Egypt
The Telegraph, UK (Sophie Campbell)
- More Inside Views On The Book Of The Dead Exhibition
British Museum (John Taylor) It’s now just over one month since the Book of the Dead exhibition opened to the public – the culmination of a number of years work. So it’s greatly satisfying to see it full of people at last. We’ve always been aware...
- Photo For Today - Mfa, Boston
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Lid of the sarcophagus of General Kheperre Late Period, Dynasty 26, reign of Amasis, 570–526 B.C. Giza Greywacke Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thanks to Rick Menges for rescuing me from the photographic void by...
- British Museum's Book Of The Dead Exhibtion Preview
Heritage Key (Prad Patel) With video. The British Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" is set to open on 4th November 2010 and a video posted on the British Museum's Youtube channel gives a teaser to one of the artefacts...
- Feature: Opening A Sacrophagus At Saqqara
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) With video. It wouldn't load for me, but it is probably the same video as that on the drhawass.com website (see next post). Nothing keeps Dr Zahi Hawass awake at night quite like the prospect of being the first person...
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A115105This is hardly the first review of Temples and Tombs, currently in North Carolina, but it is a rather good one: "Despite having to puzzle through a construction obstacle course that would stump...
Egypt
Into the tombs of the pharaohs
The Telegraph, UK (Sophie Campbell)
She was lying on her back at the bottom of the sarcophagus, legs pressed together under a fitted tunic, arms by her sides, bobbed hair immaculate, gazing skywards like a sunbathing tourist. This was Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the night, who swallows the sun every evening and gives birth to it again every dawn. She was very beautiful and her tunic was sprinkled with stars.
"That's a mirror you're looking at," said Khaled, Egyptologist and guide, as we squatted by the stone sarcophagus in the Cairo Museum. "She's actually carved onto the lid."
I tried not to look startled. Nut had been imprisoned in darkness for 3,000 years or more, staring not up at the sky and stars but down at a mummy-form coffin. It gave me an odd sensation – part claustrophobia, part morbid fascination – that seems to lurk about Ancient Egyptian history.
Khaled faced a mammoth task. I find our own kings and queens tricky enough to memorise, and they are a paltry 1,000 years' worth, a blink of a kohl-lined eye by Egyptian standards. He had four days to explain the "Book of the Dead", the subject of an exhibition opening at the British Museum in November, which covers millennia of Egyptian royals.
- More Inside Views On The Book Of The Dead Exhibition
British Museum (John Taylor) It’s now just over one month since the Book of the Dead exhibition opened to the public – the culmination of a number of years work. So it’s greatly satisfying to see it full of people at last. We’ve always been aware...
- Photo For Today - Mfa, Boston
Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Lid of the sarcophagus of General Kheperre Late Period, Dynasty 26, reign of Amasis, 570–526 B.C. Giza Greywacke Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thanks to Rick Menges for rescuing me from the photographic void by...
- British Museum's Book Of The Dead Exhibtion Preview
Heritage Key (Prad Patel) With video. The British Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" is set to open on 4th November 2010 and a video posted on the British Museum's Youtube channel gives a teaser to one of the artefacts...
- Feature: Opening A Sacrophagus At Saqqara
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) With video. It wouldn't load for me, but it is probably the same video as that on the drhawass.com website (see next post). Nothing keeps Dr Zahi Hawass awake at night quite like the prospect of being the first person...
- Exhibition: Temples And Tombs
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A115105This is hardly the first review of Temples and Tombs, currently in North Carolina, but it is a rather good one: "Despite having to puzzle through a construction obstacle course that would stump...