Egypt
- 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 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...
- News For 3rd March 2013
Yesterday's news from the world of Egyptology, copied over from Twitter. Via Kristian Strutt @kdstrutt: Antinoupolis Project blog. Visit to the Via Hadriana, Deir El Sombat and rock-cut coptic church http://kdstrutt.wordpress.com Via Maria Nilsson...
- 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 from 23rd March to 6th April 2013
I've been in Switzerland for my birthday, so apologies for the rather long post, taken from my Twitter account.
Via Maria Nilsson @DrMariaNilsson
Using Inscriptions from the Antiquities Market: Polarized Positions and Pragmatic Proposals | http://asorblog.org/?p=4282
Museums should engage tourists with content rather than brand for the sake of themselves and the sector. The Guardian http://bit.ly/Z6g9Qr
In French: British Council seminar shows the role played by the Delta in Egypt at different times. Hebdo Ahram Online http://bit.ly/12twPoW
New Book: Icons of Power – Revelations though ancient Egyptian art, Anthony Spalinger, Charles Univ. Scoop NZ http://bit.ly/ZDv9Fs
Aidan Dodson, President of the EES: "L’Egypte risque de perdre une partie de son histoire" Hebdo Ahram Online http://bit.ly/YBSFHj
A new interactive map of the ancient Mediterranean http://www.ancient.eu.com/map/
Job: The EES is looking for a new Fieldwork & Engagement Manager to bethe Society's main representative in Egypt.http://bit.ly/Xiv5yk
Significant evidence of 17th Dynasty found by Djehuty Project in Luxor. EurekAlert http://bit.ly/XXhvSS and PhysOrg http://bit.ly/Z6F4EC
Rus Gant, Giza 3D and George Reisnser’s Legacy: An Em Hotep – Pyramidales Interview. http://bit.ly/Y0LfOH
Museums Association survey of UK public attitude to museums suggests they are some of the most trusted organisations http://bit.ly/1016tdP
New Book: "Jean-François Champollion. Notice descriptive des monuments égyptiens du musée Charles X." Kheops http://bit.ly/Xttvfq
Freemasons and Ancient Egypt at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. http://bit.ly/12p18xd
Via Neal Spencer @NealSpencer_BM 4 Apr
A chronology (with posters) of every temporary exhibition @britishmuseum 1838-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series/research_publications_online/chronology_of_exhibitions.aspx …
Free online: The failed reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli. Itamar Singer. BMSAES, 6 (2006), 37-58 @historyancient http://bit.ly/XRBy59
Off-topic "The life of man: solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short". Thomas Hobbes, born today 1588. History Today http://bit.ly/ZgIR8o
Pre-healthcare modern Egypt. With help on hand from health barbers and folk healers, health aid was never far away http://bit.ly/10y4qh6
Summary of Aidan Dodson's lecture at the AUC on the royal family after the death of Ramses II. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/Zb8kZQ
Exhibition: "Echoes of Egypt:Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs" at Yale Peabody Museum. With photos. http://bit.ly/14SjvPg
Farro or emmer wheat, once a staple in AE being cultivated once again. Offers an insight into its uses. Oxford Press http://bit.ly/XhcsLk
Forthcoming: Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories, Camilla Di Biase-Dyson. Brill http://bit.ly/10BugA6
New Book: The Life of J.D. Åkerblad, Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times, F.Thomasson. Brill http://bit.ly/WcRe0U
In Spanish: Egypt to ask tourists to donate a dollar for each night spent in Egypt to fund Grand Museum. Vanguardia http://bit.ly/Zd5zhy
Curse of Tutankhamun, 90 years on. Past Horizons http://bit.ly/ZbVdI3
New project explores influence of Egyptian archaeological finds in sculpture 1907 to 1939 and Petrie's responses. UCL http://bit.ly/10f0m5J
Elimination of Mubarak's police services left aan open invitation to trespass without fear of reprisal. USA Today http://usat.ly/10waUho
