News for 15th February 2013
Egypt

News for 15th February 2013


Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews - in no particular order

Via Kasia Szpakowska ‏@SakhmetK: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offering a summer position for a research associate in Egyptian art: http://bit.ly/WN52j5

The first week of the Brooklyn Museum's dig diary in the Karnak area, with lots of great photographs http://bit.ly/Xc3g9u

American Soc. Papyrologists invites papers for "Culture and Society in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Egypt" Chicago 2014 http://bit.ly/WMXMDS

More news from the Amara West dig diary: "What a difference a day makes." http://bit.ly/11KMbZP

Man finds stuffed cat in attic is 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. IBN Live http://bit.ly/XIanrn

Live webcams will be placed in Egypt's major tourist areas to show the true conditions of the country. ANSAMed http://bit.ly/X9kd5u

This guide to the old Ashmolean Egypt galleries shows the old Victorian cabinets, themselves a bit of museum history. http://bit.ly/Ad7cXm

iPad app: "Tour of the Nile" introduces Petrie Museum and uses Augmented Reality to explore artefacts in 3D. iTunes http://bit.ly/12Qxx2G

Petrie Museum Object Analysis e-Learning Resource gives ability to analyse objects in 3D and to generate a catalogue http://bit.ly/TkFYPr

Al Ahram Weekly article re Hatshepsut’s Netery Menu chapel opening at Karnak and restoration of Amenhotep III colossi
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/1449/17/New-glories-of-the-New-Kingdom.aspx





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