Egypt
The Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland)
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- What Comes Next?
The Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland) Margarent Maitland considers the available information so far supplied by the Egyptian authorities and looks at the difficulties of both assessing the situation and ensuring that any looted items don't find...
- Egyptian Revival In Hollywood
The Eloquent Peasant An excellent and fascinating essay by Margaret Maitland about the Hollywood revival of ancient Egypt, with some good photos. I enjoyed this considerably. Here's her introduction: As an Egyptologist, I understand from first-hand...
- More Re Egypt To Copyright Antiquities
Associated Press Egypt might copyright its pharaonic antiquities, from the pyramids to scarab beetles, in an attempt to get paid from the sale of replicas, an official said Thursday. It was unclear whether such a copyright would be recognized internationally....
- Why The Aliens Did Not Build The Pyramids
Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland) Margaret Maitland has updated her Egyptology blog with an argument in favour of pyramid construction theories that exclude the need for explanations that require alien intervention. It is an excellent summary, complete...
- A Guide To Ancient Egyptian London
The Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland) This is a super post from Margaret Maitland, with an interactive map of London (U.K.) showing all the key buildings and monuments which have been directly influenced by ancient Egyptian art and architecture. Here...
Egypt
More re copywriting Egyptian monuments
The Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland)
Margaret Maitland has posted an articulate response to the proposed bill on her blog. Her post provides a very useful reflection of the many opinions that I have heard about the proposal since it was publicized. In this extract, Margaret echoes one of my own feelings of total bewilderment about the bill, which questions why Egypt should wish to alienate the opportunity for free PR:
The way I see it, reproductions are actually free advertising for the Egyptian Tourism Board. In my experience, the plastic (rather grotesque) King Tut mask that my mom got me for Hallowe’en when I was a child only further fueled my desire to one day visit Egypt myself. Around the world, similar trinkets and architectural homages only remind us of the much greater wonders that lie in Egypt itself. In the International Herald Tribune, the lawyer Jeffrey P. Weingart states: ‘Anytime someone seeks to promote and profit from artistic or photographic expression, one walks a fine line between promoting its use on the one hand and protecting material on the other’.
See the above page for the full post.
- What Comes Next?
The Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland) Margarent Maitland considers the available information so far supplied by the Egyptian authorities and looks at the difficulties of both assessing the situation and ensuring that any looted items don't find...
- Egyptian Revival In Hollywood
The Eloquent Peasant An excellent and fascinating essay by Margaret Maitland about the Hollywood revival of ancient Egypt, with some good photos. I enjoyed this considerably. Here's her introduction: As an Egyptologist, I understand from first-hand...
- More Re Egypt To Copyright Antiquities
Associated Press Egypt might copyright its pharaonic antiquities, from the pyramids to scarab beetles, in an attempt to get paid from the sale of replicas, an official said Thursday. It was unclear whether such a copyright would be recognized internationally....
- Why The Aliens Did Not Build The Pyramids
Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland) Margaret Maitland has updated her Egyptology blog with an argument in favour of pyramid construction theories that exclude the need for explanations that require alien intervention. It is an excellent summary, complete...
- A Guide To Ancient Egyptian London
The Eloquent Peasant (Margaret Maitland) This is a super post from Margaret Maitland, with an interactive map of London (U.K.) showing all the key buildings and monuments which have been directly influenced by ancient Egyptian art and architecture. Here...