Curator's Choice: Amber Druce picks a tomb painting from Pharaoh Reborn. Culture24 http://bit.ly/14N3udt
Archaeologists Uncover Rare Leather from Ancient Egyptian Chariot. AUC Egypt http://bit.ly/XyaQye
Via Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton 4 Apr
New book L'Egypte Dessinee by B Cassiers on 18/19/20th cen artists who painted Eg monuments w new works by the author http://www.lycaons.eu/images.html
Russian photographer apologizes for climbing Great Pyramid of Giza (with photos). NY Daily News http://nydn.us/YK9G4w
China specialist Prof Anthony Barbieri-Low receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship to research Egypt. Noozhawk http://bit.ly/10ew9Up
90th anniversary of the curse of Tutankhamen – how a modern myth was born. Univ Manchester http://bit.ly/YUtI9M
Manchester Mus holds 2 important objects that provide evidence for use of masks in ancient Egypt. Manchester Museum http://bit.ly/10Gr0VR
Reassembling of the Two Colossi of Amenhotep III at North Gate of his Funerary Temple, West Bank, Luxor.. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/12lPoLJ
Site Management plan for the Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III mortuary temple project. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/10zeBBk
Article re recent conference. Thonis-Heracleion, sunken gateway to Egypt in 1st mill.BC. With photos. Past Horizons http://bit.ly/X9qCjQ
Update from the Tell Basta Project http://tellbasta.tumblr.com/post/46430050559/heart-of-glass …
Object biography #12: A wooden shabti of King Seti I (Acc.no.13906) by Campbell Price. Manchester Museum http://bit.ly/10gddTT
New book on Cleopatra argues that the “Queen of Kings” did not take her own life. Smithsonian Mag http://bit.ly/173Rnbb
Birds in ancient Egyptian society: some brief notes. Joyce Filer's blog http://bit.ly/10n95BB
Part 2 of Dean Kalimniou's look at the Greek connection in Sudan, focusing on the survival of the Greek language http://bit.ly/14uivk0
Part one of Dean Kalimniou's look at the Greek connection in Sudan http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/greeks-in-sudan-part-one …
Progress by the EES Minufiyeh Survey team in the Delta http://minufiyeh.tumblr.com/post/46785854575/progress …
Interview re new book: The Archaeology of Race – The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie. UCL http://bit.ly/13Ut7tj
Ancient Kingdoms in the land of war - the archaeology of Sudan. New York Times http://nyti.ms/YV55Xg
With security ebbing and prices rising, the sustained drop-off in Egypt tourism has hurt the impoverished. NY Times http://nyti.ms/Yw7paI
Djehuty Project: Arqueólogos españoles descubren en Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor, cuatro tumbas de la dinastía XVII. ABC.es http://bit.ly/Z7KmFG
La campaña 2013 de excavaciones de la UJA, Asuán, constata la complejidad de la estructura de las tumbas. europapress http://bit.ly/ZaePfn
Book review by Tim Reid: Mummies: Death and Life in Ancient Egypt, James Hamilton-Paterson and Carol Andrews, Penguin http://bit.ly/12iTrw5
Egypt revolution brings golden age for tomb raiders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21960373 …
EES Delta Survey dig diary is being started up again for the new season http://deltasurvey.tumblr.com/
Priceless Egyptian treasures feared destroyed in Cuming Museum (South London) museum fire. http://bit.ly/YxutIj
New York Prosecutors Seek to Forfeit Ancient Egyptian Artifacts. Cultural Heritage Lawyer http://bit.ly/104kqVA
Site of Al Bordan site destroyed by illegal construction in spite of intervention by police and archaeologists. http://bit.ly/ZXQcoJ
Travel. Siwa, the field of trees. With photos. Alrahalah http://www.alrahalah.com/2013/03/siwa-the-field-of-trees/ …
It's a boy: Albany museum's mummy's true identity revealed. http://bit.ly/14ijeF1
Seizure of 5 Egyptian artifacts dating back to 2,000 B.C. on their way from Dubai to a Michigan antique dealer. http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/22/55962.htm …
