News for 20th February 2013
Egypt

News for 20th February 2013


Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews.


Via HistoryoftheAncient ‏@historyancient: Article: Karnak: Where the digital age meets ancient Egypt http://ow.ly/hRYnP

Remains of a mud-brick pyramid-shaped tomb cover belonging to vizier Khay (reign of Ramesses II) found. Ahram Online http://bit.ly/XpfNVe

Creating a pointcloud for a 3D model of houses in E13, Amara West, using a process called ‘Structure from Motion’. http://bit.ly/XpiM00

Via @chrisnaunton. New book in German - the personal memories of the former Director General of the Egyptian Museum http://bit.ly/Wan9f7

Durham Univ. 3–4 March 2013 2-day international conference, The Construction of Time in Antiquity. lutz.doering [at] http://durham.ac.uk

Missed this a couple of wks ago: Campbell Price's Texts in translation #10: The Stela of Hesysunebef (Acc. No. 4588) http://bit.ly/WfXftd

Penn Artefact Lab: A step a-“head”: improving storage for our mummified heads http://bit.ly/YArZCt

Curator's Choice: Sue Giles on a toy from a child's grave at Bristol's King of Egypt show. Culture24 http://bit.ly/Y6J22a

Discovery of Luxor tomb of Vizier Khay, “the First Royal Herald of the Lord of the two lands” announced. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/15uCVYY

Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor, fully illuminated at night for the first time. Lots of photos. Luxor Times http://bit.ly/11UOj1m

Amara West 2013: scarabs – for life and death. http://bit.ly/ZdA8Pw

Via Alice Williams ‏@alicewilliams86:
Fab new book on World Archaeology at the Pitt-Rivers, with fascinating chapters on the Egypt & Sudan collections: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/world.html

Book Review - Americans in Egypt, 1770-1915 http://collectingegypt.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-americans-in-egypt-1770-1915.html …

Upstairs, Dowstairs: contrasting palace life and village life at excavations in Malqata http://bit.ly/Y6rumN

New Book: Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I: Footwear from the Ottoman Period. André J. Veldmeijer 2013 http://bit.ly/WPfWmR






- Egyptology News For March 11th 2013
Reposted from Twitter ‏@egyptologynews. Rock art sites and rich archaeological site dating back more than five hundred thousand years found in NE Sudan. PAP http://bit.ly/10F4Pl3 In N.Sudan archaeologists have found remains of early Homo sapiens settlements...

- News For 3rd March 2013
Yesterday's news from the world of Egyptology, copied over from Twitter. Via Kristian Strutt ‏@kdstrutt: Antinoupolis Project blog. Visit to the Via Hadriana, Deir El Sombat and rock-cut coptic church http://kdstrutt.wordpress.com Via Maria Nilsson...

- News From 21st To 24th February 2013
Copied from Twitter @egyptologynews Free article: The Calendars of Ancient Egypt. By R.A. Parker. University of Chicago Press, 1950. Hist.of the Anc.Wrld http://bit.ly/Wkz6yM A thorough reflection reveals a long-forgotten link between the foundation of...

- News For 14th February 2013
Happy Valentine's Day! News copied from Twitter @egyptologynews The ARCE has announced the launch of its new Luxor West Bank Archaeological Field School for local MSA/SCA inspectors http://bit.ly/X6jHVT Article about the building of the replica...

- News From 13th February 013
Copied from @egyptologynews The Oriental Institute Electronic Publics. Initiative has made several new Egyptology publications available as PDFs: http://oi.uchicago.edu/news/ I had missed that the Djehuty dig diary is back online for 2013, with several...



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