Egypt
Truman State University Index (Jennifer Lewis)
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eTheses Repository Two aspects of Middle Kingdom Funerary culture from two different Middle Egyptian Nomes Billson, Bjorn Marc (2012) M.Phil. thesis, University of Birmingham. PDF (1109Kb) Abstract This thesis aims to further...
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- An Update From John Wyatt
Thanks very much to John Wyatt for both cheering me up and giving me all sorts of information today when we chatted by phone. Long term visitors may remember that when the Bloomsbury Summer School was running a few months ago I did some lecture summaries,...
- False Doors Found In Beni Suef
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- Egyptian Pottery Identified
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4732236.stmThanks a million to Aayko Emya from EEF for pointing me at this article on the BBC website: "A box of pottery, long-untouched and undocumented, turned out to contain numbered items, many of them from...
Egypt
Lecture summary: Lecture reveals history behind ancient Egyptian pottery
Truman State University Index (Jennifer Lewis)
The Egyptian pottery residing in the Ophelia Parrish art gallery is accompanied by a story about how it had been unearthed and nestled safely in those glass cases. Sara Orel, art history professor and temporary curator of the exhibit, told the story in her faculty forum presentation "The Garstang Excavations at Beni Hasan, Egypt" on Jan. 26 in Magruder Hall 2001.
Orel said she is intimately familiar with the pottery, on loan from The Royal Ontario Museum, because she wrote her dissertation in 1989 on the excavations performed by John Garstang in Beni Hasan, Egypt, where the pottery originated. She said she chose to focus on Beni Hasan because of its size and significance to the ordinary people of ancient Egypt.
"It has one of the largest and best-excavated and preserved sets of burials of people who are essentially part of the middle class," Orel said. "I have always been interested in daily life, not kings or queens and historical artifacts, but more the archaeological material."
Orel said Beni Hasan is an Egyptian tourist site, but the numerous middle class tombs often get overlooked because of their simplicity.
- Online: Two Aspects Of Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture From Two Different Middle Egyptian Nomes
eTheses Repository Two aspects of Middle Kingdom Funerary culture from two different Middle Egyptian Nomes Billson, Bjorn Marc (2012) M.Phil. thesis, University of Birmingham. PDF (1109Kb) Abstract This thesis aims to further...
- Garstang At The World Museum, Liverpool
Liverpool Daily Post As the first visitors take in World Museum Liverpool’s new Ancient Egypt gallery, Laura Davis explores the city’s long-standing fascination with the Land of the Pharaohs. It was every bit the up-standing Edwardian tea party, with...
- An Update From John Wyatt
Thanks very much to John Wyatt for both cheering me up and giving me all sorts of information today when we chatted by phone. Long term visitors may remember that when the Bloomsbury Summer School was running a few months ago I did some lecture summaries,...
- False Doors Found In Beni Suef
Egypt State Information Service The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced on 22/2/2008 that the Spanish archaeologists have unearthed three stone gates dating back to the first transition era (2191-2040 BC) in Ihnasia, Beni Sweif Governorate. Zahi...
- Egyptian Pottery Identified
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4732236.stmThanks a million to Aayko Emya from EEF for pointing me at this article on the BBC website: "A box of pottery, long-untouched and undocumented, turned out to contain numbered items, many of them from...