2,400-Year-Old Myths of Mummy-Making Busted http://www.livescience.com/28097-herodotus-mummy-evisceration-wrong.html …
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Via Maria Nilsson @DrMariaNilsson
Using Inscriptions from the Antiquities Market: Polarized Positions and Pragmatic Proposals | http://asorblog.org/?p=4282
Museums should engage tourists with content rather than brand for the sake of themselves and the sector. The Guardian http://bit.ly/Z6g9Qr
In French: British Council seminar shows the role played by the Delta in Egypt at different times. Hebdo Ahram Online http://bit.ly/12twPoW
New Book: Icons of Power – Revelations though ancient Egyptian art, Anthony Spalinger, Charles Univ. Scoop NZ http://bit.ly/ZDv9Fs
Aidan Dodson, President of the EES: "L’Egypte risque de perdre une partie de son histoire" Hebdo Ahram Online http://bit.ly/YBSFHj
A new interactive map of the ancient Mediterranean http://www.ancient.eu.com/map/
Job: The EES is looking for a new Fieldwork & Engagement Manager to bethe Society's main representative in Egypt.http://bit.ly/Xiv5yk
Significant evidence of 17th Dynasty found by Djehuty Project in Luxor. EurekAlert http://bit.ly/XXhvSS and PhysOrg http://bit.ly/Z6F4EC
Rus Gant, Giza 3D and George Reisnser’s Legacy: An Em Hotep – Pyramidales Interview. http://bit.ly/Y0LfOH
Museums Association survey of UK public attitude to museums suggests they are some of the most trusted organisations http://bit.ly/1016tdP
New Book: "Jean-François Champollion. Notice descriptive des monuments égyptiens du musée Charles X." Kheops http://bit.ly/Xttvfq
Freemasons and Ancient Egypt at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. http://bit.ly/12p18xd
Via Neal Spencer @NealSpencer_BM 4 Apr
A chronology (with posters) of every temporary exhibition @britishmuseum 1838-2012 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series/research_publications_online/chronology_of_exhibitions.aspx …
Free online: The failed reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli. Itamar Singer. BMSAES, 6 (2006), 37-58 @historyancient http://bit.ly/XRBy59
Off-topic "The life of man: solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short". Thomas Hobbes, born today 1588. History Today http://bit.ly/ZgIR8o
Pre-healthcare modern Egypt. With help on hand from health barbers and folk healers, health aid was never far away http://bit.ly/10y4qh6
Summary of Aidan Dodson's lecture at the AUC on the royal family after the death of Ramses II. Daily News Egypt http://bit.ly/Zb8kZQ
Exhibition: "Echoes of Egypt:Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs" at Yale Peabody Museum. With photos. http://bit.ly/14SjvPg
Farro or emmer wheat, once a staple in AE being cultivated once again. Offers an insight into its uses. Oxford Press http://bit.ly/XhcsLk
Forthcoming: Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories, Camilla Di Biase-Dyson. Brill http://bit.ly/10BugA6
New Book: The Life of J.D. Åkerblad, Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times, F.Thomasson. Brill http://bit.ly/WcRe0U
In Spanish: Egypt to ask tourists to donate a dollar for each night spent in Egypt to fund Grand Museum. Vanguardia http://bit.ly/Zd5zhy
Curse of Tutankhamun, 90 years on. Past Horizons http://bit.ly/ZbVdI3
New project explores influence of Egyptian archaeological finds in sculpture 1907 to 1939 and Petrie's responses. UCL http://bit.ly/10f0m5J
Elimination of Mubarak's police services left aan open invitation to trespass without fear of reprisal. USA Today http://usat.ly/10waUho
Curator's Choice: Amber Druce picks a tomb painting from Pharaoh Reborn. Culture24 http://bit.ly/14N3udt
Archaeologists Uncover Rare Leather from Ancient Egyptian Chariot. AUC Egypt http://bit.ly/XyaQye
Via Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton 4 Apr
New book L'Egypte Dessinee by B Cassiers on 18/19/20th cen artists who painted Eg monuments w new works by the author http://www.lycaons.eu/images.html
Russian photographer apologizes for climbing Great Pyramid of Giza (with photos). NY Daily News http://nydn.us/YK9G4w
