Egypt
- More Re Sinai Discoveries
drhawass.com With two photographs. This article seems to make it clear that instead of four separate sites the discovery is one site, a temple, which includes for different hall components - which actually makes rather more sense. Minister of Culture...
- Daily Photo - Coptic Frescos From The Nubia Museum
Frescos from Abdalla Nirqi Church, 10th Century A.D., Nubia now housed in the Nubia Museum in Aswan. If you're interested in Nubian church decoration there is an article on the subject on the Arkamani website: Observations on the system of Nubian...
- Weekly Websites
Nubian Rock Art Virtual Archive http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DEPT1_Kleinitz-RockArt "This online research archive is dedicated to the rock art of the Nile valley. Initially, it presents high resolution digital photographs, as well...
- More Re Nubian Gallery At The Oriental Institute
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14018554.htm A nice review of the new permanent Nubian exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago: "Some of the works on display, culled from the museum's 15,000-piece Nubian collection, are...
- Ancient Nubia In Chicago
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/060216/nubia.shtml"Some of the world’s most significant artifacts from Nubia, an ancient African civilization that had important connections to Egypt, will go on display Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Museum of the Oriental...
Egypt
Decorated houses of Nubia
http://tinyurl.com/eu7n3 (saudiaramcoworld.com)
It's a very slow news day today, so I've added this article because it may be of interest to those interested in modern as well as ancient Egyptian culture. The article looks at modern Nubian decorated houses, some os which use imagery dating back to the Pharaonic and Medieval periods. "Even more distinctive than the floor plan of a Nubian house is the decoration of its exterior doorway, or bawaba, which mixes vivid color, adobe brick filigree, figurative and geometric images in mud and white lime-plaster relief, and wall-mounted objects like ceramic plates, automobile headlights, mirrors, cow horns and dried crocodiles. While the full range of these decorative materials has shrunk in recent years, the impulse to draw attention to one’s home, and to its doorway as a symbol of the family, remains strong."
This is a fascinating article.
- More Re Sinai Discoveries
drhawass.com With two photographs. This article seems to make it clear that instead of four separate sites the discovery is one site, a temple, which includes for different hall components - which actually makes rather more sense. Minister of Culture...
- Daily Photo - Coptic Frescos From The Nubia Museum
Frescos from Abdalla Nirqi Church, 10th Century A.D., Nubia now housed in the Nubia Museum in Aswan. If you're interested in Nubian church decoration there is an article on the subject on the Arkamani website: Observations on the system of Nubian...
- Weekly Websites
Nubian Rock Art Virtual Archive http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DEPT1_Kleinitz-RockArt "This online research archive is dedicated to the rock art of the Nile valley. Initially, it presents high resolution digital photographs, as well...
- More Re Nubian Gallery At The Oriental Institute
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14018554.htm A nice review of the new permanent Nubian exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago: "Some of the works on display, culled from the museum's 15,000-piece Nubian collection, are...
- Ancient Nubia In Chicago
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/060216/nubia.shtml"Some of the world’s most significant artifacts from Nubia, an ancient African civilization that had important connections to Egypt, will go on display Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Museum of the Oriental...