Egypt
Hi-Desert Star (Rebecca Unger)
- New Book: Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate
Charlotte Observer (Alan Rauch) Resting in apparent tranquility at uptown's Discovery Place are more than 40 mummies from around the world. Charlotte is one of only a few American destinations for this major exhibit, and the opportunity to see so...
- Book Review: Belzoni - The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate
New York Times (Alida Becker) His introduction to the wonders of the ancient world could hardly have been less auspicious. While in Cairo in the summer of 1815, awaiting an audience with Mohammed Ali Pasha, Turkish viceroy of Egypt, the Italian monk-turned-peddler-turned-hydrologist-turned-circus...
- Online: Performing Death
Oriental Institute (web page) Oriental Institute (PDF) 336 pages. Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean Nicola Laneri, editor, with contributions by Nicola Laneri, Ellen F. Morris,...
- Exhibition: More Re Excavating Egypt (petrie)
http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/31809/Another review of the exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology, University College London, currently at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. As well as describing...
- Rediscovering A Lost Temple
Czech archaeologists have uncovered a temple in the Sudan that was last seen in the 19th century then was buried by the desert and forgotten. The temple is dated to the Meroe period from the 4th century bc to the 4th century ad and is located 130 km north...
Egypt
Early archeology an adventure in plunder
Hi-Desert Star (Rebecca Unger)
“Archeological Discoveries” were on the menu for the Hi-Desert Nature Museum’s November Brown Bag Lunch lecture. Museum Supervisor Lynne Richardson introduced an assortment of characters, from the “antiquarians” of the 19th century to 1920’s Indiana Jones prototype Roy Chapman Andrews.
Many well-to-do Europeans were traveling and collecting treasures in the early 19th century with no scientific organization, Richardson said. One of them, former circus performer and inventor Giovanni Belzoni, traveled to Cairo in 1815, where he was convinced that there was money in exporting antiquities to Britain.
- New Book: Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate
Charlotte Observer (Alan Rauch) Resting in apparent tranquility at uptown's Discovery Place are more than 40 mummies from around the world. Charlotte is one of only a few American destinations for this major exhibit, and the opportunity to see so...
- Book Review: Belzoni - The Giant Archaeologists Love To Hate
New York Times (Alida Becker) His introduction to the wonders of the ancient world could hardly have been less auspicious. While in Cairo in the summer of 1815, awaiting an audience with Mohammed Ali Pasha, Turkish viceroy of Egypt, the Italian monk-turned-peddler-turned-hydrologist-turned-circus...
- Online: Performing Death
Oriental Institute (web page) Oriental Institute (PDF) 336 pages. Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean Nicola Laneri, editor, with contributions by Nicola Laneri, Ellen F. Morris,...
- Exhibition: More Re Excavating Egypt (petrie)
http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/31809/Another review of the exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology, University College London, currently at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. As well as describing...
- Rediscovering A Lost Temple
Czech archaeologists have uncovered a temple in the Sudan that was last seen in the 19th century then was buried by the desert and forgotten. The temple is dated to the Meroe period from the 4th century bc to the 4th century ad and is located 130 km north...