Egyptology News 19th-22nd April 2013

Copied from @egyptologynews. Today's photo of the fresco from the Ashmolean Museum, which shows two Amarna princesses, is posted to accompany Campbell Price's news that a small fragment of the wall from which the princess scene is just a part, has been found in Manchester Museum's stores. It's not a great photo (click on it to see a larger version or go to the Ashmolean Museum website to see a much better photo http://bit.ly/XQMgYj) but when looking at the original fresco you can make out that the princesses are sitting at the foot of a much larger figure. See the link to Campbell Price's post below, which included a photograph of the fragment.

Museums and exhibitions

A piece of famous Amarna Princess painting (Ashmolean Mus) found by Manchester Museum curator in their stores http://bit.ly/17Mb2gb

More re "Echoes of Egypt": Abiding influence of ancient Egypt on world’s cultures explored at the Yale Peabody Museum.http://bit.ly/Z88GpL

Review of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, southwest England. Seshat's Journal http://bit.ly/11YDV5k

Fieldwork

Nevine el-Aref does her usual good work summarizing what's known about Khufu's 4th Dynasty Red Sea port. Ahram Weekly http://bit.ly/17HRNBF

Photographs (no new details) to accompany the story on Khufu's Red Sea port. Daily Mail http://bit.ly/14sWjYC

Research

Early descriptions of the so-called Cathedral of Sai. Medieval Sai Project http://bit.ly/11Wd8Xe

This story keeps resurfacing. From Egyptian Blue to Infrared. Archaeology magazine http://bit.ly/14Hr5Nw

Books

Via ‏@mchartier New book: Pierre Tallet. 12 Reines d’Egypte qui ont changé l’Histoire. Mai 2013. Editions Pygmalion Groupe Flammarion http://bit.ly/15tGbG1

Heritage Management

Obituary: Carmen Weinstein, driving force behind the restoration of monuments of Egyptian Jewish history. NY Times http://nyti.ms/101viKr

Cairo's Mosque of Ibn Tulun has lost much of its splendour with wastewater and garbage lining its walls. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/15wlysk

Free online

Via @ISAWLibrary Open Access: Armenian Egyptology Centre Newsletter. Download issues 1 to 24 in PDF format from http://yerevan.academia.edu/AshkhenZakharyan/Papers …

A number of PDFs on the subject of Egyptian rock art by Fred Hardtke are available for download on Academia. edu: http://mq.academia.edu/FredHardtke

Travel

Respite in the desert. Bahareya Oasis is more than what first meets the eye. Ahram Weekly http://bit.ly/WYv6K9

Alexandria, Egypt's 'Pearl of the Mediterranean.' Huffington Post http://huff.to/ZyL4ZW

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