Egypt
The Art Newspaper (Martin Bailey)
- Exhibition: Communication In Ancient Egypt
University of Birmingham Since the very beginning of human evolution, communication has played a crucial role in social development. In our modern world, when messages are conveyed through countless routes, it is very appropriate to look back and...
- Eton College Returns Artefacts To Egypt
The Art Newspaper Eton College, in the south of England, has returned more than 450 antiquities to Egypt, after it was realised that many had probably been illegally exported. Last month we reported that the main part of the school’s collection, bequeathed...
- Clarification - Myers Museum Collection
REPOSTED FROM YESTERDAY Many thanks to Dr Nick Reeves for sending me the following clarification re the Myers Collection: Dear Andie May I provide you and your readers with an accurate statement concerning the return to Egypt of antiquities recently...
- Eton Myers Collection Virtual Museum + Sudan Archive Digitisation
JISC - Eton Myers Thanks very much to Jonathan Calvert for pointing me at this site. The Eton Myers Collection Virtual Museum will provide the centre piece of the University of Birmingham’s Virtual Worlds Laboratory (VWL), by providing virtual access...
- On The Return From Eton Of Trinkets
The Myers museum at Eton has done what is correct as would be expected from an institution of its standing The issue is not with the correct actions of the Myers museum or any other institution in doing what is right but rather laws which take trivial...
Egypt
Eton’s Egyptology going to Birmingham (UK) and Baltimore (US)
The Art Newspaper (Martin Bailey)
Eton College’s Egyptian antiquities have just gone on show at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham as part of a 15-year loan. “Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt” is a temporary exhibition of 80 of the finest pieces of the Myers collection, running until next January.
The collection was assembled by Major William Myers, who served in Egypt and bequeathed his antiquities to Eton in 1899.
Eton, Britain’s most exclusive independent school, located in Windsor, has been unable to display the objects in recent years. In an unusual arrangement, it is lending most of the 2,500 antiquities to two institutions, the Barber Institute (part of the University of Birmingham) and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which will catalogue, scan, conserve and display them.
- Exhibition: Communication In Ancient Egypt
University of Birmingham Since the very beginning of human evolution, communication has played a crucial role in social development. In our modern world, when messages are conveyed through countless routes, it is very appropriate to look back and...
- Eton College Returns Artefacts To Egypt
The Art Newspaper Eton College, in the south of England, has returned more than 450 antiquities to Egypt, after it was realised that many had probably been illegally exported. Last month we reported that the main part of the school’s collection, bequeathed...
- Clarification - Myers Museum Collection
REPOSTED FROM YESTERDAY Many thanks to Dr Nick Reeves for sending me the following clarification re the Myers Collection: Dear Andie May I provide you and your readers with an accurate statement concerning the return to Egypt of antiquities recently...
- Eton Myers Collection Virtual Museum + Sudan Archive Digitisation
JISC - Eton Myers Thanks very much to Jonathan Calvert for pointing me at this site. The Eton Myers Collection Virtual Museum will provide the centre piece of the University of Birmingham’s Virtual Worlds Laboratory (VWL), by providing virtual access...
- On The Return From Eton Of Trinkets
The Myers museum at Eton has done what is correct as would be expected from an institution of its standing The issue is not with the correct actions of the Myers museum or any other institution in doing what is right but rather laws which take trivial...