Egypt
- Exhibition: Picturing The Past At The Oi
Oriental Institute February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago. Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf) Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs,...
- Online Journal: Egypt And Nubia In The 5th-4th Millennia Bce
British Museum Egypt and Nubia in the 5th–4th millennia BCE: A view from the First Cataract and its surroundings Maria Carmela Gatto British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 13 (2009): 125–45 Introduction Prehistoric sites were first found...
- Oriental Institute Books Online
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for forwarding the following list of books available online, in PDF format, at the Oriental Institute (some of the pages may take some time to load): Temple of Khonsu, Volume 3. The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at...
- Poland Builds Archaeological Museum In Sudan
http://tinyurl.com/qpfwg (Naukawpolsce.pl)"Polish archeologists and conservationists working in Sudan will found a museum devoted to early christianity in Nubia in the town Banganarti, where they will display their finds in the area. The museum, scheduled...
- More Re Nubian Gallery At The Oriental Institute
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14018554.htm A nice review of the new permanent Nubian exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago: "Some of the works on display, culled from the museum's 15,000-piece Nubian collection, are...
Egypt
More on new Nubia exhibit
http://tinyurl.com/rg5hv (Chicago Tribune)
As reported earlier, the Oriental Institute, in Chicago, U.S., has opened a new permanent exhibit dedicated to ancient Nubia. "The Oriental Institute has long been involved with preserving Nubia's legacy. During two harrowing expeditions from 1905 to 1907, founder James Henry Breasted was one of the first scientists to document Nubian ruins and record hieroglyphic inscriptions carved into their walls.In the 1920s and 1930s, institute excavations of royal temples and tombs in Egypt's City of the Dead at Thebes yielded scores of Nubian artifacts from an era when Nubia was ruled as an Egyptian colony. Among them is a striking sculpture of an African face, the realistic likeness of a Nubian slave, that is displayed in the exhibit. The bulk of the institute's Nubian holdings came from excavations of great Nubian archeological sites from 1961 to 1968, before they were covered by a manmade lake created by damming the Nile at Aswan. Egypt and Sudan at that time invited archeologists to come and retrieve as much as they could before the sites were inundated. As an enticement, they were allowed to keep most of what they found."
See the above artice for the full story.
See the museum's website for details about the collection:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/GALLERY/NUBIA/New_Nubia_Gallery.html
A photo gallery showing some of the photographs in the collection is at:
See the museum's website for details about the collection:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/GALLERY/NUBIA/New_Nubia_Gallery.html
A photo gallery showing some of the photographs in the collection is at:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/GALLERY/NUBIA/Nubia_000.html
- Exhibition: Picturing The Past At The Oi
Oriental Institute February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago. Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf) Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs,...
- Online Journal: Egypt And Nubia In The 5th-4th Millennia Bce
British Museum Egypt and Nubia in the 5th–4th millennia BCE: A view from the First Cataract and its surroundings Maria Carmela Gatto British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 13 (2009): 125–45 Introduction Prehistoric sites were first found...
- Oriental Institute Books Online
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for forwarding the following list of books available online, in PDF format, at the Oriental Institute (some of the pages may take some time to load): Temple of Khonsu, Volume 3. The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at...
- Poland Builds Archaeological Museum In Sudan
http://tinyurl.com/qpfwg (Naukawpolsce.pl)"Polish archeologists and conservationists working in Sudan will found a museum devoted to early christianity in Nubia in the town Banganarti, where they will display their finds in the area. The museum, scheduled...
- More Re Nubian Gallery At The Oriental Institute
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14018554.htm A nice review of the new permanent Nubian exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago: "Some of the works on display, culled from the museum's 15,000-piece Nubian collection, are...