Egypt
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- News: Egypt To Demand The Rosetta Stone
Times Online (Christina Ruiz) Not really "news" if you've been following the repatriation themes recently. Hawass first asked the British Museum to lend the Rosetta Stone to Egypt for a temporary display. However, he was angered when trustees asked...
- Drama King
ajc.comWhen the tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922, Tutmania gripped the public like a fever. The temperature spiked again in the 1970s with the tour of “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” which bypassed a disappointed Atlanta. Get the cold...
- Art & Empire: Assyrian Treasures At Mfa, Boston
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) With photographs. "Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston features 250 objects from ancient Assyrian palaces and temples. On view in the building's Gund Gallery from...
- Amarna Statuette Fraudsters Sentenced
This story has generated quite a lot of interest in the UK. International Herald Tribune A court in northern England sentenced an antique dealer to prison Friday for churning out statues, paintings and other art works and passing the sophisticated fakes...
- Forgotten Empire
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/776/cu2.htmA comprehensive overview of Forgotten Empire, an exhibition currently at the British Museum in London (UK) focusing on the Ancient Persian Empire. There is mention in the article of Persia's role in ancient...
Egypt
Exhibition: Ancient Assyrian treasures at the MFA
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At the height of his power, he ruled an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf and included parts of present-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt. Though trained as a scholar, he was also a fearsome warrior who boasted of cutting off the hands of his enemies and who had a simple solution for dealing with prisoners of war: turn them into human shish-kebobs. An avid hunter, he also claimed to have killed more than 300 lions.
Still, when the Assyrian king known as Ashurbanipal (668-631 B.C.) began building a new palace overlooking the Tigris River, he insisted on some basic safety measures.
At his request, the palace’s interior walls were covered with dozens of carved-stone reliefs depicting Assyrian gods and heroes. The reliefs, which were intended to ward off evil spirits, were especially numerous at two locations: corners, which were regarded as the most likely entry points for harmful spirits, and the royal washroom, where the king was considered most vulnerable.
Today, many of the stone reliefs from Ashurbanipal’s palace reside in the permanent collection of the British Museum. But for the next few months, a selection of these magnificent works is on display in “Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum” at the Museum of Fine Arts.
- News: Egypt To Demand The Rosetta Stone
Times Online (Christina Ruiz) Not really "news" if you've been following the repatriation themes recently. Hawass first asked the British Museum to lend the Rosetta Stone to Egypt for a temporary display. However, he was angered when trustees asked...
- Drama King
ajc.comWhen the tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922, Tutmania gripped the public like a fever. The temperature spiked again in the 1970s with the tour of “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” which bypassed a disappointed Atlanta. Get the cold...
- Art & Empire: Assyrian Treasures At Mfa, Boston
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) With photographs. "Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston features 250 objects from ancient Assyrian palaces and temples. On view in the building's Gund Gallery from...
- Amarna Statuette Fraudsters Sentenced
This story has generated quite a lot of interest in the UK. International Herald Tribune A court in northern England sentenced an antique dealer to prison Friday for churning out statues, paintings and other art works and passing the sophisticated fakes...
- Forgotten Empire
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/776/cu2.htmA comprehensive overview of Forgotten Empire, an exhibition currently at the British Museum in London (UK) focusing on the Ancient Persian Empire. There is mention in the article of Persia's role in ancient...