Egyptology News for March 14th - 16th 2013

From @egyptologynews.  Happy St Patrick's Day for tomorrow!

Open Air Museum. Temple of Tod.

Bobblehead no more: finishing the falcon mummy conservation treatment. With photos. Penn Artifact Lab http://bit.ly/ZZL2Kx

RT @SakhmetK Report on findings of two visitor surveys about using mobile devices in museums. Digital Media at V&A http://bit.ly/YtSAnt

#ForeignBodies Exhibition visitor information can be found here: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/foreign-bodies/ … Trail maps will be uploaded very soon! @UCLMuseums

More photos from the discovery of the remains of battle against the Hyksos. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/WNV8zy

Important discoveries at Tel Habuwa dig in Delta shed light on campaign by Ahmose I against the Hyksos Ahram Online http://bit.ly/XfABia

Surprising, but NBC says that for the 1st time the Pyramids of Giza + Sphinx will be lit green on St. Patrick’s Day. http://nbcnews.to/WLDc8E

Call for abstracts. Origins5 conference 13-18 Apr 2014 (Predynastic and Early Dynastic) Cairo 2013. Full details at http://bit.ly/ZHD19L

RT @TheSSEA Monica Hanna's photos of destruction at World Heritage Site Dashur http://bit.ly/Zcs9ml  + Antinoupolis http://bit.ly/Yi1OkA

RT @wzzw Oriental Stone: New entry on UCLA's free online Encyclopaedia of Egyptology http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xk4h68c …

Via Kimberley Freeman ‏@Kim0006
The launch of #foreignbodies in UCL's North Cloisters was AMAZING! Well done @ResearchEngager ! pic.twitter.com/U69c9K66LR

Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs (NYPL Digital Gallery). 1000s of prints, photos from 17th-20th Cs. AWOL http://bit.ly/Zcs9ml

The Coptic blog has just been resumed by Howard Middleton-Jones with updates on Coptic themes. Coptic News + Archive http://bit.ly/YewLcv

Travelers in the Middle East Archive. Digital archive emphasising travels to Egypt in 19th and early 20th Cs. AWOL http://bit.ly/16y3qNO

Short article (from Feb, but I missed it). Musical Apes:Can Baboons Play the Harp? By Gemma Angel. UCL http://bit.ly/Z26vOx

New Book (French): Laurent Bricault "Les cultes isiaques dans le monde gréco-romain" Les Belles Lettres http://bit.ly/15QWr0V

Kings and Queens and the case of the pink hippo? Review of the LGBT event at the Petrie, by Chris Webber. UCL http://bit.ly/YyMjqQ

New Book: Ancient Egyptian Administration ed. Juan Carlos Moreno García. Looks comprehensive but very expensive. Brill http://bit.ly/SbttGS

Summary of University of Basel 2013 season at the undecorated non-royal tombs in the side valley leading to KV34.Past Horizons http://bit.ly/10PJgdP

In Spanish. Egyptian state subsidies withdrawn, but as at Aswan excavations continue at Oxyrhynchus. La Vanguardia http://bit.ly/XybJrN

Via Campbell Price ‏@EgyptMcr
Tea and cake for #ComicRelief @McrMuseum today - and GINGERBREAD SHABTIS! pic.twitter.com/rkqn0WxIDx

Landscaping the entry to the open-air museum was the theme of the Aswan International Sculpture Symposium. Ahram Wkly http://bit.ly/14xRp78

Further to my previous post re the 2013 Amheida/Trimethis report, find out more about the project from their homepage http://www.amheida.org/

Amheida/Trimithis (Dakhleh Oasis) 2013 season report, Jan 20th-Feb 14th. Directed by Roger Bagnall. PDF New York Univ http://bit.ly/WK2nIN

Travel in the Fayoum, rich in contrasts. Sun-baked desert valleys, frigid lakes and lush farmland. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/Z6p1s6

During excavations in the Kings’ Valley University of Basel researchers found one of world’s oldest AE sun dials. http://bit.ly/X9Jfid

End of the season post from the Temple of Mut team, from their dig diary, with loads of great photos. Brooklyn Museum http://bit.ly/YnmbPr

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