China specialist Prof Anthony Barbieri-Low receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship to research Egypt. Noozhawk http://bit.ly/10ew9Up
90th anniversary of the curse of Tutankhamen – how a modern myth was born. Univ Manchester http://bit.ly/YUtI9M
Manchester Mus holds 2 important objects that provide evidence for use of masks in ancient Egypt. Manchester Museum http://bit.ly/10Gr0VR
Reassembling of the Two Colossi of Amenhotep III at North Gate of his Funerary Temple, West Bank, Luxor.. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/12lPoLJ
Site Management plan for the Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III mortuary temple project. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/10zeBBk
Article re recent conference. Thonis-Heracleion, sunken gateway to Egypt in 1st mill.BC. With photos. Past Horizons http://bit.ly/X9qCjQ
Update from the Tell Basta Project http://tellbasta.tumblr.com/post/46430050559/heart-of-glass …
Object biography #12: A wooden shabti of King Seti I (Acc.no.13906) by Campbell Price. Manchester Museum http://bit.ly/10gddTT
New book on Cleopatra argues that the “Queen of Kings” did not take her own life. Smithsonian Mag http://bit.ly/173Rnbb
Birds in ancient Egyptian society: some brief notes. Joyce Filer's blog http://bit.ly/10n95BB
Part 2 of Dean Kalimniou's look at the Greek connection in Sudan, focusing on the survival of the Greek language http://bit.ly/14uivk0
Part one of Dean Kalimniou's look at the Greek connection in Sudan http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/greeks-in-sudan-part-one …
Progress by the EES Minufiyeh Survey team in the Delta http://minufiyeh.tumblr.com/post/46785854575/progress …
Interview re new book: The Archaeology of Race – The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie. UCL http://bit.ly/13Ut7tj
Ancient Kingdoms in the land of war - the archaeology of Sudan. New York Times http://nyti.ms/YV55Xg
With security ebbing and prices rising, the sustained drop-off in Egypt tourism has hurt the impoverished. NY Times http://nyti.ms/Yw7paI
Djehuty Project: Arqueólogos españoles descubren en Dra Abu el-Naga, Luxor, cuatro tumbas de la dinastía XVII. ABC.es http://bit.ly/Z7KmFG
La campaña 2013 de excavaciones de la UJA, Asuán, constata la complejidad de la estructura de las tumbas. europapress http://bit.ly/ZaePfn
Book review by Tim Reid: Mummies: Death and Life in Ancient Egypt, James Hamilton-Paterson and Carol Andrews, Penguin http://bit.ly/12iTrw5
Egypt revolution brings golden age for tomb raiders. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21960373 …
EES Delta Survey dig diary is being started up again for the new season http://deltasurvey.tumblr.com/
Priceless Egyptian treasures feared destroyed in Cuming Museum (South London) museum fire. http://bit.ly/YxutIj
New York Prosecutors Seek to Forfeit Ancient Egyptian Artifacts. Cultural Heritage Lawyer http://bit.ly/104kqVA
Site of Al Bordan site destroyed by illegal construction in spite of intervention by police and archaeologists. http://bit.ly/ZXQcoJ
Travel. Siwa, the field of trees. With photos. Alrahalah http://www.alrahalah.com/2013/03/siwa-the-field-of-trees/ …
It's a boy: Albany museum's mummy's true identity revealed. http://bit.ly/14ijeF1
Seizure of 5 Egyptian artifacts dating back to 2,000 B.C. on their way from Dubai to a Michigan antique dealer. http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/22/55962.htm …
2,400-Year-Old Myths of Mummy-Making Busted http://www.livescience.com/28097-herodotus-mummy-evisceration-wrong.html …
- 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 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...
- News For 3rd March 2013
Yesterday's news from the world of Egyptology, copied over from Twitter. Via Kristian Strutt @kdstrutt: Antinoupolis Project blog. Visit to the Via Hadriana, Deir El Sombat and rock-cut coptic church http://kdstrutt.wordpress.com Via Maria Nilsson...
- 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...