Egypt
The Guardian, UK (Carol Rumens)
- Vetting Wikipedia For Wikilink
Brooklyn Museum (Edward Bleiberg) Interesting insight into how some museums are trying to provide more information for visitors about exhibits. In Shelley’s previous post, she announced the installation of QR codes installed in exhibitions that lead...
- Journal Of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Tables of Contents for this and other issues may be viewed online at: https://digitalcommons.library.arizona.edu/holdings/journal?r=uadc://azu_egypt/ The Editors of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections are pleased to announce the publication...
- Report On The Mummies’ Trip To The Hospital
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr...
- Book Review: Eternal Egypt
Archaeology Magazine (review by Mark Rose) At the End of Days, when all the coffee-table books on ancient Egypt rise up to be judged, where will The Eternal Light of Egypt stand? The book, a Thames & Hudson offering, features 126 images by modern-day...
- 2600 Year Old Love Poem
http://publishing-industry.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=210 "A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the female poet of ancient Greece, was published for the first time since it was rediscovered last year. The 12-line poem, only...
Egypt
Feature: Ozymandias
The Guardian, UK (Carol Rumens)
The Shelleys' circle enjoyed setting each other themed writing contests: the most famous work to have emerged from such a pastime is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
It's less well-known that Shelley's most famous short poem, Ozymandias, was the result of a competition between himself and his friend Horace Smith, a financier, verse-parodist and author of historical novels. Smith's rival sonnet is called, less memorably, In Egypt's Sandy Silence and disadvantages itself early on by the gauche reference to "a gigantic leg". Somehow, Shelley's "two vast and trunkless legs" are more impressive. But both poems, first Shelley's and then Smith's, were published by Leigh Hunt early in 1818 in consecutive issues of his monthly journal The Examiner.
Shelley's interest in Egyptology was already established, as revealed by some of the imagery of an earlier poem, Alastor, but perhaps it had been rekindled in part by the news of the excavation of the colossal head of Rameses II.
- Vetting Wikipedia For Wikilink
Brooklyn Museum (Edward Bleiberg) Interesting insight into how some museums are trying to provide more information for visitors about exhibits. In Shelley’s previous post, she announced the installation of QR codes installed in exhibitions that lead...
- Journal Of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Tables of Contents for this and other issues may be viewed online at: https://digitalcommons.library.arizona.edu/holdings/journal?r=uadc://azu_egypt/ The Editors of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections are pleased to announce the publication...
- Report On The Mummies’ Trip To The Hospital
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr...
- Book Review: Eternal Egypt
Archaeology Magazine (review by Mark Rose) At the End of Days, when all the coffee-table books on ancient Egypt rise up to be judged, where will The Eternal Light of Egypt stand? The book, a Thames & Hudson offering, features 126 images by modern-day...
- 2600 Year Old Love Poem
http://publishing-industry.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=210 "A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the female poet of ancient Greece, was published for the first time since it was rediscovered last year. The 12-line poem, only...