shop, which is now the major attraction of the most longstanding of the Cuban museums: the only known Egyptian mummy in Cuba and the Carribean area. . . . The modesty of both the decoration and the skill employed in the manufacture of the sarcophagus imply that this was not a queen or a member of the high aristocracy, but a middle class lady. She probably dates to the Ptolemaic period.
- Exhibition: El Enigma Del Momia
Diario Informacion Thanks to Amigos de la Egiptologia for the link to the above story. COMO UNA SUCESIÓN de tesoros se ha organizado la exposición El enigma de la momia. El sarcófago exterior de Seramón, en la vitrina donde se expone. La momia de...
- Hatshepsut In Berlin A Fake?
Earth Times An Egyptian bust acquired at vast expense by a Berlin museum over two decades ago may be a forgery, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday. The bust in brown granite of female Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt for 22...
- Emplean Las últimas Tecnologías Para Localizar Momias En Egipto
Thanks to Jose Luis Toledo Perez for the post about this story to the Amanuense list. Here's the gist of it: IE University, which has its headquarters campus in Santa Cruz la Real (Segovia), announced today that it is participating in the fourth campaign...
- Hawass And Hosni On Official Visit To Cuba
Habana Patrimonial (Marjorie Peregrin) This article is actually more of a flying travelogue of Havana than anything. Zahi Hawass and Farouk Hosni are visiting Cuba and have been given a guided tour of restoration work taking place in Havana. Junto al...
- Review: Lagunilla Collection In Havana, Cuba
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/vier20/43lagunillas.html A review of the collection of the Dr. Joaquín Gumá, Count of Lagunilla (1909-1980), housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba, which includes a two large halls dedicated to the...