Egypt
- Weekly Websites
An earlier Amarna discovery at Saqqara http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/feature3/index.htmlDuring the process of a massive turn out of my house, I found an old National Geographic article by Alain Zivie, looking at the excavation of another...
- Trivia
Another poor week for trivia, but I particularly liked this idea: Cultural Feasthttp://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3373597 I don't report on lectures and seminars because EEF already provide this information and do a better...
- Update: National Geographic Feature On Tutankhamun
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature1/index.html Further to my earlier posting about this forthcoming article, there is now an exerpt on the National Geographic website from the June issue. The full article will only be available in the...
- Tombs Of The Kings Of The First Dynasty
Here is an article on the burial of the kings of Egypt's first dynasty the article mentions the sacrifices of those kings courtiers to serve them in the afterlife. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html The article mentions...
- Damaged Abydos
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Egypt
National Geographic Feature on Abydos
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html
Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National Geographic, which I unfortunately only picked up last week - so, sorry it's a bit late!
These pages contain the first few paragraphs of a National Geographic article about Abydos focusing on Egypt's First Pharaohs, entitled "Abydos - Life and Death at the Dawn of Egyptian Civilization", some of the accompanying photographs from the magazine, and a printable art-map.
The full magazine feature has a good summary of the role of Abydos in both early Dynastic and later times, an imaginative reconstruction of the burial procession of the Pharaoh Aha (shown on the web page), and contains the usual stunning phhotographs and artistic reconstructions, as well as some very useful maps.
This last link also has a commentary from the author of the article about his experience doing the research for the item in Egypt:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/assignment1.html
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/gallery1.html
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/map.html
Thanks to my Dad for buying me the April edition of National Geographic, which I unfortunately only picked up last week - so, sorry it's a bit late!
These pages contain the first few paragraphs of a National Geographic article about Abydos focusing on Egypt's First Pharaohs, entitled "Abydos - Life and Death at the Dawn of Egyptian Civilization", some of the accompanying photographs from the magazine, and a printable art-map.
The full magazine feature has a good summary of the role of Abydos in both early Dynastic and later times, an imaginative reconstruction of the burial procession of the Pharaoh Aha (shown on the web page), and contains the usual stunning phhotographs and artistic reconstructions, as well as some very useful maps.
This last link also has a commentary from the author of the article about his experience doing the research for the item in Egypt:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/assignment1.html
- Weekly Websites
An earlier Amarna discovery at Saqqara http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/feature3/index.htmlDuring the process of a massive turn out of my house, I found an old National Geographic article by Alain Zivie, looking at the excavation of another...
- Trivia
Another poor week for trivia, but I particularly liked this idea: Cultural Feasthttp://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3373597 I don't report on lectures and seminars because EEF already provide this information and do a better...
- Update: National Geographic Feature On Tutankhamun
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature1/index.html Further to my earlier posting about this forthcoming article, there is now an exerpt on the National Geographic website from the June issue. The full article will only be available in the...
- Tombs Of The Kings Of The First Dynasty
Here is an article on the burial of the kings of Egypt's first dynasty the article mentions the sacrifices of those kings courtiers to serve them in the afterlife. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html The article mentions...
- Damaged Abydos
...