Egypt
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- Getting To The Root Of Egyptian Hair
Petrie Museum Blog Thanks to Jan Picton for the news that the Petrie Museum is co-operating in an interesting new project. Called “African Combs: 5000 years of culture, politics, and identity,” a multi-disciplinary project at the Fitzwilliam Museum,...
- Call For Papers For Egypt In Its African Context
Call for Papers: "Egypt in its African Context", The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 3rd-4th October 2009 The African elements of the ancient Egyptian culture, and indeed its physical location in Africa, have frequently been ignored, and...
- Photography At The Fitzwilliam Museum (uk)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography...
- Exhibition: Book Of The Dead At The Fitzwilliam
Packaging Essentials It's not often that I get to link to a site like Packaging Essentials, but this news item provides one of those occasions. The exhibition A passport to the Egyptian After-life: The Book of the Dead of Ramose at the Fitzwilliam...
- Fitzwilliam Egyptology Collection Closed Til 2006
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/ae/ According to the Fitzwilliam Museum's (Cambridge, UK) website, which I visited to plan a trip to the museum: "The Egyptian Galleries closed to the public on 4 October 2004. They will re-open early in 2006....
Egypt
Fitzwilliam Museum plans to help prison inmates make virtual visits
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART28607.html
"Plans are underway to launch an innovative study to help engage prisoners at Whitemoor Prison in East Anglia with collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam, was so inspired by the prisoners’ reaction to lectures she gave there she is now seeking funds for a scheme to provide them with digital information".
See the article for more.
- Getting To The Root Of Egyptian Hair
Petrie Museum Blog Thanks to Jan Picton for the news that the Petrie Museum is co-operating in an interesting new project. Called “African Combs: 5000 years of culture, politics, and identity,” a multi-disciplinary project at the Fitzwilliam Museum,...
- Call For Papers For Egypt In Its African Context
Call for Papers: "Egypt in its African Context", The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, 3rd-4th October 2009 The African elements of the ancient Egyptian culture, and indeed its physical location in Africa, have frequently been ignored, and...
- Photography At The Fitzwilliam Museum (uk)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography...
- Exhibition: Book Of The Dead At The Fitzwilliam
Packaging Essentials It's not often that I get to link to a site like Packaging Essentials, but this news item provides one of those occasions. The exhibition A passport to the Egyptian After-life: The Book of the Dead of Ramose at the Fitzwilliam...
- Fitzwilliam Egyptology Collection Closed Til 2006
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/projects/ae/ According to the Fitzwilliam Museum's (Cambridge, UK) website, which I visited to plan a trip to the museum: "The Egyptian Galleries closed to the public on 4 October 2004. They will re-open early in 2006....