Egypt
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- Online: The Art Of Medicine By Andrew Robinson
andrewrobinson.org Two page article from The Lancet. The art of medicine. Jean-François Champollion and ancient Egyptian embalming By Andrew Robinson 200 years ago this year, the future founder of Egyptology, French linguist and archaeologist...
- Students From The University Of Warsaw Will Follow In The Footsteps Of The First Egyptologists
Science and Scholarship in Poland In September, members of the Scientific Society of Ancient Egypt "KeMeT" at the University of Warsaw Łukasz Przewłocki and Ewa Biskupek will begin a scientific project aimed at finding and documenting selected...
- Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Every depiction of an ancient portrait has the capacity to change interpretive history. It is mid-February and the Temple of Edfu looks a shadow of its usual self. Instead of picture-postcard columns, the colossal figures...
- Repatriation: Hawass On The Rosetta Stone
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I recently travelled to London to give a lecture at the British Museum on my archaeological discoveries, and to host a book-signing event for my book ‘A Secret Voyage’ that has finally been published in English. This book...
- 200-year-old Travel Diary Of An Italian Adventurer Discovered
Ansa.it Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. The 200-year-old travel diary of an Italian adventurer who explored Egypt and later guided the founders of Egyptology to key sites has been uncovered in this Tuscan city. The journal, accidentally unearthed...
Egypt
Exhibition: Along the Nile (Pisa, Italy)
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A pioneering but fateful 19th-century expedition along the River Nile by two of the founding fathers of modern Egyptology is the focus of a new exhibition in Pisa.
Funded by Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II and Charles X of France, the 1828-29 voyage was led by Europe's first Egyptology professor, Ippolito Rosellini, and the French philologist who had recently deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Jean-Francois Champollion.
The men brought back a haul of ancient antiquities but also carried out a systematic survey of the monuments of Egypt and their hieroglyphic inscriptions, which - thanks to Champollion - they were able to read for the first time.
The Pisa show concentrates on the experiences of Rosellini and six fellow Tuscans who took part in the expedition - not all of whom made it back alive.
Around 200 priceless statues, bas-reliefs and other antiquities that the men brought back are on display at the city's Palazzo Blu, but the real focus of the exhibition is on the diaries, letters and paintings made by expedition members that give a first-hand account of their voyage.
- Online: The Art Of Medicine By Andrew Robinson
andrewrobinson.org Two page article from The Lancet. The art of medicine. Jean-François Champollion and ancient Egyptian embalming By Andrew Robinson 200 years ago this year, the future founder of Egyptology, French linguist and archaeologist...
- Students From The University Of Warsaw Will Follow In The Footsteps Of The First Egyptologists
Science and Scholarship in Poland In September, members of the Scientific Society of Ancient Egypt "KeMeT" at the University of Warsaw Łukasz Przewłocki and Ewa Biskupek will begin a scientific project aimed at finding and documenting selected...
- Exhibition: Ippolito Rosellini
Al Ahram Weekly (Gamal Nkrumah) Every depiction of an ancient portrait has the capacity to change interpretive history. It is mid-February and the Temple of Edfu looks a shadow of its usual self. Instead of picture-postcard columns, the colossal figures...
- Repatriation: Hawass On The Rosetta Stone
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I recently travelled to London to give a lecture at the British Museum on my archaeological discoveries, and to host a book-signing event for my book ‘A Secret Voyage’ that has finally been published in English. This book...
- 200-year-old Travel Diary Of An Italian Adventurer Discovered
Ansa.it Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. The 200-year-old travel diary of an Italian adventurer who explored Egypt and later guided the founders of Egyptology to key sites has been uncovered in this Tuscan city. The journal, accidentally unearthed...