Egypt
- Egyptology News 6th - 8th May 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews Wadi es-Sebua, Lake Nasser, Nubia Fieldwork A new temple and palace of Meroitic Queen Amanitore found in Wad Banaga area, Sudan. Sudan Vision http://bit.ly/Zx1VcY Yet more re the submerged 1200 year old city...
- Egyptology News 30th April - 5th May 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews. Wadi es-Sebua. Nubia Fieldwork Via @NealSpencer_BM Draft publications of 4th Cataract (Nubia) salvage archaeology, site 3-0 (64-page PDF). SARS http://bit.ly/15hVGSd Gebel el Silsila...
- Egyptology News 17th-18th April 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews. Have a good weekend everyone! Amun in the form of a Ram, Kawa, Nubia. c.680BC. 1931.553. Ashmolean Museum Fieldwork The British Museum website has new pages re the BM and Sudan Archaeological Research Society...
- Online: Le Musée Egyptien
DigiZeitschriften Thanks to Chuck Jones and his Ancient World Online blog for this link. Le Musée Egyptien al-Mathaf al-Misrī 1909-1915 Le Musée Egyptien Band 3 1904-1907 Le Musée Egyptien Band 2 ...
- The Cash Register In The Desert
"Even though we had allowed people to take pictures in the Valley, people continued to bribe the guards and take cameras into the tombs and use flash." ...
Egypt
Egyptology News 22nd - 24th April 2013
Copied from @egyptologynews
A New discovery in North Sinai including imported amphorae from Rhodes Island. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/ZkWhxZ
Giza Secret Revealed: How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed. Live Science http://bit.ly/11ARDtS
Greek, Greek / Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels: A Survey Version 1.0 March 2013. K.A. Worp. What's New in Papyrology http://bit.ly/12IgJcW
Free PDF press kit about the Egypt and Sudan galleries at the Ashmolean Museum website with lots of info and photos. http://bit.ly/XQMI8U
Egyptomania
More re the recently re-opened 1920s Egypt-influenced Louxor cinema in Paris: "Luxor-on Seine." The Economist. http://econ.st/ZgLOnf
Review of Cathie Bryan's@PetrieMuseEgypt tour of Egyptianized + Masonic tombs at Kensal Green Cemetery. Petrie Mus. http://bit.ly/ZIkb5Z
New websites and apps
New archaeology apps may make you an armchair Indiana Jones. Fox News http://fxn.ws/Zlqo9p
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Fieldwork
A New discovery in North Sinai including imported amphorae from Rhodes Island. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/ZkWhxZ
The South Tombs Cemetery excavations at Amarna, 2013: the final season! The latest from Barry Kemp + Anna Stevens http://bit.ly/17fo3gU
Barbara O'Neill's interview with Dr Maria Nilsson (Gebel Silsila Epigraphic Survey Project) is now on Egyptological: http://bit.ly/15GEepB
Interview in Spanish with Alejandro Jiménez, Director of investigations into tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan. Ushebtis http://bit.ly/10zN1sz
Research
Barbara O'Neill's interview with Dr Maria Nilsson (Gebel Silsila Epigraphic Survey Project) is now on Egyptological: http://bit.ly/15GEepB
Interview in Spanish with Alejandro Jiménez, Director of investigations into tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa, Aswan. Ushebtis http://bit.ly/10zN1sz
Research
Old Kingdom leather fragments found in Cairo Museum reveal how ancient Egyptians built their chariots. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/ZIJCkH
[For those interested in this topic there was a really good article in Nature by Jo Marchant (November 2011) about New Kingdom leather pieces and what they revealed about chariots, again from pieces found in the Cairo Museum. Summary at http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-egyptian-chariot-trappings-rediscovered-1.9388]
[For those interested in this topic there was a really good article in Nature by Jo Marchant (November 2011) about New Kingdom leather pieces and what they revealed about chariots, again from pieces found in the Cairo Museum. Summary at http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-egyptian-chariot-trappings-rediscovered-1.9388]
Giza Secret Revealed: How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed. Live Science http://bit.ly/11ARDtS
Greek, Greek / Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels: A Survey Version 1.0 March 2013. K.A. Worp. What's New in Papyrology http://bit.ly/12IgJcW
Conferences
Summary of Egyptian origins portion of “Dialogue of Civilizations” conference held in Guatemala. National Geographic http://bit.ly/17Ri8QB
Museums and exhibitions
Free PDF press kit about the Egypt and Sudan galleries at the Ashmolean Museum website with lots of info and photos. http://bit.ly/XQMI8U
Archaeology: Greek-Roman museum to reopen in Alexandria. ANSAmed http://bit.ly/Zm7UFD
New website address for the Friends of the Petrie Museum: http://www.friendsofpetrie.org.uk
La momia del Museu Darder vuelve a Banyoles 10 años después. Exposición itinerante 'Proyecto Monthemhat' Vanguardia http://bit.ly/15oGuS7
Egyptomania
More re the recently re-opened 1920s Egypt-influenced Louxor cinema in Paris: "Luxor-on Seine." The Economist. http://econ.st/ZgLOnf
Review of Cathie Bryan's
New websites and apps
New archaeology apps may make you an armchair Indiana Jones. Fox News http://fxn.ws/Zlqo9p
- Egyptology News 6th - 8th May 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews Wadi es-Sebua, Lake Nasser, Nubia Fieldwork A new temple and palace of Meroitic Queen Amanitore found in Wad Banaga area, Sudan. Sudan Vision http://bit.ly/Zx1VcY Yet more re the submerged 1200 year old city...
- Egyptology News 30th April - 5th May 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews. Wadi es-Sebua. Nubia Fieldwork Via @NealSpencer_BM Draft publications of 4th Cataract (Nubia) salvage archaeology, site 3-0 (64-page PDF). SARS http://bit.ly/15hVGSd Gebel el Silsila...
- Egyptology News 17th-18th April 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews. Have a good weekend everyone! Amun in the form of a Ram, Kawa, Nubia. c.680BC. 1931.553. Ashmolean Museum Fieldwork The British Museum website has new pages re the BM and Sudan Archaeological Research Society...
- Online: Le Musée Egyptien
DigiZeitschriften Thanks to Chuck Jones and his Ancient World Online blog for this link. Le Musée Egyptien al-Mathaf al-Misrī 1909-1915 Le Musée Egyptien Band 3 1904-1907 Le Musée Egyptien Band 2 ...
- The Cash Register In The Desert
"Even though we had allowed people to take pictures in the Valley, people continued to bribe the guards and take cameras into the tombs and use flash." ...