Egypt
Tuesday 05 July, 10:35pm - 11:25pm, BBC1 London
Should be available to UK viewers on BBC iPlayer aswell, for seven days following transmission.
From the Radio Times:
Radio Times reviewer - Gill Crawford
- Recreating The Sound Of Tutankhamun's Trumpets
BBC News (Christine Finn) Tutankhamun's trumpet was one of the rare artefacts stolen from the Cairo Museum during the recent uprising. The 3,000-year-old instrument is rarely played, but a 1939 BBC radio recording captured its haunting sound. Among...
- Chasing Mummies
I've just noticed that the series Chasing Mummies, which had such polarized reviews when it aired in the US, is starting on UK television tonight on Sky 3. I won't be in to watch it so I won't be reviewing it. Here's the Radio Times online...
- Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way
National Geographic Video showing some of the damage at the museum, restoration work in progress, and Hawass offering reassurance about the safety of museums and monuments. There is an unedited transcript to accompany the video on the above page. More...
- Hawass Chides Museums Over Antiquities
Indiana Gazette (Ula Ilnytzky) Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said...
- Exhibition: More Re Tutankhamun In London + New Dvd
The Telegraph The organisers said they were confident that the nine-month exhibition which opens in November at the Millennium Dome - now known as the O2 - will break the two million visitor mark. This would smash the modern record of 1.7 million visitors...
Egypt
On UK television tonight: The Pharaohs' Museum on Liberation Square
Tuesday 05 July, 10:35pm - 11:25pm, BBC1 London
Should be available to UK viewers on BBC iPlayer aswell, for seven days following transmission.
From the Radio Times:
Alan Yentob has his work cut out this week, trotting after Egyptian director of antiquities Zahi Hawass as the man described as the second-dmost- famous man in Egypt (after Omar Sharif, who's also featured) strides around the Egyptian Museum. Yentob is in Cairo to see how the museum survived the demonstrations on its doorstep earlier this year. The museum did suffer minor looting - one curator gleefully points out the bloodstains left by clumsy intruders - and its status has been tarnished by evidence that it was used for torture. But Yentob clearly has great affection for its dusty displays: he's positively thrilled when the mask of Tutankhamun is casually taken out of its cabinet right in front of him so a light bulb can be replaced.
- Recreating The Sound Of Tutankhamun's Trumpets
BBC News (Christine Finn) Tutankhamun's trumpet was one of the rare artefacts stolen from the Cairo Museum during the recent uprising. The 3,000-year-old instrument is rarely played, but a 1939 BBC radio recording captured its haunting sound. Among...
- Chasing Mummies
I've just noticed that the series Chasing Mummies, which had such polarized reviews when it aired in the US, is starting on UK television tonight on Sky 3. I won't be in to watch it so I won't be reviewing it. Here's the Radio Times online...
- Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way
National Geographic Video showing some of the damage at the museum, restoration work in progress, and Hawass offering reassurance about the safety of museums and monuments. There is an unedited transcript to accompany the video on the above page. More...
- Hawass Chides Museums Over Antiquities
Indiana Gazette (Ula Ilnytzky) Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said...
- Exhibition: More Re Tutankhamun In London + New Dvd
The Telegraph The organisers said they were confident that the nine-month exhibition which opens in November at the Millennium Dome - now known as the O2 - will break the two million visitor mark. This would smash the modern record of 1.7 million visitors...