Egypt
During excavations in 2009 by the North Abydos Project from New York University, at the huge funerary enclosure of the IInd Dynasty King Khasekhemwy, (c.2750 B.C), a number of pots containing dogs turned up in the soft sandy fill inside the enclosure. Professor of Egyptology Salima Ikram of The American University of Cairo is an expert in animal mummies and has examined the dogs which cannot be removed from their pots without risking the integrity of the animals.
The article is particularly concentrated on two of five dogs found including a large dog that has been affectionately named Houdini and a second not as well preserved named Chewie. Neither pot contained fabric though Chewie was accompanied by the shards of another pot.
Photo: [Credit: NYU-IFA mission to Abydos/Discovery News]
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http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=195It's just as well that Jane has been as alert as ever, and has published the latest lecture notes from the Mummificiation Museum, or it would be a somewhat empty day on the news front! This week she is reporting...
Egypt
Dog Burials at Abydos
The article is particularly concentrated on two of five dogs found including a large dog that has been affectionately named Houdini and a second not as well preserved named Chewie. Neither pot contained fabric though Chewie was accompanied by the shards of another pot.
Photo: [Credit: NYU-IFA mission to Abydos/Discovery News]
- Recent Finds From Abydos
WAMC Radio recording (audio file) In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto reveals some recent finds from an archaeological excavation in Abydos, Egypt. Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner is Assistant Professor of...
- Abydos Finds Include Hatshepsut In Female Form
With photo. This story was out and about a few weeks ago but I hadn't seen the photo before of the wooden statuette before (in the New Scientist article). Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref) With photos. A team of archeologists from Toronto...
- Investigations Into The Domestication Of The Dog
New York Times (Nicholas Wade) Oh okay, slightly off topic, but it is a quiet news day today. Few people spend their honeymoon catching and drawing blood from village dogs up and down Africa. But Ryan and Corin Boyko, two anthropologists at the University...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Khasekhemwy
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Khasekhemwy Cultic enclosure at Abydos – Mathew Adams This was the last of a long series of similar structures. King Aha was discovered 2 years ago. They all rectangular, enclosing a ritual space, surrounded by sacrificial...
- Abydos Lecture Dr Matthew Adams
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=195It's just as well that Jane has been as alert as ever, and has published the latest lecture notes from the Mummificiation Museum, or it would be a somewhat empty day on the news front! This week she is reporting...