Egypt
LA Times (Charles Burress)
- New Director Wants To Open Museum's Trove
The Bay Citizen (Patrick Dillon) Not about Egypt exclusively, but about a museum which includes an Egyptian collection. An interesting insight into museum management, something I've always thought of as something of a thankless task due to the challenges...
- Mask Of The Mummy
National Geographic Thanks to Tony Marson for this link. A five-photo slideshow with detailed captions looks specifically at ancient Egyptian mummified crocodiles. The photos are excellent. There's a real crocodile behind that mask, according to...
- Exhibition: Hearst Museum Offers Media Preview
UC Berkeley News A media preview of “The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, April 29, at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibit features...
- Crocodile Mummies Scanned At Stanford
Scope (Lia Steakley) With photos. Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which were scanned at Stanford last week. The crocodiles, a wrapped mummy with a painted...
- Egyptian Papyri Arrive On Campus
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml A rather nice piece from UC Berkeley looking at the arrival of a set of Reisner's Middle Kingdom papyri at Berkeley. The article gives details about the content of the papyri, Reisner's...
Egypt
Exhibition: The Conservator's Art
LA Times (Charles Burress)
Berkeley's show at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is free, small and devoid of crowds. But the key difference is a dual focus: on both rarely seen objects and "the conservator's art," the exacting craft and detective science of analyzing and preserving crumbling and extremely fragile items that are thousands of years old.
The exhibition — "The Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past," which runs until next spring — not only displays mummy cases, statuettes, hieroglyphics and other artifacts usually locked away in Berkeley's trove of Egyptian treasures. It also describes, for example, the crocodiles' journey to the Stanford University School of Medicine in February for $12,000 worth of rides through CT scanners normally used for humans. The tests revealed that one mummy, which has never been unwrapped, contained jumbled bones from more than one animal.
- New Director Wants To Open Museum's Trove
The Bay Citizen (Patrick Dillon) Not about Egypt exclusively, but about a museum which includes an Egyptian collection. An interesting insight into museum management, something I've always thought of as something of a thankless task due to the challenges...
- Mask Of The Mummy
National Geographic Thanks to Tony Marson for this link. A five-photo slideshow with detailed captions looks specifically at ancient Egyptian mummified crocodiles. The photos are excellent. There's a real crocodile behind that mask, according to...
- Exhibition: Hearst Museum Offers Media Preview
UC Berkeley News A media preview of “The Conservator’s Art: Preserving Egypt’s Past,” a new exhibit opening Thursday, April 29, at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The exhibit features...
- Crocodile Mummies Scanned At Stanford
Scope (Lia Steakley) With photos. Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which were scanned at Stanford last week. The crocodiles, a wrapped mummy with a painted...
- Egyptian Papyri Arrive On Campus
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml A rather nice piece from UC Berkeley looking at the arrival of a set of Reisner's Middle Kingdom papyri at Berkeley. The article gives details about the content of the papyri, Reisner's...