Egypt
- Q&a About The Tutankhamun Exhibition
http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/30897/ A sort of Frequently Asked Questions listing from the New York Times about the Tutankhamun exhibition including why it is not going to New York and what sort of offering the exhibition actually is: "It’s atypical...
- Loss Of Curators' Power
http://tinyurl.com/rw28c (nytimes.com)Thanks to the EEF News Digest for the following. A two-page article looking at how the Brooklyn Museum has restructured its management teams to raise efficiencies: "The Brooklyn Museum, which built a sleek new glass...
- Theorising About The Great Pyramid
http://tinyurl.com/hehnf (New York Times)A two-page article looking at one man's latest theories about the Great Pyramid and how it was built: "People in search of themselves often look to great challenges: running a marathon, climbing a mountain...
- Is It All Loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times) After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March...
- Defending Unprovenanced Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/fcaet (New York Times) An article about Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "In a wide-ranging interview last week, just a day after he returned from signing a final agreement in Rome, Mr. de Montebello...
Egypt
German man hopes to sailreed raft across Atlantic
http://tinyurl.com/22qrlk (newsday.com)
Dominique Gorlitz, 40, a former school teacher from Chemnitz, Germany, says the two-month journey he and 11 others will make on 41-foot-long craft will prove people could have traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in prehistoric times. . . . More than 25 volunteers are working on the craft at Liberty Landing Marina. Gorlitz based the craft's design on a northeastern African drawing from 6,000 years ago. He said part of it was built in Bolivia by Amyra Indians and then shipped here. According to Gorlitz, the discovery of traces of tobacco and cocaine in the tomb containing the mummy of the pharaoh Ramses II in Egypt is evidence that there was trade between the Old World and New World. In addition, Gorlitz said cave drawings found in Spain demonstrate the intricate knowledge people had about currents 14,000 years ago.
But most experts don't agree."
See the above page for the full story.
Also covered on the New York Times, with a photograph of the raft (if you are asked for a username and password enter egyptnews in both fields):
http://tinyurl.com/2zn4d6
Dominique Gorlitz, 40, a former school teacher from Chemnitz, Germany, says the two-month journey he and 11 others will make on 41-foot-long craft will prove people could have traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in prehistoric times. . . . More than 25 volunteers are working on the craft at Liberty Landing Marina. Gorlitz based the craft's design on a northeastern African drawing from 6,000 years ago. He said part of it was built in Bolivia by Amyra Indians and then shipped here. According to Gorlitz, the discovery of traces of tobacco and cocaine in the tomb containing the mummy of the pharaoh Ramses II in Egypt is evidence that there was trade between the Old World and New World. In addition, Gorlitz said cave drawings found in Spain demonstrate the intricate knowledge people had about currents 14,000 years ago.
But most experts don't agree."
See the above page for the full story.
Also covered on the New York Times, with a photograph of the raft (if you are asked for a username and password enter egyptnews in both fields):
http://tinyurl.com/2zn4d6
- Q&a About The Tutankhamun Exhibition
http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/30897/ A sort of Frequently Asked Questions listing from the New York Times about the Tutankhamun exhibition including why it is not going to New York and what sort of offering the exhibition actually is: "It’s atypical...
- Loss Of Curators' Power
http://tinyurl.com/rw28c (nytimes.com)Thanks to the EEF News Digest for the following. A two-page article looking at how the Brooklyn Museum has restructured its management teams to raise efficiencies: "The Brooklyn Museum, which built a sleek new glass...
- Theorising About The Great Pyramid
http://tinyurl.com/hehnf (New York Times)A two-page article looking at one man's latest theories about the Great Pyramid and how it was built: "People in search of themselves often look to great challenges: running a marathon, climbing a mountain...
- Is It All Loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times) After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March...
- Defending Unprovenanced Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/fcaet (New York Times) An article about Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "In a wide-ranging interview last week, just a day after he returned from signing a final agreement in Rome, Mr. de Montebello...