Egypt
BBC News
- More Updates - I'll Just Keep Adding To This Post Tonight
22:55- I am currently glued to Al Jazeera's live reporting of the situation in Egypt on the web (where they provided an interesting profile of the new Vice President). Hawass is shown, again, saying that last night a few people entered the Cairo...
- 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...
- Museums
Video: The basement of the Cairo Museum drhawass.com The footage of the Cairo Museum's basement is terrific. The main story of the video is Hawass's early experience of archaeology from a site called Kom Abu Billu and how he found a particular...
- Video: Treasures Discovered In Egypt
BBC News (Christian Fraser) Thanks to Vincent Brown's Talking Pyramids blog for highlighting this video. It lasts for over two minutes and offers a short overview of some recent discoveries and some ongoing problems in Egyptian archaeology. There's...
- More Antiquities Missing From Egyptian Museum
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=qw1127122741724B221"The disappearance of three items from the Egyptian Museum has prompted investigations that may be taken over by the General Prosecutor, according to press reports...
Egypt
Looting of the Egyptian Museum
BBC News
Video. BBC News reporter Christian Fraser looks at the state of play at the Egyptian Museum. Showing the broken display cases that were first shown on Al Jazeera footage, this video dating to the 16th February this is slightly out of date because two of the artefacts said to be missing have now been found. But it is a very good look at how thieves broke into the museum. Fraser also asks the obvious question about where tourist money has gone, given that there is no state of the art security for the museum and virtually no environmental management of the valuable and fragile collections.
- More Updates - I'll Just Keep Adding To This Post Tonight
22:55- I am currently glued to Al Jazeera's live reporting of the situation in Egypt on the web (where they provided an interesting profile of the new Vice President). Hawass is shown, again, saying that last night a few people entered the Cairo...
- 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...
- Museums
Video: The basement of the Cairo Museum drhawass.com The footage of the Cairo Museum's basement is terrific. The main story of the video is Hawass's early experience of archaeology from a site called Kom Abu Billu and how he found a particular...
- Video: Treasures Discovered In Egypt
BBC News (Christian Fraser) Thanks to Vincent Brown's Talking Pyramids blog for highlighting this video. It lasts for over two minutes and offers a short overview of some recent discoveries and some ongoing problems in Egyptian archaeology. There's...
- More Antiquities Missing From Egyptian Museum
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=qw1127122741724B221"The disappearance of three items from the Egyptian Museum has prompted investigations that may be taken over by the General Prosecutor, according to press reports...