Egypt
- Tutankhamun's Childhood Home Exhibited At Penn Museum
Huliq Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, the University of Pennsylvania Museum's popular new exhibition about the city of Amarna, Tutankhamun's childhood home, will remain open as a long-term exhibition, adding to the Museum's...
- The Pharaohs In Spain
http://tinyurl.com/blpmk (State Information Service) An exhibition of Egyptian antiquities entitled 'The Pharaohs" will open in about a fortnight's time in Madrid, having been shown at the Arab World lnstitute in Paris, said Zahi Hawass, Secretary...
- Brief Details Of Items Lost In Theft
http://www.artandantiques.net/ArtCrimes.htm?CD=846&ID=2001An apparently opportunist theft has resulted in the loss of several archaeological items: "An Egyptian Cippus of Horus, a black stone talisman depicting the god Horus standing on crocodiles,...
- The War Path Of Horus - New Sites
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1805 This is the last paragraph on Egypt Today's News-Reel page, speculating about the War Path of Horus, and the light that new sites are casting on it: "Finally, the War Path of Horus has long been...
- New Light Show
At the temple of Horus at Edfu a beautiful new light show has been set up playing nightly. The light show features Horus' victory over Seth....
Egypt
Horus made of shell
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/23/Floridian/Artifacts_celebrate_w.shtml
This post concerns just one item from the exhibition From Myth to Life: Images of Women from the Classical World, shown as a photograph on the above web page. However, it is a remarkably beautiful item that I have never seen shown elsewhere and I thought others would like to see it: “The exhibition's show-stopper is a carved shell from Phoenicia, miraculously intact, that was a boudoir treasure, something precious for a dressing table. Its tip has been fashioned as the head of Horus, an Egyptian god popular with Phoenicians who took the form of a protective hawk, a winged home-security system so to speak”
This post concerns just one item from the exhibition From Myth to Life: Images of Women from the Classical World, shown as a photograph on the above web page. However, it is a remarkably beautiful item that I have never seen shown elsewhere and I thought others would like to see it: “The exhibition's show-stopper is a carved shell from Phoenicia, miraculously intact, that was a boudoir treasure, something precious for a dressing table. Its tip has been fashioned as the head of Horus, an Egyptian god popular with Phoenicians who took the form of a protective hawk, a winged home-security system so to speak”
- Tutankhamun's Childhood Home Exhibited At Penn Museum
Huliq Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, the University of Pennsylvania Museum's popular new exhibition about the city of Amarna, Tutankhamun's childhood home, will remain open as a long-term exhibition, adding to the Museum's...
- The Pharaohs In Spain
http://tinyurl.com/blpmk (State Information Service) An exhibition of Egyptian antiquities entitled 'The Pharaohs" will open in about a fortnight's time in Madrid, having been shown at the Arab World lnstitute in Paris, said Zahi Hawass, Secretary...
- Brief Details Of Items Lost In Theft
http://www.artandantiques.net/ArtCrimes.htm?CD=846&ID=2001An apparently opportunist theft has resulted in the loss of several archaeological items: "An Egyptian Cippus of Horus, a black stone talisman depicting the god Horus standing on crocodiles,...
- The War Path Of Horus - New Sites
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1805 This is the last paragraph on Egypt Today's News-Reel page, speculating about the War Path of Horus, and the light that new sites are casting on it: "Finally, the War Path of Horus has long been...
- New Light Show
At the temple of Horus at Edfu a beautiful new light show has been set up playing nightly. The light show features Horus' victory over Seth....