Egypt
Daily Vanguard (Caitlin Loughran)
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- New Book: Egypt At Its Origins 3
Peeters Publishers R.F. Friedman & P.N. Fiske (eds.). Egypt at its Origins 3. Proceedings of the Third International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", London, 27th July - 1st August 2008 Summary: This volume,...
- Hawass Dig Days - Bastet The Cat
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Tel Basta is an archaeological site in the city of Zagazig, in Sharqiya governorate. It was very important in ancient times because it was sacred to a goddess called Bastet, who took the form of a cat. Beginning in the Old...
- Request For Lecture Notes From Origins 3 - Investigations At Hk6
Massimo Izzo, a Masters student from Pisa (under Dr. Marilina Betrò) has asked me if I took lecture notes for Renee Friedman's lecture Origins of Monumental Architecture: Investigations at Hierakonpolis HK6 in 2008. Sadly I wasn't there (I was...
- Zombie Attack At Hierakonpolis
Archaeology Magazine Online Features (Renée Friedman) The Archaeology Magazine website has been updated with the above online feature by Renée Friedman, subtitled Weighing the evidence for and dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in early Egypt. Hierakonpolis...
- Prehistoric Egyptian Tomb Discovered
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7575547/ "Archaeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint. The American-Egyptian...
Egypt
Egyptologist talks cultural origins at Hierakonpolis
Daily Vanguard (Caitlin Loughran)
"It sounds like a bad joke. Eight Dogs, six cats and a baboon walk into a bar…."
These are the words of Egyptologist Renee Friedman, describing her experience excavating a burial site in Hierakonopolis, Egypt, containing multiple animals that some believed served as guardians and protectors of the site.
Friedman gave a lecture last night in the Smith Memorial Student Union to talk about the most recent discoveries in Hierakonopolis--a city about 400 miles south of Cairo that is often associated with the origins of Egyptian society.
The city is the site of the first pharaohs, as well as the development of structures which the Egyptian pyramids were deliberately modeled after.
Friedman is not your typical Egyptologist, however during the presentation she cracked some jokes, and called Hierakonpolis "the Milwaukie of upper Egypt."
Friedman and a team of archaeologists spent the last 25 years investigating the site, which before 3100 B.C. (what is known as the Predynastic period in Egyptian history) was called Nekhen.
See the above page for more.
- New Book: Egypt At Its Origins 3
Peeters Publishers R.F. Friedman & P.N. Fiske (eds.). Egypt at its Origins 3. Proceedings of the Third International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", London, 27th July - 1st August 2008 Summary: This volume,...
- Hawass Dig Days - Bastet The Cat
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Tel Basta is an archaeological site in the city of Zagazig, in Sharqiya governorate. It was very important in ancient times because it was sacred to a goddess called Bastet, who took the form of a cat. Beginning in the Old...
- Request For Lecture Notes From Origins 3 - Investigations At Hk6
Massimo Izzo, a Masters student from Pisa (under Dr. Marilina Betrò) has asked me if I took lecture notes for Renee Friedman's lecture Origins of Monumental Architecture: Investigations at Hierakonpolis HK6 in 2008. Sadly I wasn't there (I was...
- Zombie Attack At Hierakonpolis
Archaeology Magazine Online Features (Renée Friedman) The Archaeology Magazine website has been updated with the above online feature by Renée Friedman, subtitled Weighing the evidence for and dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in early Egypt. Hierakonpolis...
- Prehistoric Egyptian Tomb Discovered
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7575547/ "Archaeologists digging in a 5,600-year-old funeral site in southern Egypt unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint. The American-Egyptian...