Egypt
- 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...
- Egyptology News For March 17th-22nd 2013
Copied from Twitter @EgyptologyNews Papyrus of Ani New items under scrutiny in Penn Museum's lab: http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/ … Tales of the mummy’s curse. The legend of the mummy’s curse still continues to fascinate. Al Ahram...
- Egyptology News For The 6th And 7th March 2013
Copied from @egyptologynews. Most recent news is at the top. Via Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton. To see what stands to be lost at Antinoupolis see the wonderful images in the Antin Foundation Newsletter #1: http://kdstrutt.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/oracle001.pdf...
- News From 13th February 013
Copied from @egyptologynews The Oriental Institute Electronic Publics. Initiative has made several new Egyptology publications available as PDFs: http://oi.uchicago.edu/news/ I had missed that the Djehuty dig diary is back online for 2013, with several...
- Stories From W/e 10th February 2013
Taken from my @egyptologynews Twitter account: Free online paper: Architectural Conservation of an Amun Temple in Sudan. T. Sweek, J.R. Anderson, S. Tanimoto. JCMS. http://bit.ly/12DJGrE Queen Hatshpsut’s Netery-Menu has...
Egypt
Egyptology News for March 11th 2013
Reposted from Twitter @egyptologynews.
Rock art sites and rich archaeological site dating back more than five hundred thousand years found in NE Sudan. PAP http://bit.ly/10F4Pl3
In N.Sudan archaeologists have found remains of early Homo sapiens settlements c.70 thousand years old. naukawpolsce http://bit.ly/XkyT4F
Via Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton
Not good news- the Roemer-Pelizeaus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany is in bad financial straits... http://fb.me/11WWYMbNm
Via Margaret Maitland @eloquentpeasant
Poll about threatened closure of Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, 3rd largest Egyptian collection in Germany (scroll down) http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de%2F …
Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 20-21 May. 'Forming Material Egypt' call for papers now announced. UCL http://bit.ly/14LccUL
Project to revive Al-Muizz Street to be launched to reverse post-revolution deterioration of key sites. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/14O7TrR
More re clogged arteries in mummies. http://phys.org/news/2013-03-ancient-mummies-clogged-arteries.html
Even without modern-day temptations people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to mummy research. WP http://wapo.st/Zxgtfa
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 8 (2011-2012). http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=211 …
More Sekhmet statues unearthed at Amenhotep III's temple in Luxor. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/Y4MB9q
Via Alice Williams @alicewilliams86
Great new article by Debbie Challis @poisonchallis on curating the exhibition 'Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton': http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09647775.2012.754627 …
Via Campbell Price @EgyptMcr
Every object tells a story - What do hieroglyphs mean? http://wp.me/sfm2O-2093 http://wp.me/pfm2O-xL
Write-up of Manchester Museum event "Every object tells a story – What do hieroglyphs mean?". Seshat Journal http://bit.ly/Y4ZVe1
Mar 10 Anna K. Hodgkinson Anna K. Hodgkinson @Udjahorresnet1
This is NOT exactly what happened at Amarna last week... http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/66211.aspx
Via HistoryoftheAncient @historyancient
Article: “Lost City” of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2013/03/lost-city-of-tanis-found-but-often-forgotten/ …
Call for papers: The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 20-21 May on the topic of 'Forming Material Egypt' http://bit.ly/14LccUL
Via EEF. Careless fieldwork activities in Lahun may have resulted in destruction of burials and theft of coffins. http://bit.ly/10ssSjm
Rock art sites and rich archaeological site dating back more than five hundred thousand years found in NE Sudan. PAP http://bit.ly/10F4Pl3
In N.Sudan archaeologists have found remains of early Homo sapiens settlements c.70 thousand years old. naukawpolsce http://bit.ly/XkyT4F
Via Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton
Not good news- the Roemer-Pelizeaus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany is in bad financial straits... http://fb.me/11WWYMbNm
Via Margaret Maitland @eloquentpeasant
Poll about threatened closure of Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, 3rd largest Egyptian collection in Germany (scroll down) http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de%2F …
Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 20-21 May. 'Forming Material Egypt' call for papers now announced. UCL http://bit.ly/14LccUL
Project to revive Al-Muizz Street to be launched to reverse post-revolution deterioration of key sites. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/14O7TrR
More re clogged arteries in mummies. http://phys.org/news/2013-03-ancient-mummies-clogged-arteries.html
Even without modern-day temptations people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to mummy research. WP http://wapo.st/Zxgtfa
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 8 (2011-2012). http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=211 …
More Sekhmet statues unearthed at Amenhotep III's temple in Luxor. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/Y4MB9q
Via Alice Williams @alicewilliams86
Great new article by Debbie Challis @poisonchallis on curating the exhibition 'Typecast: Flinders Petrie and Francis Galton': http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09647775.2012.754627 …
Via Campbell Price @EgyptMcr
Every object tells a story - What do hieroglyphs mean? http://wp.me/sfm2O-2093 http://wp.me/pfm2O-xL
Write-up of Manchester Museum event "Every object tells a story – What do hieroglyphs mean?". Seshat Journal http://bit.ly/Y4ZVe1
Mar 10 Anna K. Hodgkinson Anna K. Hodgkinson @Udjahorresnet1
This is NOT exactly what happened at Amarna last week... http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/66211.aspx
Via HistoryoftheAncient @historyancient
Article: “Lost City” of Tanis Found, but Often Forgotten http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2013/03/lost-city-of-tanis-found-but-often-forgotten/ …
Call for papers: The Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference 20-21 May on the topic of 'Forming Material Egypt' http://bit.ly/14LccUL
Via EEF. Careless fieldwork activities in Lahun may have resulted in destruction of burials and theft of coffins. http://bit.ly/10ssSjm
- 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...
- Egyptology News For March 17th-22nd 2013
Copied from Twitter @EgyptologyNews Papyrus of Ani New items under scrutiny in Penn Museum's lab: http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/ … Tales of the mummy’s curse. The legend of the mummy’s curse still continues to fascinate. Al Ahram...
- Egyptology News For The 6th And 7th March 2013
Copied from @egyptologynews. Most recent news is at the top. Via Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton. To see what stands to be lost at Antinoupolis see the wonderful images in the Antin Foundation Newsletter #1: http://kdstrutt.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/oracle001.pdf...
- News From 13th February 013
Copied from @egyptologynews The Oriental Institute Electronic Publics. Initiative has made several new Egyptology publications available as PDFs: http://oi.uchicago.edu/news/ I had missed that the Djehuty dig diary is back online for 2013, with several...
- Stories From W/e 10th February 2013
Taken from my @egyptologynews Twitter account: Free online paper: Architectural Conservation of an Amun Temple in Sudan. T. Sweek, J.R. Anderson, S. Tanimoto. JCMS. http://bit.ly/12DJGrE Queen Hatshpsut’s Netery-Menu has...