Egypt
- Lecture Notes: Festivals Of Drunkenness In The New Kingdom
The Retriever Weekly (Vanessa Rueda) As part of Ancient Studies Week (and the Humanities Forum Lecture Series), Dr. Betsy Bryan gave a lecture entitled Festivals of Drunkenness in New Kingdom Egypt. Visiting from Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday,...
- Jhu 2008 Season At Luxor Now Online
The JHU Gazette Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary: a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition. This month, visitors to Hopkins in Egypt Today at www.jhu.edu/egypttoday...
- Sex And Booze Figured In Egyptian Rite
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/A short piece describing new scenes found depicting the so-called Festival of Drunkeness: "Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the...
- Questions About The Tiy Statue
http://tinyurl.com/d45jz (Forbes.com) In this item Bryan says that the identification of the statue as Tiy may not be secure, but that it certainly represents "a major queen of Amenhotep III, which would limit the subject of the statue to Tiye, Amenhotep's...
- Temple Of Mut Dig Diary
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/517129/"Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Starting Thursday, Jan. 5, visitors...
Egypt
Egypt's Sin City (Hall of Drunkenness, Karnak)
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/12/224088.aspx
"Over the past six years, Bryan's online expeditions have documented 3,400-year-old rites at the temple that were conducted to appease the gods and give vent to some of the age-old animal impulses in the process. The highlights apparently involved getting drunk on barley beer, then "traveling through the marshes" (a euphemism for having sex), then passing out, then waking up the next morning for religious services.
Bryan was last at the temple site in January, and now she and her team have returned to continue their excavations of the Hall of Drunkenness, which served as party central for the annual festival during the reign of the pharaonic queen Hatshepsut. The dispatches from Luxor have just resumed, and the team is already hard at work conserving the hall's toppled columns."
See the above page for the rest of the short article.
"Over the past six years, Bryan's online expeditions have documented 3,400-year-old rites at the temple that were conducted to appease the gods and give vent to some of the age-old animal impulses in the process. The highlights apparently involved getting drunk on barley beer, then "traveling through the marshes" (a euphemism for having sex), then passing out, then waking up the next morning for religious services.
Bryan was last at the temple site in January, and now she and her team have returned to continue their excavations of the Hall of Drunkenness, which served as party central for the annual festival during the reign of the pharaonic queen Hatshepsut. The dispatches from Luxor have just resumed, and the team is already hard at work conserving the hall's toppled columns."
See the above page for the rest of the short article.
- Lecture Notes: Festivals Of Drunkenness In The New Kingdom
The Retriever Weekly (Vanessa Rueda) As part of Ancient Studies Week (and the Humanities Forum Lecture Series), Dr. Betsy Bryan gave a lecture entitled Festivals of Drunkenness in New Kingdom Egypt. Visiting from Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday,...
- Jhu 2008 Season At Luxor Now Online
The JHU Gazette Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary: a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition. This month, visitors to Hopkins in Egypt Today at www.jhu.edu/egypttoday...
- Sex And Booze Figured In Egyptian Rite
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/A short piece describing new scenes found depicting the so-called Festival of Drunkeness: "Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the...
- Questions About The Tiy Statue
http://tinyurl.com/d45jz (Forbes.com) In this item Bryan says that the identification of the statue as Tiy may not be secure, but that it certainly represents "a major queen of Amenhotep III, which would limit the subject of the statue to Tiye, Amenhotep's...
- Temple Of Mut Dig Diary
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/517129/"Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Starting Thursday, Jan. 5, visitors...