Egypt
Charlotte Observer (Alan Rauch)
- Ees Magazine: Egyptian Archaeology 40
Egypt Exploration Society EA 40 will be published in February/March 2012. The EES news pages include a progress report by Chris Naunton on the rehousing of the Society's Lucy Gura Archive, and accounts of two recent trips made by groups of EES members...
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- Belzoni
Suite 101 (Lito Apostolakou) If you're interested in the explorer and treasure hunter Belzoni then this new article on the Suite101 website may be of interest. Giovanni Belzoni, the 19th-century explorer and Egyptian archaeologist, started out on...
- More Re Dna Testing To Be Carried Out On Mummy
Egypt State Information Service More re the announcement by Zahi Hawass that an anonymous mummy is going to undergo DNA testing with a view to determining if it is Tuthmosis I. A mummy found at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor might belong to Tohotmos...
- The Rape Of The Nile
Brian M. Fagan Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1975 ISBN 0-684-15058-1 It has taken me a while to get to this book the last year I have been "showered" with books having to select from too many possibilities. That loss of time was truly a loss when...
Egypt
New Book: Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate
Charlotte Observer (Alan Rauch)
Resting in apparent tranquility at uptown's Discovery Place are more than 40 mummies from around the world. Charlotte is one of only a few American destinations for this major exhibit, and the opportunity to see so diverse an array of mummies - human and animal, Egyptian and South American - is remarkable.
The fascination that we feel for mummies, relics of the past that seem eerily in the moment, is not hard to understand, and it's certainly not a new phenomenon. Now a timely coincidence brings a new book tracing our compulsion for Egyptian relics. Ivor Noël Hume's "Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate" examines the emergence of the Egyptian craze in the early 19th century by looking at one of the main figures in that movement.
Hume, an archeologist himself, introduces us to Giovanni Belzoni, an Italian-born English citizen whose name became synonymous with Egyptian treasures.
- Ees Magazine: Egyptian Archaeology 40
Egypt Exploration Society EA 40 will be published in February/March 2012. The EES news pages include a progress report by Chris Naunton on the rehousing of the Society's Lucy Gura Archive, and accounts of two recent trips made by groups of EES members...
- General News: Mummies Used To Make Paper?
Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed...
- Belzoni
Suite 101 (Lito Apostolakou) If you're interested in the explorer and treasure hunter Belzoni then this new article on the Suite101 website may be of interest. Giovanni Belzoni, the 19th-century explorer and Egyptian archaeologist, started out on...
- More Re Dna Testing To Be Carried Out On Mummy
Egypt State Information Service More re the announcement by Zahi Hawass that an anonymous mummy is going to undergo DNA testing with a view to determining if it is Tuthmosis I. A mummy found at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor might belong to Tohotmos...
- The Rape Of The Nile
Brian M. Fagan Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1975 ISBN 0-684-15058-1 It has taken me a while to get to this book the last year I have been "showered" with books having to select from too many possibilities. That loss of time was truly a loss when...