Egypt
Univeristy of Heidelberg
Thanks very much to Daniel Arpagus for the above link.
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Egypt
Dr JF Quack awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Univeristy of Heidelberg
Thanks very much to Daniel Arpagus for the above link.
Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedrich Quack, Director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg and member of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
This was announced by the DFG on Thursday (2 December 2010). The award, which is the foremost distinction presented for research in Germany, comes with a purse of 2.5 million euros, with the purpose of financing future research projects by the Heidelberg scholar.
Prof. Quack is being honoured as one of the “world’s most eminent Egyptologists from Germany”, according to the DFG. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft has announced four women and six men as the award winners for the year 2011. Prof. Quack is the sole recipient from the social sciences and humanities. The prize giving ceremony will take place in March 2011 in Berlin.
- X International Congress Of Egyptologists
X International Congress of Egyptologists Details for the Congress, which takes place in May, are now available online. Abstracts are now available in PDF format. Programme details, registration instructions and other useful information are also provided....
- The Zahi Hawass Prize
guardians.net Not a late April Fool. The friends of Zahi Hawass have decided to establish a fellowship at the American University in Cairo (AUC) called “The Zahi Hawass Prize in Egyptology.” The fellowship will be given to a student in the...
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http://tinyurl.com/f6jrc (sis.gov.eg)"Zahi Hawas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), won Thursday the Oscar Emmy Award presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best TV film at the international level....
- Discoveries, Recognition And Promotion
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ An article by Zahi Hawass about himself. It is reproduced here in full, because it will not be on the site by tomorrow: "In 1987, I was appointed Director General of Giza, Saqqara, and Bahariya Oasis and set to...
- Saturday Morning Peculiarity
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